what I tried to send to my best friend on her MySpace account
TO MYSPACE!
posted by Celtic Gypsy @ 23:09
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
TO MYSPACE!
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
driving map from new york to paris to glasgow
4,496 mi (about 29 days 19 hours)
From:
New York, NY
Change destination
Drive: 3,800 mi (about 29 days 7 hours)
1.
Head southwest on Broadway toward Warren St 0.2 mi
1 min
2.
Turn left at Park Row 0.1 mi
1 min
3.
Slight right at Frankfort St 0.3 mi
1 min
4.
Turn left at Pearl St 56 ft
5.
Turn right onto the F.D.R. Dr N ramp 0.4 mi
1 min
6.
Merge onto FDR Dr N 7.7 mi
12 mins
7.
Take exit 17 on the left for Triboro Bridge/Grand Central Pkwy toward I-278/Bruckner Expy 0.4 mi
2 mins
8.
Merge onto Triborough Bridge
Partial toll road
0.4 mi
1 min
9.
Merge onto I-278 E via the ramp to I-87 N/Bronx/Upstate N Y/New England 0.6 mi
1 min
10.
Take exit 47 to merge onto Bruckner Expy/I-278 E toward New Haven 1.9 mi
2 mins
11.
Take the I-278 E exit toward New Haven 0.3 mi
12.
Merge onto Bruckner Expy 5.0 mi
6 mins
13.
Continue on I-95 N
Partial toll road
Entering Connecticut
62.1 mi
1 hour 12 mins
...
14.
Take exit 48 on the left to merge onto I-91 N toward Hartford 36.8 mi
37 mins
...
15.
Take exit 29 for US-5 N/CT-15 toward I-84/E Hartford/Boston 0.4 mi
16.
Merge onto CT-15 N 1.7 mi
2 mins
17.
Merge onto I-84 E
Partial toll road
Entering Massachusetts
40.7 mi
38 mins
...
18.
Take the exit onto I-90 E/Mass Pike/Massachusetts Turnpike toward N.H.-Maine/Boston
Partial toll road
56.0 mi
56 mins
...
19.
Take exit 24 A-B-C on the left toward I-93 N/Concord NH/S Station/I-93 S/Quincy 0.4 mi
1 min
20.
Merge onto Atlantic Ave 0.8 mi
3 mins
21.
Turn right at Central St 0.1 mi
22.
Turn right at Long Wharf 0.1 mi
23.
Swim across the Atlantic Ocean 3,462 mi
29 days 0 hours
...
24.
Slight right at E05 0.5 mi
2 mins
25.
At the traffic circle, take the 2nd exit onto E05/Pont Vauban 0.1 mi
26.
Turn right at E05
Partial toll road
17.3 mi
22 mins
...
27.
At the traffic circle, take the 2nd exit onto A131/E05 heading to A131/Rouen/Paris/Evreux
Partial toll road
9.1 mi
8 mins
28.
Take the exit onto A13/E05/L'Autoroute de Normandie
Partial toll road
20.3 mi
17 mins
...
29.
Take the exit onto A13/E05/L'Autoroute de Normandie
Partial toll road
56.5 mi
47 mins
...
30.
Take the exit on the left onto A14 toward Nanterre/La Défense
Partial toll road
12.5 mi
16 mins
...
31.
Slight right at N13 1.4 mi
3 mins
32.
Turn right at Avenue de Neuilly/N13 269 ft
33.
At the traffic circle, take the 4th exit onto Avenue de la Grande Armée 0.7 mi
3 mins
34.
At Place Charles de Gaulle, take the 5th exit onto Avenue des Champs-Elysées 1.3 mi
3 mins
35.
Slight right at Voie Georges Pompidou 1.4 mi
3 mins
36.
Slight left to stay on Voie Georges Pompidou 440 ft
37.
Slight right at Quai de la Mégisserie 377 ft
38.
Continue on Quai de Gesvres 0.2 mi
1 min
39.
Turn left at Place de l'Hôtel de Ville 194 ft
To:
Paris
France
Drive: 695 mi (about 12 hours 28 mins)
40.
Head north on Place de l'Hôtel de Ville toward Avenue Victoria 92 ft
41.
Turn left at Avenue Victoria 0.2 mi
1 min
42.
Turn right at Square de la Tour Saint-Jacques 315 ft
43.
Continue on Boulevard de Sébastopol 0.8 mi
3 mins
44.
Continue on Boulevard de Strasbourg 0.4 mi
1 min
45.
Turn left at Boulevard de Magenta 0.1 mi
46.
Slight right at Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis 0.6 mi
3 mins
47.
Slight left at Boulevard de la Chapelle 85 ft
48.
Continue on Place de la Chapelle 115 ft
49.
Continue on Rue Marx Dormoy 0.4 mi
1 min
50.
Continue on Rue de la Chapelle 0.6 mi
1 min
51.
Continue on Avenue de la Porte de la Chapelle 0.1 mi
1 min
52.
Take the ramp on the left to A1/Saint-Denis/Lille/Bruxelles 0.1 mi
53.
Merge onto E19
Partial toll road
85.0 mi
1 hour 14 mins
...
54.
Continue on A1/E15/L'Autoroute du Nord (signs for Arras/Lille/Calais)
Toll road
20.8 mi
17 mins
...
55.
Take the A26/E17 exit toward Béthune/Calais/Cambrai/Reims
Toll road
1.5 mi
2 mins
56.
Merge onto A26/E15/L'Autoroute des Anglais
Toll road
64.5 mi
52 mins
...
57.
Take the exit toward E15
Toll road
0.1 mi
58.
Keep left at the fork, follow signs for A16/E40/Boulogne/Calais-Ouest
Toll road
0.2 mi
59.
Take exit 18 toward Calais-Est
Partial toll road
0.3 mi
60.
Merge onto E15 14.4 mi
55 mins
...
61.
Continue on Dover - Calais 15.7 mi
47 mins
...
62.
Continue on Eastern Service Rd 0.3 mi
2 mins
63.
Turn right at E Ramp 0.4 mi
2 mins
64.
Slight right at Dock Exit Rd 0.1 mi
65.
At Eastern Docks Roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto A20 0.6 mi
2 mins
66.
Slight left to stay on A20
Go through 3 traffic circles
7.8 mi
10 mins
67.
Continue on M20 (signs for M20/London/Ashford) 49.7 mi
47 mins
...
68.
At junction 1, exit toward C.London/A2 1.3 mi
1 min
69.
Merge onto M25 4.4 mi
4 mins
70.
Continue on A282 (signs for A282/Dagenham/A13/M11/M1)
Partial toll road
3.2 mi
5 mins
71.
Continue on M25 (signs for Watford/Southend/M11/M1/A127) 39.7 mi
38 mins
...
72.
At junction 21, exit onto M1 62.5 mi
1 hour 0 mins
...
73.
At junction 19, exit onto M6 toward Coventry (North)/Birmingham 22.7 mi
22 mins
...
74.
At junction 3a, exit toward B'ham/M42/M5 0.3 mi
75.
Merge onto M6 24.2 mi
23 mins
...
76.
Take the exit onto M6 179 mi
2 hours 54 mins
...
77.
Continue on A74
Entering Scotland
6.3 mi
7 mins
78.
Continue on A74(M) (signs for Glasgow/Edinburgh) 48.6 mi
46 mins
...
79.
Continue on M74 28.7 mi
27 mins
...
80.
At junction 4, exit onto M73 toward Stirling/Glasgow/A80/M8 1.4 mi
1 min
81.
Take the exit onto M8 toward Glasgow 7.1 mi
8 mins
82.
At junction 16, exit toward A81/Aberfoyle 459 ft
83.
Merge onto A879 0.1 mi
84.
Slight right at A804 0.1 mi
1 min
85.
Turn left at Port Dundas Rd 0.3 mi
1 min
86.
Sharp right at Cowcaddens Rd 0.2 mi
2 mins
87.
Turn left at Cambridge St 0.1 mi
88.
Turn left at Renfrew St 0.1 mi
To:
Glasgow
UK
From:
New York, NY
Change destination
Drive: 3,800 mi (about 29 days 7 hours)
1.
Head southwest on Broadway toward Warren St 0.2 mi
1 min
2.
Turn left at Park Row 0.1 mi
1 min
3.
Slight right at Frankfort St 0.3 mi
1 min
4.
Turn left at Pearl St 56 ft
5.
Turn right onto the F.D.R. Dr N ramp 0.4 mi
1 min
6.
Merge onto FDR Dr N 7.7 mi
12 mins
7.
Take exit 17 on the left for Triboro Bridge/Grand Central Pkwy toward I-278/Bruckner Expy 0.4 mi
2 mins
8.
Merge onto Triborough Bridge
Partial toll road
0.4 mi
1 min
9.
Merge onto I-278 E via the ramp to I-87 N/Bronx/Upstate N Y/New England 0.6 mi
1 min
10.
Take exit 47 to merge onto Bruckner Expy/I-278 E toward New Haven 1.9 mi
2 mins
11.
Take the I-278 E exit toward New Haven 0.3 mi
12.
Merge onto Bruckner Expy 5.0 mi
6 mins
13.
Continue on I-95 N
Partial toll road
Entering Connecticut
62.1 mi
1 hour 12 mins
...
14.
Take exit 48 on the left to merge onto I-91 N toward Hartford 36.8 mi
37 mins
...
15.
Take exit 29 for US-5 N/CT-15 toward I-84/E Hartford/Boston 0.4 mi
16.
Merge onto CT-15 N 1.7 mi
2 mins
17.
Merge onto I-84 E
Partial toll road
Entering Massachusetts
40.7 mi
38 mins
...
18.
Take the exit onto I-90 E/Mass Pike/Massachusetts Turnpike toward N.H.-Maine/Boston
Partial toll road
56.0 mi
56 mins
...
19.
Take exit 24 A-B-C on the left toward I-93 N/Concord NH/S Station/I-93 S/Quincy 0.4 mi
1 min
20.
Merge onto Atlantic Ave 0.8 mi
3 mins
21.
Turn right at Central St 0.1 mi
22.
Turn right at Long Wharf 0.1 mi
23.
Swim across the Atlantic Ocean 3,462 mi
29 days 0 hours
...
24.
Slight right at E05 0.5 mi
2 mins
25.
At the traffic circle, take the 2nd exit onto E05/Pont Vauban 0.1 mi
26.
Turn right at E05
Partial toll road
17.3 mi
22 mins
...
27.
At the traffic circle, take the 2nd exit onto A131/E05 heading to A131/Rouen/Paris/Evreux
Partial toll road
9.1 mi
8 mins
28.
Take the exit onto A13/E05/L'Autoroute de Normandie
Partial toll road
20.3 mi
17 mins
...
29.
Take the exit onto A13/E05/L'Autoroute de Normandie
Partial toll road
56.5 mi
47 mins
...
30.
Take the exit on the left onto A14 toward Nanterre/La Défense
Partial toll road
12.5 mi
16 mins
...
31.
Slight right at N13 1.4 mi
3 mins
32.
Turn right at Avenue de Neuilly/N13 269 ft
33.
At the traffic circle, take the 4th exit onto Avenue de la Grande Armée 0.7 mi
3 mins
34.
At Place Charles de Gaulle, take the 5th exit onto Avenue des Champs-Elysées 1.3 mi
3 mins
35.
Slight right at Voie Georges Pompidou 1.4 mi
3 mins
36.
Slight left to stay on Voie Georges Pompidou 440 ft
37.
Slight right at Quai de la Mégisserie 377 ft
38.
Continue on Quai de Gesvres 0.2 mi
1 min
39.
Turn left at Place de l'Hôtel de Ville 194 ft
To:
Paris
France
Drive: 695 mi (about 12 hours 28 mins)
40.
Head north on Place de l'Hôtel de Ville toward Avenue Victoria 92 ft
41.
Turn left at Avenue Victoria 0.2 mi
1 min
42.
Turn right at Square de la Tour Saint-Jacques 315 ft
43.
Continue on Boulevard de Sébastopol 0.8 mi
3 mins
44.
Continue on Boulevard de Strasbourg 0.4 mi
1 min
45.
Turn left at Boulevard de Magenta 0.1 mi
46.
Slight right at Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis 0.6 mi
3 mins
47.
Slight left at Boulevard de la Chapelle 85 ft
48.
Continue on Place de la Chapelle 115 ft
49.
Continue on Rue Marx Dormoy 0.4 mi
1 min
50.
Continue on Rue de la Chapelle 0.6 mi
1 min
51.
Continue on Avenue de la Porte de la Chapelle 0.1 mi
1 min
52.
Take the ramp on the left to A1/Saint-Denis/Lille/Bruxelles 0.1 mi
53.
Merge onto E19
Partial toll road
85.0 mi
1 hour 14 mins
...
54.
Continue on A1/E15/L'Autoroute du Nord (signs for Arras/Lille/Calais)
Toll road
20.8 mi
17 mins
...
55.
Take the A26/E17 exit toward Béthune/Calais/Cambrai/Reims
Toll road
1.5 mi
2 mins
56.
Merge onto A26/E15/L'Autoroute des Anglais
Toll road
64.5 mi
52 mins
...
57.
Take the exit toward E15
Toll road
0.1 mi
58.
Keep left at the fork, follow signs for A16/E40/Boulogne/Calais-Ouest
Toll road
0.2 mi
59.
Take exit 18 toward Calais-Est
Partial toll road
0.3 mi
60.
Merge onto E15 14.4 mi
55 mins
...
61.
Continue on Dover - Calais 15.7 mi
47 mins
...
62.
Continue on Eastern Service Rd 0.3 mi
2 mins
63.
Turn right at E Ramp 0.4 mi
2 mins
64.
Slight right at Dock Exit Rd 0.1 mi
65.
At Eastern Docks Roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto A20 0.6 mi
2 mins
66.
Slight left to stay on A20
Go through 3 traffic circles
7.8 mi
10 mins
67.
Continue on M20 (signs for M20/London/Ashford) 49.7 mi
47 mins
...
68.
At junction 1, exit toward C.London/A2 1.3 mi
1 min
69.
Merge onto M25 4.4 mi
4 mins
70.
Continue on A282 (signs for A282/Dagenham/A13/M11/M1)
Partial toll road
3.2 mi
5 mins
71.
Continue on M25 (signs for Watford/Southend/M11/M1/A127) 39.7 mi
38 mins
...
72.
At junction 21, exit onto M1 62.5 mi
1 hour 0 mins
...
73.
At junction 19, exit onto M6 toward Coventry (North)/Birmingham 22.7 mi
22 mins
...
74.
At junction 3a, exit toward B'ham/M42/M5 0.3 mi
75.
Merge onto M6 24.2 mi
23 mins
...
76.
Take the exit onto M6 179 mi
2 hours 54 mins
...
77.
Continue on A74
Entering Scotland
6.3 mi
7 mins
78.
Continue on A74(M) (signs for Glasgow/Edinburgh) 48.6 mi
46 mins
...
79.
Continue on M74 28.7 mi
27 mins
...
80.
At junction 4, exit onto M73 toward Stirling/Glasgow/A80/M8 1.4 mi
1 min
81.
Take the exit onto M8 toward Glasgow 7.1 mi
8 mins
82.
At junction 16, exit toward A81/Aberfoyle 459 ft
83.
Merge onto A879 0.1 mi
84.
Slight right at A804 0.1 mi
1 min
85.
Turn left at Port Dundas Rd 0.3 mi
1 min
86.
Sharp right at Cowcaddens Rd 0.2 mi
2 mins
87.
Turn left at Cambridge St 0.1 mi
88.
Turn left at Renfrew St 0.1 mi
To:
Glasgow
UK
posted by Celtic Gypsy @ 12:46
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posted by Celtic Gypsy @ 11:42
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Thinking of Having KIDS?
Thinking of Having Kids?
Do this 15 step program first!
Lesson 1
1. Go to the grocery store.
2. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office.
3. Go home.
4. Pick up the paper.
5. Read it for the last time.
Lesson 2
Before you finally go ahead and have children, find a couple who already
are parents and berate them about their...
1. Methods of discipline.
2. Lack of patience.
3. Appallingly low tolerance levels.
4. Allowing their children to run wild.
5. Suggest ways in which they might improve their child's
breastfeeding, sleep habits, toilet training, table manners, and overall behavior.
Enjoy it, because it will be the last time in your life you will have all
the answers.
Lesson 3
A really good way to discover how the nights might feel....
1. get home from work and immediately begin walking around the living
room from 5PM to 10PM carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 8-12
pounds, with a radio turned to static (or some other obnoxious sound) playing
loudly. (Eat cold food with one hand for dinner)
2. At 10PM, put the bag gently down, set the alarm for midnight, and
go to sleep.
3. Get up at 12 and walk around the living room again, with the bag,
until 1AM.
4. Set the alarm for 3AM.
5. As you can't get back to sleep, get up at 2AM and make a drink
and watch an infomercial.
6. Go to bed at 2:45AM.
7. Get up at 3AM when the alarm goes off.
8. Sing songs quietly in the dark until 4AM.
9. Get up. Make breakfast. Get ready for work and go to work (work
hard and be productive) Repeat steps 1-9 each night. Keep this up for 3-5 years.
Look cheerful and together.
Lesson 4
Can you stand the mess children make? To find out..
1. Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains.
2. Hide a piece of raw chicken behind the stereo and leave it there
all summer.
3. Stick your fingers in the flower bed.
4. Then rub them on the clean walls.
5. Take your favorite book, photo album, etc. Wreck it.
6. Spill milk on your new pillows. Cover the stains with crayons. How
does that look?
Lesson 5
Dressing small children is not as easy as it seems.
1. Buy an octopus and a small bag made out of loose mesh.
2. Attempt to put the octopus into the bag so that none of the arms
hang out. Time allowed for this - all morning.
Lesson 6
1. Take an egg carton. Using a pair of scissors and a jar of paint,
turn it into an alligator.
2. Now take the tube from a roll of toilet paper. Using only Scotch
tape and a piece of aluminum foil, turn it into an attractive Christmas
candle.
3. Last, take a milk carton, a ping-pong ball, and an empty packet
of Cocoa Puffs. Make an exact replica of the Eiffel Tower.
Lesson 7
Forget the BMW and buy a mini-van.
And don't think that you can leave it out in the driveway spotless and
shining. Family cars don't look like that.
1. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove
compartment. Leave it there.
2. Get a dime. Stick it in the CD player.
3. Take a family size package of chocolate cookies. Mash them
into the back seat. Sprinkle cheerios all over the floor, then smash them
with your foot.
4. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car.
Lesson 8
1. Get ready to go out.
2. Sit on the floor of your bathroom reading picture books for half
an hour.
3. Go out the front door.
4. Come in again. Go out.
5. Come back in.
6. Go out again.
7. Walk down the front path.
8. Walk back up it.
9. Walk down it again.
10. Walk very slowly down the sidewalk for five minutes.
11. Stop, inspect minutely, and ask at least 6 questions about every
cigarette butt, piece of used chewing gum, dirty tissue, and dead insect
along the way.
12. Retrace your steps.
13. Scream that you have had as much as you can stand until the
neighbors come out and stare at you.
14. Give up and go back into the house.
You are now just about ready to try taking a small child for a walk.
Lesson 9
Repeat everything you have learned at least (if not more than) five times.
Lesson 10
Go to the local grocery store. Take with you the closest thing you
can find to a pre-school child. (A full-grown goat is also excellent).
If you intend to have more than one child, then definitely take more
than one goat.
Buy your week's groceries without letting the goats out of your
sight. Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys.
Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate
having children.
Lesson 11
1. Hollow out a melon.
2. Make a small hole in the side.
3. Suspend it from the ceiling and swing it from side to side.
4. Now get a bowl of soggy Cheerios and attempt to spoon them into
the swaying melon by pretending to be an airplane.
5. Continue until half the Cheerios are gone.
6. Tip half into your lap. The other half, just throw up in the
air.
You are now ready to feed a nine- month old baby.
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Lesson 12
Learn the names of every character from Sesame Street, Barney,
Disney, the Teletubbies, and Pokemon. Watch nothing else on TV but PBS, the Disney channel or Noggin for at least five years. (I know, you're thinking What's "Noggin"?) Exactly the point.
Lesson 13
Move to the tropics. Find or make a compost pile. Dig down about halfway
and stick your nose in it. Do this 3-5 times a day for at least two years.
Lesson 14
1. Make a recording of Fran Drescher saying "mommy" repeatedly.
(Important: no more than a four second delay between each "mommy"; occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet is required).
2. Play this tape in your car everywhere you go for the next four years.
3. You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler.
Lesson 15
Start talking to an adult of your choice. Have someone else continually tug on your skirt hem, shirt- sleeve, or elbow while playing the "mommy" tape made from Lesson 14 above. You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a child in the room.
This is all very tongue in cheek, anyone who is parent will say "it's all worth it!" Remember, a sense of humor is one of the most important things you'll need when you become a parent!
posted by Celtic Gypsy @ 10:30
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