If You're Reading This...

If you're reading this, be happy for me. I have two posts written and scheduled to go live at 7AM 5/31/13. The other one is laden with curse words. That's the one that goes up if I oversleep and miss my train to New York. If you're reading this one (and only this one) then I woke up and canceled the other. It's amazing how curse words start to rhyme after a while.

Anyway...I tell this story a lot but it's worth repeating. It's one of those pivotal moments that gets teased before the commercial break "When Behind the Music continues [insert sound bite]..." I used to cling to my mother all the time and wouldn't let her escape my sight. Then came the great Ski Trip of 1990 and my mother backing out as a chaperone at the last minute. My grandmother forced me to go saying, "You'll do great. I believe in you!" Okay, she didn't really say that. I just wanted to throw the frequent readers for a loop. She actually said, "You need to stop being so damned scary-acting. You gonna miss out on a lot in this life waiting for people to do something. You take your ass up there!" It was very heartwarming, I know.

That trip changed my life. I learned to "be by my damned self" as she would say. So, after asking everyone I know to go do something interesting, I've finally decided to just go to New York by myself. Don't cry for me Argentina. You'd be surprised how many pictures in my photo album are self-shot. I'm going for 15 hours. Normal people would get a hotel room and leave the next morning. I'm cheap. Cheap as in "I know the serial numbers on the three five dollar bills in my pocket" cheap. I'm not paying just to sleep. I can do that when I get back home.

So, my plan is to see ALL of New York in the scorching hot sun. AND, because I love a challenge, I've dared myself to spend less than $20. As soon as I finish typing this I'm heading to the kitchen to make some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Don't judge me. Assuming I don't sweat to death up there, I'll give you an update on Monday.

Goodnight and Good Luck!