Cerceaux wrote:
Went to an outdoor ATM in downtown (bad idea) only to be accosted by panhandlers demanding that I share with them.
I'm used to guys begging for "spare change", but
expecting $20 handouts is some astonishing entitlement.
That's an amazing video XD *dead*
There are a lot of beggars in NYC, but I haven't met a lot of pushy ones actually. Usually they stand there but I don't have anyone following me around or repeatedly ask me. The only ones I don't like are the ones who put things on your table at a restaurant, like a keychain, even in McDonald's. It's not a popular thing, but it happens from time to time and I just really don't like that. I don't mind giving to people on the street (I have change around for that reason!), but I don't like the restaurant thing.
I'm getting the iPhone 6s Plus soon
voixdinferno wrote:
Enjoy your turkeys xD and if someone is vegetarian, what they eat?
My family and I had McDonald's woo! XD Well, we don't really celebrate the holiday in a big way, maybe because it's only something done in 'murica and my father grew up in Peru. Although my mother grew up here her parents grew up in Peru so no one really celebrates it. So we acknowledge it as another day to be thankful for what we have and joke about cooking the turkey and gathering all our cousins, aunts, uncles, etc.
Richard summarized his Thanksgiving for me:
I spent it with Griffith and (your favorite) Gelter. Griffith had us out to his house in New Jersey for the day. Griffith lives in a town called Colt’s Neck, but Gelter renamed it Cold Snack. So, Griffith lives in Cold Snack, New Jersey. Isn’t that hilarious? Anyway, the food was delicious, and we drank delicious port until Griffith got a little drunk and broke one of the decanters. Don’t tell anyone...
(Gelter is from Austria and has the biggest accent.)
I don't know why, but he reminds me of someone from another era... Piratey? Old English? Someone who should be wearing a top hat and monocle? Either way, I love it XD I told him I just imagined all of them drinking "delicious port" while discussing the topics of the day and breaking decanters. I felt the same way when he sent me pictures of the view from his villa in Barbados. It's just so... from another era or something, haha.
I've been studying non-stop these past few days and going out maybe for an hour lately, eek! I'm dyin'! I've been doing Corporations for days and just yesterday I did 4 chapters of Professional Responsibility. Hoo boy. Another week of studying to go @__@
Currently taking a break and watching "A Crown for Christmas," a Hallmark movie (OH GOD). It's about a New Yorker woman who gets hired out of luck as a governess for a king of a sovereign nation "near Luxembourg" named Winshire. The king has a daughter named Theodora who is supposed to be hell, but Miss Evans manages her well. Theodora's mother died from illness years ago and ever since then governesses have been trying to mold her.
I think I actually enjoy this movie because it has the staff, kings, etc. XD And the characters are so likable. Miss Claiborne the Cook is SO NICE OMG. And the head Butler, McMuffin (forgot his name), is so nice too! I love the staff!
Miss Evans is also an artist, is smart, funny, laidback, and she and Theodora become close. Meanwhile, the King is in an arranged engagement with a Miss Celia, but he doesn't love her. This disappoints Miss Evans a little because she and the King have had some close moments and have been pretty friendly with each other. She has no dreams to be a princess or marry him though, but they relate because they both lost parents at a young age.
However, the Evil Chancellor REALLY WANTS the King and Miss Celia to get married and will even try to force it on them because the kingdom needs to raise morale and he can't BELIEVE the king is delaying this marriage for so long. It also doesn't help that Miss Celia is pretty snooty although she doesn't seem evil.
Miss Celia actually sat Miss Evans down and said she feels insecure because she's been waiting to marry the King for years so Miss Evans honestly says Miss Celia will have nothing to worry about. (But it's pretty clear the King really likes Miss Evans... Poor Miss Celia.)
And because of Miss Evans the King and his daughter are actually getting closer and having fun again!
Now it's the Christmas gala and the King has to announce his engagement to Miss Celia... OMG WHAT WILL HAPPEN.
Miss Claiborne the Cook gives Miss Evans the dress *she* wore when she was young, when she danced with a handsome young man before he went away to war, so Miss Evans can wear it to the gala. THATS SO SWEET.
BEST MOVIE EVER...