NYC Adventures: Discoveries in the Subway and Beyond

Somewhere among the fashionable natives, the ever-so-interesting tourists, the illegal-bag-sellers and the men and women shoving pamphlets in everyone's faces, NYC offers plenty of smiles and surprises everywhere you turn.

Like...

the M&M store...

the Obama condoms (um.. what?.. signs advising you to visit http://obamacondoms.com/)...

a beautiful waterfall on a random side street...

the spinning Snapple caps on 50th...

the best rice pudding you'll ever eat at Rice to Riches in Soho...

strange fruits in China Town...

amazing dinners and pastries in Little Italy...

three hours of talent and amusement at dozens of Broadway musicals and plays...

and even a glimpse at a unique display on the wall of a Subway stop...

Dusk

Faint stars kiss the sky

My heart is overflowing

The sun is bleeding

"HUGE" problem

While spastically changing T.V. channels tonight with hopes of finding something worth watching, I saw previews for a new show coming soon to ABC Family... it's called "HUGE" and the impression I got wasn't a good one. Yes, I believe full-heartedly that the portrayal of anorexic women is not something to aspire to in order to be happy. But being happy (and healthy) doesn't mean accepting obesity either.

While the show might be sending a message of being happy with your image in a diverse world, I don't think that it is sending a healthy message to younger children who are probably watching the ABC Family station. Being overweight can cause numerous physical and medical issues in children and adults of every age. I'm not saying that everyone should go on a "Biggest Loser" frenzy, but young kids don't necessarily realize the difficulties they would face if they were to become overweight.

Thousands of people learn unhealthy habits of overeating and regularly consuming fast food from a very young age, habits that continue throughout their lives leading them to be overweight and nutritionally lacking. When children see a message that shows them that being heavy is "OK" how will they know any better when it comes to nutrition and health?

My "Beeeeachin" Weekend

I had a pretty packed weekend.. starting off with working on Saturday morning. I've got a pretty good summer job but for my first Saturday, it wasn't where I wanted to be. Afterwards I drove up to meet my boyfriend and we spent the rest of the day at the beach. The water was freezing but it was gorgeous weather. In the parking lot on our way out we saw this license plate:

We were going to eat at a place called Crazy Burger but the wait was super long so we drove to Iggys!

Sunday was a double whammy... Father's day and my mom's birthday. I bought my dad some scratch tickets and a tie and I bought my mom an antique bowl from the 60's.

We went to the mall and I was going to get another ear piercing but they didn't have any good earrings so I decided to wait. Then we went to the casino and I bought some Pandora charms and had dinner at an awesome Japanese restaurant.

WOO. sleepy time.

New beginnings

When I started my first blog, Giftastrophe, this past semester I knew I wanted to start my own personal blog outside of a course. I spent a few months thinking (aka procrastinating) about what I could possibly write about in a brand new blog. I finally decided that it was time to just jump in and see what would happen and where it would take me.

It will most likely be a collection of day-to-day rants, interesting facts and stories, thoughts and eureka ideas, posts on music as well as collections of my own poetry and fiction. Voila.

Needless to say, everything I write in this blog is MINE. If you steal it and claim it's your own I will find you and you will be sorry.

And if you don't like my blog, then don't read it... no one is forcing you! (Unless I'm sitting behind you right now, which might be possible.)