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Another memory … or two ….

 A friend posted on Facebook the other day about how her snow boots fell apart while she was walking around the city, and how she ran into a store and scored a new pair of snow boots at a discount. And it sparked two memories. Autumn 1986.  Drew and I spent a Saturday afternoon at the Guggenheim Museum.  I wore my favorite chunky-heeled boots. The heel of one boot broke off while we were in the museum. Limping was not fun. I made my way to Bloomingdale’s and bought a pair of ballet flats, A few months later, January 1987.  The Long Island Railroad went on strike for 11 days.i was living on Long Island at the time and commuting into NYC, and the strike meant I couldn’t get to work.  My aunts and grandmother lived in Queens, and invited me to stay with them so I could ride the subway to work.  Back then I’d wear sneakers during my commute and change into pumps at the office. Which was fine, until the day we got a snowstorm.  And my snow boots were at ny ...

Valentines Day celebration

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 Drew took me to  The Melting Pot  for fondue. The restaurant was decorated for the occasion l    Our table awaits. Tin and Yang Martini, my favorite  Loved my salad Gluten free dippers for the chocolate fondue    Complimentary champagne Drew and his margarita  We ate the cheese fondue and the salad, and brought most of our entrees and dessert home. 

Saturday 9

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  Cupid Welcome to  Saturday: 9 . What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme! Saturday 9: Cupid (1961)   Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it  here .    1) In this song, Sam Cooke enlists the help of Cupid, the Roman god of love, to help him get a girl. In Greek mythology, the god of love and lust has a different name. Do you know what it is? Eros   2) Sam Cooke  was inducted as a charter member into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The museum and hall are located in Cleveland, OH. Cleveland is proud of the six major museums featured on its website. When did you most...

Feline Friday

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 We get visitors My “bookish” Shadow     Duchess is relaxing in the couch.  Again.    And Duchess learned from her example Duchess doing “the cute thing” Face off Someone broke the rules Sigh … The two in the middle remind me of Duchess and Shadow …

Lockdown

 Not me … just my credit. Phone rang at 1:30 in the morning.  It woke me up.  The caller left a voice mail message: “An application for credit has been submitted in your name from Los Angeles, California.  If this was not you, please press one.  Otherwise you may disregard this call.” Free tracing site tells me the call came from a landline in San Antonio, Texas. Can’t get any additional information without paying a fee … I’m 99% certain this was a spammer/scammer. But it shook me up a bit. Because I had to replace my debit card last week.  Someone used my information to buy $65 of merchandise at BJ’s. So it just seemed wise to put a freeze on my credit for awhile.

Memory

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  Remember Chiclets Gum?  Little rectangular pieces of gum with a hard candy coating.   When I was a little girl, back in the 1960’s, my mother’s Uncle Sam would give me Chiclets.  We only saw him once or twice a year, but he always had Chiclets. Every year, just before Rosh Hashanah, we’d drive to the Jewish cemetery in Staten Island, where my mother’s family is buried.  We’d meet up with  my mother’s relatives — my grandmother and aunts, my mother’s aunts, uncles and cousins.  The cemetery would be very crowded, as it’s traditional for Jews to visit the graves of loved ones just before the High Holy Days.  We wouldn’t be able to drive to the section where our family is buried because of the crowds, so we’d park at the main gate and walk.  And Uncle Sam would hand out Chiclets. So when I saw Chiclets at  Bobb Howard’s  on Saturday I had to buy them. Funny how a simple piece of gum can invoke so many rich memories.

Instant cold pack

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  Calcium ammonium nitrate and water. When water hits the pellets the mixture becomes very very cold. Saw my orthopedist yesterday, she’s treating My Stupid Knees.  When I told her my right knee felt sore she handed me an ice pack.  I activated it in the car.