Bonfire of the Goddesses
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cheesecake
...ferry ride.....meeting all of you...i feel like singing.............
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VR---love the you tube...will you really come??????Yes someone mentioned the Ferry.yes yes yes...I never heard of that shoe store and i worked on park ave south many yrs ago.are they there a long time??
Do you know of any women who dont love shoes?
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I think the last train from GCS to NR is at midnight....:)
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LOL thx VR, yummy! I am from the East coast and know from pizza.
Chicago-style is too much crust. Gimme a thin-crust slice, folded in half, but just one!
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Granny....PM me with the details and I will certainly join everyone....
The Eneslow Shoe store has been there FOREVER! It's on Park Avenue South between 32 and 33rd Streets.... The DD and I shop there all the time! When they run their twice yearly sale, she and I walk out of there with a dozen bags of shoes. I quipped the last time I was there that WE looked like tourists. They also have a clearance rack downstairs behind the cash register. Not to be missed. My entire shoe wardrobe comes from Eneslow and Turnpike Comfort in Queens. I wear the following brands....Mephisto, Wolky, Dansko, Durea, Waldlaufer, Think! and Kumfs (Ziera). I own one pair of sneakers...but take my daily 3 mile walks in the aforementioned shoes. If you go on the internet, these shoes, along with Finn Comforts (which are excellent, but I don't wear them) cost upwards of $150 -$300 a pair. But if you catch their sales or clearance...you can snag a pair for $50-$90! And they never wear out. The DD also wears Reiker and Fit Flop boots.
Back in the day...we wore Aerosoles, Naturalizers, Easy Spirit and Ecco. Will NEVER again buy those shoes or ANY shoes from ANY other store. In the beginning the DD and I missed window shopping for shoes. Not anymore! We ONLY buy our shoes from those two stores....Occasionally we might find a pair of Mephisto's at Nordstrom's Rack...but that's few and far between.....
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Sheila...We'll get you tucked on the train before midnight...Don't worry!
Badger....I don't mind Chicago pizza except you have to sit down with a fork and knife to eat it!...There's nothing like chowing down a slice while swaggering up the street...New Yorkers love to walk and eat! We're always in a hurry. Travolta nails it in the film.....
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BTW...All those uncomfortable shoes that the DD and I used to wear...they're in the bonfire!
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I dont think my bus runs that late.I dont live in NY anymore....BUT I will find a way to get there and home.somehow someway I will be there.
I think we all posted at the same time.ha.
We have to wait for Annette to firm up the date and time....and then we are on our way....And i dont think she is on this thread so we will have to hunt her down.
ya know it started with Annette meeting Sheila.I invited myself and now its growing.YAY!!!!This is the start of something good.
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granny...i'm so used to calling you granny...will be hard to use your real name......
VR....When you are ready please PM your real name.
And ducky if she is coming
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Ducky where are you??????did you hear that you are gonna have to tell us your real name.ha.
gonna give her a couple of days then ill pm her....
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granny...I'm only 34 minutes away by train ...and 3 minutes taxi to home which i usually be walking but not if it's too late.
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Good Night !
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NYC?? Never been there. I did have NY pizza in Florida once. A little shack near the beach had NY Pizza and the guys sitting in the booths with their shorts on had their black socks and sock garters on with their loafers. They looked like retired "wise guys". What a place but the pizza was good! The cooks and order guy were all speaking Italian too! When's the get together? YUM! Kitty
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If I could, I really could stow away in Annette's luggage. The pizza looks so yummy. Of course, you gals will have to take pictures and post them.
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I'll come too. It'd be a great reason to finaly go to NY etc b/c I have never been there.
Go ahead to get Bean done, today, so if I can get everyone's calendar scheduled and I'm walking and talking and thinking. Me too, florida sheila
Sheila888------do you know the old song by George M Cohan. "Only 34 minutes from Broadway"?
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Kitty....If the pizza was made by some retired wise guys, with black socks and garter belts, speaking Italian...then it's AUTHENTIC Brooklyn pizza!
Sisters....when you come to visit New York...and I'm not just referring to Brooklyn now...we're going to have to stop and get "Truck Food." Back in the good ol' day, you used to find pretzel and hot dog stands dotting the corner streets of New York. Today there are THOUSANDS of trucks parked EVERYWHERE...all over the city... in front of office buildings, parks and street corners. The food represents any culture you can think of and the food is AMAZING and CHEAP. Here's a link:
I just learned from the above link that you can buy a New York Food Truck 2012 calendar! Yummy!
If anyone is interested in reading about the invention of restaurants in New York a terrific book to read is William Grime's Appetite City. The New York public television station also made a series based on the book.
http://www.amazon.com/Appetite-City-Culinary-History-York/dp/0865476926
http://www.nyc.gov/html/media/html/news/appetitecitypremieres.shtml
And way,
way, way before New Yorkers had pizza and truck food, we had our beloved oysters. Mark Kurlansky wrote a terrific book about the combined history of oysters and the rise of New York:
http://www.amazon.com/Big-Oyster-History-Half-Shell/dp/0345476395
Oysters were soo abundant that they were sold on almost ALL corners of the city AND the first landfill around the perimeter of Manhattan is made from oyster shells that our ancestors threw back into the rivers....
Grand Central's landmark restaurant, The Oyster Bar harks back to ol' New York when oysters were an iconic food consumed by most New Yorkers.....
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VR If I was able to drive to NY or wherever you are, is there a place to stay. I won't risk LE by flying. So I would have a car. I know that can be a problem. I have a 2nd cousin in Midtown Manhattan,(is that language correct?). If I get through the brain surgery okay, I'm figuring ------adventures that I have always denied myself as a POOR CATHOLIC WITH 3 of us having POLIO EATING CHICKEN NECKS MAY BE FOR DINNER. Parents over time struggled for every thing.
Once we as kids started to care for them, they never wanted for anything.. S.E. The last real vacation outside of family funerals/family reunions was pre1984. . The point being, I'm tired of being careful. The son is grown and fledged and DH died. I want to see NY and Boroughs and Paris.
The word fledged brings a great story to mind. We have around Kennedy Space Center is a national wildlife refuge. A volunteer watching an eagles nest over 3-4 days that the Eagles were trying to fledge the eaglet. It kept coming back. Eagles nest have been known in this area to have lasted for 50 years even with hurricanes. This eaglet would not fledge. This volunteer watched on the final day-------mom and dad Eagles---- tore down the nest. The eaglet had no where to come home too. Is that not an amazing story? Implications to humans. I remember my mother saying at one point , she wished the revolving door would stop.
I'd like to put the story of the eagles into the sweetfire, I hope my sisters tell this story b/c it has wildlife meaning that was observed by a volunteer of some 38 years. He had never seen anything like it. So, very amazing that we were able to hear his story.
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Hey Granny, and Sheila........I'm here..............How about all of us BC ladies doing a "flash mob"......dance in NY...Central station......who knows, they may use it in a commercial......hahahahahaha...................I so want to come to NY, but I am a horrible traveler..........If I don't know where I'm going, I panic..............Maybe some of the other Philly, and surrounding area women would go, but I would have to see who is from our area other then Sandy, and not sure if she is up for it........................You did say a possible May 3rd date right......................or did I get that wrong..........I swear I really want to go............I will talk to my kids, and see what their advice is for the "best" way to make the trip.........one daughter says "bus" other says "train"..........I would do car, but I would probably end up in Canada............I am really bad finding my way...................I drive fine, I just can't find my way..................
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By the way ladies...........................Ducky is what everyone calls me............It is a childhood "nickname" that stuck..............Real name is Genevieve.
Oh and Granny..........my husband was full blooded italian, and a Scorpio...............hahahaha......
I'm a mutt.....................and Taurus........imagine that combination..............made great looking kids though...............hahahaha
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Grannydukes, I did not mean to leave you out (previous page) on the slapping bit.... humble apologies!!! I would much rather see you bitchslapping than directing traffic! I actually do pretty well with the traffic director spot, so maybe I can spell you when you need to be more closely involved with any "gang activity"! (oooooo - I just thought of something - should we get some sort of gang tatoo???)
You all are making me so hungry - best I can do here in the South is one "real" Italian restaurant that has a limited menu but the best eggplant parm and cannolis! I would put them up against any I have had in NYC, NY state, PA, Chicago, Washington DC, and any other I have been to. But they don't do NY pizza.
Standing by the warm side taking care of MYSELF today. Called in sick, sent in some in-class exercises for my students, took a nap, had coffee with my neighbor, and am feeling a bit better.
I am trying to be careful with my own words lately - discovered the SEs from a couple of meds on my medical record were "SI/HI". I think it means suicidal ideation/homicidal ideation. Don't remember if I actually said anything using those words, but who knows what might have come out of my mouth once or twice with the wrong audience. So I better toss those words AND those thoughts onto the fire!!!!
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Sas---do you mean you would drive from fla to ny????it takes 2 days at least.That would be soooo cool.there are plenty of places to stay in NYC.
Hey this thing is gettin better and better.
Linda----it takes more then that to offend me.lol.BTW I did direct traffic too.I was a crossing guard when I was a young mother way back in the days....
Ducky---I pm you.
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been off line for a week or more but have someone new to add to fire of hell. I'm sure other's have posted this same topic before, but throwing in the bi-tch at work who would not stay home last week when she was very sick and now I am. I told her to stay away from me but hard when I am the receptionist and sign in and out is at my station. UGH.....I never, never, ever, ever get sick but doing the rads lowered my immune. OH YEAH, bad bad karma to her too,
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I am throwing hurtful e-mails on the fire. Been saving them for a couple of years. Don't know why other then I was so surprised how spiteful GD and exDIL were. Realized life is too short and uncertain to hold on to the hurt. So I release them to the fire and let go of the anger as well.
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I'm throwing in all the medical people who make me WAIT for sometimes up to 2 hours past my appt time, with no respect that I DO try to have a life outside of my cancer treatment. Grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!
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dancetrancer........I must have been one of the lucky ones.......at no time did I ever wait for an appt., a treatment, or a consult for more then 15 minutes, and it might be even less..............that goes for my Dr.s, Hospitals, and any testing...........they were so prompt it was ridiculous..............maybe they thought "cancer is bad enough, why add more bullshit to her day".
Its amazing what some can do...........I have had experience ;outside of cancer with some specialists...............an orthopedic surgeon kept me waiting one time for 2 hours..........I thought several times, "get up and leave"..............well of course I stayed, guess I thought it was more appropriate to sit and bitch to myself, the leave....who knows........
anyway, I finally got into the office.......he checked my back for a total of 5 minutes, and said "I don't see a problem"....................I was livid.....not that I wanted a problem, but though "two frigging hours"
When I got outside, the receptionist said to me..........your insurance isn't going to cover this visit.............I said "what"..........then she said $250.00..............I took out my checkbook, and wrote a check for $50.00..............she said......................this is wrong youforgot the 2...........................I said "no I didn't, that is what it cost me per hour to sit here, so since I was here for 2 hours, I figure $25.00 an hour is plenty, my time is worth as much to me, as your Doctor's is to him, that is what this visit is worth.............................She looked at me in shock, and took the check............................never heard from them again.......................that was in 1985...............................
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ss im lucky too.I never have to wait longer then 10-15 min the most.
When I lived in Brooklyn a dr had me waiting about 1/2 hr.I picked my ass up told the nurse im not waiting anymore.If he dont take me next im leavin.He took me next.FU.Im payin your salary.
Its a beautiful day in NJ.sat in the sun for 1/2 hr.
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Yep - throwing in all the stagnation and sick vibes from the last eleven months - out out bad stuffy stuff- out! Going to sweep my house clean! Brilliant Idea!
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ducky...I am CRACKING up over your story! YOU GO GIRL!!!! LOVE IT!!!!
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Ducky, I also am cracking up! Nice going!
I routinely spend half to full day when I have MO appointment by the time I have labs and waiting. The first time this happened (my initial visit) I was pretty outraged, but then I discovered that she was a very caring and compassionate MO and took as long as it took with each and every patient to provide the care and information that was needed at that time. I still don't like taking this much time and it takes a lot of energy for these appointments, but I don't resent them as much once I realized that this will be expected and why. Not sure I would tolerate it if I didn't think she was giving excellent care to ALL her patients.
Nothing to toss in tonight, just stopping by to applaud as you toss in those nasty life events and people. I REALLY applaud tossing in infectious co-workers who pass on their germs (I truly believe in the germ theory of illness!).0 -
Oh MAN!!! I missed the mention of the shoe store and I just got off the plane from a long weekend in NYC!!!! I love a good shoe store. I hit Century 21 way downtown but didn't really find anything. Weather was nice, it was supposed to rain Sunday, but we lucked out. Fluffy's Deli on 57th is not to be missed for cheap fresh quick eats. Eggwhite vegetable omelette for $4 or any bagel, pastry or dessert you could ever want!!! Grand Central was a mess, the 4&5 trains weren't running. UGH. Throwing in all the smelly people on the subway...stand back though ladies, isn't urine ammonia flammable?!?
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