What are we doing wrong?

Doesn't anyone work anymore?? This is what I have wondered for some time now. When my coworker and I get coffee and walk around the City, there are people everywhere! We accounted for the retirees, the rich upper east side housewives, the stay at home moms, the vagrants, students, the disabled, nannies, part-timers, night workers and those who may have just taken a day off. But there are still a lot of people left. "What are we doing wrong?" we often wonder. "Look at that guy-what the hell does he do!", my coworker will often exclaim. I want to be like these people and be able to walk around the City all day, strolling about with my Starbucks cup and window shopping without a care in the world. You might think that people look at us and say the same thing. But we are not wearing jeans and are usually walking in a determined pace. Not so with the non-workers. I go to the library in the middle of the day and there are people just sitting down, reading at their own leisure. There are people in Starbucks who look like they've been there for hours.

We go to work everyday while THEY are out enjoying each day. What are we doing wrong? How can we be like them?

Must Love Nuts

OK there is a new funny infomercial contender- This is the guy that used to do the Sham Wow infomercials. I don't know why him and Billy Mays (the Oxiclean guy) feel the need to scream their point across. They aren't selling hearing aides.


If you haven't seen this, please pay attention at 0:36.

This is also a great one with Tom Cruise (with a "K")

She shoulda beat him with her umbrella..brella..brella

Recently, I was in Target with my step daughter and there was a People magazine near the checkout counter. She asked me if that was Michelle Obama on the cover. Indeed, it was, with her hair up. She said "I hope she didn't cut her hair short like Rhianna". "I don't like Rhianna anymore". When I asked why she replied, "because she made Chris Brown go to jail". LOL! So I explained that while no one knows the truth, CB may have beat her up, and that NO woman deserves to be treated like that no matter what- even if she was mean! Then she said "yeah, but he got her an iPod". LOL.

While I do feel bad for what happened to Rhianna, she needs to realize she is setting a very bad example for young girls.

Time Time Time

Now that I am in my third decade on Earth, time seems to be speeding up. Things that happened 3 years ago feel like they were only last year. Christmases come and Christmases go. Every day its almost the same routine (only with a different outfit). Of course there are also wonderful things like my wedding and honeymoon, vacations and special or fun moments with family and friends and feelings of accomplishment.

When I was young, one year seemed to take forever to go by. Maybe I should quit my job and go to college again..I wonder if time would slow down? I am just afraid that in the blink of an eye, I will wake up and be 70. I haven't even accepted being middle aged yet! With time speeding up, everything becomes important. In your 20's, it feels as if you have years and years to think about these life changes. There is no rush, people will even tell you to "take your time, enjoy life first". But suddenly, when you are in your 30's, the decisions need to be made now. Very bad for someone who has a hard time making decisions. What if I am 40 and am still struggling with these same questions? This, coupled with the aging process, makes it even more difficult. Especially when you still feel young.

I have a great husband, step-daughter, family, friends, a stable job, fun coworkers, an apartment in a decent neighborhood...but I wish time would slow down. I want all the special moments to really last. I want to go on vacation for a week and have it feel like a month. I want actual time to think about major decisions. Maybe everything is more "rushed" as we get older. We aren't spending as much time with our friends, because most of us are married and have children and full time jobs, sometimes its hard for us to even make an appointment for ourselves because our lives are so harried. We are always rushing from one thing to the next, getting ready for work, staying late at work, making dinner, caring for kids, packing stuff up, checking emails, making phone calls, doing research...maybe time seems to be passing us by at the speed of light because we need to slow down.

*I did not mean to give off a pessimistic vibe here, this is just something that has been on my mind for awhile as I am struggling to make some changes in my own life. Hopefully by publishing this post, I will cure my "blogger's block".

What happened to the old Chun-Li?

After playing and mastering a lot of moves in "Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Comics", we sold the game and bought "Street Fighter IV". I used to spend hours as a kid in pizzerias and arcades playing Street Fighter. I always won using Chun-Li, she had kick-ass moves, even against Ryu or E. Honda. I was thrilled to be able to play as Chun-Li once again on my PS3. I was really disappointed that her moves are no longer consistent, she is swift but lacks control and her moves overall are not as rough as they used to be. I was also reading that she has one of the hardest challenge modes in the game. I thought maybe it was because I didn't have her moves down yet, that I had to get used to playing the game a bit more, but I have played using the other characters and their moves are a lot more potent. They also had to "slut her up", her unlockable outfits make her look like a street walker, not a street fighter.

And Kristin Kreuk playing her in the movie? Give me a break. The actress is only half Chinese and thats what she looks like. Chun-Li, is from China and even has an accent. Too bad they have ruined the best female fighter of the video arcade days.

Cleaning up the neighborhood

So St. John's Hospital recently closed. I feel bad for all the people who were receiving care there as a convenience and now have to go elsewhere, but I am so glad that we are rid of of this vile institution. My mother was also treated horribly there years ago. Hub DRAGGED me here last year for treatment.

They threw everyone in the emergency room, even those like me who weren't "emergency" patients and told us we were lucky to have a bed! Then they moved me into a holding area, the hallway. The whole time, no one, not the nurses, physician assistants or other staff knew what the HELL was going on. 15 people told me not to eat for 2 days so I followed their order- I had to tell the people delivering lunch to give my food away. Then it turns out - Oops I could have eaten because my surgery wouldn't be till a weekday. They told me that Sunday night, and after 2 days of not eating your appetite is pretty much gone.

Lets see, what else. There were 4 people to a room, and I shit you not a nurse came in to take my temp and blood pressure every 15 godamned minutes! Talk about a waste of resources. If I were in intensive care, I would see no problem with this. Some young punk nurse came in and asked if he could give me a breast and anal exam. I asked if it was necessary, it wasn't and I sent him on his way. Also once a day I had to answer questions about how I was feeling, and Sunday they sent some crazy priest in to talk to all the patients. He basically looked at me like I was Satan when I said I wasn't religious. I didn't know I had to be to receive proper care!

When I asked repeatedly who my Dr. would be, if I was having surgery, how long I had to stay there, no one knew anything. Yet they were looking at a chart and writing stuff down! One PA actually said "you will remain here until you get better". Oh yes, that's EXACTLY the answer someone wants to hear a month before their wedding. A nurse yelled at me because I was walking in the hall with my own socks and not hospital socks.

HMMM then there were the anesthesiologist students! They had no idea what they were doing, poked and prodded me to stick a simple IV in, one pumped air through me and I thought I would pass out. And try to get an actual nurse to do it? Finally one HAD to because my Dr. was frustrated and asked them what the hold up was. And she was a peach, looked at my chart and said "hmmph, your anemic" and walked away.

They should just demolish the building and call it a day. The mall is right across the street, so a nice row of shops would be wonderful.

MTA needs to care more about safety

This is a picture I took of the Grand Avenue train station on my way to work this morning. The snow has not been cleared off the entry or steps at ALL. The last time we had a snowstorm, a couple of ladies and myself almost fell going up the stairs. The snow from the morning had turned into a sheet of ice. Luckily, one grabbed my arm and we held onto each other. What about the elderly and disabled who already have trouble walking? This is ridiculous, can't the MTA spare a worker to shovel? Or would they just rather be sued?