Tag Archive: Commuting


>Early morning punchbuggypurple

Filed under: Beauty
April 28, 2010

>I thought that was a better title then simply saying ‘success’. I caught the early morning train, am wearing my new earring (well, kind of have to, but the fact I was able to get one yesterday rocks) and my very annoying coworker is on vacation so I am not having to listen to his annoying mouth. That gets the day off to a good start, which I needed when I started reading my e-mails about wage freeze, furloughs and lay-offs. 

When I left the piercing salon yesterday, I stopped at Duane Reade to get hair clips to keep my hair away from my ear. Typing that reminds me I didn’t get a Sports Illustrated when I went to lunch. Anyway, these stupid little clips are better then my pretty, expensive ones. Go figure.

Can’t remember what I was going to say now. That happens alot to me.

— Sent from my Palm Pre

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>Early morning fail

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April 26, 2010

>This week I was going to get up and catch the 5:57 a.m. train. The FAIL in my blog post title should tell you how I did. Fotunately my idiot co-worker is not here to annoy me so my day is not totally sucking.

My co-worker who is a Mets fan just told me Yankee fans are over-confidant. She obviously doesn’t read the comments on the newspaper articles. So I guess she was talking about me since I am not upset about about the Yankees losing last night. I always thought if you were a fan, you are supposed to believe your time is going eventually triumph. I guess that’s what happens when you root for the Mets, you settle for loss and lose hope of winning.

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>Yesterday

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April 3, 2010

>was a slow train day. I didn’t realize how many people had Good Friday off. When I got to GCT it seemed as if there were more soldiers there then regular people. It was kind of creepy.

The office was the same and the building, since there are mainly government offices in there and the government doesn’t give off for religious holidays (well except for Christmas) everybody was there. Except my boss who took off because his son’s daycare was closed.

Yesterday was a beautiful day, sun was shining, I had my nail appointment my so my nails are also beautiful but this morning when I got up and looking the mirror, my face looked really bad. The skin looked …. yukky? I don’t really know how to describe it. I hope I’m not getting sick. Probably just because I am so tired. Yeah that’s what I’ll say.

I worked some on the bag I started a long long time ago and when it is done I plan on fixing my Yankee earrings. I ordered some new ones, different style but they won’t be here by tomorrow.

Well I can’t think of anything else to say. Have a good evening.

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>Spring? Where are you?

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March 30, 2010

>Today is already looking like a day I would like to rewind and start over. Yes I want a do-over. Up early to catch the train, took out my ear phones to make sure we weren’t changing trains in Croton like yesterday (always a high light of my day when that happens[big eye roll here]). We didn’t so I was thinking today should be o.k., just a little rain, yes a LITTLE rain, also cold nasty wind, my jeans are still wet.

Fortunately it was Abi who opened the door to the office, not someone with that hated question, ‘Don’t you have an umbrella?’ Well of course I have an umbrella, its home in my closet where it won’t get broken or wet (another big eye roll), I don’t want it to end up on a blog somewhere, or on one of those posters


‘Missing … have you seen …. ‘

I also only wore one jacket. I need two jackets, a light one for the office and a heavier one to wear over it when I go outside. Especially on a day like today I need two jackets. I only have my heavy jacket, which is wet now so I can’t wear it and I am freezing in my office!

I tried to turn my scale on to measure my cereal and Ta Da! batteries are dead. Fortunately it takes AAA batteries, except I don’t think I have any. Anyway, it is day two of my new vitamin regimen and I still don’t feel any better. In fact right now I wish I was home still wrapped up in my blankets.

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>I thought the day was improving

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March 25, 2010

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when the man sitting behind me complimented my hair clip. He said it was beautiful and he had been admiring it the whole trip.

Kind of creepy? I don’t think so, I also don’t think he was gay (well maybe) anyway, since I had overslept and missed the 6:18 and had to take the express train even though I got a seat, I was still upset. Then when I got that nice complement, about my hair clip being beautiful and he had been admiring it the whole train ride, I decided to take it as a good thing and thought the day was getting better.

I bought some fruit and yogurt for breakfast and headed for the #7 train, only to learn it was not running. There was a train stuck in the tunnel they said. I suppose it could have been worse, I could have been stuck in that train.

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>last night and this morning

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March 12, 2010

>I have a hard time coming up with new and exciting titles.

I was going to do the PFF this week, but I haven’t hooked my scanner up to my new laptop yet and last night when I got home I just didn’t feel like it. I will have to tonight because I absolutely positively have to do my taxes.

Stitch wanted me to put some gas in the car so I asked the boy if he wanted to go to the Verizon store. Of course he said yes. I wanted to look at the Palm Pre again, he showed me this phone that looked indestructable. “That would be good for younger brother” I said. He agreed with me, then we looked at the Palm Pre and he was trying to show me stuff and I was trying to get him to leave me alone so I could play with it. I didn’t like the way it showed Twitter, he said the ap is better then the web (WTF?). I do like the way the Facebook ap looks. So I do believe I have decided on my next phone.

This morning I had an interesting commute. I normally don’t talk to the people on the train, I mean I say “Hello” or “Good morning”. Since I am not a morning person, by any stretch of the imagination, I am not very friendly in the morning, especially that early in the morning. Riding the same time and in the same car you see the same people. There is this woman that gets on where I do and gets off at Croton. This other man (who is also a regular) was saying he was looking for some new places to eat, she was talking about some places and she was talking about a fish restaurant in a blue building but she couldn’t remember the name of the restaurant, she told him, “Just google ‘fish restaurant in Croton’.” So he tried using voice command on his iPhone but it wasn’t working so I took out my phone went to Google and found the restaurant name for her. She was very appreciative and thanked me about 4 times. That always amazes me, people who are thankful for the least little thing.

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>Red lights and a need for speed

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March 11, 2010

>This morning on my way to the train station at the red light I hate, because it is always red when I get there and people are always cutting the corner and I think they are going to hit me, the light turns green, as I look to the right before I make my left turn I see a car coming fast, too fast to stop. The car barrels through the light like it was green instead of red. If I had turned as soon as the light turned green, we might have met by accident, my accident-his on purpose.

What I don’t understand is why? Why run a red light when its not an emergency. The car turned down the road to the train station, but it was early enough that he didn’t have to go so fast to get there on time so why? He could have gotten hurt running through the light like that if he had hit my car. Especially since I would have punched him in the nose. By the way I don’t know it was a man, its just easier to say he then that person, the car etc.

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>Something I wonder about

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March 9, 2010

>why do people drive stupid?

I was driving to the train (I know I said I get dropped off, but I do the driving. Stitch drives the car back home from the train station.) At the light where I turn left, there was a car waiting to turn right, it is a no turn on red, the driver had pulled forward under the light, so he couldn’t see when the light turned green. Does that make sense to you? You can’t go until the light turns green, but you don’t wait where you can see the light. It doesn’t make sense to me.

This mornings commute was fine, not like yesterday’s. Yesterday I missed my train, then when I got to GCT the #7 train wasn’t running. I wanted to wait on the platform until it was but the MTA person kept telling us to ‘go upstairs and take …’ and then whatever alternate route we had to take. So up I went to the #6 then the switch to the E or V, of course what always happens in this situation is by the time my boss gets to the city the #7 is fixed. Then he says to me, “I didn’t have any problem with the subway.” He thinks he is being funny. Ha ha really funny.

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>Looking out my train window

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February 25, 2010

>I hope I get these stations correct, here goes.
First picture of Tarrytown (Stupid train didn’t stop where I wanted it to. POUT)
Still Tarrytown, see the snow?
Good-bye Tarrytown!
Now we are in Cortlandt
Peekskill
Garrison, across the river from Garrison is West Point. (Not that you can see it on a day like this)
Last is Cold Spring, I recognize it by the yellow house. (Been riding this train line for years.)
After Cold Spring is Beacon, where I get off. That’s why I don’t have any pictures of it. Wanted to get out and get home.

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>Adventures in Commuting

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>Yes, sometimes commuting is an adventure especially if you don’t know if you will make make it home without being arrested.

The adventure begins when I check my facebook status, what? No of course I wasn’t using my work computer. One of the kids had posted,
Oh bother. Then I got a text message from another child with the same message along with the suggestion to come home, nothing to do about it. Of course then I’m wondering if I get to Beacon if I’ll be able to get home from the train station. Without walking that is. So after opening the mail and putting the new toner in the storeroom I re-suited up to go outside.

In the two block walk, my coat got soaked, bottom two inches of my jeans got soaked, the back of my calves got soaked … but I did get a shot of a broken umbrella!

Then it was to Dishes for a grilled cheese sandwich because, I was hungry. Then to find a seat with a table, reason being the last time I ate a Dishes grilled cheese sandwich without a table I lost half of my sandwich to the floor. ‘Excuse me Miss, does your umbrella need its own seat? Thought so.’ “Side Car Dining Area” (should have taken a picture of that) usually has empty tables and chairs. I dumped my heavy bags on a chair and sat across from them and ate my sandwich. I like Dishes grilled cheese sandwich, except when they burn it.

My story has to end now, or at least pause, I am on the train and looking out the window at the snow covered earth. The next stage begins in Beacon.

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