Please read the post below this. It’s personally very meaningful to me, and I fixed the link that kept screwing up. Read it!
I almost always have a new post on the sidebar. That way I can ramble all I want. 250 Words is a lofty goal for me. I will try putting them in Word for “word count.”
Can you have spring fever when the temperature is 33?
Last week I was looking across the courtyard and saw a girl dressed and acting like a cheerleader.
Then the game began and I realized that I watching a stranger’s TV as clearly as if it were in my apartment.
I have seen many 60 inch plasma TV’s and none seemed as large or clear as this one. And I was in the same room as them.
I couldn’t help but be mesmerized by something with more intense color than I have seen in “the best” movie theaters, or any TV I have ever been in the same room as.
I really wouldn’t be talking about this if the weather was better.
I have spring fever so bad. I want to be out in spring clothes wandering the streets of New York complaining about the crowds, because I do that so well.
I want to feel like taking outdoor pictures is fun, not take off the gloves, take the picture, put the gloves back on.
As we don’t have spring, some of us are eagerly awaiting the return of The Sopranos.
Since I wrote the post on the mother who wanted to take my table at Starbucks I have been thinking about how deprived I was as a child.
When I was five or seven and had chicken pox or mumps, my parents bought me a high, high fashion doll who was a replica of a then famous model. I cut her hair as I thought it would grow back.
My parents refused to buy me a new one as it was pricey and they wanted me to learn that I couldn’t have a new doll if I ruined the old
doll.
It wasn’t my fault. Almost any parent today would run out to replace it even if took part of the rent or mortgage money.
They’re right.
This experience left me with such deep seeded issues that I don’t think it rude to watch a TV across the courtyard.
I hope they have The Sopranos on tonight because their picture is clearer than mine. I will supply the surround sound.
Actually they weren’t home. When they returned they had the TV going with a large floor lamp on. This caused me to look at their furniture. It wasn’t to my taste.
I can do this as my bed is placed so that nobody can look into it. I’m not a fool
I am not happy about the weather myself. It should be warming up by now and it is frigid outside instead. Boooo Mother Nature.
Spring - soon I hope.
I have never lived in a place where I could see into the homes of others.
Uh, Pia, I think you meant to post this on your other blog, New York Voyeur
If I remember correctly (and really, what are the chances of that?) one of the TV companies had a commercial kinda like this several years ago where someone was watching a neighbor’s television.
This was one of the funniest posts I’ve read here. Hilarious.
you’re a nutso. lol. very funny post. i would so be narking our my neighbors too. we gotta entertain ourselves somehow.
Can you have spring fever when the temperature is 33?
YES! Yes you can! Or even when it’s 27 and doesn’t even get above freezing!
Or when it’s supposed to be 48 during the day… and then dump 4 inches of snow on you that night!
Um, I’m going to end my rant now…
It’s a very good thing that I don’t own a 60-inch TV. I’d find that way too distracting, and life as I know it would be over. There’s nothing rude about watching what’s in plain sight! Happy sopranoing, and I do hope we get some spring weather:)
I’m loving our spring–I can’t stand hot weather!
Thanks for this post, btw. At least now I want feel so guilty about giving into my daughter and making her a materialist now that I know that I’m really saving her from a life of being a Peeping Tom
I’m total spring fever but if you go outside it feels like its still winter. GAAAAH.
I was so laughing at the cheerleader which turned out to be on tv and the doll haircuts. My sister cut a lot of her doll’s hair. I don’t think it would ever have occurred to her to ask for replacements. Then again, maybe she liked the hair that way.
Looking in apartment windows is a favorite NY pastime (other people just don’t admit it). Great post.
I think a 33 degree spring day is all the more reason a fever should be in the air. We need spring weather already, dammit!:(