waiting

I used this photo

 in a collage

 I posted

 earlier this summer 

when

 I was looking through

 my 

Waiting

folder

 I stopped to enjoy her happy face

 and 

decided you would enjoy it too 

today 

I'm getting my hair

 'keratined' 

or 

whatever its called 

here at the end of summer

 I am spending 2+ hours

 to make sure

 that the humidity

 doesnt turn my hair to frizz

 I've always been a step behind 

no

 truth told

 I just didnt want to spend the money

 when I told that to Susanna

 she offered me a discount 

how could I pass up a discount? 

 So thats where I am today

 yesterday

 struck down 

by a case

 of 

whelm 

I didnt do anything

 well

 okay

we did

 take the long route trek

 up

 to

 96 St

 into the park 

down

 to

 72nd St 

around

 the Eleanor Roosevelt statue/circle

 and

 back

 stopping many times for me to take and share Instragram fotos 

got home 

to learn

 via email from Hilary

 and

 a tweet/comment from Foolery

 that 

there'd

 been 

some crazyness

 near

 the Empire State Building

To say we

 New Yorkers

 are blasé

 is true 

with 

a caveat

 we dont get 

all hand-wringy 

but 

we do worry about those hurt

 I tell you this honestly 

exiting the subway into Times Square

 in the mornings 

you never know

 if you'll see 

just cops

 or

 cops in full body armor with sub machine guns  

 crazy people with the guns

terrorists crashing airliners

loony zealots setting off explosives in cars

its

New York City

 there's always something