Leslie Marie Collins

This is my new blog about me and my brain.  Ya know, what I think about as I commute back and forth into the city every day on my Buddy 125 from Queens.  When you don’t have any music to listen to, the brain storms and what you get is crazy stories and observations of the world.  

Today was about happiness.  I berp-sneezed after eating dinner on the couch this evening.  I laughed at myself and then thought, “I wonder if my roommate and his girlfriend heard that from the other room because I don’t know if I should pass it off as a loud weird beep or screwed up sneeze?”  I happened to be watching an old episode of Benson on Antenna TV at the time (which is a channel that just shows old sitcoms to the people of the world that decided to give up cable 2 years ago and only have 5 channels now).  This episode was a serious one.  One of the characters was dying and on her deathbed. Robert Guillaume was comforting her as she died.  Before she passed out and the heart monitor beeped, she said… “All you have is happiness.”  Meaning, that’s all you can take with you to the grave.  I don’t know if that’s true, but I like the idea of dying and living an entire life of being happy.  I like that.  Happiness is success.   

Other happy things that happened to me today…

1) It was perfect riding weather on my scooter.

2) I put one ear plug in while driving in and heard “Renegade” by Styx.  It made my commute into the city feel a little bit more bad ass today.

3) I went to the Campbell Apartment at Grand Central and had a girly cocktail and talked to an Italian man named Guido.

4) I put on my roller blades and let Hugo pull me around the neighborhood.  I’m not so good at stopping, so every time he wanted to pee on a tree I nearly fell down.  I didn’t though.  He loved the exercise!