Kid Survey

So after passing out last night at 11pm, and not waking up until 9am this morning, I think I have kicked my jetlag! Yay for me. Now here's a fun kids survey.

Mark the things that you had when you were younger:

[X] A mom
[X] A dad
[ ] A younger brother
[ ] A younger sister
[X] An older brother
[] An older sister
[ X] Grandfather
[X] Grandmother
[X] Cousins
[ ] Half brothers
[ ] Half sisters
[ ] Step Brother
[ ] Step Sister
[] Brother in law
[ ] Sister in law
[ ] Niece
[] Nephew


1. Are you a child of the 70s, 80s, or 90s?
70's (born 76'), but I feel more of a child of the 80s since that's when i really grew up.

2. Where were you born?
Long Island, NY

4. What state did you grow up in?
New York

5. Did you enjoy your childhood?
Of course

6.When you were a kid what did you want to be when you grew up?
It's sick, but I wanted to be a kindergarten teacher by day, and a playboy bunny waitress by night.

7. What do you want to be now?
A Writer/Editor

8. name the first fun vacation you had?
Disneyworld

9. What was your first best friend name?
Jamie Monahan

10. Are they still your friend?
Nope! She bailed on her friends 4 years ago.

13. Can you name all the schools you ever attended?
YES!!!
1. Intercommunity Nursery School
2. Marion Street Elementary
3. Lynbrook South Middle School
4. Lynbrook High School
5. University of Massachusetts at Amherst


14. Who was your first crush?
Billy Mautner

17. Were you closer to your Mom or Dad as a kid?
Mom

18. Do you have any embarrassing school stories to share? Not really


19. What was the first record, tape, or CD you remember buying?
Maybe Tiffany?

21. How old is a good age to have kids?
30.

22. Are you scared of anything?
dying, cancer, ending up alone

23. What was your favorite subject in elementary school?
spelling

24. Did you buy school lunch or bring your own?
I brought usually. Peanut Butter sandwiches.

25. Broke any bones or had any freaky accidents as a kid?
Broke my foot in the 8th grade, bruised my coxis bone in the 7th grade. Some ass named Joseph Panzarella pulled my high stool out from under me in science class.

26. Were you a meanie head?
No Way

27. Favorite board game of all time?
Scattergories, Outburst, Balderdash, Scrabble, Life, etc..

28. What was your favorite character?
Cartoon? I loved them all. I liked the smurfs a lot.

29.Do you still like that character?
Yes

30. Did you play house or pretend to be a super hero?
House and super heroes. When we played superheroes with my brother and cousins, in my grandparents basement, we jump off the bar they had as if we flew.

31. Seriously are you still just a kid at heart?
Yes I am!

I'm back already?

Where the heck did 10 days go? How am I back already. But I am and my trip to Italy was fantastic but I am seriously jetlagged right now. I didn't get home till 8 o'clock last night after flying from Rome to Paris, then Paris to JFK, then sat on the JFK runway for an hour while they got a gate for us, while the French teenagers that were surrounding me blathering on and on in French, louder and louder.

So Mom and I finally crashed last night at 9:30pm, being as it was 3:30am, Italy time, and we had been on the go since 8am. But of course due to lovely time difference, I was up by 5am. So caught up on some soaps until 9am, to get ready for work. But we had a blast.

Venice was beautiful, looked just like it does in the movies. Florence was so historical, seeing the David was awe inspiring. We even did a side trip to Pisa and Tuscany. And then we were off to Rome, which I loved the most. It was so much like NYC! More to come later. I'm just wiped! Check us out at the Coliseum in Rome and in Pisa!

The Day has come!

After booking this trip 9 months ago, I can not believe the day has finally come. I am off on my fabulous vacation to Italy tonight. And I can not wait. And thank the lord, it wasn't last night, with the terrible weather.

But my brother, sis in law and nephew Ellis ended up coming to the area this weekend and still came into the city yesterday despite the horrible weather. So we traipsed around in the slushy freezing rain to Toys R Us in Times Square where we rode the humongous ferris wheel, then lunch at Mars 2112 which was so overpriced and not worth it. And then finally made our way to the Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium. Ellis loved it all. Especially his first rides on the city bus and the subway.

Talk to you all when I return! Arriverdecci!

Loving the Concierge!

So I am about to take a long-awaited vacation, but then I realized I haven't been away since I've lived alone on an extended vaca, so I was curious what I was going to do about the mail situation. Being gone for that long, my mailbox would surely fill up. So I was like, I might have to hold my mail. But that would be annoying since I'd have to then go to the post office when I got back and carry all this mail. It's hard enough even being home when the post office is even open. So tonight when I got home from work, I decided to ask the doorman about it. And shock be me, I can fill out a form for my mail to be left with the concierge desk when my mailbox gets full. How cool is that!?

As for my weekend, I failed at bridesmaid dress shopping with Leslie, so I will be hitting up David's Bridal with her in a few weeks and I got my packing just about done. And on Saturday, I went on a covert mission with Erica and Karen to enjoy some NYU delicacies known as chick-fil-a, but the bastards were closed for spring break! How dare they!? And how dare that fabulous company have no other Chick-fil-a's in all of Manhattan, let alone all of New York State!!! We ended up at Johnny Rocket's though and had some delish dinner and milkshakes.

The night continues on with a bunch of friends hanging at my place for a hilarious evening of Trivial Pursuit Pop Culture DVD game. The game went on for almost 2 1/2 hours, but it was a blast. And I won!!! I don't know how I pulled it out, even after the disastrously embarassing answer in the sports & games category. I won't go into all of the details, but it involved Adolf Hitler and Colonel Mustard! Embarassing is all I will say on the subject! :)

Small World, that's for sure

After a fabulous Saturday night, celebrating Miss Erica's 24th birthday at Telephone Bar & Grill in the East Village, I spent Sunday night at a fundraising party to raise moolah for Mona and Sharon's dog Brownie who is about to have surgery on his badly injured back leg! It was loads of fun, lots of people, food, entertainment, raffles, etc. Then halfway through the party, I see this girl just looking over at me. After a while, I was like, do I know you. She was like, what's your name. I tell her.. then she's like I'm your cousin.. Laura. Holy shit. I couldn't believe it. What a small freaking world. This is a distant cousin of course. My paternal grandpa had like 4 siblings. This girl is the granddaughter of one of the siblings. So our dads are first cousins, but they weren't an extension of the family that we ever saw too often. So I never really knew her growing up. But how random!! This huge city we live in can really be a small world sometimes.

On a side note, how good was Brothers and Sisters last night. I love seeing Amy Abbott ... oops I meant Emily VanCamp formerly of Everwood playing the new sibling, Rebecca. I just love this show more and more every week. And then tonight's Prison Break just had me on the edge of my seat. This show goes back and forth with me, it's so good sometimes, but then some things they really need to improve on like the random escapades of T-Bag and Bellick. But I just love me some Lincoln and Michael. And they came so close tonight to being pardoned, but I knew it wouldn't happen being that that would end the show. But still I was so on the edge of my seat tonight and now it's not on again until 2 weeks from tonight. And I will be sailing down the Venice canal in a gondola by then, so TiVo had better not fail me while I'm gone!!