January 15, 2010 - January 17, 2010
I wake up Friday and decide it's time to re-organize my apartment. This feeling doesn't come by very often, so when it does, I jump on it! My apartment is so organized, I'm insanely impressed with myself. Everything is in bins and bags, labeled, and put away nicely! I'm so proud of my OCD with organization! Since I don't have cable, TBS is my best friend today! I catch up on the shows The King of Queens (my favorite), Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends, Seinfeild, and the Fresh Prince of Bel Air! It's fantastic! I made it a completely indiot-filled television day!
I meet a friend to see the movie, "It's Complicated." So cute! It's hysterical! I really enjoyed it! And there are so many cute movies coming out- "The Bounty Hunter," "Dear John," "Valentine's Day," "Spartacus," etc. Awesome flicks! On my way to the theatre, I head to Duane Reade to pick up some candy and a Diet Coke--I refuse to pay $10 for a bag of candy! On the way, I walk by two guys, and one says, "Dannnnnggggg giiiirrrlllll...you look like ketchup!" Excuse me...what?! Ketchup?!? Really? What the heck does this mean?? Another guy I used to work with says, "At least he didn't say you look like pickle relish!" LOL! He makes a good point! ;) I tell ya', I've heard some pretty good pick up lines in my day, but this has to be towards the top! Ketchup! Yum! Maybe it means I look tasty! Ohh la la! Hehe, gross!
After the movie we head to The Snug for Happy Hour! Yes, their Happy Hour is from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m.! It's awesome! Four bucks for a martini! It's a hole in the wall place, but it's so much fun! We then venture to a cheap pizza place, where I get what New Yorkers like to call, "white pie." It's loaded with three different kinds of cheeses. Sounds amazing? It is. However, I often forget that I am lactose intolerant, so it makes me a little sick. Yeah, yeah...lactose intolerant is funny, I know. But it's no fun, let me tell ya'!
We then head to Latitude--it's a bar in Hell's Kitchen, where we meet up with friends from Planet Hollywood! It's so great to see everyone! Once we realize it's 4 a.m., we all head home. I'm walking home with three other guys from work, and once they realize that I'm the only female walking down the streets, they decide it's not a good idea I walk home alone. Especially since I'm with three other guys, and other men are still cat-calling me, saying things like, "Hey baby, everything will be okay." No, it's not going to be okay! I want to wake up and see tomorrow! So, one walks me home! So nice of him!
Once I get in my building, guess who's working? The doorman I asked on a date the Friday before that. We don't mention it. But I do talk to him for about twenty minutes! He 's a chef! He just works here temporarily! How cool is that?!?! A man that can cook? Sign me up! Good-looking = check! Good cook = check! Good personality = check! I've got all of the necessary qualities covered! ;) Another guy walks in and starts talking to the doorman. (I keep calling him doorman because I honestly don't know his name. I know that's bad! I'm awful with names!) Anyways, I say goodnight and the one guys says, "Oh I'm sorry, keep talking. I'm going to bed." I say, "Oh it's okay!" He says something and I respond with, "Oh, well are you going to go to bed?" (as I motion my arms to the elevator). He says, laughing, "Well, sure, if I'm going with you!" Yikes! That's not what I meant! He looks like a black Krusty the Klown from the Simpsons!
So, at 5 a.m., I finally get to bed. Not with Krusty! I wake up on Saturday and head to IKEA! I love that place! It's probably the best home furnishings store ever invented! And it's in Brooklyn. It's my first time going by myself there! I love it! It's so homey! I could live in Brooklyn! I get to IKEA and just have a hay day! I'm buying things for my best friends wedding shower in March! She's from Des Moines and since we don't have IKEA there, I decide to get her a few things. As I'm walking around, they have the neatest little trinkets! I realize that I'm talking out loud to myself as I'm looking at things. "What the heck is this?" "What do you think you use this for?" "This is cool!" Yeah, I wondered why people were staring at me. ;) So, I come across this trinket called a "skimmer." It looks cool and it's on sale for 99 cents! So, I buy a couple! I figure I can use it sometime while I pretend I'm Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee! ;) Another thing I'm fascinated with...mini-stainless steel bowls! Only two inches tall! How funny is that?!
I realized while I'm on the subway, how much it reminds me of the ride Space Mountain at Disney World! You know on Space Mountain, how it's dark, makes funny noises, and you're constantly ducking for fear your head might get chopped off? The subway is somewhat similar. You go through dark tunnels, the lights randomly turn on and off while you're riding, and you're somewhat nervous you may die!
While sitting on the subway, there is a really cute Englishman. I know, me and Englishman...it's meant to be! He's tall, slender, blonde, wearing glasses, with jeans, a button down shirt, blazer, and Converse. I know what you're thinking...he sounds gay. My luck...he probably is! I do tend to attract the men that are sexually confused--hence, a guy I once dated in Chicago, who turned out to be gay. But that's a whole other story! I keep checking him out and think I'm being conspicuous because he hasn't noticed yet. Another gentlemen, sitting close to this guy keeps looking at me. I keep thinking, why is this old man staring at me? I will tell you. The guy I keep checking out...turns out to be his son! After the blonde, British babe, says something along the lines of, Dad, we're getting off at the next stop, I sink into the bench and want to die! I just got caught on dad-radar, checking out your rather attractive offspring!
Sunday, it rains all day and the wind is ferociously blowing. I get a really nice umbrella for Christmas--it's a necessity in this city. I laugh to myself, at other people, who are carrying cheap umbrellas, like I used to. I'm thinking, haha suckers! Wish you had one of my umbrellas! Well...karma sucks! As I'm walking home from work, I'm talking on the phone and a HUGE gust of wind comes, turning my umbrella inside out, and pulling me down the sidewalk! I'm saying, "Oh my God! Oh my God, Maddie! My umbrella is out of control!" People are laughing at me as I'm trying to get this monstrosity of an umbrella turned right side out! I continue to walk home, and am now talking to my mother. Again, the umbrella pulls it's rather un-humorous stunt. I just close the umbrella and walk home in the rain! I'm not even dealing with the thing anymore. I can't see walking down the street because my glasses are covered with water drops--I need windshield wipers for them, my hair is wet, and my clothes are soaked. Whatever!
Note to self: Don't back down against other city-goers who are vicious with their umbrellas! Why do you have to be the one to always move? Stand your ground! Even though you poke pretty much every person that walks by you with your huge ran catcher, don't feel bad! They deserve the love tap...it's your kind, Midwestern way of saying, Move it or lose it jack-o!
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Sunday, January 17, 2010
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Day 41
October 17, 2009
Today is quite a busy day for David Yurman jewelry. Although I am constantly busy, the day seems to go by surprisingly slow. These ten hour days of standing and working are getting to me! But I'm not complaining. It is better than Planet Hollywood, selling VISA cards! =)
After work, I'm meeting O'Anna out in Alphabet City. It's a part of the city near the village. I've heard before it's not that safe, so I'm a little leery about going. But, whatever, it will be fine! My only concern is riding the subway late at night, going home, when I'm not that sure where I'm going. Before I meet her out, I have a little time, so I go to a place called The Container Store. This place is amazing! I know I sound like a married, old woman, but this place has anything and everything you can imagine, dealing with storage solutions. All of the shelving is on sale, but you will be proud because I bought nothing! Shocking, I know! I never pass up a good deal, but it's either shelving, or food right now. I need my nutrients! ;)
So, I get to Alphabet City successfully, to a place called Superdive. Despite it's name, it's rather nice. Minues the bathroom that looks and smells like a porta-potty! We get bored there, so we head next door to a hookah bar called Habibi Lounge. Perfect name for a place like this! I have never done hookah before, and I usually try anything once (depending on what it is), so I say why not? It is such a cool place! It's very darkly lit, red walls, black couches and leather stools that sit only a few feet from the ground; loud music and sweet aromas fill the air. Very cozy!
We order the mango hookah, for only five bucks! She comes out with this contraption that looks like a wizard machine, with a magic stick! It's pretty fun. Nothing too exciting because all you do is sit and hand off the magic/clarinet looking stick and take puffs off of it. I'm not a fan of the mango flavor, but the apple martini was rather delicious! ;) O'Anna laughs at me because I ask if they have "Starter Kits" for people like me. She looks at me, like I'm a retard, and simply says, "No. They don't have starter kits."
We call it an early night because I have to work tomorrow, so we head home. But first, we go to a place called Ray's Pizza. Apparently, it's suppose to be one of the best places. I like my 99 cent pizza by my house better than this $2.35 pizza! On a Saturday night, you would think the subway will be alive and full of crazy people. Nope. Not tonight. All I get is a man singing with a guitar (typical), a girl named Fanelle jamming on her iPod--the only reason I know her name is because her earrings tell me so; and a chubby man getting stuck in the subway doors. That was funny! I look over and he is literally wedged in between the doors that are not opening up! Poor guy!
Note to self: ALWAYS make sure you have cash on you. In a city where you think modern technology would kick in, and the use of credit/debit cards would be prevalent, is not so true. I have never been to so many places where they take cash only! It's insane and rather annoying. For one who hates to carry cash, I guess I will have to change my ways and always make sure there's a twenty in the wallet for those quick little in-and-outs I have to do.
Today is quite a busy day for David Yurman jewelry. Although I am constantly busy, the day seems to go by surprisingly slow. These ten hour days of standing and working are getting to me! But I'm not complaining. It is better than Planet Hollywood, selling VISA cards! =)
After work, I'm meeting O'Anna out in Alphabet City. It's a part of the city near the village. I've heard before it's not that safe, so I'm a little leery about going. But, whatever, it will be fine! My only concern is riding the subway late at night, going home, when I'm not that sure where I'm going. Before I meet her out, I have a little time, so I go to a place called The Container Store. This place is amazing! I know I sound like a married, old woman, but this place has anything and everything you can imagine, dealing with storage solutions. All of the shelving is on sale, but you will be proud because I bought nothing! Shocking, I know! I never pass up a good deal, but it's either shelving, or food right now. I need my nutrients! ;)
So, I get to Alphabet City successfully, to a place called Superdive. Despite it's name, it's rather nice. Minues the bathroom that looks and smells like a porta-potty! We get bored there, so we head next door to a hookah bar called Habibi Lounge. Perfect name for a place like this! I have never done hookah before, and I usually try anything once (depending on what it is), so I say why not? It is such a cool place! It's very darkly lit, red walls, black couches and leather stools that sit only a few feet from the ground; loud music and sweet aromas fill the air. Very cozy!
We order the mango hookah, for only five bucks! She comes out with this contraption that looks like a wizard machine, with a magic stick! It's pretty fun. Nothing too exciting because all you do is sit and hand off the magic/clarinet looking stick and take puffs off of it. I'm not a fan of the mango flavor, but the apple martini was rather delicious! ;) O'Anna laughs at me because I ask if they have "Starter Kits" for people like me. She looks at me, like I'm a retard, and simply says, "No. They don't have starter kits."
We call it an early night because I have to work tomorrow, so we head home. But first, we go to a place called Ray's Pizza. Apparently, it's suppose to be one of the best places. I like my 99 cent pizza by my house better than this $2.35 pizza! On a Saturday night, you would think the subway will be alive and full of crazy people. Nope. Not tonight. All I get is a man singing with a guitar (typical), a girl named Fanelle jamming on her iPod--the only reason I know her name is because her earrings tell me so; and a chubby man getting stuck in the subway doors. That was funny! I look over and he is literally wedged in between the doors that are not opening up! Poor guy!
Note to self: ALWAYS make sure you have cash on you. In a city where you think modern technology would kick in, and the use of credit/debit cards would be prevalent, is not so true. I have never been to so many places where they take cash only! It's insane and rather annoying. For one who hates to carry cash, I guess I will have to change my ways and always make sure there's a twenty in the wallet for those quick little in-and-outs I have to do.