Luckily, I don’t have to say it’s been many years since I was here. Last summer I decided, rather suddenly, to take a A Four Year Vacation from NYC. I quit my job, packed my stuff, wrote about What I Will Miss About NYC and What I Will NOT Miss About NYC, loaded up the [click to continue reading...]
Life In NYC
My last few days in NYC were busy and stressful and difficult, but also amazing and illuminating. I spent several days feeling loved, appreciated and valued. Wednesday, the 23rd, my boss took me and some coworkers out to dinner.. FOR ME. Since I expect Japanese food to be something I will desperately miss, we went [click to continue reading...]
Men peeing in public The smell of subway station stairways on a hot, summer day Movie sets. Freaking movie people filming “on location” and getting in the way of real life Getting parking tickets outside my apartment whenever I rent a car Noise, noise, and more noise. Construction noise. 18-wheel truck noise. Making sure Snick [click to continue reading...]
Most of all… my friends, of course: work friends, Shiba friends, neighborhood friends, miscellaneous friends Meeting random new, interesting people at least once a week when I’m out with Snickers. I doubt that many people are out and about at 11pm in the suburbs of Indianapolis. The not so random, wonderful people I get to [click to continue reading...]
At least that is how I am thinking of it. Let’s please not call it “leaving NYC.” <sigh> I moved here 21 years ago, still a teenager and totally in awe of everything around me. I made the mistake of leaving in 1991 and spent the next few years desperately trying to find my way [click to continue reading...]
hmmmm… How can there be a show with that name and it not be about Snickers??? And apropos to absolutely nothing, I just had to find an NYPD officer to haul the big, drunk guy off my front step so I could get inside with the dogs at the end of our walk. Best part [click to continue reading...]
I can… which explains a lot about why I have been working for the same firm for five years. When I was younger, my average tenure at a job was about 18 months. That is roughly how long it takes for me to learn, master, and become bored with a job. The first place I [click to continue reading...]
Late Sunday night – after midnight – has always been one of my favorite times to walk Snickers. Other than Christmas Day or in the middle of a blizzard, this is the quietest time to go for a walk in my neighborhood. Last night, Snick and I were enjoying a quiet minute on “rat plaza” [click to continue reading...]
Fat people meandering along on the sidewalk bother me. Umbrellas in my face really bother me. But, FAT PEOPLE WITH UMBRELLAS??? AUGH! Edit after the fact: I’m not talking about any and every overweight person and I shouldn’t have written the post the way I did, but since I don’t normally believe in editing or [click to continue reading...]
NYC Shiba Rescue has been around for less than a month and we just took in our third foster dog, Sabrina. Surely there won’t always be so many…? Finding foster homes – and then adoptive homes – at this rate is practically a full time job. And, in case you don’t know, I already HAVE [click to continue reading...]
