At the Vet

For my cat Tom, and I'm in the waiting room when I saw a poster called
"A Dog Purpose" from a 6 year old boy. The story explains how a family's
dog was very old and sick with cancer. So they decided to euthanasize
the dog at home with the vet there. They worried about the 6 year old
boy and how he would react. When the dog died the family wondered
outloud about how the animal lives are shorter than humans and the
little boy piped up "I know why."
He then added "People are born so that they can learn how to live a good
life. -like loving everybody all the time and being nice, right?" then
he continued "well dogs already know how to do that, so they don't have
to live as long."
God I started to tear right up!

Happpieeee Birthday

Rob & Dave!
See you tmw for the bday party!

Our president wannabes views on disabilities

Thanks Knob!
http://www.aapd.com/News/election/070804comp.htm

Brr!

Windy is putting the weather mildly, its downright nasty cold

This is HYSTERICAL!

My friend John sent this to me, he's the one on the far left side!
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1431606530

Now check out me and Jack! (UPDATE) Er-scratch that, didnt save or I didnt do it right, will try again tmw night

Enjoy!

Forgot to mentioned

My DB friend Martin informed me that Access-A-Ride went on strike this
morning. This is terrible for the people who rely on it such as kidney
dialysis and so on. Many people who use this service will suffer. I hope
this strike is resolved soon bc its the riders who suffer!
Read more here

Hannukah and shoes...

On Sunday I went to a Hannukah Party I think it was sponsored by HAD
(Hebrew Association of the Deaf). My friend Martin invited me and as you
can see I snapped some pictures of the kids crafted driedals and painted
Menorah. It was a nice event.

This morning on the way to work this a.m. as I exited the subway there
was this HUGE silver high heels. "Give Shoes Be Merry!" by Piperlime.com
for people to donate shoes. Good idea, too bad I didn't know about it a
few weeks ago when I got rid of a lot of things. Tsk but still a great
idea. Gawd I LOVE NY!

For $4.38 you can eat this

Delicious! Only could eat 2 out of the 3, but dedecant! (Sp?)

My Boss is so Sweet

Today for my class that I teach in NJ,
my boss came to observe me teaching.
At the end of class all of her feedback was
positive. She really liked that I used power
points and the online blackboard for my
students to access the information they
need. I gotta admit I love the online Black-
board, its user friendly and environment
friendly. Anyways she gave me 1 piece of
advice for a teaching method for class
activity, to have the students create 2
rows where they stand face to face and
do the lesson exercise, then move down
1 space to face a new partner. That's
exactly what I needed. Often when I
ask the students for them 2 work with
someone new they stick to the same few
people. This suggestion will force them
to interact outside their "comfort zone."

But the nicest thing she did was give me
a copy of the book "Talking Hands" by
Margalit Fox. (Baba told me about this
new book last fall). Anyways the author
came to the school where I worked last
week and gave a presentation. I wasn't
able to attend due to other conflicts.
My boss even had the author autograph
the book for me including it being addressed
to me. Wasn't that so nice of her. All the
ASL teachers received a copy. I gave her
several hugs bc I was so taken back by her
surprise. I kept thanking her. And I look
forward to reading it maybe over winter
break. I know Baba will want to.

Last night Jack and I had a lovely dinner of
cheese tortillenis, with Vodka sauce and a
good bottle of Pignot Noir (red wine). Baba
got me hooked on this type of wine over
Thanksgiving. Its milder than Merlot which
suits my taste buds better.

Brr, its so cold today you can see your breath
materialize in the air, nice brisk weather!

A joke 2 tell anyone

Baba told me this one over Thanksgiving
dinner. Its really a cute joke, fun too.

A guy and a dwarf get into a car accident. When they approached, the
dwarf said "I'm not happy"
And the guy replied "well which one are you?"

Bleeding Hearts

I think all women ask themselves from time
to time, "am I going crazy?" the feelings
that accompanies the wide range of emotions
overwhelms you and you feel out of control.
And you feel like you're the only one who
happens to play the part well enough that
the world doesn't notice.
But you're not going crazy or are crazy,
neither am I. Its hard being a woman
sometimes.

This is from on Why Do Women Cry?
http://positivethoughts.com/whydowomencry.htm

Why do Women Cry?  

A little boy asked his mother, "Why are
you crying?" "Because I'm a woman," she
told him. "I don't understand," he said.
His Mom just hugged him and said, "And
you never will."

Later the little boy asked his father, "Why
does mother seem to cry for no reason?"
"All women cry for no reason," was all his
dad could say.

The little boy grew up and became a man,
still wondering why women cry.
Finally he asked God. He said, "God, why
do women cry so easily?"

God said:

"When I made the woman she had to be
special.
I made her shoulders strong enough to carry
the weight of the world, yet gentle enough
to give comfort. --I thought this line was very graceful.
I gave her an inner strength to endure
childbirth and the rejection that many
times comes from her children. --how true,
I agree
I gave her a hardness that allows her to
keep going when everyone else gives up,
and take care of her family through sickness
and fatigue without complaining. -- Uh....
I gave her the sensitivity to love her
children under any and all circumstances,
even when her child has hurt her very badly.
-- I couldn't agree more
I gave her strength to carry her husband
through his faults and fashioned her from
his rib to protect his heart. --???
I gave her wisdom to know that a
good husband never hurts his wife, but
sometimes tests her strengths and her
resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly.
--Boy does he test! ;-) nah, Jacks a good
man.
And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This
is hers exclusively to use whenever it is
needed." -- I like that, no permission needed.

"You see my son," said God, -blah, blah,
blah "the beauty of a woman is not in
the clothes she wears, the figure that
she carries, or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be seen in
her eyes, because that is the doorway to
her heart - the place where love resides."
--this last section lays on it on way too
thick even for me.
 
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever."
- Mahatma Gandhi

Do I try?

This new Trident? Apple w/Raspberry?
Sounds like a candy Willy Woka would
make. I almost expect it to be like eating
a hot pie. Kinda like the one gum that
turned the girl into a rolling Blueberry.
I'm wearing these cool criss-cross
stocking, and it looks good with my black
calf-length boots.

I'm headed to NJ. My weekend was
spent at home and mostly indoors. Resting
with Jack. We re hooked on watching
Battle Star Galacia, I started it last year
but then let my netflix expire only to
renew it recently. I'm glad I did. I'm hooked.
If I never had cable again I could live
happily with netflix for the rest of my life.
I'm so behind in tv anyways, once we
finish BSG and Farscape (we re in season 3)
I still have Rome (seasons 2-???), Tudor
left to watch. I'm blissfully happy that
TV/Movies are taking these stories and
making them into trilogies or series!

Lately I haven't had much time to see
friends. One of my friends thinks I'm
purposely ignoring them but I've explained
I've been sick a lot since b4 Thanksgiving
w/sinuses and that I'm focus on work
doing my student teaching hrs. I have the
rest of my life to "have fun" but I only
have this year to finish my student teaching.
Its hard to strike a balance where everyone
is happy.

I'm also looking fwd 2 returning 2 PA in 3
weeks for my Uncles' 50th bday (they're
Fraternal twins). I've already found 1 gift
but haven't found the other Uncle's gift yet.

Hmm, 20 mins away from the campus, best
I review my notes b4 I teach class, latah!

Chocolate anyone?

Jack and me :)

Karen & Me

The three of us :-)

4/5/6 line! BYTE me MTA!

I'm so damn pissed off at the MTA and their 4/5/6 line. This is the 2nd
time in 1 month that a train ride from 125th to 23rd st took well over
an HOUR! One woman almost passed out on the train. I'm basically screwed
for todays students teaching as I'm currently at 42nd st and now there's
only ONE class left for me to attend today. I've emailed my cooperating
teacher to let her know I will be in tmw instead! I'm so annoyed!

Chocolatey Thanksgiving

Here's a picture of the "personalized"
Hershey Bar that Jack and I had made.
See, my friend Karen came to visit, and the
three of us, Karen, Jack and I went to
Hersheys the day after Thanksgiving. We hit Hershey's Museum and to
"Chocolate World."
A lot of fun!

The visit to PA went by too fast! I wasn't
ready to return to NYC yesterday but the
wheel of time waits for no one. Am almost
to my teaching job in NJ, its rainy and
everything looks soggy!

Matt Damon

Is NOT the sexiest Man Alive, Puh-lease!
Excuse me while I resist the urge to
throw-up!

Btw on a different note, I read on CNN
yesterday about a guy who wanted to
commit suicide, and what did he do? He de-
cides to drive head first into an 18-wheeler.
Managed to kill himself (lovely) and the truck
was engulfed in flames. That poor truck
driver barely escaped! How messed up is that?

Nj Winterland

Brr... Chilllleeeeeeeee

Winter is almost here

Right now, headed to NJ to give my under-
grads their Midterm. My 1st created midterm
ever :) its kinda snowing, sleeting right now.
Makes me want to crawl back into my nice
warm bed and snuggle w/my Sweets.

My new roommate is still bitching/moaning
over the fact his TV is going into Storage.
He was on the ph last night, going on and on
about me. Really he needs to let it go. Jack
could hear everything which of course upset
him as he knew this guy is being childish.
What's funnier is that he was told by my
1st roommate that she wants MY TV back
in the Living Room bc she knows I shared it
and we were happy with the existing set-up.
Glad too, I can see now I have little to
worry about because she's not falling for
his "pity me" party. He kept telling her how
he was gonna "clean" the apt once I was gone
for Thanksgiving break. Christ, I've kept
that apt clean for so long because while
I may have clutter, its clean. My
roommate she's the opposite, little clutter
but she doesn't deep clean. He has no idea
and wants to blame me for everything. I
guess hes gonna blame me for global warming
and racism as well! Whatever, 3 months, he's
only gonna be there for 3 months!

Problem solved

Well the deal now is my 2nd roommate
will be "sacraficing" his larger than life
size TV 2 storage so that the living room
is no longer an extension of his bedroom.

1st roommate and I talked this a.m.. She
seems to understand what the problem
was and doesn't seem to mind getting rid
of the TV either as she never wanted it
to begin with. We both were fine with the
15 channels we originally had. Me I'm a
member of netflix so I'm set with or
without cable.

Feeling better today, still a small cough.
Jack and I are headed to this small Greek
diner up in the Bronxs for lunch. They
make a killer pisticio (sp?). Hope its fresh,
it not a burger will suffice.

My spirits are lifting the closer it gets
to tues nite when Jack and I head out
to PA. Its gooble time!

Suffocating a little

I basically am being cramped by my new
3rd roommate. But now after being sick for
a few days, im feeling trapped in my bed-
room. At first he was ok 1.5 week ago, but
now he's walking on my last nerve! EVERY
time he sees me he keeps asking me if I
got storage. I'm like, hello, I worked all
week. 2ndly I do not answer to him :(
My 1st roommate isn't being 2 cool either.
Basically I'm feeling a bit ganged up on &
luckily 4 me Jack's here. I feel like I have
someone rooting for me. Remember Sam
the ASSwipe roommate? How upset I
was all the time? Well I'm kinda feeling
that way now. Things have soured some.
But, being the eternal optimist & a believer,
I'm hoping in the long term this will work
itself out. Just right now being in the middle
of it, its SssuCks.

I'm so glad Thanksgiving is right around
the corner. A visit with my family is just
what I need and want. I'm so blessed to
enjoy my familys company. Plus Jack &
I are sick of my room! We haven't been
able to use the LR since you know who
moved in :-(

Not much else is new, work, work, student
"teach"...blah blah, being responsible...

I'm kinda in a whinny, bitchy mood. Glad
tmw is a new day. I get like this when
I'm sick. But rather have it now then over
the Thanksgiving break.

Yep

That pretty much sums it up.

Forgot a few

A few more from Saturday

Part II

This was in the very last showroom , and I just loved it! I had to snap it, it was like priced at several thousands I think? Just beautiful. Strong geometric shapes, a nice shade of blue and intensity.

I forgot who this is suppose to be but it was in the back of the showrooms with with all the lighting and chandeliers

Cool chair, enuff said

a wall decor I liked, damn I lost the listing of the showrooms so hard for me to say who's it is :(

Liked this one, Szymanski pointed out its a blantant rip off of another well known artist. I agree, the idea is not new but still fun to look at in person. This picture doesn't do it justiced. Sorry I only had my SK2 with me

Just loved the entrance to one of the showrooms, this is the same one as the picture above, only the one above is further back

Salivating, Michael Tavano, I'm hooked on your work, I curse you ;) ! For once I wish I had money. His showroom was in my opinion the BEST of them all.

I want these ROOMS!

This is the location where the Canstruction event "Tin Towers" takes place in NYC. (This event takes place all over the US). NY Design Center is located 200 Lexington Ave @ 32nd st. Admission, one can of food. DO GO! You'll be glad you did. Btw, in the various showrooms I saw many room layouts. I want these beds! Don't you wish your bedroom looked this good?

A 'Can'did Version of Mae West