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Celebrity Sightings

We've seen two celebrities so far. The Skimmer passed Debra Messing while he was jogging through Central Park this morning and then we saw her again when we were walking down Central Park South earlier this afternoon. She's just as cute in person as she is on TV. She was carrying her baby.

I cannot think of who the other celebrity is. And I don't have a lot to go from to figure it out. Here's what I've got.

Male. Late 60s. Maybe even early 70s. Character actor. Not a leading man. I can picture him smoking a cigar in some scene from some movie. He's fatherly. Grandfatherly. Might've been in a Woody Allen movie. Has a nice, kind face. Kind of tilts his head down when he talks.

Any ideas? Help a girl out here.

Sightseeing

The Skimmer, Blue Kid and I are in New York City. We got here Wednesday and will leave Sunday. We're having a fabulous time.

Jeddie Ningo was in town today and he met us at our hotel and the four of us walked several blocks and found a pub to get a little lunch.

I ordered a corned beef sandwich with fries. I ate every one of my fries but only took one bite of my sandwich. The corned beef wasn't very good. Jeddie noticed that I had really only taken a bite of the tomato that was on my sandwich and said no wonder I didn't like the corned beef since it tasted like tomato.

After lunch, The Skimmer decided to go back to the hotel and Jeddie wanted to take me and Blue Kid to see Tin Pan Alley.

We were crossing the street somewhere around 7th and 47th Street when Jeddie all of a sudden became very excited.

He said, "Man! That was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen!"

"Where?"

"Her! The one with the long red hair!"

I just laughed and we kept walking. We walked and talked for a few more minutes, while Blue Kid followed close behind listening to music on his i-Pod. Jeddie started getting nervous that he might miss his ride back to the airport, so we decided to walk back to Columbus Circle, where his shuttle was waiting.

The Skimmer called and said he'd meet us at the corner of 7th and Central Park South with the bags Jeddie had left in our room.

We met The Skimmer and the four of us walked to Columbus Circle and we said goodbye to Jeddie. Blue Kid wanted to go to Greenwich Village, so we jumped into a cab and headed back down 7th Avenue.

All of a sudden The Skimmer became very excited.

He said, "Whoa! Will you look at that!"

"What?"

"Her!"

I turned around and looked out the back window and saw a very tall, svelte brunette wearing a tight white dress with a wide black belt and black high heels.

"Yeah, she's ok. Maybe a little too tall."

"She was like a breath of fresh air!"

"What am I? Chopped liver?! Geez Louise!"

"Nooooo. You're like a filet mignone." (Pronounced Filet Mig-No-Knee)

"Good answer, Mister!"

We got down to the Village and walked around for a bit. We came upon a little pet store with Pug puppies in the window. I thought about Pinko Punko and figured those little guys could never be full frito. They were all sound asleep, cuddled up on one another. The Skimmer was standing to my right when a gorgeous blonde came walking out of the store. I looked over at The Skimmer who looked at the blonde then at me and raised his eyebrows up and down a few times quickly.

"Oh, man!"

"What?!"

"I'm going in the pet store."

"Why?"

"I'm going to get into one of the cages with the other dogs!"

"Ruff! Ruff! Filet Mignone."

And then I punched him.

Sixth Avenue Between W. 18th & W. 19th

Stopped and took this shot after we had brunch at the French Roast Cafe on West 11th on Thanksgiving Day.

We ate at the French Roast two years ago, so now it's sort of a Blue Family holiday tradition.

I wouldn't exactly recommend it to anyone -- the waitresses are mean!

My husband excused their behavior though, because they were all sexy gorgeous and French. 

When he asked our waitress for some strawberry jam, she replied:

"Vee stoop surfing sham awt 10 zeecloock."

(Ok.  Maybe that's a german accent -- I'm not good with accents -- just pretend it's sexy gorgeous French.)

As she turned and walked away, I said, "What?  They stop surfing sham at a specific time?"

He just replied, "She vawnts me."

Thanksgiving Day 2005

The Weather Channel had been reporting horrific weather for NYC on Thanksgiving Day.

Thankfully (and as is true most times) they were completely wrong.

It was a gorgeous day to walk through the park.

We entered the park at West 72nd because my son wanted to see the Dakota, where John Lennon lived.
There were a few people there for the same reason.  It was sad to think someone shot him in the back four times.  I never knew he had been shot in the back. 

When we went into the park, we stopped at Strawberry Fields, took a few photos and sat down for a rest.

We made our way through the rest of the park and I stopped and took this photo a few minutes before we made our way to Central Park South.

I love to drink in New York City and try to make the moments last forever. 

But time keeps marching on.

West 11th at 6th. You're All Invited.

We broke down yesterday and bought this townhouse.  Don't you just looooove it?

It was only $8,000,000!  Or was it $10,000,000?  Can't remember -- doesn't really matter.

Anyway.

We're going to have a dinner party!  And each of you are invited.

It's got an awesome dining room.  And I've got the perrrrfect table for it.  Seats 48.  We'll all sit down to eat at my gorgeous table after we've all spent time in the library by candlelight, discussing the issues of the day by the wood burning fireplace.  We'll all be drinking brandy and I think someone, someone should be smoking a pipe.

Res can come early and help me with the food.

Al can bring the music and man the CD player all night.

Each of you will have a very important role to play.  What do you want to do?  Let me know!

Invites will be going out soon!

Yay!  I looooove my new townhouse.