Gotta Plug This Joint...

This past week Marcus headed to Sweden, and I'm going to join him in a couple of days. Over the weekend was my friend Stefanie's birthday...a good time! A group of us went to Havana Alma de Cuba in the West Village for dinner, then we headed to Sutra Lounge in the East Village/Lower East Side...a lot of fun! So...like I mentioned, Marcus is out of town, and when that happens, I end up ordering off Seamless Web a LOT. My latest favorite: Toloache Taqueria's Suadero Tacos...Negra Modelo braised brisket with tomatillo salsa, with freshly made taco shells. SO SO SO good. I'm hooked! And what the hell is that sketch, you ask? It's an old sketch in a series of art that my sisters and I found at the Brimfield Antiques Show. I love it...long story short, we ended up wanting to purchase this sketch along with something else, and the seller completely flaked on us...you'd think paying a pretty penny would be enough temptation for a seller to follow through on a sale...augh.

Update

This past week was a busy one. This past Saturday I went to my friend's bachelorette party. She's also my co-worker. In the photo with me are Rachel, the girl of the hour, and next to her is Stefanie, a great friend and also my co-worker. It was fun and funny...we first started out at Cienfuegos, an East Village/Alphabet City bar, (which I'd go back to, by the way) then headed over to Lucky Cheng's. So let's just say the focus is definitely NOT on food service. It's like a bachelorette/birthday/tourist factory/venue, if you will...but the girls (the drag queens) were definitely working it. It's funny how getting groped and insulted could be considered sexual harassment, but when it's done by a drag queen, it's all in good, clean fun! I got home late, meanwhile Marcus was up in Harlem that same night for a wedding. We got up early on Sunday morning to hit up breakfast at Locanda Verde and miss the brunch crowd. I had this great homemade granola with what tasted like a mix of yogurt, ricotta and lemon. Then we went on a TV movie rampage. We were home by about 10:30AM after breakfast, so we had the time! We first watched "Marmaduke", which was innocently entertaining. We also watched "The Other Man", which was a little weird, but okay. There was another movie we watched...but I don't remember at this point. Oh, well. Today was my day off, and I went to the gym and this evening I met up with my good friends and old college roommates, Tina and Chantima. We ate at Lotus of Siam in the village. Chantima is Thai, and her family used to run a thai restaurant on the Upper East Side...she heard that the Lotus of Siam in Las Vegas was supposedly the best thai food outside of Thailand, so she was curious. The food was good, but we all agreed we need to hit up the Thai joints in Queens and they would be more satisfying and more economical. Not to mention my green papaya salad was disappointingly too sweet. C'mon, now!

I'm So Tired!

I woke up late today...at 8:45AM. That's late for me. It's my day off, so at least I have that going for me. This past weekend was a good one. Yesterday Marcus and I ate brunch at Elmo in Chelsea. The place is pretty laid back and even though it's in Chelsea, there's no attitude. Food-wise, it's above average and reliable, nothing absolutely spectacular, but good. Our waiter was the happiest, sweetest guy ever, too! I wish he was a friend of mine! I want to go back! Ha ha ha. Then we went to Lazzoni, a furniture store, because we're planning on buying a new couch with a chaise. We found the model we want...then we went up to Michael's, the arts and crafts store to frame a vintage poster we just got. I had a 70% coupon off and it was still really pricey! Damn, framing is no joke! We also watched "The Door in the Floor" on TV and I really liked it. It was the story of a very dysfunctional family, and a teenage boy who's hired to work for the dad in the family for the summer. Then we also watched the shameless and really amusing "Waiting...". It's the epitome of the behind the scenes at a T.G.I. Friday's type restaurant. Oh, and on Saturday night we watched "Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer". It's a documentary about Spitzer's escort service scandal and how it destroyed his political career. It was really good, I'd recommend it, and it may enlighten you on the shadiness of politics.