Also good at the beginning of the evening!
June 13, 2009
Poor
The other day I forgot my wallet and found myself on the way to work with $9 in my pocket. I used $2 to ride to work, and I needed $2 to get back home.
By noon I was starving. After much consideration I went to the store by the subway station to get some nuts and fruit for $1.25.
Yep, Healthy Mix. 280 calories. I ate one nut at a time, so they would last longer.
Change:
I really, really wanted coffee, but my coffee costs $2.06—$1.69 wouldn't get me much more food. I looked on Midtownlunch.com for the cheapest taco cart: I could get a half-decent (one-third decent?) burrito and beans and rice for $3.25—but it was all the way over on Park Avenue (three blocks). I just couldn't bring myself to get up and walk all the way over there.
Finally I asked my colleague if she could lend me $5. She gave me a ten (thanks Emily), and I was rich!
I bought a feast for myself: double espresso and a sandwich and brownie.
Greg and I are poor folks, and we worry about money all the time. But we drink good coffee, we can always buy lunch if we need to, and we don't have to walk three blocks to the cheap place. We're lucky.
By noon I was starving. After much consideration I went to the store by the subway station to get some nuts and fruit for $1.25.
Yep, Healthy Mix. 280 calories. I ate one nut at a time, so they would last longer.
Change:
I really, really wanted coffee, but my coffee costs $2.06—$1.69 wouldn't get me much more food. I looked on Midtownlunch.com for the cheapest taco cart: I could get a half-decent (one-third decent?) burrito and beans and rice for $3.25—but it was all the way over on Park Avenue (three blocks). I just couldn't bring myself to get up and walk all the way over there.
Finally I asked my colleague if she could lend me $5. She gave me a ten (thanks Emily), and I was rich!
I bought a feast for myself: double espresso and a sandwich and brownie.
Greg and I are poor folks, and we worry about money all the time. But we drink good coffee, we can always buy lunch if we need to, and we don't have to walk three blocks to the cheap place. We're lucky.
June 12, 2009
If I were a rich girl
The wearing of the favorite dress
Five more like this and I'd be set for life.
I'd also be living on the street due to nonpayment of rent.
Maybe Anna Sui would take me in?
I'd also be living on the street due to nonpayment of rent.
Maybe Anna Sui would take me in?
Need-to-know basis
Is it wrong to eat dulce de leche out of the jar with a spoon, while watching six episodes of Bleak House in a row?
I think that's a question I don't need to know the answer to.
I think that's a question I don't need to know the answer to.
June 11, 2009
Ebay dot com
I won a dress!!
Don't worry everyone, I'm not going to get sunglasses like that (or an owl necklace [thanks JG]).
Nice dress tho, right?
Don't worry everyone, I'm not going to get sunglasses like that (or an owl necklace [thanks JG]).
Nice dress tho, right?
Dinner
What to eat when you work late so you have a piece of pizza at 7 and now you're home and it's 10:30 and your neighbors JUST turned off their music so now you can think (sort of):
Apple, plus:
Yoghurt.
Add some oats, and some of this:
Awesome.
Hydration?
Glass of water!
No time for lemon, cuz Greg's got Watership Down all cued up in the living room!!!!!
Movie is traumatizing but the yoghurt is delish.
Apple, plus:
Yoghurt.
Add some oats, and some of this:
Awesome.
Hydration?
Glass of water!
No time for lemon, cuz Greg's got Watership Down all cued up in the living room!!!!!
Movie is traumatizing but the yoghurt is delish.
June 10, 2009
I can't find my favorite scarf.
Yes, this one.
I am trying not to think about it, because if I do I might start crying.
PLEASE be hiding somewhere in the apartment, Mr. Scarf!
I am trying not to think about it, because if I do I might start crying.
PLEASE be hiding somewhere in the apartment, Mr. Scarf!
Hinterlands who's who [flute music]
Next door to my work, the American Folk Art Museum.
As I walk by to get my coffee every day, I have been hearing birdies chirping!
Wanna know why?
Enhance! [Jean-Luc Picard voice]
Yes, there are birds living in the facade!
Feeding babies:
Chirping and checking out the scene:
It's pretty great.
(HWW.)
As I walk by to get my coffee every day, I have been hearing birdies chirping!
Wanna know why?
Enhance! [Jean-Luc Picard voice]
Yes, there are birds living in the facade!
Feeding babies:
Chirping and checking out the scene:
It's pretty great.
(HWW.)
June 9, 2009
Little lunch!
At my desk. (I already ate the avocado quarter and the cheese chunk.)
Arugula season = best season of the year.
Arugula season = best season of the year.
Nautical theme
These iron hooks cast in a vintage mold were a birthday gift for Greg:
From me!
But now—what to do with them? They are rawther pointy.
From me!
But now—what to do with them? They are rawther pointy.
Waaaaahhh!
Lovely vintage shoes.
Patent leather with bows:
Gray with colored toes:
Bought on Etsy, picked up at the post office, opened with excitement, viewed with joy!!
But...
They do not fit my feets!!!
*sob*
Look for them on Ebay...
Patent leather with bows:
Gray with colored toes:
Bought on Etsy, picked up at the post office, opened with excitement, viewed with joy!!
But...
They do not fit my feets!!!
*sob*
Look for them on Ebay...
Found!
Two books I have been wanting to read!
I didn't read this when it came out, but I am curious about it. It didn't get the greatest reviews, but Mary Gaitskill's pretty interesting anyway.
I gave my dad The World Is What It Is, Patrick French's new biography of V. S. Naipaul, for Hannukah, and since then I have been thinking of rereading some of his novels. This is a good one.
YAY SERENDIPITY!
I didn't read this when it came out, but I am curious about it. It didn't get the greatest reviews, but Mary Gaitskill's pretty interesting anyway.
I gave my dad The World Is What It Is, Patrick French's new biography of V. S. Naipaul, for Hannukah, and since then I have been thinking of rereading some of his novels. This is a good one.
YAY SERENDIPITY!
June 7, 2009
Saturday luck!
First:
At the farmers market: rhubarb apple juice!
We have been looking for this every week for two years! We had it in summer 2007, but then it disappeared. It was so good we never forgot about it.
We stocked up.
Second:
Cafe Grumpy, in my neighborhood. Motto: "The customer is always wrong."
The baristas will not put your espresso on ice—I guess it adulterates their perfect shots.
Yesterday:
No problem!
L*U*C*K*Y!
At the farmers market: rhubarb apple juice!
We have been looking for this every week for two years! We had it in summer 2007, but then it disappeared. It was so good we never forgot about it.
We stocked up.
Second:
Cafe Grumpy, in my neighborhood. Motto: "The customer is always wrong."
The baristas will not put your espresso on ice—I guess it adulterates their perfect shots.
Yesterday:
No problem!
L*U*C*K*Y!
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