Tis the season

New Yorkers were out shopping with a vengeance on Friday, many stores opening their doors at midnight, 4 am or 6 am to accomodate crazy shoppers who enjoy dealing with other crazed and pushy shoppers before the sun comes up. No thanks. I think I'm doing my shopping online and taking advantage of 'cyber monday'.

We spent a quiet Thanksgiving at the Arnabal's, great food and the travel was a breeeze (15 blocks in a cab because it was raining and we had the dessert), and then went back to work on Friday - losers I know, but it was very quiet at the office and we're saving the vacation days for New Years in Paris. Brian spent the weekend fighting with our iMac which we don't know how to use (iPhoto apparently loses pictures) and we got in some furniture shopping for our new dwelling on Sunday when it was quieter and the holiday shoppers were running out of steam. Target in Brooklyn looked like it had been raided. Brian's fiscal year is over on Friday (finally) even though there's this, and we've got 4 weeks of work to survive before Christmas in Wellesley and a getaway to belle Paris. And oh yeah... the realty company called, our "estimated" and "tentative" closing date is now in March. Whatever...

Enjoy the shopping and Thanksgiving leftovers.

November

November is a great month in NYC. The ice rinks are open for business, the leaves have finally started to turn, the Christmas buzz and holidays season is about to hit evident by the store preparations under way if not already completed for the holidays, it's sunny and cool in the morning and 50 degrees in the afternoon, and government employees have 3 days off to boot! (Election day, Veteran's Day and Thanksgiving). Sorry Brian. Oh yeah – and we finally finished off our year of weddings this month – which took us to Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle, North Carolina, Long Island and Mississippi. Phew!

We finally had a free weekend to head out to East Hampton and enjoy the serene atmosphere - and I saw Paul McCartney at the movie theatre! Looking forward to a quiet Thanksgiving in New York at my parent's house and lots of 'practice' Thanksgiving feasts at friends' houses before the real thing. Williams Homecoming was this weekend which we would have gone to except we are saving up to pay our closing costs - we watched the football game with friends in NY instead, which was amazingly cast on ESPN. Williams beat Amherst 20-0. Go ephs! Brian is counting down the days until his fiscal year ends on November 30th and finally put a tumultuous year for investors to rest.