2016: Still waters running deep

Things have been a little... quiet... on the blog lately. As predicted, school has been kicking my butt time-wise, but I did do some things this past year. I'm going to make a concerted effort in the new year to follow my original goal of blogging on average once a week. Many posts are currently sitting in the drafts folder, but they will see the light of day. Maybe even this year.^*

On with the yearly wrap-up. It was a year. The consensus is that it sucked globally, but personally, it was pretty good. I had 8 months of vacation, followed by 4 months of making up for it in spades. The DC and I celebrated our first anniversary as married adorables and my cat Lucy celebrated her 17th birthday by finally realizing that she has massive arthritis in her hips and so therefore shouldn't be leaping from the sewing table to the ironing board and that she could, in fact, pee on this.

New York, New York, a wonderful town!

The pictures of my Europe trip are DONE! Over 7000 photos have been whittled down to about 4100. Phew!

I finally finished my New York photos. Again, there aren't as many as, say, London, because since it was my third trip there I'd already done the main tourist attractions. I also didn't do quite as much as I planned; after being sea-sick and then getting used to it, I found myself land-sick and dizzy. I often didn't leave the hotel until 11 each day.

However, there are quite enough for you to admire.

New York, June 2010

And here are my pictures from the fall trip:

NYC October 2009

You can click here to see all my Fabulous European Adventure trip albums.

This is all very exciting. Only a few months shy of two years after the original deadline I set myself. I promised myself that I wouldn't get my hair done until I'd finished all the photos. I've needed a haircut since July.

Now to catch up on the blog posts. I'm aiming for at least one a week. We'll see how that goes.

Heh. Hee hee hee. *Giggle* *snort*

Everything's comin' up roses, except my nightlife

Don't read this yet. Although it's in the past, I've only published it because I want to link to it in a future post. Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.

Some really good stuff is going to go here about my last day in NYC. I meant to do the circle line tour of NY and missed it because I misread the schedule. There was a great deal of walking in less scenic parts of New York.

On my way there, I went to [name I can't remember] to buy macarons. I hadn't had any since leaving Paris, and I know that they have jumped the pond. (Not Payard, where my cousin worked, because that was uptown and this place was more-or-less on the way). The poor boy behind the counter didn't really know that much about them. No pictures, alas, because despite my best intentions they did not last. They were a bit chewy and possibly not completely fresh, but still very, very tasty.

Went to the Shake Shack for lunch.
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Tour of East Village & bought my earrings.
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On my way back to the hotel, I went through Soho to take more pictures of Green St. & cast-iron architecture. Saw a couple digging through a box of what I thought were fake flowers, but turned out to be real roses that someone was just throwing away! The woman was saying "Oh, we can't take them all. We should leave some for other people." The man just started threading roses in her hair. I grabbed a few for myself; I figured I could enjoy them for the evening and leave them as a gift for whoever cleans my room when I leave tomorrow.
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More stuff about getting back to the hotel. "You look like you need the bathroom more, because you are carrying roses and someone carrying roses shouldn't look that unhappy."

I hope to be going out dancing tonight. The reason I planned to stay in New York until tomorrow was Frim Fram on Thursdays. Unfortunately, I seem to have picked up some kind of... how shall I put this delicately... intestinal bug that is making life unpleasant. Not a great way to end this trip, I must say.

I won't think of that. I'll think of roses instead.
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