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>My toy is here

>My Sony Reader came today. It is pretty and I put the two e-books I got to review on it. I am also thinking about buying two books, just for kicks. True crime of course. Only problem is, I am afraid to take it out of my bedroom! I am afraid I will either break it or it will get stolen.

I went to order the dresses from Chadwicks, two of them no longer available. So I picked out a couple other dresses. I should be all set for summer. If it is warm enough this Saturday, I am wearing a dress to the city.

>I almost forgot

>the last bit of excitement from our trip to the city. They were having the annual pub crawl in my home city(B__) and things got a little out of hand, we were driving down the road towards home from the train station when we saw Police Car lights. I know there is a real name for them, anyway, there were so many, I knew some had to have come from outside B__, I counted 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 different local towns and villages and one from across the river and besides them two MTA cars and at least one Dutchess County Sheriff’s car. It was so crazy we couldn’t get through for about 10 minutes.

Found out this morning it was a fight that got out of hand because of all the drinking. When I was listening to the radio and they talked about it, it seemed like he was talking in a normal voice and shouted the name of the town. “Saturday during the annual pub crawl in B__, a fight broke out. Police responded and 16 people were arrested and the B__ Police had to call for reinforcements from as far away as across the river.” The mayor is now thinking about discontinuing the annual pub crawl.

Today I went to Banana Republic for the dress, I didn’t like it when I tried it on. I consoled myself with a pair of earrings. They didn’t have them in the store, well they had them but a stone was missing so first the sales lady looked up other stores that had them, she also said they were online, so she called and I ordered them online, which turned out to be a good thing, the price was a lot less online. More than made up for the shipping cost. So I am happy now.

>N. Y. C.

>They sang that song in Annie. Then the day after, yesterday, Em, Fred and I went to Manhattan. Got a late start since we both had some things to do before. She had to get the oil changed in her car and I had to take Gwen to the library and get gas for my car and get coffee. Gwen got a snack when I was getting coffee. Coffee is important right? I took my green bag so I could take my book The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley. I read it on the train down to the city and back home. Since it was a little warmer then past trips, I was looking for a lighter jacket to wear and found my black quilted one with the pretty silver pin.

Em is trying to plan one thing to do each time we go down. She wanted to take Fred to the FDNY museum, I wanted to get my nails done. One of them came off, I didn’t have any glue so I tried sticking it back on with clear nail polish, that didn’t work, and I didn’t get around to getting gel on it until before the nail split and I had 9 long and one short. HATE THAT!

We walked to SoHo(that’s where the museum was). Em figured we could find a salon there and they would go to the museum and I would go get my nails done. Well, that didn’t work out. So after we went through the museum (which was kind of lame compared to the NYPD museum) we started back toward GCT, keeping our eyes open for a nail salon. On the way we stopped at Banana Republic, Em was looking at dresses, I pulled out this orange dress (according to the website it’s Leon Coral) as I did that Em walked from the back of the store and said, “You would look so freakin’ hot in that!” I didn’t try it on, there was a line for the dressing room and we didn’t want to leave Fred alone in the store and she was the one looking for a dress, I just happened to find one. Anyway, I wasn’t going to spend that much for a dress without trying it on so I didn’t get it.

We found a nail place on Madison, Em and Fred kept walking and I went in, the plan was to meet them at Annie Moore’s. We ended up meeting at GCT and I got a pasta dish from one of the little take away places downstairs and eating it on the train. I didn’t get the nails polished, decided to do that at home, then when I got home I couldn’t decide what color!


So I lined up my bottles of polish to try to decide.Should I go dark, it’s not spring yet, but it is going to be spring next week, so what color, the lavender or blue or maybe that grass green polish? Or should I be traditional, rose or red or mauve, this is so difficult!

I eventually decided on the lavender, but it took me until just now!

>Sorry Sorry

>I went to my iGoogle home page and saw those headlines. I don’t know why I posted them here, they make me sad. I am sorry if I upset anyone.

On a lighter note, I have decided I am never using soap on my face again. I didn’t wash my face last night, yes I know, disgusting! Really, I used my cold cream ’cause the soap I bought, that is supposed to be designed for faces and make-up, wasn’t taking the make-up off. Today, I really liked the way my face looked, so from now on, no more soap on my face.

And I used part of my tax return to buy a Sony Reader. I ordered it from one store, then I noticed that if I ordered it from the Sony website I wouldn’t have to pay shipping. I called the store and canceled my order. Then I went on the Sony website where I found out it comes in 3 colors, so I ordered it in Sangria Red, and then I noticed, free engraving, so I had it engraved with Bella is reading . . . which is the name of my book blog. I can’t wait for it to come.

>Nice day today

>I woke up with a headache, and a voice mail message from someone I was supposed to meet at a friends house 30 minutes earlier, I will have to apologize tomorrow. I also had a stomach ache. Both were related to the fact that I am a girl. Enough said about that.

Last night I went up to JoAnn’s to get fabric. Saw Alex and Doreen there, so I didn’t get to the rest of the places I wanted to go. I did get fabric for my new bag, that I am now going to make myself since Em is working on clothes for Puerto Rico. When I showed her the fabric today, she thought it was very nice and pretty and would make a good bag. She also thanked me for the rings I gave her, she said, “I like these cheap rings.” Then I showed her the choker I got, silver heart with black cords tied to it. Gwen looked at me and said, “You do realize you’re not a teenager anymore?” to Gwen!

We went to the library, I wanted to get out of the house, but I still wanted to go online. So I did stuff online and Gwen looked for DVD’s. She got three, after finding out there was NO LIMIT to the number she could get. This was after she told me there was a limit of 3 books and I told her, that’s funny cause right now I have 6 books out. Then we were going to come home but Em wasn’t home, so we got lunch.

It was a very nice day so we got hamburgers from this restaurant with a chalkboard menu and grass-fed beef from cattle that were treated nice (or something weird like that, Gwen read it on the menu) then went to the park to read. Had a bit of shock when we discovered that some of the picnic tables have been removed. There used to be some at the top of the hill and the back of park near the Junior High School, they were gone, there were only picnic tables in the covered area near the playground. What I thought was weird was the grills were still there, so you could come cook your hamburgers, but couldn’t sit and eat them.

Then Gwen wanted chips to eat while we watched the movies. So we went up to Hannaford’s, I also took the opportunity to go to Sally’s to get nail stuff, which included some blue nail polish (did I mention a nail came off yesterday? I have to repaint my nails now since I wasn’t able to glue it back on. I tried using clear nail polish, didn’t work.) and to take Gwen to the bank.

It was a bad idea, I forgot about the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Am I the only one who finds it odd to have a St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 7th? Gwen was wondering why since St. Patrick’s Day is an Irish holiday we celebrate it here. Sometimes I wonder what she did in school, cause I don’t think she was listening to her teachers.

We finally made it home, after a 40 minute drive that normally takes 20. Em was sleeping, she went to a S** L** party at Pam’s and Tim was pouring, enough said about that too! So we watched one of the DVD’s, and which one did we watch? Stitch insisted on Anne of Green Gables.

It was such a nice day, it was hard to believe we got this on Monday.

>Snow day

>I didn’t go to work today, I had a snow day. OK, I don’t really get snow days, but the kids and Em had a snow day so I stayed home too. The weather man (actually, we have Janice, who is not a man) was right, we got all the snow and cold temps forecast. Tomorrow promises to be colder so I might stay home tomorrow too. I am getting over my cold and I don’t want to go out in the cold. Tomorrow morning might be O.K. even if its cold since I won’t have to clean off my car which I would have had to do today.

Also, the trains were having trouble today. MetroNorth and the Subway, MetroNorth says that tomorrow will be the regular schedule. So I might go to work anyway, brave the cold like a good girl.

Em and I watched Full Metal Jacket today, I rented it from iTunes. This afternoon I took my car out for a run to warm it up and see how the roads were, I was going to drive to the train station and completely forgot. Anyway, I took Gwen with me, she had fun playing with my i-pod. She wants one for herself, mainly because she is tired of buying batteries. We got gas in my car, I went to the library, I was surprised it was open. Then I decided to go to Borders, on the way there I remembered I wanted to go to SuperCuts to see if they would sign my card from the last time I got my hair colored and forgot to have them sign it. Then as I was driving past Staples I remembered I needed paper for my printer. So we stopped at Staples, along with the paper I got a 3 color pen/pencil (I think I just broke the pencil part). Unfortunately the other two places I wanted to go were closed. So we went to the grocery store and then home.

Gwen and I are getting really good at wii bowling.

>Pretty blue phone.

>Stitch got a Blitz. Small and blue, like Stitch. He is at class right now so I am waiting for him to get home before I activate it, since he won’t be able to use his phone once I activate the new phone. He is really excited to get it. So is Tigger. I broke my rule and let Tigger play with it a little, now it is sitting in its box and I am sitting on my bed waiting for Stitch to get home.

Not much else to say, except I wish I had stayed home to nurse this cold a little longer. And that is a pain dealing with some of my co-workers when I am well, so dealing with them when I don’t feel well is . . .

I made Em and my appointment for a massage today, no the appointment is not today, I called today. Still haven’t got the tickets for Phantom, but the charge went through.

Right now I am going upstairs for a cuppa. I will be back tomorrow.

>Bedtime for me

>I have much of today doing nothing. But then, that is all I had planned for today. Stayed in bed late, then a few errands then playing on my computer. I did get a card and gift card for my niece who is having a baby soon. I don’t know when exactly. I got a card for Em to make her laugh. It worked. I also got an envelope and got it addressed for my taxes.

So now I just have to address the card for my niece and write something in it. And I have to take them to the post office tomorrow. That won’t be hard.

Tigger’s back is still bothering him. I bought him some candy and some drumsticks. I got myself some M&M ice cream cones since the grocery store didn’t have any of the nut free drumsticks. Now I have to go.

>Manhattan

>This is getting to be a recurring post.

Since I spent 3 days in Albany Em decided I needed a trip to Manhattan, I suspect she was just using that as an excuse and just really wanted to go herself. I am her friend however so I went along with it. That sounds like I didn’t really want to go, of course I do. I wrote the above on the train, then I started to get motion sick, so I stopped. I just took some Tylenol® PM so I have to stop now. I will finish this tomorrow.

We didn’t go down real early this time. Em went to BJ’s so I decided I would go to Target to get a purse that I could carry my stuff and my camera in. Tigger wanted to come with me. So first I put gas in the car, then we drove to Target. I didn’t like how the car sounded so I checked the oil when we go to Target. Plenty of oil but dirty, so it needs to be changed. I will schedule that for next weekend. Em called while we were at Target so we met her at Panera for breakfast, we took a little too long so we had to drive straight to the train station, that meant I didn’t have my camera, I only had foundation on and I was wearing my Crocs™! My fuzzy ones. I was not very happy about that.

After making a stop at the bathroom, we started walking up 5th Avenue toward Central Park. I was looking for a perfume store I saw on 5th Avenue once. We didn’t find it, Tigger found it on his I-touch, but we didn’t go to it. I stopped at Sephora to see about getting a makeover, didn’t get one there, got one at Saks and bought some lip gloss. Em bought a bunch of makeup, enough to get a free gift from Lancôme. Tigger got a shirt and another jacket, navy blue this time. We went to Cafe Frida for lunch again. I had the same thing I had last time and Em had fajitas and Tigger had Salmon. This is some of the decor there. Kind of cool huh? Em said the waiter was kind of cute, I said yeah, in a South American Rebel kind of way!

It was a fun day after all. I bought lip gloss and two new pairs of Crocs™, we finished our day at Annie Moore’s as usual. I didn’t have Scotch this time, need to see if that is what makes me drag the next day.

>Lazy Sunday

>Didn’t do much today. Woke up with a wicked sore throat. I think it might just have been from yesterday, I don’t seem to be sick now.

I updated my slide show with pictures from yesterday. And I just remembered I need to give Em copies. As soon as I finish here. Promise.

Today Em and I went to the mall. I got new shoes, hopefully so I won’t have sore aching feet next time I go to Manhattan. If there is a next time. There are a few reasons I might not be going with Em again soon. I am not going to get into them now, too hard to put into typed words. If I don’t go with her the next time, I will definitely come here and bare all to you.