Tick-Tock

Somehow it is already the middle of May.  This is both good news and bad news.

The good news is that it means we are finally taking our first trip to Bermuda!  We had purchased a pretty awesome deal from Groupon.  In case I haven't mentioned it before, I am a big fan of Groupon.  I haven't had anything go wrong with any Groupon that I've even purchased or used.

This was our first time buying a 'Groupon Getaway' and what we did learn was that before you buy the hotel or accommodations from Groupon, check the airfare for that destination.  The airline industry  makes it very hard to find reasonable prices to any place and geez, the amount of fees and taxes they add to the ticket price is hurtful to a family on a budget.

From our location in New York the flight is about a 2hr 20min trip.  For somebody like me who is extremely claustrophobic,which will no doubt be worsened by flying over the ocean the entire time, this is a pretty decent flying time and hopefully I will have enough time for my meds to kick-in before we descent.  I don't do very well on the decent.

My prize will be Bermuda.  I will come back with a couple of pictures to share.

As for the bad news, I'm going to be in Bermuda in less than 24 hours and I can't think of anything bad right  now.

(This is what I hope I find when I get there.)

(this is a picture I found at http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/downloads/downloads)

Long Time No Post

What seems like such a long time ago, I decided to start a blog so that I could get some memories posted and maybe even get some mild venting done.

Who would have thought that trying to find 10 or 20 minutes a week to write something would be so hard to come by?  My goal was one post a week and I can plainly see that I haven't hit that mark in a long time.

I wanted to write a post about how one day I just decided to break-up with Facebook.  It's been a good decision.

I had a little story about finally being given the secret family recipe from my mother-in-law to make her Pizza Rustica pie for Easter.  I rocked it.

I finally got to see my San Francisco Giants play baseball out here. It was against the NY Mets and the family all had a great time on a gorgeous weather day.  They lost that day in a very exciting 9th inning but they won 2 more games before the series was over.

We had a day out at the Central Park zoo and while the animals weren't plentiful, the Hasidic Jewish families were out in full force.  Coming from a San Francisco upbringing it was quite a site for me to see.

T1 and T1F surprised us all by showing up on our doorstep last week.  He had surprised her last weekend in the city and they did a very good job surprising us the next day.

Lots of work stuff going on.  Too much to tell.  But there is some exciting stuff on the horizon.  I hope to find more time to write about it.