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Mzhelen

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About Me

Transplanted to Arizona after 21 years in The Big Apple, then after almost 4 years moved to Tampa to be with my Honey. As much as I adored the life in Arizona, I missed Dave! We live with 2 kitties, both shelter rescues, in a great townhouse and are currently househunting.No kids of my own, but proud "Auntie" to 2 wonderful kids: Julia & Dean. And becoming Aunt to Dave's terrific nieces & nephews.Big music fan. I like just about all genres except was never able to get into real country or classical. Miss the variety of music venues in NYC and all of my musician friends.Die hard Mets fan - have had season tickets for over 20 years, and kept 'em even when I moved away and always go back for opening day.Consider myself an economic moderate and social progressive, altho the Neo-Cons on the far right would call everyone who doesn't agree with their agenda a Liberal (as if that's a bad thing). Proud to be a Democrat, disgusted by the general stupidity of the public in buying Bush & Co's lies,and THRILLED at Obama's victory. That gives me hope again!I've spent my entire working life in advertising, on the marketing side - sort of fell into it right out of grad school and here I am all these years later....and am now moving on to the next phase and going Client side. My agency friends are all calling me a traitor, but I promise NEVER to become one of the clients that used to drive me crazy!

My Interests

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My Blog

Jerry Memorial

I flew up to NYC yesterday for a special "memorial" event. A year ago bass player extraordinaire and friend Jerry Renino passed away. Last night I was privileged to be at a special event to remember...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:14:00 GMT

What I Am Thankful For

I have a lot to be thankful for this year. - A good job at a decent (albeit not NY level) pay with people who I actually like and respect- A roof over my head and tenants in my house in AZ. - A grea...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:10:00 GMT

Great Weekend

Had a wonderful weekend celebrating the anniversary of my 39th birthday. Saturday Dave took me to the Kennedy Space Center on the other coast of Florida. My dad was an electrical engineer working fo...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:55:00 GMT

Immigration "Amnesty"

This is an email I sent to a group of family members after someone forwarded one of those "anti-amnesty" emails. My sister thought I should share it with more people, so here it is.....First of all, ...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:46:00 GMT

I love NY!

Got back late last night from NYC, which is a story in and of itself (thunderstorms, diversion to Orlando, no available re-fuelers, storms arrive in Orlando, re-fuel supervisor dragged from her bed an...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:26:00 GMT

Let's Go Mets!

Heading to NYC tomorrow for opening day at Shea Stadium on Monday. Am excited to be back in the city, and planning on hitting all my favorite restaurants, doing some shopping, and seeing friends. I ...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:49:00 GMT

Settling In

So I'm getting more settled into Tampa. We're still unpacking and trying to get organized, but we're definitely making progress. And we've been trying to set aside time on the weekends to do "normal...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:37:00 GMT

Moving

If I ever suggest moving again, someone PLEASE shoot me!  The movers came yesterday with all my stuff and we feel like we're living in insanity!  First of all, rooms look bigger when they ar...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:04:00 GMT

Ch-ch-ch-changes

So here I am in Tampa.  Moving is a major pain in the ass.  Complicated by getting a wicked stomach bug, which had me flat on my back for 2 days and unable to pack.  I had to break down...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:54:00 GMT

Latest News

So, I'm doing it - I'm moving to Tampa!  The long distance thing has been driving us NUTS, and even though we've seen each other at least 6 times since he moved, we've decided we need to be toget...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:45:00 GMT