Okay, I know that it's really bad to go to a psychic... but we had one here at XS all day long. I don't believe in any of that kind of stuff (Tarot Cards, etc.), so I thought it would be interesting to see what she would say. It was actually pretty accurate... which was a little disconcerting. The lady was a complete nut job with sparkly clothes and everything. After picking a few cards from random decks, she started talking nonstop. At that point, the Salon Coordinator interrupted us to tell the psychic that her next client was here. I had only been with her for less than 2 minutes... and I really wanted to know what she was going to say! Everyone else I work with had seen her and told me all about what she told them. One girl even told me the psychic told her that she would meet a man within 30 to 60 days that would "knock her socks off"! I wanted to hear that kind of thing too, dang it. So, I decided to wait until she was finished with all of her clients to sneak in there and try to get her to finish what she started with me. I waited for a while, and decided to let the massage therapist go ahead instead of me (by this time it was 4:30, and the psychic takes 30 minutes for a reading... and she was leaving at 5). I was pretty proud of myself. The psychic told the massage therapist that she would have a great job opportunity in 2 to 3 weeks... we'll see how that pans out! I guess I'll never know what's in the cards for me...
Meanwhile, one of the psychics had a girl come along with her. She was applying makeup to herself from our makeup display, and my job was to get her to stop! I asked her if I could do her makeup, and she nodded and gave me a dreamy smile with vacant eyes. She was definitely a free spirit. She would barely talk, she just pointed and did her own sign language (like pretending she was putting mascara on, and lipstick). I would tell her to close her eyes, and she would lean her head back like she was falling asleep, or like she was being hypnotized. When I was applying her eye shadow, she wouldn't close her eyes... but she did cross them! WEIRD! She was even breathing heavily! When I was done, I said she looked like she was ready for a hot date. She said, "What's that?" I explained to her that she looked pretty enough to go out with a boy to the movies or something! Then she said, "Can I have a hug?" So I hugged her, and she held me for a while with her head on my shoulder. It was definitely strange, to say the least!
It was neat to see Central Park. I've seen tons of movies and read lots of books with Central Park in them... but seeing it personally was really cool. I didn't realize how BIG it is. We saw less that 1/2 of it, I think. It was really pretty; Green grass and trees and pretty flowers. An oasis in the heart of the city. It was cool to see out the airplane window... a huge rectangle of green smack dab in the middle of a sea of gray. I think if I lived in NYC I would jog there, and take a lot of walks too. We might have been there when Brad and Angelina took their kids to Central Park to ride on the famous carousel.
Cameron and Jenny look like they have been superimposed in that picture, huh?
This bridge has been in a couple of movies. It's been in Uptown Girls and Keeping the Faith... I think.
We took a ride on the "Handsome Cab". It was pretty hot and humid that day, so the horses really smelled horrid! Too bad I could smell that day! Our Cabbie was Irish... I liked his accent. He was kind of rude though.
