but dad, it's shark week!

we both had friday off this week and headed home to garden city to go to my lifelong neighbor/my mom's godson brian's wedding.  they got married at a beautiful church in bellmore and had the reception at the inn at new hyde park which was recently renovated and absolutely gorgeous.  from the beginning of the cocktail hour at 6:30 until we dragged ourselves out of there around 12:45 we had the greatest time.  all of my neighbors, a lot of my family and tons of friends were there.  we ate, drank and danced all night celebrating brian & allison.

on saturday we walked into town with my mom and her puppy to grab some lunch, sit outside and enjoy the day (not to mention get a little exercise!).  by saturday the humidity had gone down considerably and it was so nice out.  then we headed back to the apartment to finally get some much needed rest.

we both have this coming friday off and we'll be heading to the 2nd annual lake house weekend with our high school friends.  last year was a blast so we're not expecting anything less this year!  i'll be sure to take as many pictures as possible.  i'm usually really bad with bringing my camera everywhere but rarely taking pictures so that's something i'm trying to change.

shark week has begun so i must go enjoy!

until next time..xx, C

weekend in review

We had the best time at the Paul McCartney concert Saturday night at Yankee Stadium..especially when Billy Joel came out and played 'I Saw Her Standing There' with Paul.  I took a shaky video of it and my camera died part of the way through but here it is:



It was so cool to see a part of history at the concert.  Even though its been generations since The Beatles have all been together and touring I feel like we got to see them live.

The Addams Family on Friday night was great.  Brooke Shields ended up being perfect for the role of Morticia & my mom and I both loved the play.  Dinner was amazing too - way too much food for two people but somehow we managed to finish most of it!

Its been a typical lazy Sunday..we went food shopping and watched the women's World Cup game.  I got 'The Kids Are All Right' from Netflix so maybe we'll watch that tonight.  I've been meaning to watch this movie since before the Oscars but better late than never.

Time to get dinner cooking & get ready for the week ahead.

Until next time. xx, C.

i love you, new york.

rejoice urban dwellers..restaurant week in nyc has begun!

we took a trip to mesa grill wednesday night for margaritas, fish, chile rellenos & some fabulous strawberry shortcake.

last night we stayed in due to laundry overflow issues [thanks, babe!] and i cooked some sweet pea tuna pasta salad which was pretty delicious and made enough leftovers for many, many lunches!

tonight, mom's coming into the city.  she & i are going to grab some dinner at aj maxwell's steakhouse before catching brooke shields as morticia in the addams family on broadway.

the whirlwind weekend continues saturday night as brandon & i will be bronx-bound to see none other than sir paul mccartney live in concert at yankee stadium!  i've been looking forward to this for weeks ever since we got tickets.  hopefully we'll be able to get a few decent pictures from our nosebleed seats.  [thank goodness for the zoom function]

until next time. xx, C.