(My latest entry in LJ Idol -- the topic this week is What Does Narcissism Have To Do With Me?)So here’s the thing ( Read more... )

So I'm working near Radio City Music Hall these days. And Radio City Music Hall puts on a big show every Christmas season, with Rockettes and production numbers and Santa and a big-ass spectacle ( Read more... )

So my economic fortunes are looking a bit more "up" than they've been for a while. For nearly ten years, in fact.

And it's uncovered an interesting frivolous, self-indulgent and girly streak. I'm starting to be a bit more prone to window-shopping, to splurging on things -- I'm actually toying with planning a clothes shopping trip for myself on a ( Read more... )

I have indeed decided to lay low tonight. It's cold, and I only got four hours sleep (woke up at 2 am and couldn't get back to sleep until about 4:30, woe); so I came home, changed into comfy jammies and stayed in my room, out of the way while Cara unpacked ( Read more... )

(My second foray in the LJ Idol contest. The topic this week: Three Little Words."I spent the first few hours of 9/11 making phone calls ( Read more... )

Dear Halloween:

I'm starting to think I may blow you off this year. Not because of a lack of interest, believe me. More a lack of sleep.

I'll see how it goes. Be nice to me.

This is absurd.

There is snow. It is snowing. In New York. Two days before Halloween.We haven't even had all the leaves turn yet. Lots of the leaves made nice traps for the snow, which was all nice and wet and heavy, and sticky, so the branches were weakened under the weight, and then when a strong wind came up....there are three downed branches ( Read more... )

And so we seem to be going straight from late summer direct into early winter.

A couple weeks ago we had unseasonably warm, summerlike weather -- the first weekend in October was sunny, in the 80's, blue skies and soft winds. (I had to stay in all day both days, unfortunately, which had me quite disappointed.) And now, only two weeks later -- we ( Read more... )

So apparently a heartburn can feel like heart arhythmia ( Read more... )

Okay. Usually I am not very girly-shoppaholic at all; my mother even once recently confessed to being a teeny bit disappointed that I didn't get as into clothes and fashion as a teenager as she'd been, as she'd secretly been looking forward to some female-bonding shopping trips. (She got over it.) Usually it's because I've either been a little ( Read more... )