I've always liked getting massages. I've had massages since I was in college. My neck would be so strained from studying and stressing about workload and projects. College was nice, but the work was excessive. Since then, I've had massages quite frequently. Sometimes I'd go weekly. Other times years have passed between massage sessions. One great discovery was in-home massage . I love not having to go anywhere. I vacillate between getting upset that i don't leave the house, and getting upset about too much time spent driving. I know; I'm a mess! But in any case, I've always felt slightly awkward going to the day spa.  Just something weird about waiting around for my massage. Definitely not a place where I want to talk to others. Kind of like a doctor's office waiting room.  It would be weird to stat off saying, "So...why are you here today?" Too much information! So in-home massage did it for me. Not to mention I'm always trying to avoid wa...

I am going to ask you point blank. Did you ever notice that in Northern New Jersey, no one knows how to drive? The leftmost lane is the passing lane.  That means that's the lane you use to pass other vehicles. But what do drivers with NJ plates do? They idle along slowly in the passing lane. I can see if it's New Yorkers or Pennsylvanians doing it. But no. It's our neighbors. The people from the towns and cities dotting the Northern New Jersey mountainous landscape. I find this frustrating. Not that I want to speed, but some of these drivers aren't even going the speed limit! What can I do? I guess that's what the horn is for. Sorry for the rant. I just had to get this out of my system.

I am a woman who was born and raised in Northern New Jersey. My family is originally from Brooklyn, New York. We moved to New Jersey long before I was born. The reason my family moved was because New York City had went bankrupt and crime was everywhere. After my seventy year-old aunt was mugged on her own street, my entire family moved out to Jersey. They purchased three houses, all on the same street. They kept their houses in Brooklyn and rented them out. Who would have thought that the houses, six in all, would total a cool 13 million now? My siblings and cousins and I all have a trust and we can't see, but why would we? The rent we get every month pays all my bills. I only have one cousin who complains about money, but it's more because she likes 10,000 dollar vacations four times a year. This blog may be boring for some, but it's about my life. Is my life so exciting that someone is going to make a movie about it? Probably not. But I'm sure someone out there will f...