January 2009
There’s just no way I am making it until midnight. Sorry.
Grrrrr
Haven’t made fondue in awhile. Realized I forgot the fuel for the sterno. Zabar’s is open until 9:00, but I think we’ll just try to eat it really fast.
December 2008
Brrrrrr!
I have windburn from walking the dog! It looks like I have been skiing all day. It’s crazy cold out there. (“feels like” temp is 9 degrees.) So glad we don’t have plans. We did get a last minute invite for early drinks; fortunately, it’s at our next door neighbor’s, so we don’t have to leave the building. There were plans to go to the park and watch...
-Buy new skirt- check
-Leave work early- check
-Purchase champagne- check
-Get kick-ass chair massage at new spa- CHECK!
I am now officially ready to face 2009.
Why am I at work? Oh yeah… because I’m going to run out of vacation days soon and I can’t squander them. Perhaps a little shopping excursion is in order to break up the monotony.
El Paso— Marty Robbins
The ultimate country...
New Year's Eve Menu
fondue
champagne
This reminds me of the Y2Fondue party Grace and I threw in 1999. I still think about that band at the Clermont. It was a really good night…and the last time I went out in public on NYE.
God Only Knows (Beach Boys Cover) —Giant...
Head song: That “Defying Gravity” number from Wicked.
Of course...
there are jasmine rice candles. Thanks internet. I hope they smell like the real thing.
Super cute food blog! →
everybody likes sandwiches
The apartment smells like jasmine rice. That should be a candle scent. Yum!
Lay Me Back Down—Portugal. The Man
California Dreamin‘— The Mamas and the...
I am filling out the form for our 2009 CSA. Not only am I excited about the eventual produce— I really, really love filling out forms.
So Nice (Summer Samba)— Astrud Gilberto
Not...
Jazz Sundays™
What Are You Doing New...
marjoree:
“Avalon,” Roxy Music
The Forest (Cure cover) — Bat for Lashes
Panic (Smiths Cover)— Spoon
Check out...
Dinner at Celeste last night. The food is decent and you can’t beat the prices, but the bathroom is worse than a truck stop. Seriously disgusting. It almost makes me not want to eat there.
For the first time in weeks the apartment is not over-heated. I am so relieved. I have seriously been having a hot fit at least once a day.
Reason number 670 why I love New York
A man is walking down our street playing guitar and singing Feliz Navidad very loudly.
Boxing Day is also for napping
Boxing Day Is for Giving →
“It is on Boxing Day, after all, on the “feast of Stephen,” that “Good King Wenceslas” looked out and saw the snow, “deep and crisp and even.” The cold was notable not for its beauty, but for the hunger that it brought with it. The king calls for food, wine and “pine logs” not for his own feast, but that he and his page may “bear them thither” to give to the poor.”
NYT
Classic
I have a long history of such things, but suffice to say, I was cleaning the kitchen and realized we forgot to eat the appetizer. My Crab Louis is hanging out in the fridge, feeling very neglected.
She's bats, but I'm kinda in love with Courtney →
Review from the Eartha Kitt show last fall →
It was perfect, and my introduction to the Cafe Carlyle. I cried the whole time.
Just got in on the very end of the countdown....
Tragedy! I burned my wrist in the exact spot it hits the edge of the computer while I am typing.
I Want to be Evil— Eartha Kitt