Diary of a Mad Shoe Queen

I just found out that while I was away my favourite shoe shop in Brunswick burned down. Never mind the building, what about all of those shoes??? I'm traumatised just thinking about it!

( Adventures with make up )

( Empire State Building )

( Walgreens and Maccas )

( The Museum of Sex??? )

( Flatiron Building and more shopping )

( Madame Tussauds )

Because I had no internet access while I was on holiday, I got out of the habit of posting even on a random basis, which is why it's been nearly two weeks since I last updated. However I do want to start getting the tales of my adventures in New York down in writing while the memories are still fresh in my mind.

( The politics of leaving the country )

( Power shopping and free booze )

( The joys of cattle class )

( LAX is not fun at all )

( But business class is great! )

( We're in New York! Even if our bags aren't :~( )

( OMG, cold! )

( 222 W23rd Street )

( We love Gap! )

( Food and Drink! )

Oh my god, I'm home! I can't hardly believe that two weeks has already been and gone and that this time last week I was wandering through the Meatpacking District and surreptitiously taking photos of some red carpet event that I stumbled upon.

I have no hope of catching up on two weeks worth of entries on my flist so I hope everything is going well for you all and here's hugs if you need them.

{{{{hugs}}}}

I'll do a full update later but suffice it to say, I saw many wonderful things, spent way too much money and completely fell in love with the subway. New York really is a wondrous city and I had an absolutely wonderful time. I would move there in a heartbeat if I could. Really, I would.

My sister stupidly lent me her iPod to take away with me and then even more stupidly gave me carte blanche when it came to it's content. That I accidentally erased everything that was already on it is merely incidental. She'd already told me that I could delete anything I like prior to the unfortunate synchronization incident. The result of all this is that it now contains a heady mix of 80's retro, 90's punk, house, pop, rock, classical, jazz, disco, large amounts of the various projects of Matthew James Thomas and the five episodes of Supernatural that I haven't seen yet.

It's been fun going through my CDs and rediscovering things I'd forgotten I owned. It's been years since I last owned a stereo so I've gotten out of the habit of buying music. It's something I really need to remedy because I do love it and really enjoy finding new songs that spark something inside me. If I've got any money left over when I get home (doubtful!) I'll do something about it, me thinks.

Only two sleeps to go until I leave. Can't believe it's almost here. Going to New York was little more that a theory for such a long time that now the time has arrived I can hardly believe it.

BTW, if anyone want's a postcard, leave a comment here with your name and address and I'll see what I can do!

This would have to be the last thing you want your sister to say to you two days before you leave the country:

"I just found out that the kids have head lice and you were snuggling with them in bed on the weekend."

Oh crap!

Fox readying US version of 'Torchwood'

What would be the point of that? The original is good enough as it is so how could they hope to top it? And I bet there'd be no Jack and Ianto!