The message of my life

It's what I've been trying to tell you people all of these years! Talk to your water!

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Let's get this Straight...

Abercrombie and Fitch make no apologies for blatantly using the perfectly sculpted torso's of young men to entice people into their store.



Hell! I fell for it!

How?

3rd of the 3rd '83

If I wasn't before, I am now officially in my "late twenties". Time is surely running out! I spent the day in New York with way too much self permission to do and eat whatever the hell I wanted...

Starting with Breakfast at the Seinfield diner...





Birthday cake for brunch in Time Square...







A stop by Dylan's Candy Bar to check out the staircase made of lollies and get some Willy Wonka Chocolate goodness into me...



Before wandering down the street to Serendipity3 to sample the world famous "Frozen Hot Chocolate"...





NOW. At this point I am on the most ridiculous sugar high, barely able to stand up and wondering if Diabetic Coma's are induced by too much or too little sugar. I pressed on.

Needing some time and space away from ANYTHING resembling food, I headed to Central Park to listen to the busker play Beatles songs beside the John Lennon Memorial:



Suitably inspired and slightly hungry (I suspect the Frozen Hot Chocolate was HIGH in Glycemic Index rank), I headed to SOHO to get a little celebrity injection by seeing PHOEBE FROM FRIENDS!!! Oh...and Brooke Shields.



They were doing an instore appearance at the Apple store to promote a new show. Very cool. In Australia, this event would have been MENTAL! Here...a mere 200 people show up to passively listen to celebrities - a massive cultural difference!

Ok, we're nearly done here. DINNER was next, so I decided to head over to Joe's Shanghai for the famous soup dumpling. By then, I'd reached my quota. I mean, I had actually reached my daily calorie intake limit by about 9am, but by 7pm I really felt like I had done the Birthday self-permission thing justice.

Oh...and then finished off with a trip to Broadway to see Mamma Mia!


What a day. I actually haven't even been able to look at chocolate since this little episode!

A "she was there in spirit" birthday party

My family loves a show. Being the centre of attention (especially in a crowded restaurant) is high on the list of Donnelly "musts". It came as no surprise to me that in honour of my birthday (and despite me being on the other side of the world at the time), they decided to go out for a birthday dinner.

Being in New York, I recently crossed off the life list ambition of "eating a giant pretzel from a vendor in central park". Being a good daughter, I sent mum the photo to show her:



Little did I know that this image was to serve as the Dara replacement for the night...









and I even got a cake...



Family...they do miss me!

Introducing Maxwell 2.0

Hi, I'm a Mac. As much as it pains me to fall for the advertising/branding ploy that is the genius of this campaign, I can honestly say that I am. It only seemed fitting then that the birth of my second edition Macbook (Maxwell) would have to come from the New York 5th Avenue store.



And now, a proud parent!

A white March

I arrived in New York the day after the third biggest snow storm in New York history. The town was in chaos trying to deal with it! I'd never even SEEN a snow plough before!



It did all make for some lovely images though...







And my personal favourite, the "Toboggan wasteland":

When in Rome (and/or Dublin)...