Weekend wrap-it-up

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Things that happened Friday through Sunday:

Friday

  • M&M picked me up at work and drove me from Manhattan to Queens without freaking out or getting us killed. I giggled from the back seat.
  • We had sit-down dinner at East Meets West then did a little shopping for emergency Coke supplies at the Super Stop & Shop.
  • My parents showed me the magic of a blow-up full-height queen-sized bed that is as tall as Dawg‘s and my floating bed.

Saturday

  • We went out to the Georgia Diner for The Great Parent Meetup at which my parents met Dawg’s parents and we all ate food. (I had the Greek omelette [Feta and tomatoes], a side of bacon — burnt to order, and a Coke.)
  • We took the train from Queens to Manhattan and wandered around Chinatown, stopping at several illegal illustrious vendors, Wo Hop (17, not 15), and a Starbucks that makes great espresso.
  • We went home on the train and shopped at the Key Food near the subway stop, including 2 half-gallons of Blue Bunny ice cream and a 20-lb bag of Jasmine rice.
  • Dawg and I tested our ability to quietly say hi. :winks:

Sunday

  • The Great Bagel Odyssey brought us to a total of 3 bagel places, the first being Forest Hills straight-up Jewish, the second being Russian Jewish, and the third being Italian (not Jewish). During the odyssey is when I learned I had a cold. We also went to Starbucks for coffee after the first bagel place and ESPARKS on the way home.
  • Watched TV back home, all of it trash.
  • Went out to Johnny Rockets for burgers and Borders for subway books:
      Sharp Objects: A Novel by Gillian Flynn
      My Lobotomy: A Memoir by Howard Dully and Charles Fleming
      look me in the eye: my life with asperger’s by John Elder Robison
      Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
  • Watched the two hour premiere of “Kings”- pretty good!
  • Poppy took the Nyquil. *zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*



Photos of the weekend are available in Dawg’s flickr stream, on his orange blog (a great story about a bakery photo shoot gone wonky), and on his photo blog over the next two weeks.

In other news, today is my niece’s birthday!

Me and lil B

Yes, that’s me as a senior in high school holding her for the first time. If my math is correct she is 17 today. I am taken aback by how time flies…

Lick. Slam. SUCK! On a final note, see you all at Talkshoe for tonight’s 10pm Eastern talkcast of Lick. Slam. Suck. The topic? TEQUILACON, sillies!

6 thoughts on “Weekend wrap-it-up”

  1. I missed the Kings premiere?!! Dammit!
    And so now it’s called “saying hi”?! I really gotta get with the lingo..
    Nice weekend! hope your cold is better.
    :)

  2. Isn’t it sad that the best Starbucks espresso is made in Chinatown? Oh, and poor Minnesota Tony… he never knew what hit him.

  3. The part that really caught my attention was the aging of the niece… That’s so weird, isn’t it ? I’ve got teenage nieces, myself, and I keep thinking that they’re really not supposed to be as grown-up as they are. They’re little girls, I could swear ! They were the other day !

  4. Sounds like a busy weekend!

    And let’s not talk about growing nieces. My eldest just turned 5 and I swear she was just crawling like last week (not she isn’t slow) I can’t imagine her turning 17. I want her to stay little forever.

  5. What qualifies a book as a good one for the subway?

    Oh, and never have children; you have to “say hi” quietly every single time (unless you can get rid of them for a night).