a holiday dialogue...

Annush: HWMNBN left me a x-mas voicemail...I can only imagine how much money he spent on roaming calling everybody...
Vilma: Why do you have to always include yourself with everybody else? You are special to him, you know that. He probably just called you and maybe his sister.

5 days later...

HWMNBN: i called you at like 3am...i mean, normally you would have been one of the first because I call everybody usually from A to Z but this year I started from Z to A.
Annush: I see...good thing my phone was dead.

Greetings from NYC!

It's been a long time since I last wrote. On a number of ocassions I've meant to sit down and write something- even if only a note saying that I am still alive- but as it happens, life gets in the way.

Today is Christmas Eve and I am back in NYC to spend the Holiday with my family. It's weird to be back here after what feels like so long. I arrived here this past Saturday and even though some things have remained the same (my doormen are still up for giving me piggy back rides, it's wicked cold, and Dean and DeLuca still makes 3 berry yogurt muffins) some things feel different to the point that I feel like what I thought I knew was never really how I thought it was (if that even makes sense).

But I still think that NY is a great city and I love to go downstairs and see the pretty people walking down the street. Here it's DEFINITELY not like Miami. People here are elegant, poised and fit (which I can't say about Miami). I like what I become when I am here. It's cool to be able to look good and blend in. It's cool to see people wear crisp winter white. It's cool to be part of the black-white-gray mosaic that caracterizes a NYC outfit.

I am staying at my brother's place, which has surprisingly enough taken a fun Holiday feel. Of course, there is no Christmas tree but a tall lamp dressed as a Festivus Pole. It is under that lamp that are all our gifts. I walk past it every hour because I have never lost my childhood enthusiasm for gifts and I want to open them (mine at least) but I feel guilty about such thoughts particularly because it's not like the boxes aren't so obvious that I can't figure out what's in them. And I also feel guilty because I haven't finished my own shopping...

This weekend with my family has been amazing. I've spent time with them and I spent most of the day yesterday in Bloomingdale's with Dan. I have missed Dan.

Anyway, that's it for now. Off to my Christmas shopping I go.

Merry Christmas!

xox-
annush

Holiday musings...

It feels like I haven't written on this thing for a very long time...

I've been sick. For a couple of weeks my kidneys took it upon themselves to ruin my life. Luckily, I went to the doctor when I did, got my meds on time and was diligent about taking them because this could have been REALLY bad.

Moral of the story: Take your kidneys seriously and cranberry juice is your friend.

That said, the holidays are fast approaching and other than the few pounds I've gained from all the pie eating I've been doing, I have nothing to show for it. Not even Holiday spirit. It's been a difficult year so for that alone I should be happy that the end is fast approaching; however, it's not happening [and I care that I don't care].

Again, I feel like something is going to happen soon. You know, one of those life altering somethings that one day you'll look back on and say "yeah, that was pretty definitive". I can't imagine though what this could be because this past year alone my life was flipped upside down.

I guess we'll see.

If the shoe fits...

"I turn to you. When fear tells me to turn around.
I turn to you. 'Cos you're the only one.
Who can turn me around when I'm upside down.
I turn to you. I turn to you. I turn to you."