Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Central Park East - 7:45am

Good morning, good morning!  Today my favorite door man told me when I passed, "Enjoy the day no matter rain or shine, honey!"  He's always so chipper and friendly - it's nice to see him every day on my walk home from the Park.  It was raining today, but again, creepily warm.  It's 57 degrees out right now.  I enjoy rainy days at the Park because there is usually no one there and its nice and quiet.  No Nicholas and Pineapple today, either.  Some mornings I read the bench dedications.  You have to be careful about when you do that, though, because if you hit too many sad ones in a row, you can get yourself all worked up and nobody wants that.  I have to be in particularly good spirits to read the bench dedications, and I usually am on rainy days (since as I've said before, I like walking in the rain).  I saw the usual collection of 50th wedding anniversary dedications (2nd most common), 100th birthdays, proposals, first dates, in memory of dogs & people (the latter being most common)....but then I came across this one!  I thought, I've just got to take a picture of that one - though I'd prefer it said brotherhood & sisterhood (I suppose that doesn't sound as nice).

In other news, Rock of Ages last night was FANTASTIC!!  An absolutely amazing show!  The performers were really talented singers and the live rock band was so good that for part of the beginning I thought they weren't really playing - the guitar riffs sounded too hard for them to actually do.  It was also awesome to do something different than the usual on a Monday night.  Now that I live in the City, there's no reason to only do fun stuff on the weekends.  After the show, we walked around Rockefeller Center and saw the big tree and everyone ice-skating before going and getting some cannolis and cheesecake.  It was an excellent night.

Everyone have an equally excellent day