Wednesday, June 30, 2010

You have GOT to be kidding me!


I haven't posted in a while. I planned on blogging each day that I was in Orlando for the *ahem* GRAND OPENING of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. But I left my phone in my friend's car in NY. There was computer access at the hotel and I was able to send out a few emails here and there, but no access to cool sites. I'll save my HP park review for when I upload my photos.

Some of the funny things that have been happening since then are: I've been singing in some capacity everyday this week (well, actually that's not funny, that's great!) , I've been job hunting like mad (not funny either, that's actually not very exciting) and my birthday is coming up!! Okay so, none of those things were funny but you get the idea.

On Saturday, I was in the park with my friend on a picnic. This young fellow happens past us and asks if he can talk to us. He had some flyers in his hand so I was thinking "NO, I don't want to go to your party dude" But he assures us that this discussion won't require us giving him money. He proceeds to tell my friend and I that he's doing a campaign to save the horses who are hitched onto the carriages in Central Park. It was random but sad. I think it's well known that those horses aren't treated very well so we signed his petition. I also signed for my brother because he's always talking about horses and wants to be a zoologist. The interesting part of this story is that after we were done signing everything, the fellow tells us about how he likes his job but wishes people weren't so mean to him. He wasn't crazy or anything, he was clearly a young guy (no older than 18 or 19) who doesn't get to talk to people enough. He also said that he hopes to make enough money so he could buy some braces to fix his teeth since he likes smiling. He mentioned that we had nice teeth. I don't ever open my mouth wide enough for people to notice my bizarro teeth but I accepted the compliment and told him his teeth weren't so bad.

xoxo!!

Friday, June 11, 2010

Marathon

Today was the longest day ever.

The Census job is over but there are some last minute cases for us to complete. So I had to go and do those in addition to pick up my final check from my other former job. Then I needed to go house/cat sit for some of my friends over in Flatbush...actually, I'm not sure what that neighborhood is called. I also wanted to round out the night by checking out my friend Akie perform with his band. Suprisingly I did all those things. Not without obstacles though.

My car broke down on Classon and Willoughby Street and I had my mom drive over to meet me just in case it broke down again when I drove back home. I had her drive me to the area I had to do my Census taking in, took the train straight to my cat-sitting gig only to discover that I didn't have the proper keys for their house. But the neighbor had the keys.

Finally I got my mom to take me to the train and I caught the very end of Akie's set and hung out with the band and friends. Now I'm on the train going home and I think I just stepped into a musical. This woman is playing guitar and singing pretty well, then this grou of girls started singing along and dancing. And then the people on the train clapped. Okay goodnight.