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March 19, 2009
You're a Tomato New Yorker if... and other things that make us happy
The Three Tomatoes have decreed that every Thursday will be a "Happy Thursday". So starting today, and every other Thursday when you open your email, we will try to bring a little smile to your face. Which is what we actually try to do every week, but we thought, why not kick it up a notch and start Happy Thursdays?
 We were inspired by Rev. Laurie Sue's article this week, Burst out in Laughter, an excerpt form her new book The Goddess Pages: A Divine Guide to Finding Love and Happiness. She has some great tips for putting a smile on your face. And let's face it, these days we could all use a giant dose of laughter and smiles. So read on for our Guide to Happy Thursdays, plus on the still lighter side, our little guide to "You know you're a Tomato New Yorker if..."
The 3T Guide to Happy Thursdays We will smile at everyone we meet. Yes, we know that is a very un-New York thing, but we're actually going to smile at strangers on elevators and the checkout gals at D'Agastinos and Duane Reade even if they don't look up. (We do draw the line however at "Have a nice day" and we are not putting :) faces on everything either. And hey, we're only doing this on Thursdays.)
We will also smile at the "witch" who blithely steps in front us to grab the cab we've been waiting for the last 15 minutes and yell out to her "Karma" in the sweetest way of course.
We will wait patiently everywhere without tapping our heals and muttering bad things under our breaths even if we've been standing there for an entire New York minute.
We will offer to take photos of tourists instead of grumbling about the fact that they are clogging our streets. Hey, they're spending a little money here; we should at least be nice.
We will not answer phone calls from negative people.
We will not respond to emails that have annoyed us until Friday. And by then maybe they won't be so annoying. In fact, we might try to go an entire afternoon without checking our emails at all!
We will forego black for one day and wear a silly happy color, like pink.
We will take a walk anywhere in NYC just for the heck of it, and actually look around and admire the architecture, the vibe, the scene. We will be part of the scene because we are wearing pink.
We will give a homeless person some money. Who are we to judge what they'll use it for? Not to mention, it could be us.
We will try to remember that 95% of the things we worry about never happen and are usually things we have no control over anyway.
We will make ourselves one perfect dry, dirty martini at the end of the day. (Okay, maybe 2.)
We will make someone else laugh, with a silly joke, like "How do you fix a broken tomato?" Answer: "With tomato paste of course."
You know you're a Tomato New Yorker if...
 You use the term "oy vey" to express a vexing moment while in the presence of your Southern Baptist relatives and they respond "what did y'all just say?"
You know what "mensch" means, and that falafel and uni refer to food, and you know that most words ending in "er" should be pronounced with a long "a', like in Motha and Fatha.
You've been to Brooklyn, "da" Bronx, and Queens (on the way to the airport does not count.) And you've been on the Staten Island Ferry.
You have a 10 minute conversation with your newspaper stand guy on the stimulus package and his plan actually makes sense.
You and your cabbie discuss the pros and cons of closing parts of Broadway while Verdi is playing on his CD.
You say yes, yes, yes to your manicurist even though you have no idea what she just said, because you're so happy you can get a $10 manicure in NYC. (See the hysterical video we've posted at 3T.TV.)
You can actually find the South East corner of most streets in NYC.
You live in a great little neighborhood that consists of 3 or 4 blocks and has your favorite Chinese, Italian, Turkish, Indian and Japanese restaurants, dry cleaner, deli, bagel place, mani/pedi salon, and local pub.
You bitch and moan so often at times about living here, that you sometimes forget there's actually no place else you'd rather be.
Here's to Happy Thursdays in and out of New York City and tomatoes everywhere.
'til next week,
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New at our web site this week.
Tomatoes review new hair color products from Clairol. Who says you can't do it yourself? Single Tomatoes: The Love Coach, Robin Gorman Newman tells single tomatoes "How to Meet a Mensch.
New and very funny videos at 3T.TV. that will make you smile.
Spring Sample Sales posted at 3T Shopping.
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Last Week's Poll...Most tomatoes are not giving up their salon services for DIY. A tomato's got to do what a tomato's got to do.
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