Totally Embarssing

I'm not even going to try and excuse my complete lack of "blogginess" lately. It's totally lame and I just have my own spazziness to blame.

Sorry.

I'm also not going to do some obnoxious catch-up on the past 6 weeks. Nope...I'm just gonna keep on keepin' on (shout out to your Mr. Pugsley!)

Seeing as I can never actually sit still for that long (see mention regarding spazziness above). So what's my latest notion? Well...it's really two things. 

Number one - become extraordinary. Normally I'd say this is just me overcompensating, but this time it's TOTALLY for real. The Big O was kind enough to grant me a Green Card (well...at least the dough and resources necessary to get one). So after a little chat with my lawyer, turns out I need to be a little more awesome to qualify (the visa is called Extraordinary Alien - man, don't you just love the titles of these things). So what do I have to do? Thankfully, it doesn't involve creating crop circles (although it's nearly as daunting). In the words of my dear lawyer friend I just need to...

- Win a Cannes Lion

- Get promoted

- Win OTHER awards

- Did I mention a CANNES LION????

UUugggghhhhhh. Seriously, what more can I say about that. All things that are ESSENTIALLY out of my control. So I've been gettin' busy trying to be more rad. I judged the Caples (awesome, hangin' with international CDs from everywhere and anywhere) AND I also judged the Summit Awards (a little less fancy, seeing as it was an excel spreadsheet with urls emailed to me, and I did it at home on my laptop). Whatever...an award show is an award show. AND they need a photo and bio (weeee). Yes, I'm a media whore!

But that only accounts for one strain of spazziness...the second one is a wee bit more academic. You all know (if you know me at all) how much I love taking courses. WELL wouldn't it be cool if you could actually GET something out of all that learning? And Poof...the Masters notion was born. 

Tonight I went to an information session at NYU for their MSc (yeah, Rich has one of those, he nearly died when I said that's what the program awarded) in Integrated Marketing. Goood times! It sounded pretty cool. The only drags are 

A) it costs a crap load and 

B) you have to take this standardized test (a GRE or GMAT to be specific). 

We all know I ain't no math genius (hell I can barely spell for Petes sake!) I figured I'd just take one of those prep courses and then BLAMMO after googling that, just GUESS how much it costs??? $1300 FOR REAL! That's practically the cost of one credit of this #@$%^& degree? WOW!!! Apparently I'm in the wrong business!

Anyway, now you're essentially up to date. I'm still spazzing out, still working and still surfing (although I'm thinking it'll start getting pretty cold in the next few weeks).

I'll try to be a little consistent with my posts (I also promise this is the last time I apologize for being crap at posting!)

KEWL BEANS! Good chattin' with you all. Don't worry, more spazziness to come!

xoxo

LisaC

I'm back Biiiiiiaaaaaattttccccchhhheeeesss!!!!

Alright...so it's been a bit of a hiatus. But now thanks to a stolen wifi signal I'm back and (hopefully) better then ever!!!

Oh my goodness a whole lot has happened in the last, oh...nearly 3 months!

- Rich moved here (yeah...RAD!)

- Happy moved here (see above)

- We've been surfing nearly EVERY weekend at Rockaway Beach (see Ramones tune)

- Works gonna work on keepin' me around (see Green Card - OH YEAH!)

- I'm gettin' a new partner (see new addition to the group)

And endless other events that are just as awesomely...well...awesome!

Now that I can update the blog from the comfort of my newly organized home (a feat that should really have it's own dedicated blog post) I'll be much more diligent at updating.

It's good to be back. Hope all is peachy in your corner of the world. Will be chatting to you soon!

xo

LisaC

Assault of the Amie

WooHoo! My little sista is comin' into town. Beware New Yorkers...the category five cyclone that is AMIE will be landing tomorrow afternoon approximately 3PM (is LaGuardia Airport cooperates). Looking forward to it...should be good good times! Got some nice meals planned (hittin' up Craft on Saturday night and this place Amie found, Jane for brunch on Sunday). Gonna try to sneak in a wee bit of surfin' Saturday morning (I'm dying to try this shorter board the nice fellas at NYPD - that's New York Pipe Dreams, a local surf/skate shop right here in Manhattan, had recommended).

Oh, you'd like to SEE the potential board of my dreams. That would be the BLUE surfboard, 7'2 mini-longboard. Actually, I'm debating between the mini-longboard and the funboard (this is probably all gibberish to you). Well...one is just as it said, a longboard performance in a shorter physical size. The other (the funboard) is a bit more "performancy" (wow, good thing I'm a COPYWRITER...check out that wordsmith'age) with more rocker (that's the curve of the board) and a pin tail (the end of the board comes to a point, where as the mini-long board has a squash tail - the tail comes to more of a horizontal flat). So what you say? Well, it affect speed and your ability to ride bigger waves (the pin tail, "hangs in" a bit better). But hey...I'm just a kook (that's a newbie surfer, actually a RETARDED newbie surfer, so hopefully I'm not) pretending to know what i'm talking about.

Anyway, life is good...sorry not a ton of posts this week. Was pretty cranky so didn't want to infect the entire interweb with my pissiness.

Hope your week has been fab-u-lous. Cruisin' into the weekend. Will try to take some fun pics during Amie'fest 9000.

Keep it real ya'll and chat more later.
xo
LisaC

God Bless the Camera Phone

Who would have thought I'd run into a Great White Bicycle on the way home, but low and behold...there it was! Pretty rad eh?!

We're on the precipice of another stellar weekend (but aren't they all?) Off to surf on Saturday (or at least attmept to!) Heading out to Rockaway, which is kind of funny since you can take the subway there. WOW, who would have thought you could subway to a surf spot? I suppose only in the Big Apple!

I've also found surfline.com (which TOTALLY makes me feel like I'm the cute blonde chick in Blue Crush whenever I visit it!) It gives you webcams for most surf spots and conditions around the world. Yeah, apparently Sunset is crap right now on the North Shore (Hawaii) - glad I didn't book a ticket!

Other than that, just chillin'. The saga of the move is unrelenting. Now we're just trying to sort out crap stuff like insurance and titles and oh God my head hurts! Hopefully in the home stretch. I think our stuff will be moving soon (not like I have space in my apartment for it anyway!) but will be nice to give our renters the run of the entire house (right now all our crap is stuck in one room - thankfully we could close the door. Phew!)

Hope you all have a fab-o weekend. My sister is down NEXT weekend so I'm sure they'll be some tales to tell!

Kisses
LisaC

P.S. a shout out to Mr. Witold, heading down (or is it up?) Canada Way! Say hello to my fellow Canucks. I told them you were coming so you should have a good trip! hehe

New Blog Feature - Rogue Canucks in NY

So......for the past few days I've been noticing there's a TON of peeps here in the Big Apple wearing something "Canadiana." And I'm not just talking about the one off random Roots shirt (although those WILL be featured). Nope, these are full on, dialed to 11, jacked up, blinged out CANADA GEAR!

Being a Canuck in New York, I feel it is my duty to chronicle said items - which leads me to my latest LisaCinNYC.com feature - Rogue Canucks in NY.

Here I'll post the latest pic of peeps I find throughout our fair city. Of course, this involves a little "stranger pestering" but hey, I think I'm up for it. Actually, it was shockingly easy to pester this poor fella. He reacted like I was asking him what time it was - WAY too chill. Perhaps Mexico is the Canadian equivilant? Hmm, I'll have to make a research trip later in the winter. But for now...the mission will continue! I'll keep my eyes peeled and my BlackBerry Camera at the ready!

Happy Wednesday. Bitchin' half way to surfin' weekend!
xo
LisaC

I think I caught it

The surfing bug. Or is it Surfing Virus? Not too sure, but holy crap...I got it bad. Now I'm trying to find surf spots, figure out if I can take a board on the LIRR (which apparently, I CAN!) And naturally, scowering Craigslist to see if I can find a good used board for me to start with.

For those who are unfamiliar, you can surf in the NYC area in Long Beach (about an hour on the train). We took some lessons with the fine folks at Surf2live.com. Nice dudes, professional, helpful and fun! Alas, we didn't have the best conditions last Saturday (was pretty rough, you know it's bad when the instructor is telling you he wouldn't be out in these condidions...so...yeah, it was ugly). But hey, if you can have fun getting thrashed in whitewater for 90 minutes, then sounds like you can have a good time just about anywhere!

Gonna try and get out again on Saturday (there's a different school I'm gonna contact, see how they do?) After all, we don't know the area (I don't want to break the noobes code - going out in a sketch locale and getting into trouble - NOT COOL!) Plus, I got no beef with taking lessons, hell...I can classes all the time. Mandarin, NeedlePoint, Cooking...don't matter to me!

Will keep you posted on my surfing attempts. Here's hoping we can actually pull this off? I don't know, there's just something about leaving the city, playing in the water and doing something that COMPLETELY clears you mind of all your worries. Now THAT'S some powerful stuff man! heheheh

Oh God, has the transformation happened already? Quick, someone throw me a PowerPoint presentation. Hurry, force me to write an ad or something. Ahhh, much better!

Happy Monday All.
LisaC

The Cutest Puppy in the World...

MINE!

Here's a video of Happy swimming (with my Dad's help). Featuring cameo appearances by my cousin Paul, Nic, Rachel, Lyla, my Mom and Aunty Marguerite. Lovingly narrated by my sister. Let the Friday afternoon theatre begin....