Since I've been off work due to my ACL injury, I've had mucho time to sit around and do a whole lotta' nothin'. AKA-watching lots of TV. I've recently delved back into my reality TV fix. I used to hate reality television, especially while I was in college. Since I spent hours studying the form of television, story lines, locations, production, history.....it was a transition.... your regular favorite series on television to reality television, which, let's face it.....some reality television shows are very heavily scripted and very rarely raw with raw footage.
Nonetheless, since college, reality television has come a long way and is primarily what is on television today and I have to say, I kinda love it. Don't get me wrong, I'm still obsessed with 30 Rock, Saturday Night Live and Ugly Betty, but I find humor and fascination in watching how other people live & what they do.
Enter Bethenny Frankel, my favorite comedienne. She's also a very successful author and businesswoman and a mommy. I've been watching reruns of "Bethenny Ever After" and have been cracking up ever since. She is hilarious.
Watching all of this reminds me of New York. The point of this post today. I have only been to New York twice. The first time to visit, the second time for an interview. The first time I was only there for about two days and slept for about 14 hours straight afterwards because it was non-stop. I loved it. The second trip I was only there for about 5-6 hours. I literally flew from Indy to NYC, traveled from LaGuardia to 30 Rockefeller Center, 30 Rock to LaGuardia, LaGuardia to Indy. (Where I paid $12.00 for a "value meal" at the LaGuardia Burger King.)
Short trip, yes, but I loved it. I stepped out in my black suit and hot pink heels and acted like I owned the city.
Watching all of my favorite reality TV shows (Project Runway, Bethenny Getting Married?, Bethenny Ever After, The Real Housewives of New York......) makes me miss New York. I know it's all in God's glorious plan....whether I'm meant to live there or not. If not, there are several items on my bucket list that must be fulfilled:
1.) Go shopping in NYC around Christmastime ...the snow....the trees...the lights..the people...skating @ 30 Rock.... (c'mon ACL...we gotta heal these knees!)
and 2.) Be in NYC during Thanksgiving for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
and 3.) Be in NYC during New Year's Eve..... yes, the place where the most pick pocketing in one night goes on. Note to self: carry no moola.
List of places to visit: Serendipity, Madame Tussaud's New York, Top of The Rock, Empire State Building, NYC Double Decker Bus, MOBIA, The Met, Dead Sea Scrolls Life and Faith in Biblical Times, Radio City Music Hall, On-Set Tours, Walkin' Broadway, Tiffany's, Every Single Broadway Show imaginable, B&H Photo and Video, Pop Burger, Pinkberry and Tasti-D-Lite. Among many many many many others.
(By the way, in case you were wondering.... yes I have seen some of the most historic & important NYC landmarks.... Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty, Ground Zero, etc.) I would like to visit them again of course.
That's enough ranting about my favorite city in the world at the moment. I highly suggest you visit if you have not done so.
Until we meet again New York..........xoxo
