The one where they go to New York

And now I know why New York is considered one of the greatest cities in the world.  What an amazing time we had in the Big Apple!  While the trip was short we packed all the things first time tourists would do and walked a gazillion miles doing it.  The people, the sights, the sounds...all of it too much and yet not enough.  I want more.  Or maybe I just want to experience more and it does not matter where.  Go west young man.  Go east too....fuck, go everywhere.

I won't bore you with the trivial stuff and recount everything that we did or saw.  In my case out of one eye ha-ha.  I will say the Empire State Building at night was truly amazing and walking past The Dakota and seeing the Imagine mosaic was slightly surreal.  "What if" comes to mind.

It occurs to me that the "what ifs" are what we spend a lot of time and brain power on.  I don't know if that's god or bad, but I think it can certainly go in the bad direction when it becomes a crutch or an excuse.  What if I didn't have symptoms in my eye?  Well, I'd be dead at some point in the not so distant future with this aggressive bastard.  What if we had stayed together?  What if I had kissed her in grade 11?  What if I call her?  What if say fuck it and move to Santorini?  The last one I'd do pretty quickly by the way.

Point being that living in the what may have been or what may be can be potentially dangerous.  And most certainly not healthy.  My mantra these days, aside from Fuck Cancer, is I want to do stuff instead of own stuff.  A new couch or trip to wherever?  Want to take a guess at my choice?  Right. Let the cat keep tearing up that 20 year old couch, I'm heading to Lunenburg with my love.

In my guise as a chef I have used some little nuggets of advice to youngsters coming up in the business.  My favourite is "be a sponge".  Soak it all in.  The good , the bad and the ugly.  In work life I have probably learned more from watching morons do the wrong thing and being just smart enough to realize that the opposite way is the right way.  I apply that little nugget of advice to everything. And smile....lots of smiling.

That, I noticed, was abundant in New York.  Despite the doom and gloom, the weather, the crowds and the damn tourists....people smiled.  I like that.

And that is all for today my loyal followers....ha-ha

Ciao