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HELLO, I'm KARYN BOSNAK, author of the books SAVE KARYN and 20 TIMES A LADY. I live in BROOKLYN. |
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I found this in a drawer. I tore it out of a magazine some time ago.
The average woman smiles 62 times a day.
A man? Only eight.
Kids laugh around 400 times daily.
Grown-ups, just 15.
Smilers in school yearbooks are more likely to have successful careers and marriages than their poker-faced peers."
Dad, I'm five and I've NEVER been in a limo."—My friend Corey's five-year-old daughter Whitney, who's apparently been watching too much Hannah Montana
So here's Nora in her Halloween costume. She's Pocahontas.
My sister also bought her a black wig in case she wanted to wear one. Here it is.
Brace yourself.
Isn't it hilarious? She's not wearing it; she doesn't like it.
I'm not going to my sister's house for Halloween this year because I still have a cough and don't want to get the kiddies sick. (I doubt I'm contagious but it's better to be safe.) I'm so sad that I'm not going to get to see Nora in her Pocahontas costume. (Jack won't wear one. My sister got him a dragon costume and he said, "I'm not a dragon. I'm Jack.") I'm seriously tearing up thinking about them trick-or-treating without me. I miss them. I love them. They are my babies. :(
I'm going through old pics tonight and I found these that I took of a neighborhood dog.
I love Weimaraners!
My friend Naomi! She and Mark are my very best friends.
I love these pictures because they capture her personality so very well.
I knit this cute hat for Nora last winter.
I told my sister, "It's 100% wool. You have to wash it cold, dry flat. Do you understand?"
"Yes," she said.
"So what do you do again?" I asked, testing her. "Wash hot, tumble dry low?"
"No," she replied. "Wash cold, dry flat."
She got it.
A few months went by and she called me. "You know that hat you made Nora? Can I wash it in hot water?"
"No," I said. "Wash cold, dry flat—otherwise it will shrink. Why?"
Silence.
And now some photos:
Apparently some kid in Nora's class got lice so she freaked out and washed everything in hot water, but still... WASH COLD, DRY FLAT!
Now I have to make a new one.
PS - I took these photos in March but just rediscovered and uploaded them today.
PPS - Nora didn't get lice.
So I'm pretty sure I've had the swine flu. Or maybe it's just the regular flu. Whichever it is, it's lasted for 10 days and has sucked all the life out of me. I think I'm getting better, but I can't get rid of this terrible cough that's deep in my chest. And I still have rales when I breathe. They sound like Rice Kripsies and they freak my sister out. We were on the phone the other night and she said something that bothered me, so I exhaled really deeply into the phone until she screamed "Stop!" to get back at her.
I haven't gone to the doctor because my fever's gone and I thought I was on the mend, but if this chest thing doesn't go away in a couple days, I'm heading there.
Ugh.
The only good thing is that I've already had the flu this year and hopefully won't get it again!
UPDATE: I finally went to the doctor and I'm on antibiotics and Prednisone. Not too happy about the Prednisone, but it's only for 5 days. Thank you for your well-wishes!
It's Beverly's birthday today! She's seven years old! She's getting to be such a big girl... I remember the day I got her.
We're going to Monster Mutt right now so she can get her annual bully stick. Here's pics from last year's journey.
This time for my gay friends.
The Castro!
(Sadly, I didn't get to attend the tribute to Rue McClanahan.)
The rainbow flag!
The actual sewing machine that sewed the very first rainbow flag!
I went to San Francisco for a wedding this past weekend. I took some pictures!
Here are two fun tilt-shift ones I did!
And here are some of the Golden Gate Bridge:
It's Mark! It's Mark!
San Francisco is a beautiful city but it was reallllllly windy (is it always like that?) and oh, those hills... good for exercise, not so good when trying to hail a cab in heels.
I got the flu Saturday at the wedding. It was terrible. I started getting the chills and aching during the reception, and by the time I got back to my hotel that evening, I had a fever. I flew home early Sunday morning still sick, so yes, I was one of those germ-infested people on a plane who probably got everyone else sick. Sorry, but I wanted to get home to my bed. And besides, I think I got sick on the plane out there anyway, so what goes around comes around. (Which is exactly how the flu spreads.)
Updates on my Seattle trip will be coming soon, including how Laura and I almost died on a mountain, and how Beverly was torn between two lovers.
I watched the ABC sitcom Modern Family on my Virgin America flight from Seattle to San Francisco last week and I absolutely loved it.
I've never watched it because it's opposite Glee and I love Glee. I told Mark and David to watch, so they did, and they loved it too. It's fresh, quirky, and so, so funny.
You can watch the pilot on ABC.com—here's a link.
I'm going to record it tonight and watch it after Glee.
PS - Here's a cool pic that I took out the window of my Virgin America flight.
