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>I got tagged!

>I’ve been tagged by Fraught Mummy of Brits in Bosnia – toddlers, dog and all so have decided to answer the call, with a New York flavor(sorry Brits!). To complete the meme I need to answer the following questions:

1. What are your current obsessions?
My nails and my skin (just found out I have rosacea).

2. Which item from your wardrobe do you wear most often?
Grey hooded sweat jacket with bleach spot on hood and nail polish (dark pink) on front next to zipper.

3. What’s for dinner?
Tacos

4. Last thing you bought?
Lip gloss

5. What are you listening to?
I-pod, the Frey and five for fighting.

6. If you were a god/goddess who would you be?
The pretty one with no skill or power

7. Favourite holiday spots?
New York City, and um, New York City

8. Reading right now?
A Whisper in the Dark: Twelve Thrilling Tales by Louisa May Alcott
Soldiers Three by Rudyard Kipling.

9. Four words to describe yourself.
Pessimist, artist, procrastinator, friend

10. Guilty pleasure?
Kahlúa® coffee liqueur

11. Who or what makes you laugh until you’re weak?
My Tigger and Fred

12. Favourite spring thing to do?
Walk from Grand Central Terminal to Central Park

13. Planning to travel to next?
New York

14. Best thing you ate or drank lately?
Spicy iced chocolate and signature dessert from MarieBelle in SoHo

15. When did you last get tipsy?
In Albany on a business trip

16. Favourite ever film?
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

17. Care to share some wisdom?
If you are ever in NYC during a rainstorm, don’t step in the puddles.

18. Song you can’t get out of your head?
Just saw Phantom and Masquerade keeps running through my head.

Rules of the meme. Respond and rework. Answer questions on your own blog. Replace one question. Add one question. Tag 8 people. I couldn’t think of any questions to add or replace so here it is, also I couldn’t think of 8 people to tag so . . .

I just tagged DeSeRt RoSe at DeSeRt RoSe BoOkLoGuE

>On April 28, 1947, a six-man expedition sailed from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki on a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia.

~The New York Times~

>A Pakistani Underworld
Despite a threat from Islamists, two Pakistani brothers stealthily manufacture fetish and bondage wear, earning more than $1 million a year from their Western customers.

Lacy Threads and Leather Straps Bind a Business

Go away Ed

Yes Ed found me. I guess that means my blog has ‘arrived’, it is now among the beautiful blogs and I should be flattered. I’m NOT! Go away Ed!

I turned on Comment Moderation, which I hate having to do, I am so lazy and any extra steps are a chore for me. Rest assured if you are a human reader leaving a comment your comment will show up, I check my e-mail daily. If you are Ed (or any other) Icky Spammer, you will be deleted! ZAP!

>On April 27, 1947, "Babe Ruth Day" at Yankee Stadium was held to honor the ailing baseball star.

~The New York Times~

>~On This Day~

>On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire in the No. 4 reactor sent radioactivity into the atmosphere; at least 31 Soviets died immediately.

~The New York Times~

>~On This Day~

>On April 25, 1945, United States and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe River, in central Europe, a meeting that dramatized the collapse of Nazi Germany.

On April 25, 1908, Edward R. Murrow, the influential American radio and television broadcaster during the industry’s early years, was born. Following his death on April 27, 1965, his obituary appeared in The Times.

~The New York Times~

>~ On This Day ~

>On April 24, 1898, Spain declared war on the United States after rejecting America's ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.

~The New York Times~

>~ On This Day ~

>On April 23, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment.

~New York Times~

~ On This Day ~

On April 21, 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Conn.

~New York Times~