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December 31, 2007

About This Editor: Karen has enjoyed her many varied experiences in corporate business management, dance education, and preschool assistance. She hopes to write about these past lives-and more-from her home in Pittsburgh, PA, where she lives with her husband, daughter, and 3 cats.

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It doesn’t seem that long ago that I wrote “New Year’s Eve Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be” and here it’s that time once again. This year it seems to have arrived even sooner since I was away for a few days and I’m just now getting back into the swing of real life.

Well, my holiday trip to New York was fabulous, just as I’d hoped, and my planning paid off; my daughter and I were busy but not stressed, amused but not overwhelmed, and didn’t need to retrace our steps but one time, due to long lines at the Empire State Building. We enjoyed the Rockefeller Ice Rink, Metropolitan Museum, Chinatown, Greenwich Village, International Center for Photography, the NY Public Library, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, the Laser Show/Fair at Grand Central, and the UN-the morning after the news about Pakistan. (The special meeting resulted in a slight change in our tour.) Along with about 8 subway rides and good food, we felt like regulars. One of the special highlights was the “meet and greet” we had with my associate here at ARS Compendium, Neil Levine. Let me just say that having Christmas dinner in Jekyll and Hyde’s (a somewhat scary/haunted house themed restaurant) was not the least bit strange-who says Halloween needs to be celebrated only in October?

Another great experience was seeing The Blue Man Group; I’ve heard about them for years but wasn’t that interested until just recently. No wonder they are now in 60 cities across the world; it’s entertainment that defies description. I loved every moment, and my daughter, 3 rows ahead of me in a first row seat, fell in love with everything about it. She said she’d work there cleaning up the theatre, it that gives you an idea how impressed she was.

Perhaps in the next few weeks I’ll focus on specifics, but tonight I just wanted to let you all know I made it back safely, albeit waking up with the flu yesterday. Needless to say, I’ve been under the weather, but I’m feeling more normal now, and raring to go in the new year.

Tonight I’ll be staying in, and tomorrow having our traditional good luck dinner of pork, sauerkraut and pretzel bread. Last year we skipped the pretzel bread and my dad ended up in the hospital 3 times, so this year I’m not taking any chances!

So, my interested readers, I wish you all a fond Happy New Year’s, and may we all have a little more peace, happiness and health in our lives in 2008.

P.S.-By the way, the winner of my Christmas dessert poll turned out to be chocolate chip cookies!