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My sixth blogiversary. 8/13/10 or Friday the 13th… As I had a birthday with the number 6 in it this year…..

August 11, 2010 By pia

I have decided to make a big deal of it. Also my blog has been on life support for years and I want to take it off life support–hopefully with some renewed life. Blogs aren’t people; they can regenerate brain or blog cells. This won’t be until the end of September. I have important things to do, first, such as beat my Exercycle time. (Five miles in 24 minutes is my best so far)
lines I have already written
Bone gave me his ten favorite–well let him say it:

I like to call these Ten Savage Masterpieces.

it can feel as if you’re trapped in a manhole cover or a pot of not quite boiling water. This is about humidity in New York–specifically the Upper West Side

But, and this is a big but

And that’s how I met the man for whom the bells were tolling

The way people have been talking about tents in the local papers you would think they’re as important to good moral character as motherhood, apple pie and lack of taxes. Yeah, a line about here

Sometimes the noted celebrity will also be the crazy person.

If you think of Fairway as a sparring gym for the mind, you’re almost understanding it.

I have no idea what I’m doing. Faking my way through home and garden.

I answered that age old question I never knew I asked

Then I walk four blocks to the beach, actually sit in the fierce gray/brown waves with teal teasing at the horizon and forget everything but how incredible the world is.

CLo and W are exploring their Hispanic/White redneck roots and going to a Dave Matthews concert in New York.

(If you have any favorite lines of mine….There have been articles and blog posts written that just quoted my lines. Unfortunately I don’t have them or they’re somewhere in the abyss called Courting Destiny.

I realize most of my best lines are about New York or were written in New York. This is because I’m a New Yorker, and always will be. I go to New York at least six times a year so it’s not as if I will lose my New York edge. The past three years were spent selling my apartment, buying a house, almost gut renovating said house, making new friends so I can have a life here, and lets not forget boot camp. Me, the world’s least coordinated person who can walk an almost straight line did boot camp.

Then of course I had to break a promise to my father–did get special dispensation from my mother and play (and it is a game with absolutely no skill involved anymore) the stock market. For awhile it was incredible. I literally made myself sick and have only myself to blame. I was sick in May and June and have been spending the summer recovering. I really only talk about it to Lil Red and Eldon so most of the world doesn’t realize I didn’t wish for death but thought it was coming soon many days this past spring/early summer. I did wish for a medically induced coma I could be taken out of with a better mind and body–sort of like my blog.

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Comments

  1. TC says

    August 11, 2010 at 3:20 pm

    Too bad I can’t get Bone to give me his top something of mine to highlight my blogiversary. I keep trying to come up with something good, and I’ve got nothing.

    I love the beach line. It’s amazing.

    And the Fairway one comes in second. It was first until I got to the beach line.

  2. cooper says

    August 11, 2010 at 7:12 pm

    “I have no idea what I’m doing. Faking my way through home and garden.”

    So Pia that line.

    Six year? It just doesn’t seem so.

  3. Bone says

    August 12, 2010 at 7:36 pm

    Problem: What lines am I supposed to quote that I like from this post? 🙂

    Happy bloggiversary!

    Almost Perseids time.

  4. pia says

    August 12, 2010 at 8:58 pm

    @Bone
    You gave me the lines–I quoted you quoting me!
    For the first time this week there are clouds covering the sky! Darn. Was going to go to the ocean!

  5. pia says

    August 12, 2010 at 8:59 pm

    @TC
    TC I promise you. When you’re as old as Bone’s parents he’ll give you his favorite lines of yours!

  6. pia says

    August 12, 2010 at 9:00 pm

    @cooper
    So true that line, Cooper
    I have known you since you were a 19 year old college girl with a blog! And now….

  7. Doug says

    August 13, 2010 at 11:08 am

    A word of dissent, if I can- The book not the blog. The book! Be the book!

  8. pia says

    August 13, 2010 at 11:15 am

    @Doug
    When I was really blogging you weren’t supposed to put your book in it. Now you’re supposed to put the book in the blog and I’m totally confused, sad and upset

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I live in the South, not South Florida, a few blocks from the ocean, and two blocks from the main street. It's called Main Street. Amazes me too.

I'm from New York. I mostly lived in the Mid-Upper East Side, and the heart of the Upper West Side. It amazes me when people talk about how scared they were of Times Square in the 1970's and 1980's.

As my mother said: "know the streets, look out and you'll be fine."

What was scary was the invasion of the crack dens into "good buildings in good 'hoods." And the greedy landlords who did everything they could to get good tenants out of buildings.

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Then I hated everything about the suburbs. Yet somehow I lived in a few great Long Island Sound towns after high school.

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