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I just ate this for lunch:  an Acme Markets Frozen Bean Burrito heated with a glob of CheezWhiz all over it, and sliced tomatoes and salsa on top.  And then I had 5 mini-Reeses. If a killer meteor hit the Earth right now, I'm pretty sure I'd die smiling.   :)

but I still want one, natalie dee

Cannibal-cupcake

Have any of you ever played this game? It's a game where they give you the first half of a saying "A bird in the hand is...." and then each person makes up their own ending for the saying, trying to convince everyone else that you know the real ending.

Man we had some good laughs over that one this weekend.

I have to buy that game because the one we played belongs to my son and DIL and they took it home to their house.

I see it's for sale on Amazon for 42 dollars. Wow! That seems high for a board game. But, I'll pay anything for some laughs.

I have some pictures to post, but I can't do that until I get home from work. Pfffffft.

I can still blather on here without really saying much of anything.

How and when do you reward yourself?
Submitted by Rainbird.

I think everyday that I wake up I deserve a reward. It could be anything. It can be flavored creamer in my coffee or a special brewed tea. But the big rewards come like maybe once a year where I feed my addiction to handbags. The handbag I just bought should take it into 2010. :)

The best rewards are the hugs and kisses from the littlest people in my house. My kiddos... That's when I know that I must have done something right.

Happy Saturday from overcast NYC! Moving a bit slow today, unlike Ms. Dora who is currently on her back from the gym. We're trying to figure out how to meet up today because the restaurant we thought we'd go for lunch doesn't open until 3:00-ish.

So that puts some complications in our plans. Haven't heard from TJ yet.

Ha. This is turning into an extended Twitter post or something. Like you need to know what I'm doing RIGHT NOW!

Yesterday, John, TJ and I met up at the South Street Seaport and had some beers. Then we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, which was my priority for yesterday. Then we found a great bar in Brooklyn and stayed there for a few hours discussing geopolitics and economic theory. We had it all figured out and the world will be saved as soon as I assume power as Queen of the Universe.

Then we headed back to the subway and made our way to another bar in Queens where we met the lovely Dora and had more beers. We wandered over to where we thought was a good vantage point for fireworks. It wasn't. So we went to a diner and finally had some solid food.

We went back to the bar because John left his tab open with his credit card. I think it was a calculated move to make sure we kept drinking.

All in all, a fun night was had by all.

The only major thing I wanted to do today was see Yankee Stadium before it gets torn down. John and I will head that way, ride the subway with Yankees and Red Sox fans, take some pictures and have beers in the Bronx. Then hopefully meet up with Dora and TJ again at some point during the day.

My original plan for tonight was to go to Governors Island for a free concert by the NY Philharmonic but the weather is supposed to be crap. Instead, I bought us tickets to go see Avenue Q, aka 'the dirty puppets'. May as well do a Broadway show while I'm out here and South Pacific is sold out until the middle of September. So we're going with the puppets. I'm so highbrow. :-P

Hope everyone is having a great weeked!

I just tried to scan a slide. Here it is. Didn't work well, which makes sense because my printer/scanner isn't intended for that. Does anyone have a slide scanner? How TRULY useful are they? Or is there a way to "trick" my non-slide-scanning scanner into scanning a slide? I have a few hundred slides....some are pretty good, as I recall (I did a lot of "artsy-fartsy" stuff and a wedding reception shoot that I was actually paid for...heh). I don't expect to take any more slides, though, so I don't want to spend $$$ to get a slide converter, for one round of scanning. I'm guessing that taking the slides somewhere to have it done is very pricey, too. Can't do that either. Hmmmm.
Just tried another scan, this time with the transparency out of its frame. Nope; still not close to OK. Help?

• 05:28 tried to fall asleep. was unsuccessful. now neighbor is warming car in driveway. #

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How are you celebrating the 4th of July?

Usually by sitting in traffic for three hours until I can't feel my clutch thigh anymore. Not tonight, though...from last firework to home in 30 min. That must be some kind of record. I felt like my car and I were one symbiotic being and I didn't hit not one. single. person! No matter what kind of a jerk they were being. There were a lot of people, too..go look at the pictures on DeWitte's blog. It was insane.

Huzzah! Now I can go open my wine.