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670 days ago
So - after living here 3 years, I finally-finally-finally got up the nerve to walk into a ballet class. Which, incidentally, kicked my ass. I'm sore from toes to the end of my frizzy hair folicles, I am limping around like an old lady who's been suffering from acute osteoperosis for the last 20 years, and Markus is getting sick of my groaning everytime I have to reach for my coffee. I looooooooooove it. I am in hog-heaven. I love going to ballet class. Now, let me be frank... I suck at ballet. I was always more of a singer than a dancer, and the dance that I actually liked the best was tapping. But ballet was always there as a discipline, the foundation for everything else, blah-blah-blah, and my post-ballet class body is the shape I'm happiest being in. I miss theatre, I miss the performing, I miss the costumes, and the makeup and the other performers, and the (I'll be honest) laughing and clapping. But - I also miss the music, and the work, and the rehearsal ...
729 days ago
Someone sent this to me ages ago in an email that I deleted. Whoops. However, I found it again, and didn't want to lose it. So I shall post.... You Know You're a New Yorker If.... 1. You say "The City" and expect everyone to know that this means Manhattan. 2. You have never been to the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building. 3. You can get into a four hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park at 3:30 on the Friday before a long weekend, but can't find Wisconsin on a map. 4. Hookers and the homeless are invisible to you. 5. The subway map makes sense to you. 6. You think the subway should never be called anything prissy, like the Metro. 7. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you bilingual. 8. You've considered smacking someone just for saying "The Big Apple." 9. Your door has more than two locks. 10. The most frequently used part of your car is the horn. 11. You ...
762 days ago
Sigh. I just don't have the wedding gene. Seriously, this is the day that I've heard little girls start planning at about 5 or 6 years of age. I have made the concession to buy three bridal magazines. And I have to say, when did wedding gowns get so darned slutty? We've decided on a continent, and we are going to get married in Europe. We think. See? Having a very, very hard time with this! We got the pricing from one hotel, and Markus is heavily involved, because it requires room negotiation. Honestly, the guy isn't happy unless he's negotiating *something.* We've had absolutely hysterical evenings trying to decide what kind of ceremony we want to have. Not being religious at all, Markus thinks we should take something from every culture. He thinks I should wear red like the Hindis, we should have some sort of Gregorian chant, and he definitely wants to stomp on a glass. I try to tell him that this may be offensive to people who really are devout, but he just ...
768 days ago
I have discovered that my whole life revolves around the weekends. Really, now... there's something both empowering and debilitating when you realize that you're just marking time 5/7ths of your life. Boy, I dislike my job. I have the kind of job that is the kind of mind-numbing jumping-off point in the movies, where the protagonist has a nervous breakdown, or sends a bowling ball through her computer monitor, or decides she hates the rat race and goes for a retreat on a dude ranch and finds herself after a couple of weeks of roping cows. But, the weekends. The weekends I feel like ME. It's 7 in the morning, and the reflection of the sunrise has turned all the highrises out my windows a mind-blowing rosy peach. I have no work to do - I'm drinking coffee, typing in front of the windows, and I'm going to check out my sister's blog, to find out how she's doing on the snail farm in Macedonia. Honestly, I'm not making that up. My siblings and I all have very interesting ...
800 days ago
Just wanted to drop a note, and give a shout-out to my friends Lizadoo and Dan, who I haven't spoken to in ages because my email address changed when I moved. Hi Lizadoo and Dan! I thought of you on Saturday night, when I went to the New York Philaharmonic to see (and hear) John Williams. The orchestra played his standards, and his not-so-standards, and it was magnificent. The second half of the concert had a tribute to Stanley Donen - so we got to hear the orchestra play while they lowered a screen to show Fred Astaire dancing around the room, the Seven Brides barn dance, and Gene Kelly dance with Jerry the Mouse. Followed by him splashing in the rain. Which was thrilling to someone like me, but equally thrilling was later in the concert, when the orchestra came in as that shark fin swam by.... I ended the weekend with a trip to Chinatown... Markus and I decided we were going to get out of the neighborhood and enjoy the sights and smells uptown, and I kicked off ...
