Tag Archive: Weather


>My earrings came today

>and this is funny. You remember my previous post, they are wee tiny hoops. The FedEx box was one of the medium size boxes. About six times the size of the box the hoops were in. Both the boys and I thought that was very funny.

I left work early because of a threatening storm. It was just starting to rain which was good for two reasons, one I did not have an umbrella, I mean do I ever, and also because it had just started there were no puddles in the road. I have come to believe that when you are waiting to cross the street and there are puddles in the road the cars speed up so they can splash you more! Oh I forgot the third reason, after it had rained a while the train started having track and signal problems.

Tigger needed to deposit a check so I took him up and then we went to the mall, I wanted to look at more earrings. No, you can never have too many pairs of earrings! I ended up with a pair of gold and ruby hoops. They were on a great sale, and you know I cannot resist. Tigger found a polo shirt he wanted. So we both ended up with something new.

>I know I was complaining

>about how cold it was in July. Well, when I said that, I did not mean that I wanted it to be this freaking hot! Oh my. Well, lets just say that I wish I could wear shorts to work. I wish I could do my inspections in tank tops. I wish I wasn’t on a medication that makes my skin turn red at just the hint of sun.

Proves the old saying, be careful what you wish for.

>Week late

>I am behind on my blogging yet again. Summer seems to be a time when everything slows down, except giveaways. I have been getting e-mails for giveaways and it seems that I have no time for this blog. Not true.

First the giveaway, if you have never been to Bella is reading, and you like Philippa Gregory, make sure you stop by. I am running a giveaway for her new book, The White Queen.

Back to last Sunday, D and the kids went to a Star Trek convention in New Jersey. They were very excited because Leonard Nimoy was scheduled to be there and taking pictures with fans. Anyway, Em and I thought that since they were blowing off church to go to see Spock, we could blow off church to go to Manhattan. A while back, while I was reading Daryl’s blog and she mentioned the High Line (click here), I told Em I wanted to go there. She had heard about it also, but from another source (more about that later). So we went to the city and started the trek down to 20th Street and 10th Avenue. While walking along 10th Ave she mentions, “There’s Chelsea Piers.” We get to the High Line. It was threatening rain so not many people were there. There were a couple of nice men that welcomed us. There was much to take photos of.


(Yes, I am having fun with Picasa collage maker.)

Lots of indigenous plants and cool places to sit pretty neat over all.

It was then that I noticed that Em wasn’t taking pictures of the High Line. She was taking pictures off the High Line, toward the river. I asked her, “Are you taking pictures of Chelsea Piers?” One look at her face told me she was. Then when I caught up to her she asks, “What was that line Logan said to Barack?” Huh? “In ‘The Wee Small Hours’, when Logan and Barack come up here and Barack says the city is turning this into a park, what did Logan say?” Then I realized where she had heard of the High Line. From LOCI! These pictures are also in my slide show down on the right, along with pictures from the Today Show.
Then we walked uptown, thinking we would go to Central Park, but the weather had other ideas. It started to rain, and I do mean rain. We ended up taking a cab to Cafe Frida, where I discovered this wonderful Mexican Anisette Liqueur and Em had Flan. Then we went home. Cause we were soaked.

>You would think

>That this late in July you wouldn’t have to wear long sleeved anything.

I wore my sweat-jacket this morning. I wore it cause I have on a sleeveless top and I was afraid I would be cold on the train and in my office. Walking from the subway to my office, it was raining and I was freezing. 21st day of July and I was standing there getting wet and freezing and wishing I had worn a real jacket instead of my sweat jacket! I am freezing now because I had to put the jacket back on and it is still damp.
This has been the craziest summer (weather wise) ever.

>Little things

>I got up late today, didn’t oversleep, just got up at my usual late time instead of when my alarm went off. So I was rushing around and right now my left eye feels like there’s something in it. Anyway, I grabbed my sweat jacket off my bed instead of going to my closet to get my L.L. Bean jacket. Today the glass in Em’s van is being replaced, (I posted about this earlier here) so Stitch dropped me off so she could use my car today. 

Yesterday I forgot I didn’t have any oatmeal so I just ate my fruit. Last night we stopped at Stop ‘N’ Shop and got oatmeal, and I brought it in with me today. I stopped at Starbucks to get a tea and I got a yogurt parfait, for breakfast. When I had breakfast in my bag. *SIGH* I don’t know why I do these things. When I got off the subway it was raining. Not a heavy rain, just enough to wish I had my nice L.L. Bean jacket (which would have been perfect for the weather) instead of my sweat jacket with its itty bitty tiny hood. I can’t think of what else I had to say.

>Missed Midnight

>Kind of knew I would, but wanted to get ready for bed. This way, when I finish I can just put my laptop away and go to sleep.

Wednesday it was actually colder then Tuesday, and this is not right. We are going into summer, the days should be getting warmer. Other then that and the big black SUV tailgating me on the way to church, today was uneventful. Well one little thing, I went out to get lunch and this man was walking his toy Doxie, who proceeded to jump on me, not mean, very friendly. So I scratched the dog’s head. I got a meatball sub, don’t know why, I was going for soup. When I got back and sat down, I said to myself, why did I get a meatball sub, (with marinara sauce) when I am wearing light aqua pants? Sure enough, I dropped a meatball on myself and got sauce on one of my pant legs. When I went to try to get it out, I notice dirt on my other leg, from the Doxie jumping on me. *Sigh* Tomorrow night I will be doing laundry I think.

That’s it, going to bed now.

>Sunday, that’s my fun day

>Hornis called to arrange to meet this A.M. for service. I thought he said 11:00 a.m. and I was purposely late since it was at Debbie’s and I hate walking around in my bare feet. She doesn’t like people to wear shoes in her house, but she doesn’t provide them with something else to wear so I don’t like going to her house. First weird thing was Debbie was leaving when I got there, she just waved at me. I went up to the door and peeked through, no one was there. I thought this is odd, maybe everyone has already left, but why would Deb have just left if that was the case? So I went back to my car and was fooling around with my sun shade and Syd and Nancy pulled up. Then Jack and Jill, then Hornis and Mrs. Hornis. Turns out we were meeting at 11:30 a.m. Well, so to not take off my shoes, I just stood by the counter, didn’t go on the rug to sit down. We had a nice morning, but it was awfully hot by the end of it. So hot I didn’t even stop at Ron’s. Just went straight home to sit in the air conditioning. I had a headache, which got better in the cool air.

Went to church, it started to thunder, as I watched, Sue looked at Joe, he gave her some keys and she handed them to her husband who then left. Evidently, the windows were down on Joe’s car and Bill went out to put them up. Then at the very end when the elder was giving his closing comments and we were getting ready to sing our final song before the closing prayer, there was a big crash of thunder and the lights went out. So we skipped the song and just had prayer. Then when we looked out the door it was pouring down rain and wind blowing, a real storm.

By the time I got home it had stopped and D was grilling hamburgers.

Not much else to say, tomorrow is a holiday so I might be here, might not depends on what we have planned.

>My picture is up

>This is why you should carry your camera with you, because you might find a broken umbrella and you can take a picture of it and send it to Better off Soaked like I did when I saw this umbrella in the subway station on my way home from work. It had poured that day, nasty thunderstorm. I took the picture and e-mailed it, the words are all hers.

>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 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.