Best thing (s) heard this week

So apparently the "best things heard this week" is a popular post so I will do my very best to make a habit of updating weekly.

This week, one of my favorite resellers asked me if I was going to go to Time Square this year for NYE. [this is a running joke between us. every year he asks me if I am going to the Macy's Day Parade at Thanksgiving (NO) and Time Sq. for NYE (HELL NO)] This year I finally had a retort! Since he lives in Ohio, I asked him if he visits the Christmas Story house every year. He laughed and said no one in OH goes to that. HA! Now you know why no one who lives in NYC goes to the parade and Times Sq....it's for Tourists who want to freeze their butts off!!!!

Just got an email from another friendly reseller. I had informed him that I was going to Bethlehem (PA) for Xmas. He just sent me an email that said Hope you had a great Christmas in PA. Did you see Baby Jesus? Cool...

Crespigo Photographer Alex Rocks!

So I have another buddy Alex who is a photographer and last night we met up for a photoshoot. These pics are definitely different from the ones that I have previously taken. His website is www.crespigo.com if you are interested in contacting him.

An Article Really and Truly Worth Reading

My buddy Garry just wrote an article the other day. I recommend reading this article to everyone. It will definitely stop and make you think about what's important in life and hopefully make you more compassionate towards other human beings.

Click on the link below to read it:
A Survivor's Story

NYC Squirrels

So one of my friends works in a spa in the city. Yesterday, she sent me an email describing a situation that occurred in one of the companies other stores:

A squirrel somehow got trapped in our village store and decided to make an appearance much to the surprise of my coworker and an irate client. A client was yelling about something and was pounding her hand on the counter to emphasize her anger. My coworker saw the squirrel below the counter and kept anxiously glancing beneath the counter and at the woman...not sure what was going to happen since the client kept banging her hand on the counter. All of a sudden, the squirrel jumped up at the client and flew over the woman's head. The woman was sooo startled that her bag went flying and she peed her pants and then went running from the store!!!!!!

{Now mind you, this has all been caught on the security cameras, so my friend has watched the entire debacle over the cameras}

They call the animal rescue people to see how they can have the squirrel removed from the premises and are informed that it will cost $450 to have the squirrel driven upstate and released into the wilderness. My friend begs and pleads and finally convinces her boss to go for this option. Apparently they are already driving a raccoon upstate and have room for one more passenger.

Today, the animal rescue person shows up at the store to remove the squirrel. The squirrel makes a beeline for my friend's boss and then high tails (or bushy tails) it out the open door. Free at last! {again, this was ALL caught on the security camera}

Hysterical!!!!

Best things I have heard this week

My friend Evie when trying to email me:
I put your name (sanjana) into emails and the spell checker keeps trying to change it to banana..hehe..

My friend Bill (on one of my postings):
"You purge anger with the written word better than just about anyone I've ever read"

My BFF Jamie texted me a dream that she had:
"I found a restaurant that had all different kinds of fries, including sweet potato and criss cross and gracie (cafe on corner of our block) and green kitchen and steak fries and the menu had pics of all the different fries and we went and ate them all with bleu cheese dressing and we were really excited"

and this one STILL cracks me up every time I read it

My buddy who shall remain anonymous to protect his identity:
I was speaking to this woman..she lived like 300 miles away and i typed on a message that she "was too far to date" unfortunately my finger hit the wrong key and i typed "too fat to date" and i only noticed when i was sending it..she went mental

i sent a message immediately saying that it was a typo but she didn't read that one and she blocked me and continued to send me abusive messages along the lines of i was a psycho and a pig who tortured girls now she has been putting on loads of pictures that focus on her waist and stomach...jessusssss

Favorite songs this week

My BFF Jamie has been introducing me to some of her favorite songs. This week I find myself listening to the following songs over and over again on my iPhone:

Hockey--Too Fake:

Hockey - New Music - More Music Videos

MGMT-Kids:

MGMT - New Music - More Music Videos

Cage the Elephant-- Ain't no Rest for the Wicked

Cage The Elephant - New Music - More Music Videos

There's something to be said for Tradition

The other day I was discussing Christmas with my mother. She was saying how we celebrate Christmas nowadays isn't the same as how her Christmases were spent growing up or even how we spent Christmas when I was a kid. I told her that I suppose that is because we don't live in Massachusetts anymore and we now spend Christmas at my stepbrother and sister in laws house and they have a different way of celebrating.

But her comments got me thinking. There is definitely something to be said for tradition. Tradition isn't something that happens just during Christmas but can happen anytime throughout the year. I am finding that as I get older, the traditions that I grew up with don't seem to happen anymore and because I do not have my own family, the traditions aren't being "kept alive." It's almost sad in a way.

As I have stated time and again, I am entrenched in technology for my livelihood but sometimes I wonder if certain things are better off the old fashioned way. For example, Saturday I went to my local cobbler. For those of you who don't know what a cobbler is, look it up. There are very few cobblers around these days. Sure there are shoe repair shops but they just don't have the same feel as walking into a tiny shop where there is an old man with hands that have been permanently stained with shoe dye working on shoes with machinery that probably belonged to his father or his grandfather. So today, when I picked up my shoes, I asked the man how long he had been repairing shoes. I guessed 50 years but he told me he had been doing this for 45 years. Nowadays, there are very few people who have been working in their jobs for 45 years.

I have a soft spot for cobblers. I have no idea why, but there is something about an older gentleman who has been working in a profession that has been around since the Middle Ages (yes, I wikipedia'd it and even got the below definition) that puts a smile on my face.

Shoemaking is a traditional handicraft profession, which has now been largely superseded by industrial manufacture of footwear.

So I really wanted to write this post about cobblers and just used tradition as an excuse or seque into what I really wanted to write. But notice..the wikipedia definition actually used the word traditional..so ha!

Support your local cobblers!!!

You spin me right round...

If ever the lyrics from Dead or Alive were true, today would be the day. I feel like I am getting spun around like a record.

Or perhaps the nursery rhyme All Around the Mullberry Bush,
All around the mulberry bush
The monkey chased the weasel.
The monkey thought 'twas all in fun.
Pop! goes the weasel.

That sums up how my day is going....

Calling all LIARS

Honesty should always be the best policy but clearly some people have forgotten this little catch phrase. I try not to lie because it just causes more issues down the road and quite honestly I don't know if I have enough brain cells to remember which lies I have told to whom.

I have been dragged into someone else's lie and this saga has been going on for 2 days now. Every time I try to correct the situation, the people involved start stirring shit up again. The best part of this lie is that fibber wanted me to lie and "confirm that I didn't know what I was talking about" WTF, not only does this person want me to cover up their lie but now they want me state that I am a complete and utter asshole. REALLY?? Do people really think that I would state that I am incompetent because someone else decided not to be honest??? Is this person really that fucking STUPID to think that I would actually go along with this? That I would ruin the trust and faith that other people place in me because of someone else's inadequacy? Clearly this person must be mistaken and they definitely do NOT know who I am!

If you get the sense that I am a little upset about this drama, you have no idea. I am ROYALLY FUCKING PISSED OFF!

All I can say is that it is a really really good thing that I live in NYC and that I do not have superpowers that could disintegrate someone into dust with a mere point of my finger.

This person is definitely NOT getting a Xmas present from me this year!

Instead of a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, it was a BFF Thanksgiving

So this year, I basically denounced my traditional Thanksgiving plans of spending the holiday with my family and instead spent the day with my BFF Jamie, her husband Pete, and their/our friend Aaron. Dinner was an amazing feast of turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, corn, butternut squash (my favorite Thanksgiving veggie), green beans, mashed potatoes (which I don't eat because I don't like the texture of mashed) and of course plenty of wine to wash the meal down with.

Instead of lounging in front of the TV watching Football, although I believe it was on when I first arrived,the rest of the evening was spent playing Wii Bowling. I managed to increase my record from a mere 126 score to triumph to 159 to claim victory and the number 1 bowler that round. Clearly I was a little too cocky because the next round, I was definitely in last place. I managed to squeak by at 3rd place by the final game.

All in all, despite my step-brother's attempts to make me feel guilty for not trekking to PA for the holiday, I had a great day and a super relaxing long weekend!

Gobble Gobble.