Ms. Cranky, AN APOLOGY

 I’LL BE BACK TOMORROW AND THANKS FOR STOPPING BY

So, so, sorry but Ms. Cranky has been away for a week on a wonderful adventure.  She will post more tomorrow. Cranky is sorry if you felt deserted or that she had leapt into the river or something.  Oh, no, never --- we have to fight a bit hard to get to the life we want but eat a protein bar or whatever and just keep fighting or ‘keep trucking’ as they once said, which Ms. Cranky never understood but pretended to be ‘cool’ and with it so she never asked?!

Anyway, Ms. Cranky background --- after years of threatening to jump the Brooklyn Bridge, one year walked across it with her guests from England and found that there would be no dramatic plunge into the river from that wonderful bridge, but, that if she jumped, she would land on a Toyota or a Prius or something --- a very unromantic way to go.  So, it was better to stay in the 'fray' and, if you can’t figure it out, just enjoy the parts that work.

More tomorrow about Cranky’s time away in the brilliant Adirondack Mountains at a Writers’ Retreat. Ms. Cranky had a fabulous time as always, had a brief ‘love affair’ with a totally unfaithful chipmunk, and just came from the doctor’s office as her whole body is covered in bug bites.  But, it’s nice to know someone or some species loves you!   But, still, the Adirondack week is the highlight of Ms. Cranky’s year and some years the bugs behave better! 

And, soon, Ms. Cranky will be back to writing about urban life.  When she got off the train in Penn Station only a few nights ago, it was like Ms. Cranky went away for but a week and while she was away everyone really practiced how to act their worst --- is that possible?  Maybe Cranky is still clinging to her woodsy ‘ohm, ohm, thing’ --- you know what I mean?  Except for the guy by the subway turnstiles (a true ‘hunkaroonee’) who helped her get her bags through.  Ouii.  And, where did he disappear to???

Ms. Cranky thanks you for stopping by or just peeking in.  She prays that today someone was wonderful to you --- a shopkeeper smiled or a stranger on the street.  When Cranky went to get her myriad of bug bites cheeked at her HMO, the assistant was so nice, she almost cried. It seemed the assistant really cared and she smiled and was lovely --- how hard is that to do?  

And, you know, Cranky needs to get the assistant’s name and write one of those commendation cards.  It’s important to do.  People should be rewarded for their good and kind work and, maybe, in time, it could become a habit --- how fabulous would that be???

 79 degrees tomorrow or, so, ‘they’ say --- is that even possible? Cranky has a list of work projects if it’s true.  More tomorrow.

And, thanks again for stopping by.  You rock, you.

Ms. Cranky, August 2, 2011