Adventures in the City

My husband and I went on an impromptu date on Tuesday.

The thing about living near New York City is that we have opportunity to do all of these exotic, wonderful, cultural things. The other thing about living near New York City is that for much of the time, we might as well be still living in Texas. Trying to make the arrangements necessary to travel that thirty miles to get into the city requires a LOT more planning than just getting in the car and going. For one thing, up here, we plan around the traffic, the same way the people in "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs" planned around the food weather. Traffic is a Force of Nature up here. No plans can be made to do ANYTHING without taking it into consideration.

And once you've conquered the traffic, there is the Parking.

And the Driving.

I'm still not entirely assimilated. My husband drives in the City (as we New Yorkers call it) and he does it without getting stressed out. I haven't tried driving in the City yet, mostly because just being a passenger makes me want to clamp the oh-my-God bar in my TEETH while simultaneously bracing my feet on the dashboard and covering my head with my arms.

But anyway, the stars aligned and we went to see the Spinal Tap guys in their 25th anniversary tour: Unplugged and Unwigged. Man, those guys can still pseudo-rock! We took pictures, which was ALLOWED, but because we took them with our cell phones (having never even considered that we could bring a camera) they all look like this:
(Why, yes, you can almost see Elvis Costello there in the middle. He popped in to do a song.)

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So, there it is: an entire post in which I never even mention the word, "puppy" even once. I know not everyone is a dog lover and I'm trying to serve my audience. Only, um, there is yet another tremendous game of chase going on all over the downstairs and the puppy does this thing where he grabs hold of our older dog Scout's tail and will NOT let go. Scout's only recourse is to SIT on the puppy which, frankly, is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. If I can get it on video for you, I will. Meanwhile, look at how the puppy sleeps:



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In other news, I've decided to join...well...EVERYONE and venture into the world of Twitter. (Blame Lance Armstrong, who Twitters everything.) You can follow me here: @sothethingis once you go to twitter.com. (I'll figure out how to link and why I'm not able to upload a picture very, very soon. I don't actually know what I'm doing nor how to put the updates on the blog but...well...I have good technical support.) (I'm also back on FaceBook, although this had more to do with being obsessed with a few word games than anything else.)

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My washer just went out. I mean that in the sense that it is making this very awful, ominous sound and won't spin anything. (I knew this was coming and was just trying to nurse it along. Ah, well, now whenever I have to spend money I just think, "Hey, way to stimulate the economy!" Y'all can thank me for the economic upturn later.) Any suggestions for a replacement? I know I want a front loader but other than that, I have done no research.

Okay, I'm going to go Tweet unless you all would like for me to talk more about the puppy. No? Are you SURE?

Fine.