Tuesday's Tweets and Twitters!

It's Tuesday and we are down to our last four days. I am getting very melancholy. I feel like I just started to settle into a routine, and now it's time to leave. I will miss my two room apartment, Tal the bagel guy, Jose the manager of the Food Emporium, the many doormen who line West End Ave that I would greet on my morning walk each day, and the Merry Mexicans that would jump on the subway, play a few bars, collect some money, exit the train, board another, and repeat. Only in New York, right? Yes, this was definitely a summer I will remember for a long while to come.

Some things learned:

I have mastered the art of using a manual can opener. :-)

My son and I are both allergic to down. I had to replace the comforters in the apartment with good old cheap cotton/polyester ones.

You really don't have to stand in line for hours at the TKTS ticket booth before it opens. You can still get there after it opens and get discounted tickets to the show you want. The major shows like Wicked, Jersey Boys and the Addams Family are never sold there.

Conways on 35th and 7th Avenue is way better than the Conways beside Macys. They both carry the same discounted clothes, but one is jam packed and difficult to maneuver, while the other is a bit more spacious and far less claustrophobic.

The upper west side of the city is desperately in need of some good take out Chinese restaurants.

Ordering take out in the city is so easy, any one can do it. All you need is a computer. Grubhub.com is the best thing since sliced bread! If they had one of these in my town, I would never have to cook again! (okay, if you've been reading to date, you know I don't cook but STILL!)

Celebrity spotting in NYC is difficult at best. There are just too many people and everyone starts looking the same after a while. :-)

Don't be afraid to go to Harlem. Only the name is scary. :-)

My son is a very talented actor and this trip was beneficial to him in many ways. He made some "like minded" friends and even more importantly, some great business contacts. Two strategies he needs to work on: how to hold on to his personal belongings and remember to ask for business cards and/or write down the name of every person he comes in contact with!

NYC bakeries are responsible for the obesity in this country.

One last observation. You can leave your apartment in the morning all spic and span, shiny and clean. By the time you walk through the door at the end of the day, you can literally feel the grime on your body. It's not just dirt, but DIRT, like little sand pebbles. It's very strange.

Okay, enough tweeting for today!