I feel so bad. Just a couple of hours of cheering the marathoners had me curled up in bed for a 2 hour nap. It was exhausting. Today was Marathon Sunday and I managed to get out of my jammies (I needed a jammie weekend!) for a few hours so we could cheer from our…
Our night with Lindsey Buckingham
Oh my gosh. That was all I could say at the end of Friday night as we settled into bed. Our Friday night this week was not spent going to JFK Airport to ride the Airtrain but was instead spent on the Upper East Side. First we had to stop in Soho where Poppy King…
Fear Street
With the overload of Halloween spookiness going on lately, it forced me back to the local library to pick up some RL Stine Fear Street books. I love the whole series and have been reading them for nearly 20 years now. They are ones that I always find myself reading again and again. The are…
RIP Quick and Efficient Google Reader
Ahhh – now for the Google Reader exodus I guess. I have been so faithful to Google Reader. Even before they integrated Reader with Apps for those managing our own domains, I still used my Reader account with my old Gmail address – logging in and out constantly. That is how much I enjoyed the…
PlugBug
Another ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ moment! The PlugBug! Within 15 minutes of seeing this baby, it was purchased! At home I can live without it but when traveling… nope. Hotel powerpoint space is at a premium when Bill and I travel. The hotel we always stay in when we visit Albany is lacking…
An adventurous 24 hours…
On Friday night we decided to trek out to JFK airport to take our two suitcases back as they have to be repaired after being pummeled on our trip back from Australia.. more on that to come! To make it fun we decided to have a bit of an adventurous date night. We were going…
A Brooklyn Halloween..
Our block takes Halloween VERY seriously. In fact, we even get the street blocked off. Our neighbors do a big Halloween production that gets crowds from all over coming to visit. For those in Melbourne, it is kind of like living on The Boulevard in Ivanhoe at Christmas time. On my walk home from the…
Queen Vic Market / Grand Final Parade / Parl
The Friday before the Grand Final in Melbourne is fun fun fun! We had another full day planned so… here we go! We spent the morning at the Queen Victoria Market. Hot jam donuts were in order! Here is Bill placing his order – Score! We walked around the halls quickly, but as usual, we…
Melbourne and Norflandz
Wednesday was a full day in the city – I had the last of my ‘change my name to Blevins’ errands to run for the few places left where the name change had to be done in person. We wandered around Melbourne Central (yes, we watched the Waltzing Matilda clock) and went to Mass at…
On rotation at the moment
Some songs that have been getting hammered on my iPod/iPhone lately – Coldplay – Violet Hill Vanessa Carlton – White Houses Lindsey Buckingham – Go Insane (Seeing him at the 92nd St Y in a couple of weeks!!!!!!) Tea Party – Sister Awake The Rembrandts – Just the way it is baby (thanks to 90210…