The "Blown Away Guy"

Early tonight after spending the day packing up the apartment, Jack and I went out to a store and came home with this kick-ass rug. It will make our new living room pop! I tried to explain to Jack at one point that I think our view of the city is like that poster from the 80s by Hitachi Maxwell known as the "Blown Away Guy." Do you remember it?


To me this is one of the few images that defines the word Cool. And our new place is urber wickedly cool!

In case you missed

Having snow, here's some more! Made possible by your local old man
winter!

Dunno who the artist is

But I've always liked this art piece

"Off with her head!" The Queen of Hearts

Here in NYC, there's a small chain of
Alice's Tea Cup cafes, very darling to
go to. Best to go during the week days
because on the weekends, these places
places are packed with an hour or more
wait.

Blondie and I went and had a lovely time.
As "we're all mad here."- Cheshire Cat

Baba's Havarah

Last summer or fall, I helped Baba
put out a terrific display of tasty
bites and the spread was too pretty
not to take some photos!

Antique Cafe

In NYC sucks. While the decor
and cute cat outside the place,
the food was bad, the waitstaff
worse and basically it seemed
like a place people go to, to
look artsy but snobby at the
same time. If you're ever
downtown in NYC, and don't
feel like being ripped off,
do yourself a favor and skip
this dud.

Damn you Danger!

So Tmobile mails everyone who owns a
sidekick phone that the data carrier
company called Danger will no longer
be servicing Tmobile after May 31st!
This means I must part with my beloved
tmail account and phone number I've had
for at least 8 or more years. Ugh I
don't want to. And to add salt to
the wound the same letter announces
cheerfully that I could keep using my
sidekick for phone calls etc etc..
Useless to me. I need the data ONLY
plan which despites the ups and downs
of this company, Danger provided this
service.

This is so what I don't want
to think about. Buying a new phone,
aka my life cord. I tried to research
phones on the internet but this isn't
effective way for me to judge. One of
these days I will go to several major
cell phone carrier shops and have
someone show/demonstrate their
phones for me. I want one that's
affordable, that I can access the web,
email, text msg, take photos and
play games on. MAYbe a voice plan
since I can use the tcoil switch with
an nozifree ear piece and call my
Mom or Grandmother once in a while.
I don't know, because then people
start calling you and I can't handle
that....

I was tempted for a while to get an IPhone
after Blondie got hers last spring
with all the bells and whistles. I think the
apps are so cool! Like the GPS app or the
identify the song playing app and Blondie
has all these fun games to play. But
several things are holding me back.

1- I drop phones. And I've seen many students
with cracked IPhone screens knowing
I would be one of them if I owned an
IPhone.

2- you can't get the "data" only plan,
its automatic come with voice plans
which means more blood is shed, er
I mean more money parts my pockets!

3- I catch an occasional news about
whatever crisis IPhone is facing at the
time and I don't want to deal with it.
Danger had several major crisis that
made my phone unusable for as long
as 2-3 weeks....

4- IPhones are not cheap

I don't want Jack to help me pick out a
phone. He means well but he's a strict
PC user, where as I enjoy the best of
both world, PC & IMac etc etc. I find his
phone choices (and this man loves his
phone and goes through them like
klennex) I've seen many phones over
the years and still preferred my sidekick
the whole time. Nope this is one
technology-based decision I am going
to do solo.

Meanwhile I gotta start transferring
information off my phone and was
browsing through my photos. Some of
them I realized I hadn't posted yet.

These photos were taken on the way
to work 1 day. There's a small, short
woody trail between the metro-north
railroad stop and the campus I
work at. Au nautrelle and I've seen on
occasions, deers standing around,
no futher than 15 ft away from me.
Such a lovely sight to see.
Unfortunately my sidekick camera
makes objects seem further away
than they appear. Still sweet nonetheless

I love my students

Every year there's a few students who always
stand out more than others. They can be so
sweet! Like my 1 student text me a photo of
her friend wearing a Gally t-shirt. Another 1
text me last week they at event where they
met some Deafies. A 3rd one was kind enough
to email me a link to an online ASL dictionary.
I am so lucky that for the past 7 years of
teaching I've met some really cool people.

In other good news, I did better than expected
on my exam #2 from last week. Got an 88%
and if I had left some of my original answer
instead of changing them, I probably would've
gotten a 95%! W00t! Now I only have to wait
for Thurs to come to find out how I did on my
1st Lab Practical Test?

Apt hunting still in effect. Tmw we drop off
some paperwork for one that we may get into.
I like the location in terms of work commutes.
And it seems like these apts have closets.
So my only hope is they will excuse the fact
I am a few Ks short of their income
requirements. Its like I am short by 2Ks,
that's all! I just gotta hope. Won't know
till Friday or next Monday. I am going to
put it out of my mind and continue to look
at more apartments later this week.

Not a great day

Still sick, antibiotics didn't work, saw the
doc tonight, got new ones so should be
better soon...

Apt that we both really interested, we went
and found out its booked till at least May.
This has left us both discouraged.
Thus we ended up bickering on & off all
day. Neither of us handles stress well
together.
Not fun a fun day.

One small silver lining, actually 2.
1- the test last night for the A&P Lab
wasn't as frightening as I expected.
I still struggled primarily with tissues
& bone surface markings. I feel
confident I should not walk away with
anything less than a C or B- if im
lucky?
2-Jack and I went to bed not anger
but with some TLC that we both
should've been handing out earlier
today. In my defense *coughs coughs*
I am sick. And everyone is a baby when
they're sick. I admit I am a little more
cranky than usual.

Glad today is almost over with tomorrow being right around the corner.

After.Life

Last night through netflix watch instantly, I watched After.Life with subtitles starring Liam Neeson, Justin Long (who strangely resembles Pete Wentz) and Christina Ricci. It was a strange but captivating movie about a funeral director who has the special ability to communicate with those in between life & death, the limbo stage. Christina's character died in a car accident and struggled to accept that she would be buried in 3 days. The movie toys with the idea that perhaps the funeral director was really a serial killer? And did not get good reviews but I liked it.

So in 15 minutes I take my lab practical test, yippeee. I am not looking forward to it. I just couldn't master the bone's surface markings or tissue identification. I have to try my best and see what happens....

Tomorrow Jack & I are going to look at one apartment we both feel is promising and in our price range. Keeping my fingers crossed!

Palmers Hollow Chocolate Bunnies

So earlier today I was in Walmart aka Satan's den as some people call it picking up a few grocerie items when I saw the Easter candy display. My oh my, I was literally drooling, I think Easter out of Valentines Day, Christmas and Halloween is the best variety of mouth watering chocolates. I couldn't leave without buying 2 Palmer "totally delicious"-as touted on the box Hollow Milk chocolates! One for me, one for Jack. Yum, yum! The taste brings back memories. See as a Jew we celebrate Easter as the holy grail of chocolates in a basket. Nothing more religious to us than Halloween. Funny, I just learned when googling for a photo of the bunny, they have different names! Mine bunny's name is Honey, Jack's bunny's name is Yummy (white chocolate).

So ay yi yi tomorrow is the 2nd exam. I feel I will do ok but Thurs lab test, I am not confident at all. And frankly I've decided not to stress over it because we have to chose our battles wisely. Either I do poorly on both or I do well on one and bad on another, maybe it won't be as bad as I think but I just couldn't handle studying for both. The stress of finding an apartment I think is another reason why I struggled to study. Its hard to relax when I don't know where I will be living at in a month from now?

Anyways, I am going to use chocolate therapy tonight, as I do every night :-) And let the eggs crack where they may.

I heart modern medicine

Once again I ended up w/another UTI/kidney mess! Ugh I just don't get
any symptoms except for cramping and so many things can cause cramps.
Nope not till a few days ago when my energy was zapped, my focus in a
haze and pains by my side did I realize I was down for the count. Man if
it wasn't for modern medicine I wouldn't be alive today. A few hundred
years ago I probably would've died as a baby or toddler. I've always
been a sickly person who when stressed my immune system goes cuckoo
cuckoo! But I can't complain, I rather be sickly than so ill I couldn't
participate in everyday life.

Tonight I am going to Grand Central to meet Blondie and her old friend
MJ! I cannot wait to see MJ, I've not seen her for 10 years! She was one
of the sweetest girls I've ever met and super peppy! Always so up and
about. It will be fun to catch up and hear about her life since. She has
had a hard one no doubt.

Next week I have the exam #2 & the lab test #1, I am doing my best to
prepare for them. I studied about 5 hrs yesterday till my brain went on
strike. So instead I play computer games and watched tv

Not much else exciting happening except apt hunting, Jack thinks we may
have a real possibility in Rockland county! W00t! We will look this
Friday!