New York à la Keiko: MAkes me smile

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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

If pet rats are your thing...

This made me smile today amidst the snow storm :)

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Sunday, January 13, 2013

Party girl.. I am no longer...

Hi! How was your weekend?

I did absolutely nothing! I know I have said that before but this is the first time in a long, long, long (never?) time have I stayed home on both Saturday and Sunday doing cat-like snoozing, college student feasting and movie-buff recreation. I watched over 7 films! I think I needed this. I had some plans for both Saturday and Sunday but I decided I would just stay home and vege(table). It was all great to catch up on some movies I have wanted to see. I watched stupid LOL movies such as 'For a good time, call..' and touchy romantic films like 'Celeste and Jesse'. Also, have you guys seen 'Rust and Bone'? I highly recommend it! It also was Golden Globe nominated as I found out tonight when I streamed the award show. Other no brainer movies I watched: 'That's my Boy', 'What's your number?', 'Captain America', 'Hot Fuzz' and I rewatched 'The Dark Knight'.

I also wanted to work on our mini travel guide blog post for Chile and a video but I kinda slacked off on those projects. Oh wells! There's a lot going on at work lately and I really need to take advantage of my weekend. Party girl I am no longer. I think...just takes a great big boost for me to go out but when I do, I always manage to have a great time!

This was me on New Year's Eve day

This was me on New Year's Eve day walking down 27th street. We had decided to leave the comfort of our friend's Manhattan apartment to attempt getting a glimpse of the Times Square Ball before it dropped at midnight. We knew it was an impossible task which made it more fun. There was a fair amount of alcohol in my system which helped keep me warm (70% alcohol rum shots anyone?). Streets surrounding Times Square were already blocked hours before for crowd control so we end up returning to the apartment which was the best thing to do anyway on NYE. I did a lot of screaming and produced very annoying sounds from a noise maker I bargained for $1. I might have embarrassed my boyfriend and friends but hopefully alcohol made my screaming obscenities more tolerable. I regret nothing as it was an exhilarating night since I rarely go out anymore.

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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Makes me smile -nykeiko [travel]

As you fly closer to your destination, you tend to look out the window to see what is down below. On our way to Puerto Arenas (Chile) we looked out the window and down and saw a whole lot of snow capped mountains, valleys and glaciers. The view was so breathtaking from the air that I couldn't help but take several pictures even if I knew taking it through a window pane would not do it justice.

It was not until I came back home and sorted through all my pictures that I realized that one of the glaciers we took was over Perito Moreno glaciers. It made me squee and could not believe we flew over one of our traveling destinations.

I think I also took pictures of Fitz Roy in El Chatan which was a mountain range close by another beautiful glacier we wanted to visit but did not squeeze it into our itinerary. At least we saw it from the air even though we did not know it at the time. Simply beautiful.