October 3, 2011

• I had a very fun and productive weekend. On Saturday I had brunch with the girls at THIS place where I had never been before. The confusion when the plans were being made was very funny. My friend emailed: "Locale?" and so I wrote back: "sure, how about place x, y or z. Or we could go to this place or this one.." and then my friend replied: "check out Locale. Couldn't we just go there?". LOL. That is when I realized the place was called Locale. I'm a moron sometimes.

  While the manager was terrible, our server was very nice and the food was yummy. I had something called a Freddy Kruger (which is a bloody mary with blue cheese stuffed olives and pepper on the rim of the glass). It was $2 more than the regular Bloody Mary and was more hotsaucy tasting than horseradish but, while delicious, didn't taste any better.. so I had a regular Bloody Mary for the 2nd round. The other girls had Mango Mimosa's and we all had eggs benedict (which my friend claims is the best thing to have on a 1st time brunch visit since she can measure brunch quality by the eggs benedict they serve). I imagine i'll go back to Locale again. Upon arrival we dropped the ketchup on the ground which was embarrassing. They were nice about it, but then when our server was giving us the specials her manager was standing off to the side signing at her as if she was causing world war three. Turned out, one of the specials had changed and that was what the international sign for "HELP CALL 911" was being used for by manager-chick. Needless to say, I did not like manager chick.

  After brunch my friend L and I went to Cohen's Optical and looked at glasses. I tried on oodles and bunches, went to another store, and then made my way back to Cohen's to buy.. wait for it.. PURPLE FENDI's...  LOL! Who would have thunk?! Soooo not me. However, they look good on me and I really like them. It was a buy one get one deal so I also got a pair of hipster-esque brown rimmed glasses. 

  
  
  Purple Fendi's. Ha!
   
  This is not the pair I ended up getting but it is a pair I considered getting as the free pair before getting the brown rimmed ones (sorry, no pic for now. They look a little like the Langston pair down below though).

  After selecting the glasses I had time to kill before picking them up so my friend and I hopped the subway and ran another errand at the mall. While there we went in Target and while I was sad that they had no Missoni anything anywhere, they did have this kids shower curtain (which I am happy to say I now proudly own). Ha! Yes, i bought the monkey hangers too..   teehee.  I already miss my old SAT Prep one, which I LOVE and have had for 6 years..and am washing and keeping). Pics of new and old below.

    

  On Sunday morning I woke up and then checked out that Craigslist Pottery Barn Sumatra bedframe ad AGAIN. I decided to email again, this time from a different email address. I got a super friendly reply within 20 min. One cousin who met me with his car about an hour later, I was driving down to the storage facility in Brooklyn to spend $500 on the bed that was $1100 ($1400+ with tax and shipping online). WOOHOO! I got to the storage place and at first the seller wasn't there and wasn't answering. Thankfully she called me back 10 min later very apologetic (blaming her iPhone). 10 min after that she arrived with her two (cute) kids and husband in tow. We went up to the unit and it turned out that the footboard was much more scratched than she remembered. She felt genuinely bad for having misrepresented the frame and she knocked $100 off the price. I bought it for $400.

  We got the various parts outside and then while trying to fit it all in the car, the headboard actually fell over and cracked. I felt like SUCH a moron. It was an accident but EEK. Remember when I bought the lamp from Craigslist and smashed it on my front door once I got ALMOST home? This felt similar. Thankfully it didn't damage the bed from wroking in any way and the wood is already distressed so it isn't even THAT noticable.

  After pushing and shoving for over 45 min we finally got the headboard in the SUV (with the leg sticking out the window and the back tied shut with yarn) and we drove back to my place. My cousin was SO helpful it was insanely nice.

  Last night when my two male friends came over to watch The Amazing Race I had them help me build the bed real quick. I still need to buy a queen sized mattress and I need to get rid of the old bed (which is now in my livingroom) but here it is.. my MOAT bed

   
  Here is a picture of the scratched (by a dog) footboard:

   
  and this is the crack that happened when the wind blew the headboard over:
  
  It isn't the best picture.. but yeah, that's it. 

  I've been watching The Wire Season 2 and loving it so far. I'm about half way through the season. The Good Wife has also been good this season.. and in general, it is nice to have the fall TV season back again!

   This dancer is amazing by the way:

  
  And this is both funny and sad:

  

  Okay, time to get more work done at the office. I hope you all had nice weekends! Congrats to @NinaBeana26 on the baby boy, and congrats to @Oceanstarr on the wedding!  My purple Fendi's and I are having a good first day.. also, fall has arrived. It is officially cold in NYC. Yay! Happy Monday!

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