If I Can Make it There, I Can Make it Anywhere..

I've been a new Yorker for 2.2 years, and I still have some questions...

New Yorkers,

1. Why do you insist on getting your cup of coffee in a paper bag?
2. Why do the bodegas give me a straw no matter what I buy?
3. Wait and why do you call them bodegas?
4. Why do you regularly risk you life by darting out into the street in front of a Yellow cab traveling at least 45 mph?
5. Why does McDonalds deliver?
6. Why do you walk so damn fast?
7. Where the hell are you going in such a hurry?
8. Why does it now piss me off to get stuck behind a "slow walker"?
9. How the hell do you manage to speedwalk through the city and into and out of the subways in 4 inch high heeled shoes?
10. Why aren't there more Trader Joes?
11. Oh! Oh! and why is Two-Buck-Chuck $2.99? Thats not two bucks!
12. What the hell is a fall out shelter?
13. Why is it so hard to find yellow mustard? I hate this deli crap!
14. How do you live without real Mexican food?
15. Why aren't there cross town Subways Uptown?
16. How do you stand the frigged winter weather?
17. How do you stand the sweltering heat in the summer?
18. Why aren't there more cute little espresso cafes?

I like it here but it will never be a dear to me as my beloved San Francisco.

In The Last Hours of 2006

Lets see... a few final thoughts on things that still are and things that came to be for me in 2006.

1. Nazbatags are cute
2. so are puppies and kittens, and babies....
3. 30 is the new 20. (and I'm very happy about that)
4. Its still not cool to be a trekkie (no I'm not)
5. New york did not suck as much this year as I thought it did last year
6. I still love cheese
7. and beer
8. surveys say I spent more money shopping on line in 2006 than any other year
9. Podcasts have made my commute more enjoyable
10. Macs are better than PC's
11. iPods are now semi-affordable
12. Blogging and podcasts are on the rise (big suprise)
13. Google rules
14. Kevin Rose is hot (see posts "casts and other geeky goodness" & "its getting hot in here"
15. Kraft still is the cheesiest
16. Trader Joes wine shop is awesome
17. I still miss San Francisco
18. War still sucks
19. So does our President
and finally.....
20. I am still alive, and healthy. (Yay!)

Happy New Year!

xo,
< /KO >