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So, what's the most important thing this morning? It's about Me and the fact that I'm wearing shoes for the first time in 6 weeks. Beautiful black slides in fact. I don't count sneakers as shoes so this experiment is all good news for as long as it lasts.

Arnie came into town from Nashville and we all had a great weekend with a full schedule of Cactivities from Chinese lessons, soccer and bat mitzvah plus unexpected outings to buy contact lenses for Kate and a new toilet for our bathroom. Both very much needed. I had really hesitated about getting lenses for Kate but discovered that she really hadn't been able to see. She was reading everything from street signs to ads as we walked home with the sense of pleasurable discovery that a blind person might have on regaining their sight. I guess that if you have glasses but don't wear them then the blackboard will always remain a mystery to you! Egads. Of course I should be sympathetic to this because my parents discovered I couldn't see when I kept saying "What fish are you talking about?" Or have I already told that story?

And the new toilet? I don't know that I have time for a full fledged rant about how much I detest Home Depot...We made 2 trips to buy the damn toilet and came back empty handed both times because it's never as simple as people would have you beleive. We finally had to special order the thing and that it was done at Home Depot was only due to the efficiency of Richard, salesperson in training. Well, that already put me into a quandry because what can traineees do? Well, this one followed through even when I had to blow him off because I was in the middle of the chaotic Museum Halloween celebration on Sunday. It all got done. But I still hate Home Depot. I have time to be right because I won't have the toilet until the end of the week.

New York finally got very chilly Autumn weather this weekend and on Saturday as we dropped Kate off for a bat mitzvah, Arnie and I went on a very New York date. We went to a movie in Yorkville and stopped at the revamped Papaya King for a swell dinner of hot dogs. Cost to the local host: $7

Halloween trick or treaters came to the apartment on Sunday -- they were there and then they were gone like a summer storm -- and this year Kate had the good sense not to go out with them because they were all 4 & 5 years old. She will regret not haing a stash of candy but so be it.