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>And the winner is . . .

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I know this is a little late, my excuses are: (1) its my first giveaway, (2) I went to Lake Placid that week, (3) I got a migraine in Lake Placid, or I was hungover for a week. Since I only had 3 beers, I am going with the migraine.

This is the giveaway of Hell Bent by William G. Tapply. I was actually reminded of this, I mean I never really forgot, maybe I should say I was spurred to action by the fact that I am getting another book.

Anyway, there is a service to random pick winners, but since I only got two entries, I just flipped a coin and the winner is . . . Carol!

>Missed a day

>I just saw that I missed a day posting. Almost missed today. Em and Tigger and I went to Manhattan, Em and I got our faces done at Lancôme, Em actually got a facial and her make-up and the guy doing her face talked her into getting her hair curled. I was a little perturbed because it was making us late for our next appointment, looking back I am kind of glad, we had to take a taxi to make it to Rockefeller Center on time. We went to the Top of the Rock, cause Tigger hasn’t been up there, he wanted their pictures taken on Top of the Rock, but they didn’t turn out so they didn’t buy them. We then went to a store I wanted to go to where I got a hat, from there we walked to Little Italy. We ate at a place in Little Italy where D and Em went to when Stitch was a baby. Then Tigger asked if we could take a taxi part way back so we took a taxi to Harold Square. We went to Macy’s in Harold Square and Tigger got a shirt and tie. Very nice. Then we walked back to GCT and had dinner at Annie Moores. Em and I bought make-up at Lancôme and Macy’s.

>Today

>Got my flu shot, I went to CVS in Manhattan. Afterward, I was wandering around and was hungry, I walked by Delmonico Gourmet Food Market, so I had to go in and check it out. I got some Kimchee Raman and it was enough for at least two people, maybe three! I got it spicy and it was good, but messy, I ended up with spots on my top. Well, nothing a spin in the washer won’t cure.

I hate having such a short post, I also hate it when my laptop slides off my lap. My blankets are bunched up on my lap so that is why it keeps sliding toward my knees. I don’t think I told you I had a bad cramp in my leg last night, the muscle just knotted up and it hurt! Today it was hurting too. My tummy is still a little upset, I tried calling the Doctor for some migraine medicine, but they were at lunch and I was leaving to get my flu shot and it just didn’t work out. There are some other things I really should be doing but I just don’t have the energy right now. I did a load of whites, only because I wore my last clean pair of socks today. I have no idea what happened to all my socks, but I don’t have as many pairs as I used to.

Lake Placid

1294lakeplacid081028They have internet (WiFi) in the rooms here. Good thing because I can’t get a signal in the room we are having our training in. Training is over for today, dinner is in 15 minutes so I will have to go and come back later. I just opened the door to my ‘balcony’ its about a foot wide, and took this picture. Yes, its real snow.

So I am back now, and if you knew what time it was or how much I had to drink, you would be saying, go to bed girl! I think this classifies as drunk blogging. We played this game after dinner, then a bunch of us went to a bar, then another bar, cause the first bar closed. The first bar had a beer called Just Hutched (the brewers name is Hutch and he just got married) and it had lavender in it. I just put on my lavender lotion and it is making me think of it. Now it is 1 a.m. and I just got out of the bath and my head is somewhere else, but not on my shoulders I am sure. It is too hot in this room. I know that for sure.

I was going to say that this morning the sky went from black, (and raining) to gray (and raining) then it was ta da! White, and snowing. Then when I got to where the training was it was back to gray. I saw the ski jumps where the Olympians train, tomorrow I am going to try to get a picture of them. I also want to get some pictres of Lake Placid. So far the only souvenir I have is a token from the bar we went to. And I only have that because Brian bought me my second beer.

Addio

>Sunday afternoon

>Just a quick hello, I am off to the gym and don’t want to miss Em, like I usually do when I dawdle when we take separate cars cause we each have something to do. I am leaving my computer open because my WW post hasn’t posted yet. I will be back after gym and getting a coffee or some food or something.

Weighed myself this morning and I was 137.6, that is not too bad considering how off program I have been lately.

So I actually feel like I did something today. I got to Allsport and exercised and showered. Then I went to Borders and didn’t buy anything, not even a snack. I did stop at Taco Bell first though. Then I went to Target to get some cards and an envelope to mail that stamp I found to Cookie. I hope she likes it. I also got a card for Don and Sally, a little late, so I got a blank card with a pretty picture on it so I can just say, I am sorry I was a dork and didn’t send you a sympathy card, but here is a card to let you know I am thinking of you. Think they will like it? The other card has four vases with flowers in them, I bought it because it was pretty and the envelope is lavender. I got the card written to Cookie and the envelope address. I will do Don and Sally’s later. I really want to get to bed early tonight.

Also today I rubbed the leather lotion all over my coat. Now tomorrow night I have to show Gwen how to do it. She wanted me to do it and I said, “You are an adult, you can take care of your own clothes.” So now she expects me to show her how to do it.

Now it is time to check my other blogs (that I follow) and my e-mail and maybe go to bed.

>Hello

>It is evening and I am not feeling so great. Earlier tonight I took Tigger to Verizon because his phone is giving him problems so now he is getting a new phone which he is not exactly happy about because he thinks the enV is garbage. So now we have to wait and see if this phone works or if it tanks on Tigger. He thinks the enV just doesn’t like him! I didn’t really just take him, I wanted to get ice cream, so I asked him to come with. He said he would, so I went to Cold Stone Creamery which is next to the Verizon Store.

So I am watching Forensic Files right now, it is one I haven’t seen yet. So I will talk to you later. I was wrong, I had seen the Forensic Files before. However, there was one after that which I had not seen and the satellite signal was lost before it ended. So I don’t know how they proved their case. Gwen was down in the basement then since the boys were being ‘mean’ to her. Both of us were waiting for Primeval to come on. Hoping the signal would come back before it started. It came back within a few minutes of it starting.

Today was just spent sleeping in and then shopping. I got new jeans and eyeliner. I don’t like the purple Lancôme eyeliner I have, Em couldn’t find the right shade of red in Lancôme so we both ended up at the M.A.C. counter and found what we wanted. I told her, M.A.C. is my favorite right after Lancôme.

I have 500 hits on my blog. I am sure a lot of those are from me posting and tweaking my posts until they look like I want them to. But still, it means some are reading. Maybe insomniacs? LOL!

>Gluten-free Macaroni and Cheese

>is what I got for lunch. It was frozen and it was a good choice. Not that it was supper yummy, ’cause it wasn’t, but because it didn’t make me sick or upset my tummy one little bit. I needed something with no allergens in it that didn’t have a lot of roughage, when my stomach is unsettled that is the last thing I can eat.

As for the city, after buying jackets we just kept on walking until we got to Central Park, we bought ice cream from a vendor, I got brain freeze due to eating it too fast and we walked around the park a little bit. Then we walked back to GCT by way of Time Square. We were going to do some shopping but there were too many tourists just milling around and getting in our way so we stopped to eat at this o.k. touristy place, service was good and friendly, food was o.k. They didn’t have Glenfiddich, so we had Johnnie Walker Black.

When we got back to GCT, before we went in, I took Em to my favorite bar, Annie Moore’s, if you look at the picture, you see the bar and at the end in the back are 3 steps, and some tables, we were sitting at the first table to the left as you look at the picture. We had Glenfiddich and potato skins, they were very good. Em approved of my bar, she says when we come down on the first, we will have dinner there because the prices are pretty reasonable.

We got to GCT about 2 minutes before the train was leaving, so we decided just to wait for the next one, went to the bathroom, Em got some Pepsi, I was already working on a migraine so I didn’t want a whole soda, just sips of hers. Then we got on the train home, and who got on the train in Yonkers? Yes you guessed it, Em’s kid that was on the same train with us in the morning!

So now I am done, at least, I can’t think of anything else to say. Next trip is November 1st and we have plans for that day.

>I tried

>to send this from my phone but I kept getting an error message. Now I don’t remember what I was going to say. Something about how I was trying to sleep but people kept coming into the ladies room so I couldn’t.

I am still feeling the effects of the migraine and I just noticed I have huge black circles under my eyes and you know I don’t look good in black. I tried putting purple eyeliner on my upper lid and a dab of white/silver on the lower lid at the outer corner to try to attract attention away from it, but I think it is one of those things that nothing is going to help.

Sun is shining, I should go outside, with my shades of course, to soak up some sun and see if that helps any. I have no idea what I should eat, I definitely don’t feel like salad, maybe I’ll get a frozen lunch.

Addio

>Busy Saturday

>Last night before I left work I made some tea and put it in my travel cup, worked out pretty good. This morning I had to take my car in so I made some tea (PG Tipps) and had that while I took it in and walked home. Later I got a call from the dealer, the transmission fluid needs to be changed and the serpentine belt needs to be changed. That’s the belt that controls the power steering. So I told them do the fluid change, I will bring it back for the other. Can’t afford to do both at the same time. Now I wish I hadn’t ordered those bras from Victoria’s Secret.

Tigger and I took the purple table out of my computer room last night. It was a good thing I complained that I couldn’t do it alone and he helped me because we had to move my fridge and take the table apart. I am also glad I swept and mopped the floor last night because the new (to me) blue table is already in there. Of course my work is not done, the blue table has been sitting around so long it is covered with dust and cobwebs and needs to be cleaned before anything can go on it. Also, the blue table wouldn’t fit in there with the brown rolling cart, so I need to take everything out of there and put it somewhere.

So why am I sitting here instead of doing it? Well, because D is moving stuff from his workroom to the new shed and I can’t go in and out of room so I can move stuff from the rolling cart to wherever I am putting it. Although I could be in the room cleaning the table off, but this is more fun. Also, I am all congested from the cleaning I did last night and I really don’t want to do it unless I have a dust mask.

This morning it was chilly when I went to the dealer with my car so I wore a sweat suit and pants. I just had to change them because now it is quite sunny.

>Organic tea tastes funny

>Last night when I was going home, I was hungry, not surprising, I am always hungry when I leave work. I decided to get tea instead of getting something to eat. I stopped at my usual place and got tea with fat free milk. It tasted funny. I thought maybe because they put regular milk in it, but then I noticed the tag said organic tea and realised, it’s not a funny milk taste, its the tea that tastes funny. Now I know there are people who will take issue with my stance and say that it doesn’t or its better or whatnot, I say: DON’T MESS WITH MY TEA! So from now on, I will be making my own tea and putting it in a travel cup to take home. Also, I think I will only be buying PG Tipps. It really does taste better.