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I took a few shots while I ran errands on Sunday. For the record, one of my errands was buying a cookie sheet, which I somehow managed to lose before I got home. I also bought some nice cheese for my Christmas Eve lunch at work. I wanted my lunch to be nicer than my usual salad, but when I got home I saw that they somehow didn’t manage to ring up the cheese or put it in my bag!

So I had my usual salad at work yesterday, but I did have some very delicious bread to go with it so it was okay.

Is she carrying a candle? Or does it just look like she’s carrying a candle? I think she might be carrying a phone and there something in that window that looks like a candle and it just lined up perfectly against her phone. Or, maye she is carrying a candle.

I envy everyone who doesn’t have evil cats and therefore can have Christmas trees!

A window box with tiny ornaments.

A cat bit me at the ASPCA yesterday. It’s nothing serious, but I so hate taking antibiotics and this doctor prescribed two! It’s because I’m allergic to penicillin and I guess nothing compares to penicillin and you need two if you don’t use it? I should have just asked, but I was stuck in wtf-mode. I just googled it and even doctors who are conservative about prescribing antibiotics make exemptions for cat bites, and particularly cate bites to the hand, and that’s of course where I was bit. The cat who bit me was very sick and I hope she’s okay. I’ll find out when I go back to work tomorrow.

Here is the tree at the main branch of the New York Public Library. A book I requested is in and I could go there today, but I feel like curling up and relaxing at home.

It was a good day at the library. The materials I found gave me ideas for how to structure the proposal I’m working on for my possible next book. It was great because on my way to the library I was feeling defeated. I wanted to go one way with the book, my publisher another, and I needed a compromise that both sides could get excited about.

Skaters behind the library. The park behind the library, Bryant Park, becomes a skating rink in the winter. I’ve never learned to skate and it looks so fun.

I live in a very wealthy neighborhood even though I make very little money myself. I was lucky enough to find a rent stabilized apartment over thirty years ago, and I don’t want to think of what my life would be like without it.

The only thing is, when I walk around sometimes, and look in the windows, I see such fabulous scenes of affluence I feel like the Little Match Girl shivering outside. Sparkling chandeliers, tall towering Christmas trees, amazing works of art around the apartment, lush furniture. I’m not anti-rich people, but I do covet their pretty things sometimes. I thought I would do a series of pictures of what I see. I just had a flash of deja-vu. I think I’ve had this idea and posted about it before. Just looked and I have!

This isn’t one of the scenes I just described, it just made me think of it. It’s a nice display though.

Thank you people who decorate outside. You make it fun and festive to walk around.