NY, Observations and Blessings

So, I haven't written in awhile, even though I wanted to, because I never finished my New York trip... and that's not what I wanted to write about...

I will say quickly, that the rest of our trip was amazing... overall, we saw a broadway musical (West Side Story... surprised with how much innuendo there was, I mean really? You're letting your 9 year old watch this?) and a broadway play (Lend Me a Tenor... hilarious... the guy from Monk was in it and he was sooo good). We got our faces drawn in Charcoal on the side of the street in Times Square, spent a lot of time in Times Square, went on a tour of lower east side manhattan, well mostly just wall street (which was awesome! so rich in history there), ground zero, some old churches (which I really like actually and graveyards... maybe that makes me weird). We rode the subway everywhere, which was wonderful, so easy and so close to where we were staying. We walked up and down 5th avenue, went into some fun stores and got to go to F.A.O Schwarz and Trump towers (is that what it's called?). We missed Central Park and all of the museums that I wanted to go to, so I guess that means we'll have to go back, right? :)


Okay, now I can stop feeling so guilty. So the real reason that I want to post, well, I wanted to do a month long of observations that I made, just simple little observations, like how I always thought and still say that I am not good at time and figuring out how much time has passed, but how the other week at work, I was able to give a child a one -minute warning that their break was ending and I was accurate and then I was accurate again at 30 seconds. I guess all day long, my day is run on timers and so now I am better at it. Or one day I was driving down the interstate and I noticed that there was a car beside me (slightly ahead of me) that had a license plate that said, "Author".... well, I wondered, "what does a driving author look like?", so I sped up a little so I could peer into their window. What did I see? This older woman with died, red hair sitting up to the steering wheel, cigarette in hand (both hands on the wheel). She looked a little eccentric, maybe just nervous or feeling rushed. Her hair was short and messy. She kind of fit my idea of what an author might look like when trying to meet a deadline... one that uses not a computer, but an old type-writer. I could just see her sitting at her desk, type-writer clickety clacking away in low light, cigarette smoke blurring her vision of what's she's writing....

... Anyway, so that was one idea, but again I never got to it because of that New York post. Then today, I decided that maybe I would write 100 blessings that I recieve. I tend to compare myself to others. I always think that others are smarter, richer, prettier, thinner, luckier, more graceful, funnier, farther along in life, farther along in school, happier... no, no, they can't be happier, can they, than me. And while it may be true that I know people that are all of those things, I am still sooo incredibly blessed!! So blessed! And really, my happiness cannot depend on other people or their fortunes versus my misfortunes, so I thought the best way for me to remember that I really am blessed (and not that I forget... in fact I am always thanking Heavenly Father for them), but just to sort of have a journal of them, you know so that when I am especially feeling that everyone has or is more.... than me, I can look back and remember how truly, I am smart, rich, pretty, thin (well that's debatable.... we'll go with healthy), lucky, graceful, funny, far in life, doing well in school, happy and so forth.

So for blessing number 1: I have a wonderful husband, he cleaned the house today because he got home from work today before I did. What a guy! :) And he was smiling and happy to see me when I arrived home. (This picture is from a VCU basketball game we went to a couple of weeks ago... I didn't feel like getting the camera or else I would have included pictures from our trip to New York this time...)