I'm sorry LA, but I just have to rub this in your mother fucking faces: BOSTON WHOOPED YOUR ASS EVEN THOUGH YOU WERE LEADING 24 FUCKING POINTS!!!! TAKE THAT SUCKERS!!!!!!! YOU'RE GOING DOWN LIKE DOWNTOWN!!!
Ok now that that's over with...
So I'm in New York right now. I really love this city. I am going to try my best to convince Stephen to move here after we get married next year. Here's a brief recap of what we've been doing so far:
Tuesday: Arrived in NY at around 3:15pm. Lots of turbulence when we flew over Iowa and Chicago, but I guess I'm getting used to it because I didn't really freak out. Plus I had taken my medication so that might have been it. Linda picks us up at the airport and we're straight up lugging our luggage around the city. Linda warned me that it was super hot but I didn't believe her because the last time I was in NY, she said it was super cold so I brought all these winter clothes and we get here and it's freakin hot. So I pack semi-hot clothes, but a lot of jeans and pants, and even sweaters. We get off the subway... holy mother. It's like the Philippines. Hot, humid, sticky - the kind where you just stand there and start sweating. Oh my lord. To make things worse, we're lugging the luggage around to her apt. in Brooklyn, which is NOT close to the airport at all. We get to her apt. which she says is on the 2nd floor. I should've known. 2nd floor meant 3rd floor. We get to her apt and I'm drenched in sweat. Ugh. Way too hot. I'm pretty tired so we decide to take a stroll to Williamsburg and get some yummy Brooklyn pizza. After that we go home and Stephen and I pass out. (our flight left at 7:15am that morning and we woke up at 4:30am to be at the airport on time) I wake up about an hour later pumped to go out, when I feel something in my leg that felt like it needed stretching. I stretch out my leg. Wrong move. Holy mother what the fuck is that. I feel this incredible pain in my leg. I freakin pulled my muscle. I sat there freaking out thinking I was going to have to go to the emergency it hurt that bad. Then I gripped my calf muscle and found that it had moved to my lower leg!!!! OMG!!!! So I yelled for Linda to help me and she gets me ice and luckily, that helped numb the pain. So I guess I wasn't used to all the walking. I must be that out of shape. So this entire time in NY, I've been limping like a dumb ass. It's especially difficult when I go down the subway stairs. I've never pulled a muscle before so wow, I didn't think it hurt that bad!!!! Anyway, so we get hungry again and Linda and I get some sushi down the street while Stephen remains passed out.
Wednesday: We start off the day by going to the end of the universe because Stephen has this urge to see Ground Zero. I am completely opposed because I have no interest in seeing rubbish and then getting depressed about the whole ordeal. But we go. Despite the humidity and heat. We get there and all you see is construction. So lame. After that we get lunch at Balthazar in Soho, this yummy French restaurant. Then we go "shopping" in Soho. (Stan you would love Soho). Shopping in quotes because Linda talked me out of everything I was attempting to buy. But it was a good thing bc the only thing I really liked were these to die for shoes at Steven by Steve Madden which everyone agreed were cute but too expensive, and as soon as I left the store I was pretty much over it. So after Soho, (I don't end up buying one thing!) we head to Chinatown to search for fake purses. It was sooo freakin funny bc it's all hush hush now. When we were walking, vendors would straight up ask us if we wanted fake Chanels and Guccis and when we'd say yes, they'd say ok, come here to the back... They take us to what looks like a normal wall and then bam! The wall turns out to be a door and inside are a bunch of fake purses!!! Hahaha. I end up buying this cute Fendi purse. It was so funny bc I ask the girl how much, and she's like, $38. A few minutes go buy and I tell Linda to try to bargain so she asks that girl's coworker how much and the girl says $28. We're like what?!?!? Didn't the other girl just say $38?!?! So Linda gets it down to 25 and it's a deal. After walking into several more undercover rooms with fake purses, we head over to Times Square and take pictures. We chill at a coffee shop and go to the MTV store where I buy a cute mug for work. Finally, we end the night in East Village at this yummy Thai restaurant called Sea. One of the best curries I've ever had. We go home and pretty much pass out.
Thursday (today): Linda had to go to work for a few hours so me and Stephen met up with her after she was done. We went to Whole Foods to grab some lunch and then sat on the grass in Central Park with our food. I loved it so much. We baby watched and dog watched. There was this cute puggle walking with its owner and I say outloud to Linda and Stephen, OMG that dog is so cute I want to steal it!!!! The owner overhears me and gives me this dirty look haha. I yell to him that I was just kidding and didn't really mean it. Hahaha. After the park, we head over to this cookie place that Linda insists is to die for. We get the cookie and then go to this cupcake place. We chill there for a while bc my leg is just killing me. After that, we do some more shopping, then Linda drags us to her school to pick up something that wasn't even there so she made me hurt my leg for nothing. Thanks Linda! After this we head back to Chinatown to meet up with Linda's roommate Sean and her friend Jillian for dinner at this Chinese restaurant called Joe Shanghai's. Linda claims it is to die for. We get there and she orders these weird dumplings that have soup in them. You aren't supposed to just bite into them, you have to suck out the soup first. So weird. Anyway, long story short, no one ends up liking these "to die for" dumplings except me. Hahaha. But the rest of the food was pretty darn good and that's hard for me to say because I hate Chinese food. After dinner we go to Irish Whiskey bar and for a drink and end up getting to catch the end of the game. Damn that game made my night. I'm still smiling about their comeback. Now we're back home and my feet are hella black from the dirty NY streets.
Tomorrow we're going to have lunch with Sean, as in THE SEAN, as in, damn I finally get to meet him. I can't wait!
Ok so I'm straight up hogging Linda's mac so good night and peace out for now. More NY adventures to come...
1 comment:
The past couple of days have been surreal with Jaclyn and Stephen in town. Its like having a piece of home stop by, which is always a great feeling when you are so far away.
So girlfriend has grown some boobs since I last seen her, however, she is out of shape. Her ambitions to use public transportation rapidly declined as the days went by. I’ll give her credit for taking the subway from the airport but by the end of the trip she was a cab girl. As you know she pulled a muscle while…sleeping. I find it a little questionable but we’ll go with it.
Like any good New York trip it was surrounded by food. We had authentic Brooklyn pizza as our inaugural meal where Jaclyn was quickly identified as a Californian after requesting ranch sauce to dip her artisan pizza. Afterwards we ventured into a Williamsburg bakeshop for dessert where to much of our dismay everything was vegan so we nicks the idea. Its like drinking, if you’re having dessert you must go big or what’s the point? Balthazar was divine, however, our Latin waiter speaking to us in a questionable French accent was a little ba’lthe’zaar. I was close to devastation when we headed out for Thai as we passed by a closed Sea Salt. Luckily SEA, the restaurant we intended to eat at was still in business. I don’t know what was up with Sean M. and Stephen when it came to the dumplings at Joe’s Shanghai. I could only conclude that it must have been an Irish thing. Whole Foods in Central Park was probably my favorite meal. Food you can find at your nearest grocer while sitting in the greatest park in the world can fill a person with so much joy. Levain cookies and Buttercup cupcakes were bits of heaven. Free food is always good especially at Ocean Grill where the rhubarb and strawberry crumble was yummy…mmmm. At Korean BBQ Jaclyn ordered endless amounts of her favorite side dish, kim chee. That doesn’t mean she ate it, but she did order it. We ended it off with traditional New York bagels: tons of cream cheese, fresh sliced lox, onions, tomatoes and…breaded chicken.
Getting to know Stephen was a real treat. If Jaclyn can convince you to get a tattoo you know its love. But seriously he is a kind and wonderful gentleman. His chill demeanor offers a nice balance to Jaclyn’s outgoing personality. Although, I have a gripe when it comes the couple. There was only one rule in my home and they broke it. Use your imagination. It wasn’t that they wouldn’t take off their shoes.
Jaclyn is my homegirl . She arrived when I needed her most. Girl talk never gets old. She reminds me that expressing my feelings is always OK. Its been an awesome two years in New York and having her around as I end my training was a wonderful way to transition to the business. I agree that living in New York City is not for everyone--including myself. It is truly a great place to visit. I love doing just that each day as I step off the train from Brooklyn or have my best friend in town exploring it with me.
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