Partly Cloudy ...Feels like 80 degrees

And it’s Monday after what felt like a really long weekend, so perfect! The weather was absolutely top notch, I can’t even think about the fact that it’s supposed to go back to 50 degrees next weekend with rain! I absolutely love the weather in the springtime. However, I can’t lie my favorite (as awful as it is) is the heat of summer and the hot nights that just seem to permeate ever inch of you. It’s amazing, well amazing if you have an AC in the window and a decent amount put away in the bank to be able to afford your electricity bills during the humid months. I love going out in a dress and flip flops and just feeling the heat all around, its definitely not for everyone but summer in the city is without a doubt my favorite time to be here (alright I‘ll be realistic, minus the sweaty subway and the smell of cooked garbage and the humidity, well there can be some not so glamorous aspects to everything you love!)

Lets get into it cause there was a lot!

Friday: Last week at work was brutal. We are in the middle of the 2 issues a month cycle, lots of work not very much time. So it was go-go-go all week. Friday I was exhausted! Earlier in the week Eric and I had decided to try Grimadli’s since I had never been there and he had been once for lunch years ago. So I came home from work and we started our walk over here, mainly because I was starving but we were also hoping to miss the treacherous line that forms around the corner. We figured the odds were against us: Friday night, beautiful weather, dinner hour! We were pleasantly surprised to round the corner to not one person in line! It was great. We went in and ordered a small pizza some anti pasta (with out the meat) and got ready to taste “the best pizza in Brooklyn”. The antipasti was great, I was afraid of what I thought were roasted red peppers in t he middle but they turned out to be marinated (I don’t have much of a taste for the smoke flavor that roasting gives peppers, any other way they are cooked I love to eat them). We got olives, mushrooms, and extra grated cheese on the pizza. It was delicious, we left with two pieces left over in a bad and fully bellies for the walk home.






It was really nice to walk around a bit in Brooklyn Heights, especially with the setting sun. Watched Employee of the month, which was ok. Surprisingly enough Andy Dick was the funniest aspect to the whole movie. 11 pm I was done and in bed, but its nice to get a good night of rest on the weekend after a hectic week.


Saturday: got up bright and early! I met Christine out front of my apt and jumped on the B71 Bus up Union Street to Grand army plaza and Prospect park. We met up with two of her friends from Yale and we ran the perimeter of the park. Yes, the whole park, and I did not realize how long that would be when I agreed to do it! It felt like forever until I saw the huge arch way of the Grand Army Plaza entrance, but I was so proud that I only had to catch my breath once going up on of the hills, other than that I ran/jogged the whole thing! So it looks like I will be in ok shape for the 5k I am doing the first weekend in June. It was so nice out and awesome to watch everyone in the park, I think when the weather permits: a run in Prospect Park every Saturday is going to be mandatory. I can’t wait until they start having concerts in the park for summer; it really is a great area in Brooklyn. I remember when I lived for a summer on 16th street we went to the park to watch the symphony followed by fire works, and nothing can top Yo La Tengo last year accompanying old French sea documentaries.


Then I came home and had brunch with Miss Xeller at Alma, funny thing is I lived next to it for 3 years and never went for brunch. If anything it cant be that bad to be eating your breakfast to such a beautiful view of the lower Manhattan skyline.

Afterwards we ran errands like it was our job! We ducked into the little dry cleaners across from Naidre’s and searched through until Cate found her dry cleaning she had dropped off about a month ago! Then we wrangled the beast (aka my car which is in a steady decline in health due to old age and rough handling, just make it through the summer to get me out to the beach on the weekend please little guy!) headed to the Atlantic center where we did a good sweep through of Old Navy and Target. I got some great things for the apartment (PUR water filter, new bed pillows, doggie toys, etc) and even found a great little planter of forget me not flowers with seeds and little soil pod in the dollar bin. So I got him and planted them on Sunday. I hope that they’ll come up soon. I know it was silly but it was a dollar and made me happy. We also ran into my friends Jay and Melissa who had come to return a cookie sheet that was took big for their over (oh the quirks of big city living!) but the return items line was too long so they ended up giving it to me as a gift, I returned the favor and gave them a lift back to the neighborhood. Cate and I then took our whirlwind to Fairway where I bought supplies of dinner and she bought enough groceries to feed a small army! We talked about the benefits of bringing lunch to work rather than buying and how we have to get better about it for the office during our respective lunch hours. Went home and piled the armful of things into the apartment, walked Murphy and gave him a pink octopus that squeaked (he has already pulled out all the stuffing and the squeaker, the pink octopus now lives in the garbage, so sad he was cute too!). We made dinner and went out for a bit, everyone headed home early and I met Eric and some of his co-workers from Tocqueville at Bar 151 on Rivington. Home and bed.

Sunday: Again up early and met Alex and her boyfriend Cory for brunch at our secret brunch spot on Henry Street, Eric and I still get excited when we plan to go and ear there. We really should try to go sometime for dinner or some meal other than brunch. Cory and Alex loved it as well!

So we all piled into my car and headed towards Flushing to get a piece of furniture that Alex had gotten from craigslist. Good deal, brunch for car services. Except we got lost in the middle of nowhere queens and took a little bit to eventually find out way.It was very creepy, we pulled up to this huge house that had a wrap around porch filled with couches and various furniture and inside the house are just huge rooms filled with furniture much like you would image the thrift store furniture room. None of it was in particularly good shape and he kept mentioning that EVERYTHING was for sale. Creepy. Hoped back in the car and had a easier ride home (no getting lost) headed to Brooklyn after we dropped Alex and Cory in the lower east side where they live, and then we picked up Kristen went back to fairway and got some sandwiches and sat in the back on the water just enjoying the beautiful day. We headed back and got in touch with my mom who was coming into town from California decided to make spaghetti at home for her and my brother, made some delicious home made sauce! It was nice to have my mom and my brother over to the house and make a good homemade meal. Everyone headed out and Eric and I power walked to 132 Degraw (my old apartment with Cate and Kristen before I move in with Eric) since we had already missed Sopranos and wanted to at least catch Entourage. Afterwards headed home and powered through the sink full of dishes and barely made it to bed. It was quite a weekend let me tell you!

Tonight I am going to an alumni event for the culinary school that Eric just graduated from. And my whole week is almost already full! Just trying to make enough time to run for a few of the days, I really would like to get in good shape and when I run with other people I actually really do enjoy it.