A and I came straight home from work (skipped the gym) with the rationale that we had such a busy weekend, we were exhausted and we needed to do laundry. We were six quarters short of being able to wash our third and final load. I scrounged three from my bag and made the pouty face like "bummer, we don't have enough money to do the last load". When I went down to the basement to switch the second load into the dryer a sparkle caught my eye. There was a quarter on the ground between the washer and the dryer! I pushed the dryer to the side and found two more quarters down there in the dusty muck. I raced upstairs with the good news. We completed three loads of laundry tonight!
Monday, March 2, 2009
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
Visit www.google.com today and you'll see that it's Dr. Seuss's 105th birthday!
Here's a place to vote for your favorite book:
http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2009/03/happy-birthday.html
http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2009/03/happy-birthday.html
Celebrity Sighting
SNOW!
We woke up to half a foot of snow this morning! Thank goodness the storm waited until we had safely driven back to Boston from NYC. It's coming down at a rate of an inch per hour. I'm just happy to have made it to work (with no problems on the T) where it is warm and dry and not windy!
The snow is beautiful. I'll always find the snow beautiful. But, as S pointed out last night, we are looking forward to tulips! I do love tulip time.
The snow is beautiful. I'll always find the snow beautiful. But, as S pointed out last night, we are looking forward to tulips! I do love tulip time.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
The trip haps
Here's how it all went down in NYC this weekend...in poetry?
Reliquary. (The community museum in Brooklyn where H has displayed her own exhibit on Milk!)
tacos. guacamole. chips.
Slumber party.
Mini market breakfast.
Subway.
Natural history museum.
Meet up with M and N.
Celebrity sighting.
Magnolia cupcakes.
Pizza lunch.
(gotta love dessert first!)
Strolling Manhattan.
Pass Julliard.
Arrive at Rockefeller Center for coffee and hot cocoa break while watching ice skaters.
Stroll to Madison Square Garden.
Note the temperature is getting cooler.
Meet up with J and let M and N get checked in.
Subway to Greenwich Village.
Stroll and search for fun dinner place that can seat seven.
Cuban place is packed.
Pub place is hosting a party of 50 and is full.
Dumpling place is too small and better for takeout.
Japanese place has two tables of 4 available. They rearranged the tables into one and we took up the whole restaurant. It turns out they just opened the day before and their kitchen wasn't fully open. All they could do was sushi. This was a little more adventurous than A2, T, and J bargained for, but it was a great adventure. I had to converse in Japanese a little ,cuz they didn't understand our English. It made me happy to see Japanese people working a sushi restaurant. I got my favorite and sometimes hard to find Natto Maki.
M and N left for the Rangers game. Goodbye is always tough. I miss them.
Dumplings for the adventurous sushi tasters.
Cousin party at J and H's
Spades
Celebrity (a cross between of charades and Taboo)
Slumber party
Morning hug for "running in the snow" B and a quick visit.
Lunch with F C E and T2.
Smiles.
Tickles.
Catching snowflakes in our mouth.
Driving.
Stop # 1 drop off A2
Driving.
Stop # 2 drop off T and visit with his parents while they feed is dinner.
Dessert.
More dessert to go.
Driving.
Driving.
Discussing music and the fun weekend.
Shower.
Blogging.
Sleeping.
A = adrian, M = mikey, N = nate, J = jake, H = Hi'ilei, T = tim, A2 = ashley, F = flint, C = christa, E = emeline, T2 = tucker, and B = britta
Reliquary. (The community museum in Brooklyn where H has displayed her own exhibit on Milk!)
tacos. guacamole. chips.
Slumber party.
Mini market breakfast.
Subway.
Natural history museum.
Meet up with M and N.
Celebrity sighting.
Magnolia cupcakes.
Pizza lunch.
(gotta love dessert first!)
Strolling Manhattan.
Pass Julliard.
Arrive at Rockefeller Center for coffee and hot cocoa break while watching ice skaters.
Stroll to Madison Square Garden.
Note the temperature is getting cooler.
Meet up with J and let M and N get checked in.
Subway to Greenwich Village.
Stroll and search for fun dinner place that can seat seven.
Cuban place is packed.
Pub place is hosting a party of 50 and is full.
Dumpling place is too small and better for takeout.
Japanese place has two tables of 4 available. They rearranged the tables into one and we took up the whole restaurant. It turns out they just opened the day before and their kitchen wasn't fully open. All they could do was sushi. This was a little more adventurous than A2, T, and J bargained for, but it was a great adventure. I had to converse in Japanese a little ,cuz they didn't understand our English. It made me happy to see Japanese people working a sushi restaurant. I got my favorite and sometimes hard to find Natto Maki.
M and N left for the Rangers game. Goodbye is always tough. I miss them.
Dumplings for the adventurous sushi tasters.
Cousin party at J and H's
Spades
Celebrity (a cross between of charades and Taboo)
Slumber party
Morning hug for "running in the snow" B and a quick visit.
Lunch with F C E and T2.
Smiles.
Tickles.
Catching snowflakes in our mouth.
Driving.
Stop # 1 drop off A2
Driving.
Stop # 2 drop off T and visit with his parents while they feed is dinner.
Dessert.
More dessert to go.
Driving.
Driving.
Discussing music and the fun weekend.
Shower.
Blogging.
Sleeping.
A = adrian, M = mikey, N = nate, J = jake, H = Hi'ilei, T = tim, A2 = ashley, F = flint, C = christa, E = emeline, T2 = tucker, and B = britta
Whirled Peas
Imagine Whirled Peas
This phrase was on a bumper sticker in NYC and I keep creating different mental images of whirled peas. Yellow peas, green peas, black eyed peas, swirls of different whirled peas...
World Peace would be much more helpful, in my opinion, but definitely less tasty.
Magnolia Cupcakes!!
Wingnut's Cupcake Review:
At Magnolia it's serve yourself, so we grabbed a box for six and the boys (M, N, and A) all chose chocolate with mocha frosting. T got a cookie. I chose the blue frosting. A threw in the carrot cake and I chose the red velvet cupcake. The carrot cake cupcake was later enjoyed by A2.
We all dipped our fingers into all the frostings, because that is the most important part of a cupcake.
The mocha frosting got rave reviews. The blue frosting tasted blue and was super thick and pasty. It's reviews were not very rave at all. The cake part was a bit old..that cupcake was beautiful and cute, but not so tasty. I don't like coffee flavored things, but I definitely vote the mocha frosting the best of the bunch. It was the perfect consistency! The red velvet cupcake had good frosting and the bright red cake stuck to my teeth. I had red teeth for a while.
I've just recently been introduced to red velvet cake (via A&N's wedding in October 2008) and this red velvet cupcake could not even compare to the wedding cake we had in October. That was delicious!
I think the moral of the story is this:
When at Magnolia, choose the fresh cupcakes.
Of course, there were plenty of other pastry types that we didn't sample, and I'm definitely willing to go back and give them a try!
A = adrian, M = mikey, N = nate, J = jake, H = Hi'ilei, T = tim, A2 = ashley, F = flint, C = christa, E = emeline, T2 = tucker, and B = britta
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