Shea Stinks

I am not a Met fan, I am a Yankee fan. My father loves the Yankees so I grew up watching them. His security company happens to do the security for Yankee Stadium so I have been to many Yankee games through my whole life. Although I am a Yankee fan, i do not dislike the Mets. Unlike many Mets fans I hope the Mets do well. If the Yankees can't win I want the Mets to.
Friday night I went to Shea Stadium for the game (i got the tickets for free for giving blood). After getting lost on the way there, twice, i finally go there and thought "why do people come here?". I'm sorry to all you Mets fans but that stadium is terrible. Thank God they are building a new one. I couldn't help but compare it to Yankee Stadium, which I've been dozens of times. And I must say there security is terrible compared to Yankee Stadium.
Not only was I in a horrible stadium but the Mets played a horrible game. Never in my life have I witnessed a pitcher walk someone home and hit someone with the ball to bring yet another person home. The pitcher hit about four players within the first three innings. I was ashamed to be there, i could only imagine how real Mets fans felt.
I can honestly say I don't believe anyone will ever catch me at that stadium again.

Rest In Peace

Today is a very difficult day for me. Today is the one year anniversary of the death of one of my best friends in the word. His name is Robert D'Amato. He got killed outside a club on Bay St. at a friends going away party. He was only 18 years old.

I met Rob when I was in the 6th grade, he was in the 7th. He had a crush on my best friend Brittany, who I've been best friends with since we were about 7 or 8. She was 12 when they started going out. He wasn't only my best friends boyfriend, he was my best friend. I was always able to go to him for anything, there was nothing I didn't talk to him about. He always said I was his favorite besides Brittany. And he always said it was like he had two girlfriends, a two for one deal. They were boyfriend and girlfriend up until the day he died.

Needless to say I've had a very hard time with this. I've come to realize that you can't take people like that for granted because you never know when you'll lose them. I love him, miss him, and think about him everyday. I know he'll never really leave me, I know he's up here watching us, and i know he listens when I talk to him because he always did. Rest In Peace Robbie.

"I'll keep you locked in my head until we meet again ... and time makes it harder, i wish i could remember, but I keep your memory, you visit me in my sleep" R.I.P Robbie 8/27/88 - 9/24/06

Long Lost Twin

Today while I was at work I read the New York Post. In there I found a really interesting article that caught my attention. This article was about two twins that were separated at birth. Their mother was psychologically unstable and gave them up for adoption when they were born because she knew she couldn't take care of them. They were put into a Jewish adoption agency that is no longer in business. This adoption agency placed them into different homes for a psychological study. Neither of them knew they were a twin until 2001.
Now I might not have a twin but I do have an older sister and a younger brother, and i can not imagine how i would feel if we were separated at birth for a psychological study. I might not appreciate them as much as I should, and i might complain about them but he fact is they are my siblings. I could never imagine my life without them.
I don't understand how people would think it would be okay to separate children at birth for a study. I don' believe they should be separated under any circumstance, especially one as selfish as a study.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09232007/news/regionalnews/dual_lives_of_twins_separated_.htm

Native New Yorker

New York. I've lived here all my life, first Brooklyn than Staten Island. I've just realized I am one of those "native New Yorkers" who take this city for granted.
Thursday I went to Manhattan for about the millionth time in my life, but this time was different. I was going as a tourist, not a native New Yorker because I had to take pictures of Manhattan for my Discover New York class. As I was taking the ferry I turned to my boyfriend, who also happens to be a native New Yorker, and asked him if he had ever been to the Statue of Liberty, Eilis Island, or any other big tourist attractions. He flat out said no and i should have expected that considering I wouldn't have the slightest idea how people even go to the Statue of Liberty.
When I got to Manhattan I walked around taking pictures of all the things most tourists take pictures of like the bull outside the stock exchange, Trinity Church, St. Paul's Chapel, Times Square, Broadway, and Radio City. These are all places I've seen hundreds of times before, but it is different when you actually stop to look at them and appreciate how great they are. Even though I felt like an idiot because i felt like such a tourist.
The only thing that bothered me was Ground Zero and he World Trade Center Memorial in St. Paul's Church. I can understand why people want to go there and see these things, but you shouldn't gawk. Sometimes I feel like this shouldn't be an attraction because if you're a native you know exactly how devastating 9-11 was.
I'll never go to Manhattan as a tourist again, but I will start to appreciate what a great city I am lucky enough to live in.

Get Over It

For the past week all everybody can talk about is Britney Spears. Since her disastrous "comeback" at he VMAs. I personally feel bad for her and believe people should just LEAVE HER ALONE! It's obvious the poor girl has problems in her life, people should stop giving her so much publicity and leave her to work out her problems without them being every ones business.
This week was also the focal point of the whole Kanye record sales and rant. What i think is that Kanye needs to get over himself. After his rant at the VMAs about how he is done with MTV because "they never let a black man win" which is untrue. He needs to realize the world does not revolve around him, and neither does MTV. Just because he's "done" with MTV doesn't mean that because they don't have him now there will only be 9 videos on TRL, there will still be 10. They don't need him, they are a network, he needs them.

Why I Write

I write because it is easier for me to express my feelings on paper than any other way. When I get upset or need to express my feelings to someone instead of saying them or talking about them I write them in a note. It is so much easier to express myself this way and to get my point across. It’s easier for me because this way I can collect all my feelings and thoughts and be able to express them. Writing my feelings is a good way to no be interrupted while trying to get my feelings and point across. I also won’t forget some of the things I wanted to say.
I also write to tell people how I feel about them. In the past year two of my best friends died. I never got to tell them how much they meant to me. Since there is no other way for me to tell them I wrote a letter to them saying everything I never got to tell them. This gave me a piece of mind and I felt that even though I never got to tell them these things when they were alive I still got to tell them.