Blue 42, Blue 42, hut hut huuuut---what does that mean anyways?!

Here is what i know about football and the super bowl (i must defend myself first because basketball is my sport and not football....nothing like beefy guys bashing into each other! Yeah that's hot! )
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1) there is amazing entertainment, halftime show (ps: Tom Petty this year...is Paula Abdul still performing? that would be great!), fireworks and pre-game entertainment. Great stuff, but i still think Prince is numero uno!

2) Advertisers spend MILLIONS on these crazy advertisements (beer and cars) which i've never been fortunate enough to see during the actual super bowl, only afterwards on the internet....gooooo Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

3) Getting to host the super bowl is like getting to host the Olympics...a pretty big deal figured out years in advance...yeah Arizona, woop woop!

4) pre-show does not equal the red carpet like my favorites the grammy's, oscars, SAG...you know...i still don't know what it means, but i've been told if i think red carpet i'll be disappointed. I'm gearing up for lots of old video footage, yeah( can you hear my excitement!)

AND FINALLY!!!
5) I will be watching my very first super bowl in the USA this year(i've watched many in Canada)...and i'm sooooo excited!!


So if any of you are like myself...not in the football know and i'm telling you now...the New England Patriots and the New York Giants are playing against each other this Sunday Sunday Sunday (do you hear the echo?). There will be a post game wrap up report...oh don't you worry! I would never disappoint!

Walking in the shoes of others...something i must practice more

I consider myself a taller than the average woman at the height of 5'8", but today walking down the street i managed to get into a mass of about 8 models and felt pretty darn short. How did i know they were models, well other than the fact that they were 6' +, sticks, wearing cropped jackets, black leggings, tights or nothing and enormous heels you start to assume.

This is when i started wishing i paid more attention to the models on Project Runway, or America's Next Top Model (although i'm pretty sure that's finished) because these are probably the only models who are a)poor enough that they are forced to walk amongst us "short" people b)not being harassed by the paparazzi and c)hanging out around Pratt/union square area.

Anyways, i felt kinda (but only a little bit) bad for them...soooo many people were gawking at the dolled up, skinny sticks as they paraded down the street...oh and it was freezing....why aren't they in more clothes they'll freeze to death, but i guess freezing to death is better than starving to death. I wonder which will happen first to these ladies? Not a life i envy.

ps: did i mention i'm a bad person...you'd never guess from this sweet face

Let us compare

So back in the fall (November to be specific) i posted a picture of New York's Central Park and the changing of the leaves. I thought you'd all be curious to see what it looks like now...kinda depressing, but still oh so beauteous.
Oh and this is the EXACT same location for both pictures

Block Building 101

Soooo what did you do this week... WELL i went to a week long block building class and i'm a convert(be thankful i didn't say a convert to Scientology)! I don't even really know how to start explaining the amazing things about blocks, but if you're interested to hear me go off on it give me a shout. All i can say is that it brings out the most amazing things in children!

Anyways, there were 4 Child Life students in this class of 15 and of course since we looooove each other we did our final-grade determining (just kidding) block building project together. We were told we could build ANYTHING within 30 minutes (do you know how hard that is!...such pressure). We chose to create a fantasy hotel resort. Our resort had a grand entrance with elaborate driveway, a semi circle hotel with a view onto the pool which has a water slide and swim up "snack bar"(read pool bar). There are colourful towels and floating raft to relax on, oh and of course the cabana with cabana boys to wait on us...this is a resort aimed at da ladies...but we do need some handsome single boy guests to keep us company too ;) ahhh girls can dream. During these chilly winter days enjoy and drift into our fantasy resort... the more the merrier.

CAN I REALLY!? hehe

"you could WIN A TRIP TO NEW YORK CITY"
Always nice receiving mail directed at those NOT living in the city...and yes if i ever won i would use it on those who are DYING to come to the city again!! (cough Jodi)

3 more down!

I started up calling the title of this blog 12 down with 6 to go, but i found it kinda depressing because i still have soooooo many left!!

BUT because i'm always an optimist i called it 3 more down...yes i'm referring to the turkey legs STILL!

Just call me Martha because this took me FOREVER to do, but isn't the crust so goldeny!!!

Next on the list of things to make...turkey soup, for now i'm loving the turkey pot pie, so far it's been 3 solid meals and i'm not bored yet! Anyone wanna come for dinner?!

Home is where you lay your head...the debate

During my visit in Toronto i had a friend kinda get upset after i made the comment, i can't wait to go home to new york. She asked how could i call NYC home when i had only been there for 4 months. It made me think, at what point do we start calling another place our home? Is it as basic as the place we rest our head, a place to call our own for a certain period of time, or is there a bond that forms between city and person.

I'm still thinking, but i'd love to hear thoughts