Tag Archive: Blogging


>What a difference one day makes

>20 degrees cooler today, wearing my jacket and I am a little cold.

Tomorrow starts the compressed work week which is yay! At the same time it is ugh. Have to leave at 5:40 a.m. tomorrow morning.

On another note, I got my paycheck and thought I had my raise and was very happy, until I realized that this was the third paycheck this month and so my commuting money was not taken out. So I will not be getting this extra every paycheck. Well it is still extra money so I will be happy anyway.

Ed is still around, he hasn’t hit this blog yet but he hit my other one again today. So CM is staying on. Sorry for the inconvenience.

>The votes are in

>Everyone who voted thinks the Phantom, from Phantom of the Opera is:

A murderous, deranged, psychopathic, control freak stalker that should be drowned in his own lake.

I want to thank everyone who voted, even though it was just in fun. Now I have to come up with another poll.

The problem I have been having with not showing up as a follower is still going on. Someone said it was because I “blind” followed, but I always follow publicly. I went to the help center and some others are also having this problem. Hopefully it will be solved soon.

Yes, I know I am obsessing about it, but I can’t help it. This is how I am, besides I have to wait for my nails to dry before I can go to bed.

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!

>I don’t understand this. I have been getting this message from some blogs, the blogs are in my follow list, and I can read them in Google reader, but when I go to the blog, I don’t see me in the little follow widget thing. So I click on follow button, thinking maybe I need to click on it for my pic to show up and I get this message.

What is really strange, is these are bloggers that are following me. So if they are following me, shouldn’t I be allowed to follow them?

I am very confused.

Brain freeze I think

I was over at Daryl’s and was going to leave a really great comment on Monochrome Monday, then I saw the link for Elizabeth Wix of About New York… so I went there, then I saw the link for Buster’s blog (he types really well for someone without thumbs and fingers) then I accidently shut down my browser and, when I reopened it I couldn’t remember what I was going to say to Daryl. So I went and just started, hoping it would just come to me, but it hasn’t. So I quit and came here, and I still don’t remember, but check out these blogs, they are kind of cool.

>The Library vs. Perkins

>It was a gorgeous day yesterday. As you can see, I was wearing my new sundress, I was also wearing my blue Croc sandals and nothing on my legs, glorious! When I left the house I put on my jean jacket. Em said I would roast, I said no, I’ll be all right. I was thinking of the wind, and the air conditioning in restaurants and the train. Em said true, then admitted she had a sweater in her bag. I didn’t roast, and I was glad I had the jacket when we got on the train to come home.

Em and I did our usual, have lunch, get our nails done, do some shopping. I had them trim my nails, I was having trouble getting my contacts out of the case, she was done before me so she walked up to Central Park. When I was done, I was making my way toward her, trying to get there, text her and take pictures in Bryant Park all at the same time. We ended up meeting at Rockefeller Center. Then headed back to Annie Moores. Stopped at a street vendor where I bought a purse colorful for spring, summer and fall.

This morning Tigger started bugging me around 9. He wanted me to take him to the Verizon Store so he can get a new phone for Em. I didn’t want to. I instead said I wanted to go to breakfast. We swung by the library first since my books are in, but they don’t open until 1 on Sunday. So we went to Perkins for breakfast. I was thinking about the library, trying to figure out if I would be able to fit in going there before church, and I started to think about that blog I found, ‘Librarians that say M__ F___’. I was thinking that its not hard to get Librarians to like you, just obey the rules, don’t talk on your cell phone or eat in the library. Be specific in your requests, return your books in good condition. Pay fines without complaint. Unless they are charging you a fine when you returned the item on time. I was thinking this as Tigger was sliding the huge ball of butter off his french toast onto the table (he was aiming for the napkin and missed) and was thinking as much as the library must like me, Perkins must hate me, butter and lemon wedges on the table, syrup rings, used tea bags on my plate, Splenda packets mysteriously disappearing . . .

I turned to go to the library on my way to church. I was looking at the clock and realized I didn’t have time, so I turned, since I was coming the opposite way, I was driving and driving and thought I had missed the turn, and then I saw the sign for ‘All Angels Hill Rd.’, yes that really is the name of the road my church is on.

>New pic for profile

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I was playing around with my phone and snapped these pics.

Nice but, somethings wrong, gah! No lipstick!


Got the lipstick, but where’s the smile?


OK, Here’s a couple of nice pics! But I went with one of the other ones for my profile, for now!

>Bed soon

>But I just had to check in here once. These You-tube video is pretty cool I think.

I got the rest of my free books.

No reading got done, the cable and satellite were out so the kids wanted me upstairs to play games with them. I consoled myself by buying a dress from Overstock.com. Who I have never purchased anything from before, I just wanted one more dress and the one I wanted from Chadwicks wasn’t in my size. I got the pink and black one.

Since I was upstairs it also meant I got no blogging done, that is why I am still up, I notified all my award winners that they have an award to pick up at my book blog, Bella is reading.

>Watch the Gap or LOO HEAVEN?

>What does it mean to you to ‘watch the gap'(WtG)?

For me, a regular commuter by Metro North Train and NYC Subway, WtG means to be careful getting on and off the train because of the space (gap) between the train and the platform. You don’t want to get your foot caught in that gap or fall down through it and wander onto the other track and get killed something that is very possible if your BAC is is .3 or higher. One time on the train a little girl dropped her ‘baby’ into the gap and she screamed . . . but I digress.

Fellow blogger Brit’ Gal Sarah from Brit’ Gal in the USA recently posted about the difference between USA and UK, then she did a separate post for public restrooms, or loos (I hope I got that right), which she says are much nicer in the USA then in the UK. I will have to take her word for it never having been out of the country to use a restroom or loo except for Canada.

To get to my point of this post, if I still remember that is, one thing she mentioned that she didn’t like in USA is the gap in the door, I started thinking it had never bothered me, so then I wondered why, was it because I grew up using public restrooms here and so was just used to it? Did it not bother me because everyone in the restroom is a girl (I hope)? Or was it because I had gym at a public high school and after having to change into those awful blue and white striped gym uniforms in a locker room with 90 other girls, whats a little gap in the door?

That lead me to thinking about gym class and this one particular sadistic gym teacher.

Then, because my mind works in strange and wonderful, OK we’ll leave it at strange. I started thinking about a terrifying experience in the Ladies Room at the Tarrytown train station. The station was ‘closed’ but they usually left one door open so you wait in there or go to the bathroom. So I went in to use the bathroom, since the station was closed there was no one else in the station or bathroom. There was this man walking up the sidewalk whistling. When I was in the restroom, I heard the whistling come up the hallway, now the men’s room is on the other side of the station, which made me wonder what was he doing in that hallway, he comes in the restroom and uses the toilet. That was not the truly scary part. The truly scary part was he didn’t leave, he stood by the door in front of the stall I was in, how do I know that? When I didn’t hear the door open I peeked out through the gap between the door and the support panel. I was trying to decide if I should yell at him to get out or see if my cell phone had a charge and call the police and hope they would come when another guy came in the bathroom and yelled at the first guy for being in there. At least I think that what he yelled. He was speaking Spanish, but they both left.

So any way, if you want to know how truly weird my brain is, when he was standing by the door I was thinking, if he doesn’t leave I’m going to miss my train.

>Bella is silly

>I was excited, very excited I tell you, to see that I had 20 followers on my book blog, Bella is reading… Then I noticed I was following myself. Sort of like a cyber dog chasing its tail, although I’ve never been called a dog, but I have been called a bitch! Not undeservidly (is that even a word?) either.