Well...it's almost that time...going to be leaving new york in a week . While packing and getting things ready have been teetering on happiness vs.  melancholy and have become reflective...gosh so much happened here. Came here engaged, and am leaving not. Came here with a college degree, now am leaving with more. Came here with two birds, but leaving with one new and one old one. So I guess the theme is...leaving the same but different. But gosh, I'll miss the city. It will truly be my home away from home...It is truly one of the most charming and most wonderful cities in the world and I'm so thankful for it all...I've been exploring so much of the city the last few weeks:

-central park and boathouse cafeteria, MOMA, The Met, Carnegie Hall Emerson Quartet performance, walking around with the raz n' tazz tea jamba juice smoothie around columbus circle, walked down 5th and Madison Avenues, Bryant Park. Saw the New York Harbor in Brooklyn, saw Long Island, Hung out in Rockefeller Center drinking coffee, having burger at the Shake Shack. Walking down in the SoHo area...and buying fun stuff at Canal.

There is truly no place like this....except maybe in Europe. And I'll be back.  Can't keep me away...

Other than that I was talking to my neighbor who had hip replacement surgery - which was necessary but voluntary if that makes sense. He said the thing about life is that it isn't fair. No matter how much we want it to be - some things happen and there is no explanation for it - doesn't matter if it is good or bad. And you just have to keep going and take the best we can from the situation...hopefully maturing in the process. So I know we all go. And we can just appreciate our friends and family...and be there for them as they are for us no matter what. One of my girlfriends is going through a rough patch with relationships and my advice to her is: I know you're hurting right now. But you can truly say that you loved him with all of your being, with all of your heart and held nothing back- and even though it's broken right now, your heart will heal and maybe grow back bigger so you can love someone else again. That is the dream: We all want to find that someone that will love us no matter what...and you will. muah*   Love ya babes....