Andrea Gabriel New Blog Post

Time for a Blog-ette...

December 4th, 2011
Hello my beautiful bloggies! Ok… So a long overdue blog. This is going to be a miniblog—just a little note to keep posted. Sorry it’s been so long! Since I last wrote we had Halloween, Breaking Dawn Part 1 premiered and I got to see my vampire friends again (which was sooo great!! I missed them), and then I was in New York City for Thanksgiving to see my lovely family…

I adore LA. The pace, sunshine, driving, the beach, and the llifestyle (oh and did I mention the weather?)… And I am so grateful for the friendshipsI have cultivated here…. But New York is part of my DNA. It’s so funny how the second I land in that city and step out onto the streets time folds in on itself and I adapt to the rhythm like a fish thrown back back in the water.. I usually stay at the Hilton on 6th avenue, which happens to be blocks from where I grew up, so the illusion of time travel is multiplied. Those few blocks from my house to the entrance of Central Park South used to be a regular pilgrimage for me, andI would regularly escape the cement and the crowds and hold my breath until I walked into the sanctuary of green and relatively open skies. Central Park is probably my favorite place in the city. I would take my walkman (yes, at that time, there were no ipods—dang I feel old) and swing on the “big kid” swings facing the Essex House sign. They were the kind of swings that are made of rubber seats and metal chain so you can swing ridiculously high… I’m sorry I didn’t get a chance to do that this time. But I did get a chance to ride on the carousel. That thing hasn’t changed AT ALL since I was a child, and that is extraordinary. The same music, the same décor—I swear if that thing went backwards one probably could time travel! I took some weird and random pictures on it… I’m sure everyone thought the fact that an adult woman was riding the carousel by herself taking pictures was a little weird… But then again, I kind of am. And I’m really short, so hopefully from far away they thought I was a tween on a horse.

I know… This is a short one—hardly a blog. More like a blogette. but it’s late and I don’t want my typing to wake Leo. I will update more soon! In the meantime, have a great Sunday and stay tuned.

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