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Hello, everybody! It's happening! I think I want to move to the suburbs. For example, today all I did was: clean out my humidifier, die over Chrissy Tiegen stealing my McDonald's baby shower idea, walk to Marshall's, buy lots of socks and plates at insane discounts, go to Super Stop and Shop, and celebrate with Danny about the $7 sock 6-packs. (Oh and catch up on Broad City.)
Aloha! Happy first day of Spring from snowy New York. I'm sitting up in my bed, with just the glow my laptop and the orangey light from the snowy Queens street lamps illuminating my room. Come at me if you must, but I'm not ready to say goodbye to winter. I love the cold days that force you indoors to hibernate beneath piles of blankets with your (my) Corgi.
Happy Pi Day! To celebrate, I have a pasty for you from my buddy Brian at Krumpli. He's one of my favorite bloggers and I love these bowls of his....? Is that a relevant tidbit? Whatever, it's TRUE! Anyway, check out his site for the most beautiful recipes and stories from his farm in Hungary! I apologize for being weird and asking him for a British recipe, but it worked out, eh?
Danny's making me moules frites tonight! He learned how to de-beard them and everything. I hear seashells clanking against my Dutch oven and the house smells like bubbly Chardonnay and garlic. Also I started watching that new Hulu show with James Franco, 11.22.63, and I haven't loved a TV show so much since maybe Jane the Virgin, so life is very very good.
Hello from West Palm Beach! I'm visiting my mom and though I'm a person who loves chilly weather and rainy days, it's nice to be in a place where I can have bare legs, if just for a weekend. I love this city (and will post about it soon!). We've walked a bunch along the water, gone to street fairs, and done things that you can't do in New York City like drive to Target and stand barefoot in the ocean in February!!
How was everybody's Valentine's/Galentine's/Singletine's Day? Me and Danny had a marvelous dinner at Maison Premiere in Williamsburg. You might know it as one of the bars seen in Master of None. We had oysters, squid ink pasta, short ribs, salmon, and absinthe cocktails, hubba hubba. All the food made me feel full of love, I think? Certainly THE OYSTERS IF YA KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
Quick! I have ten minutes while my dogs eat peanut butter to chat about honey bear cakes. The dogs have been demanding my attention constantly... I think because we got these ~excellent~ new leather recliners. I sit in them always because they're ~excellent~, but the chairs are really a one-creature seat, so the dogs are annoyed that they can't climb all over me like they do when I sit on the couch.
Did I tell you that our shower got fixed? I know you're already thinking "wtf kind of reading material is this garbage--a blog about plumbing!?" But it truly was the most momentous event in the past week for me (aside from Beyoncé and those insane Woll Smoth Snapchat filters), so I'm going to get into it.
I've just been informed that "Hot Sandy" emerged on Grease, Live and I'm very irritated that I don't have a television on which to watch! Don't get it twisted, I'm not one of those I don't have a TV, I read books people. I watch an absurd amount of TV, but all on my computer, or with the Firestick/Chromecast something-or-other. So, I don't get to watch these live on TV musicals (at least not at home) and as a musical theater duh-hork, it's very rough to see all your tweets about how maaarvelous Aaron Tveit is; each an every one of them elicits a Monica Geller "I KNOW" out of me. (See, I told you I watch lots of TV.)
The snow's almost all gone, which means great news for my shoe game, but it does make me anxious for the next snowfall. Snowy days in New York, when you can barely see the Empire State Building from Sunnyside because the skyline gets so grayed up by the falling flurries--that's some special shit.
Have you heard!? Two feet of snow fell on New York City this weekend! It's pretty bonkers. My poor little corgi was not built for this kind of snowfall. He keeps trying to scale the snowbanks like his Labrador brother, only to sink like a little hot dog into the snow pile--then I have to dig him out.
Honestly, so many ups and downs right now, team. Up: my Spotify playlist has been *on point* this week. Down: my favorite person on the planet, my dentist, doesn't accept my new insurance plan. Up: I finally went and picked up some packages mistakenly mailed to my old apartment building and now it feels like I have 4 surprise presents to open. Simultaneous up/down: Donut Fest is happening, snow or shine--yea to donuts + snow. Nay to leaving the house in a nor'easter.
