Things I've been up to lately:
- Traipsing through slush
- Adding all of my music from my iPod to my new Macbook (this includes manually re-adding to/reordering ALL of my playlists)
- Hula hooping (well, sometimes)
- Going to an InterNations mixer and not mixing outside of my friends
- Playing guitar on hard on Rock Band (only took my three years)
- Cleaning out my inbox
- Stuffing my face with Peanut Butter Puffins
- Reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
- Updating my to-do list
- Eating Korean food
- Debating if I like Korean food
- Sorting through all of my CDs and finally trashing the ones I don't need (why do I have Nappy Roots and The American Pie soundtrack again??)
Check out some fab CDs and some stinkers here (I had to document the mess):
Why yes, Interpol and Moby did sign those for me
And yes, that is a Backstreet Boys CD
Can you guess what the CD with the germs on the cover is?
I flipped this one upside down just to freak you out
On my last day of work I had to give back some company-owned things. As sad as that was, I was relieved to give back my crackberry.
Now in the hands of the authorities
Bye bye empty desk
I've been trying to make the most of my time off. I've therefore gone to see Late Night With Jimmy Fallon - guests were Dana Carvey, Minka Kelly, Ricky Martin, and Yngwie Malmsteen playing with The Roots. I also went to a taping of Live! with Regis and Kelly (not that exciting, I'm obligated to include the ! in the name) - guests included a pre-taped Matthew Perry which was NOT okay, and Chris Colfer from Glee. Kelly and Reg talked to my friend Jon about his Cookie Monster iPhone cover, so that was cool. I also took the online test for Jeopardy! (not that exciting, I'm obligated to include the ! in the name.) That test was horrific and the questions are not at all like what you see on TV. If I'm lucky I maybe got 5 out of 50 questions right, so you won't be seeing me on that show anytime soon (or ever.) I just applied for tickets to The People's Court and Rachel Ray. Is Cash Cab truly random or can you actually apply to be on it?
Recent clothing purchases include two bridesmaid dresses, stretchy pants from Express (I like to call them lazy pants) and pink and white baseball socks from American Apparel (let's just be honest here - that's the only thing I can fit in at that store.) Oh! We FINALLY bought a flat screen TV as you can partially see in the CD photos above, as well as a cordless iron and towels because that's what married people do. Our final purchase was renters insurance so don't even think about breaking in here to take our awesome iron.
Another recent key purchase were cherries at a bargain price of $1.99/pound. I have made a mental note to add this to my "Justifications for Living in Astoria" list.
This is my favorite video right now:
We recently went to the re-opened Museum of the Moving Image. Yes, there really is a museum in Astoria, and it's in walking distance from our apartment. The pics didn't come out so great though.
I got in trouble for taking this photo so I hope you like it
Model used in The Exorcist
Good Ole Yods
Mrs. Doubtfire's head
Afterwards we went across the street for 5 Napkin Burger's slider happy hour. $2 options include regular sliders, as well as veggie burger, turkey meatball, pork taquitos, and wings, plus $4 beers. Total yum.
The other day we walked from our apt to Roosevelt Island over this ghetto bridge made up of metal grates. I do not recommend wearing heels on that.
I also do not recommend going there on the windiest day of the year. We walked through the middle of the island (it looks like something out of 1984, a total Communist-type village), stopped for a bite to eat (yes, there really is a restaurant) and hightailed it out of there on the tram worried we had permanently lost feeling in our extremities.
This is seriously what all the island's businesses look like, regardless if it's a florist, post office, or library.
The church, seriously
Have some tram views (after all it is the London Eye of New York)...
It's coming!
It's here!
Obligatory tourist photos
Bye bye RI
I am enjoying my freaky reflection photo
The ride was surprisingly steady
Second avenue here we come
Once we got to Manhattan, we didn't know what to do and it was freezing so we played in FAO Schwartz. You can make muppets there! I want to make one but they are like $100 bucks or something stupid like that.
Did you know that this muppet is a shrimp?! I did not. Pepe the prawn:
Also, I finished watching Mad Men season 4 OMGsogood.
More spare time activities included attending a focus group (love the cash in hand) and seeing Billy Elliot on Broadway. I think something to add to my to-do list this week is creating a list of all the Broadway shows I've been to (I can tell you off the bat that my all-time favorites are Blood Brothers and Tommy.)
I've also been seeing friends who had babies, friends who bought houses, and friends who are teachers that are off from school this week. Speaking of, how cute is Heather's slow cooker all buckled up ready for the Super Bowl? Speaking of which, Dave won the half time in the pool.
I think I'm going to start a Tumblr of randoms things buckled up since I already have these in my library:
Check out my bootiful Valentine's Day fleurs:
So, using the Sitemeter at the bottom of my blog, sometimes I'm able to tell how someone landed on my page. Also, using another new-ish tool that Blogger has implemented, I can also now tell which posts of mine get the most hits, and similar stats. The page that's consistently been hit the most over the past few years has bee this one: Come To Jamaica and Feel Alright. I knew it couldn't have been the fascinating photos of us eating New England cuisine, or my amazing rendition of "Train in Vain" that kept drawing people in. Turns out that the hits all come from people clicking on the second photo (which I will not re-post here) which leads them directly to that blog post. I thought I was in some major photograph-rights violation this whole time, but it only occurred to me to today to see the rank of where the photo pops up when searching for "Jamaica, Queens" in Google Images. Well, mystery solved indeed. Why don't you Google image this yourself and see where the photo placement is? And also, how did this photo get linked solely to my blog??
