Snow Day II

While I was at work yesterday, I already had a feeling we were going to get a snow day. It was fine when I got to work, just a little before 8am. The snow was coming down steadily, but not sticking because it was pretty warm outside. By 10am, I saw some o the largest snowflakes ever. The warm temperatures were still holding off accumulation though. It was just a slushy mess. The office closed early, at 3pm, but the additional hour and a half didn't help much as there was a lot of street traffic and train delays. I was originally planning to drop by my apartment to pick up a few things before heading over to Flushing to shovel my parents' house. I changed that plan after having a hard time walking 2 blocks over to the PATH station and just went straight to Flushing. The 7 train was cutoff in Manhattan, so I had to switch to the F, which was delayed. I eventually made it to 74th to connect to the 7 and it was delayed by about 30 minutes! I made it to Flushing at 5pm.

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There was about 3 inches of slush on the ground. It was heavy, but because it clumped together, was actually easy to shovel. Snowfall slowed down a little after that and I didn't have to go out again until 10pm. There was an additional 2 inches of light snow then. I went out one more time at 12am to try to lighten the load for the next morning... it gained 3 inches in just 2 hours! I woke up at 6am from the Wiley Inclement Weather alert and went back to sleep until 7am. There was at least 1 foot of snow by then! That was the largest shoveling session of the day. I went out again at 12pm to clean up another inch or two. It still snowed the rest of the day, but enough of the sun's rays were getting through and melting the snow before it could pile up.

I'd say we got a total of 18-20" in Flushing. The report from Central Park was 21" which brought the February total to 37"!

Family Dinner

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South Street Seaport

Rosemarie did a pretty good job planning out the places she wanted to see and items to buy as she covered a lot in a short period of time. On my day off, all that was left was Ground Zero and the South Street Seaport. That worked out well because we also had a family dinner scheduled for 6pm in Flushing.

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There wasn't much to see at Ground Zero as most of the area has been boarded up and reconstruction in the works, but still an essential as it's an important memorial. I thought we could take the Hoboken bound PATH train one stop to see the inside of the construction area, but that was blocked off as well. The South Street Seaport was nice. I haven't been in that area since I was a kid and it was my first time into the mall as well. On our way back, we stopped by the NY Montessori School (the chain that Rosemarie is part of), which was in the neighborhood. It was closed for Winter Break, but it was nice to just get a glimpse of it.

From there, we went back to Emily's apartment (where Rosemarie was staying) to pick up our things and headed to Queens. We did a little bit of shopping in downtown Flushing and then met up with my parents.

Disaster & Recovery

I scheduled a floating holiday tomorrow for Chinese New Year so I could take Rosemarie around the city. I was also going to meet her for dinner tonight because Emily was busy at work. Everything was going OK at work. I got all of my tasks done, and got to my apartment around 5:30pm. That's when everything blew up. I turned on the lights and noticed that the bathtub in the distance was all black. I was supposed to meet Rosemarie around 6pm and I also had a real estate agent showing the apartment to a potential tenant at the same time. In 5 years of living there, I've never had any problems with the plumbing and it just happened to occur this one day!

Fortunately, I was able to catch the super on the phone and he got the plumber there pretty quickly. So we did end up going out for dinner in my area, which had the best Thai food in town. The potential tenant saw the place, but didn't seem to factor in the problem because I guaranteed to would be fixed tomorrow (otherwise I would have a huge problem). Everything is cleaned up now and I have a long weekend to look forward to!

Pizza Wednesday

My cousin, Rosemarie arrived last night for a short NYC visit. She was on a business trip to the US and decided to stop by because it's been 23 years! Something amazing is if I count back 12 months from today, I saw all but two of the cousins on my Father's side over the past year. Jet's wedding covered most of it... Jet (CA), Kathy (CA), Timmy (TX), Jennifer (MA) and Greg (NY). Then Christine (Phil.) came by in December. And of course I see Andy & Cindy regularly.

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We met up on Wednesday with Andy & Evelyn downtown so Rosemarie could try some NY pizza. We ended up moving from John's Pizza to Numero 28, which looked more comfortable at the time. The last time Rosemarie saw Andy in 1987, he was just a little boy, about 1/3 his current height! After a good size meal, we headed over to Bruno's for some tastey desserts to compliment the dinner.

Sizzling Beef

Chinese New Year dinner @ Tung Yi Fung:

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Snow Day

I never thought I'd be happy to get a wakeup call at 5:50am... that was the automated message from the office that they would be closing because of inclement weather. Even though the whole day has been about shoveling, it was just nice to have a day off between MLK Day & President's day.

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The snow has been pouring on all day. We had about 3 inches by the time I got the call. After breakfast, it was like 5 inches already. I went out to shovel about every 2.5 hours when another 3 inches fell.

Stuffed Animals

Original Date: Summer 1987?

Over the weekend, I went through some old photo albums to find some more group pictures for tagging people in Facebook. This one I found of my sister with all of our stuffed animals is a good symbol of the childhood days when we had all the time in the world and no worries. We could waste time arranging stuffed animals for a group picture!


I'm guessing this is from Summer of 1986 or 1986. It must've been after our Disney trip because Emily is wearing a Minnie Mouse shirt and the whales are in the pic.