A Typical Sunday (more or less)

I wish I could say that I've been so busy having fun that I forgot to blog.  If only...  I've been busy working.  But I have been informed from those closest to me that I need to write about fun stuff, which is why we moved here in the first place.  Hmm.. Ok.  Day to day I have fun.  In the middle of that day I feel overwhelmed by the long hours of work ahead of me, but then Cameron or Jordan come in and tell a funny story about their day at school, or work or I stand in the middle of Broadway waiting for the walk sign to change and I breathe in the the city that I love. So today I decided to write about a typical Sunday, which is ever changing because sometimes I work and other Sundays I don't.  I did not work today. Well, actually I had a sales meeting from 9 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. but I just looked at that as a few hours working that would cover the cost of brunch after church. 

So at 9:00 a.m. I'm at "unnamed retailer" meeting learning sales techniques.  I'm not sure that I can be trained to do anything besides soft selling.  If I walked into a store and two people greeted me and a third asked my name within 10 seconds of entering a store I would do an about face and head for the door.  So I took one of the New Jersey bagels that the manager brought  and tried to absorbed her expertise.

 Next stop, church. My favorite part of church is the Joys and Concerns. The congregation is so diverse that by listening to the joys and concerns of the congregation I am able to be thankful for all my blessings and to feel like I have a pulse on my community.  The Joys and Concerns are diverse: prays for a member's grand baby who is having open heart surgery, a gay couple asking for prayers for a friend who has been abandoned by a partner who without the institute of marriage to protect him is now destitute when he is betrayed in his relationship, a member of Occupy Wall Street asking for prayers for those activist who were recently imprisoned  after their arrest in Zuccotti Park, a member of the congregation asking for prayers for her call back for America's Got Talent, just to name a few from the past few weeks.Of all of the good things that the city has offered us, this church has given us by far more than we ever would have imagined.

After church Jeff and I headed to PetSmart for cat food and cat liter.  The store is on 92nd Street and Broadway.  Do you know how heavy cat liter is when you carry if for almost a mile? (Jeff carried it, but I felt his pain. LOL!) We stopped at Cafe 83 for brunch.  It's real neighborhood diner with no frills, but lots of characters. We waited for five minutes to squeeze into a booth with our PetSmart purchase and then ordered our brunch.  I had a french toast and scrambled eggs with coffee and Jeff had a bacon and cheese omelet with coffee.  An old Jewish couple sat next to us reading the Sunday Times in silence, two very old men sat behind us dressed in their mismatched (think stripes and plaids) Sunday best talking over bottomless cups of coffee, and a trendy young couple sat opposite fashionably dressed for summer although the clouds were rolling in reminding us that it is still March.

Cam and several of her friends organized a surprise birthday party for her friend Jessie. I need to acknowledge that AJ was the master mind behind the project and developed an elaborate "Hunger Games" themed party to be played in Riverside Park. I was busy having brunch while the games were going on, but I headed over to Jessie's apartment to participate in the cake cutting and socializing with the other parents. I was highly impressed with how well the whole thing had been executed. The game was a complete success (it was basically an elaborate game of tag using Hunger Game strategies over a 10 block area), the kids all had matching t-shirts, and the food was prepared using the Hunger Games Cookbook. I added a few photos so you can get a glimpse of the fun and the hard work that was put into it!

Jordan and I later headed down to Trader Joe's to do some shopping, filling our granny cart with the groceries for the week, and wine and spaghetti fixin's for the evening's dinner.

We all should have gone to bed early, but after a busy weekend it was so wonderful just vegging out on the couch watching the new season of "Long Island Median" so I don't think I got to bed until after midnight.

Anyway, just a day in the life.