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| CardinalSm |
[Jan. 22nd, 2012|04:32 pm] |
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Went for a jog in Central Park this morning... paused to snap a picture of this beautiful cardinal; it's bright red set off from the black and whites of a snow covered park. |
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| 2011: Year In Review |
[Dec. 26th, 2011|01:59 pm] |
2011: Year In Review
I'm not sure how this year managed to go so fast, but it did. It seems like just yesterday I was writing the 2010 year in Review and here I am writing 2011's. As always, it's been fun to take a trip down memory lane. What a fun packed year it has been. And on to 2012! :)
( 2011 ) |
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[Dec. 25th, 2011|11:29 am] |
Happy Holidays to all my followers!
May it be safe and full of love and family and food and joy. |
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| Celebrity Bartending |
[Nov. 19th, 2011|11:00 pm] |
Alright, on to another fav holiday benefit: Celebrity Bartending. I've attended this event two or three previous times. This year's was by far the best of the bunch. They've all been fun, but this was just fun plus-plus.
This event is a fundraising event for an organization called Stockings With Care. It's a wonderful organization that provides holiday gifts to children in New York City who otherwise wouldn't get any. They use funds to buy gifts directly and they also recruit 'Santas'. These Santas are given the gender and age of a child, as well as three things that child wants. The Santas then go out and buy the gifts, wrap them, and then drop them off to Stockings With Care, who then give them to the parents to give to their children. I was a Santa last year and loved shopping for my sponsor child. I signed up to be a Santa again this year and just got my sponsor child's information today. Off to do some shopping for him soon! :)
But, though I love being a Santa, I am also *more* than happy to support the organization by attending their Celebrity Bartending fundraiser. The cover charge and any tips the 'bartenders' get go directly to Stockings With Care.
So Stockings with Care gets money, and us fans get to order drinks from our favorite celebs – it's win-win!
And for Law & Order fans (like me!), this year's even was particularly win-win-win!
( Celebrity Bartending ) |
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| CANstruction! |
[Nov. 19th, 2011|05:24 pm] |
Once again, this time of year has just snuck up on me like no body's business. THANKFULLY a random google search for something else returned something about CANstruction. Otherwise I would have missed it. And I would have been SO annoyed with myself if I had missed it because CANstruction is one of my favorite annual benefits this time of year.
For those that don't know, CANstruction is an annual competition of giant sculptures made entirely of cans of food. The food is then donated to local food banks at the end of the show. I'm always amazed at not just the creativity, not only the fun and uniqueness of the sculptures, but also the engineering ingenuity of putting these things together. I mean, cans of food aren't the easiest construction material! Yet, these sculptures are amazing.
And this year was no different. In fact, this year may have been my favorite yet! (of course, I probably say that every year!)
( CANstruction 2011 ) |
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| Unicef Snowflake lighting |
[Nov. 15th, 2011|07:59 pm] |
I can NOT believe how quickly the Season is upon us. I say Season with a capital S because it's the holiday Season. ALREADY! When did this happen????
I've been trying to at least ignore it a little, for just another week or two. Wait until Thanksgiving, at least and then give myself over to my most favoritest time of the year.
But, New York doesn't *always* cooperate with my attempts at patience and moderation. Case in point yesterday evening (Monday, November 14). For on that day there was a lighting ceremony for the big snow flake that hangs over 57th St. and 5th Ave. And, well, Angie Harmon was going to host the event. And there were going to be performances by the Jersey Boys (from the Broadway show). And to top it all off, the ceremony was to take place *literally* two blocks from my office. TWO BLOCKS.
Tell me. How was I supposed to resist that???
Well, I clearly wasn't supposed to. So I went. :D
( Unicef Snowflake Lighting ) |
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| Fall in Central Park |
[Nov. 13th, 2011|10:47 am] |
We are just about to go sliding right on into the holiday season, and I had resigned myself to essentially having missed the 'fall season' once again. But then I popped out of the subway last week on the south end of Central Park and …WOW! The colors had just POPPED. It was as if over night the colors had just come right on out.
So, there was a day (actually two) where I got to enjoy fall in New York. :)
( Fall 2011 in Central Park ) |
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| Empire State Building Rainbow |
[Nov. 11th, 2011|02:59 pm] |
I'm generally a big fan of the various lighting combinations on the Empire State Building and the meaning behind them. Well, last night (Nov 10, 2011) it was lit up in pretty spectacular fashion. The ESB website indicated that it was a 'private lighting' (which I assumes means that some one paid to have it lit in the way they wanted it lit (who knew you could even do that?!). In any case the lighting was...unique.
It was...for lack of a better explanation...tie-dye.
( ESB shows off allllll its colors ) |
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| Halloween Parade |
[Nov. 6th, 2011|07:07 pm] |
I know this is coming a little late but it's been one of those weeks and I figured (once again) better late than never.
I'm talking about the annual New York City Halloween Parade. I love Halloween in New York. As I said elsewhere, it is the one night a year you can't tell if the person is dressed in costume or just looks that way all the time. And pretty much everyone is in some kind of get-up.
My friend C and I were no different. So, in our get-ups (her in a gunslinger's outfit, me as a chalk outline of a dead body (yes, you read that right), we headed off to the parade. What a freak show, in the absolute best possible way. What fun.
( Halloween Parade ) |
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| Doggie Halloween Parade |
[Oct. 22nd, 2011|03:47 pm] |
I have a ton ton ton to do this weekend but I for a number of years I've wanted to go to the annual Doggie Halloween Parade at Thompson Square Park. And that parade was this weekend; today, in fact.
So, since one of the things on my to do list today was 'go for a walk' I decided to walk to the park. And see the doggies. I couldn't stay for long, but the time I spent just made me want to come back next year and stay for the whole thing! I had trouble leaving because as I would start to walk out of the park, another oh-so-cute dog would walk in and I'd want to follow it!
Really, not much here other than pictures of dogs in costumes. But, really, who doesn't like dogs in costumes?!
( Doggie Halloween Parade at Thompson Square Park ) |
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