So I guess I've been kind of busy lately. It's nice being busy and having things to do. It makes time go by really quickly!
First of all, I had a busy week last week. I went to a free movie screening of an Israeli film called 'The Band's Visit' at the Manhattan JCC with Kate. The movie was really funny and it was nice to spend time with Kate and go to a new place (the JCC). Another night after work, I had dinner with Erin and her family and THEN, ANOTHER NIGHT, I volunteered for the first time! I was an English speaking partner with a nice lady from the Dominican Republic :) Is it bad that I can't remember her name? IT was really rewarding to be able to help her with her pronunciation of things and to do something for someone else. I think about myself too much.
But anyway, more about me now ;)
Last weekend I went to Temple again (on Friday night) with Erin, Debbie and Jason. We went back to the Lesbian/Gay/Transgender synagogue and I actually ran into someone I know there-Adam (my nana's best friend's grandson). He's gay...I wonder if he thinks I'm a lesbian now? After services we all went back to Astoria and had DELICIOUS CHEESE FONDUE. We did fondue in college a few times and it was great. This fondue was even better though. Jason's a really good cook so he was able to put in all these awesome seasonings and MMM.
Saturday, I met up with Elizabeth from study abroad in Paris and we went to The Cloisters museum and then did dinner. I had such a great time! I haven't spent one on one time with her since May 2006...so we had a lot of catching up to do! We joked around and I found that I didn't really have to "think of things" to talk about wit her. We had plenty to talk about and the time passed really quickly. One of my favorite things was taking the bus down from 190th St. to 100th St. where we had dinner. I think buses are a great way to learn about a city. It's sightseeing without the effort and title of it.
Saturday night, Erin, Debbie and I went to Gabby's apartment in Astoria (where else. It's so nice that we all live here!) and had a few drinks and talked. It was a lot of fun to have silly girl time. It made me miss my friends though...
Remember playing MASH in the berks last year?
Sunday, Josh came to see my apartment for the first time. We had a really nice time. He seems to be in better spirits now which is good. He was telling me about some NEW FRIENDS he made at work which makes me really happy. I want him to have friends! We went grocery shopping, then to this little cafe across the street from my apartment-so cute. There was live music!!
Last night, I had dinner with my cousin Chris downtown. He goes to NYU and lives right in Chinatown so we went for Chinese food! It was delicious and fun to see Chris and hear him talk about what he's doing in school and his life at NYU. I'm really happy that he went to NYU. I think he's learned a lot and gotten to break outside his bubble. I'm also glad that he and I get along as friends. We've never hung out just the two of us so it's nice to know that we can do dinner or coffee or go to a concert together and have fun :)
And tonight, it's snowing! It's really pretty to be in the city when it's snowing. I almost slipped a few times but whatever. I was happy to come home after work today (and after going to the post office-what a crazy place. The woman working wouldn't let me use her pen and kept saying that I'd filled things our incorrectly so she kept making me get out of line to correct things! IT WAS REALLY ANNOYING! Not to mention the fact that I waited in line 15 minutes to begin with) and watch an episode of Heroes, cook a delicious pizza (cheese with brocoli and sliced tomatoes...mmmm) and hang out now. I might watch an episode of 'Weeds' now and then go to bed.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Saturday, February 9, 2008
A little complaining
So, I am doing really well. And so far, I've had a pretty good weekend. But I just want to complain/rant for a little bit because I think writing out what's bothering me might help me to digest it more and get over it.
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I just wrote this whole entry and thought it seemed stupid so I erased it. But I still think that it would help me to write about my angst therefore I'll recap, briefly, what's bothering me. I like a guy at work named Ira. I'm not sure if it's because I think he's cute, or that he's a good person, or because he's just there, but I like him. I talk to Ira sometimes at my desk, or at lunch, or at work meetings and that makes me happy. But I feel that Ira pays much more attention to my friend Erin, the administrative assistant for his department, than he does to me. To make matters worse I can't confide in my friend Erin about the situation.
I can't tell Erin that I like Ira because it would make work awkward. I can't tell anyone at work that I like Ira because it would make work awkward.
Erin goes out to happy hour with Ira and Ira calls Erin to hang out. This makes me feel sad.
I want Ira to call me to hang out and to take an interest in me.
And he isn't/doesn't.
I realize that I can't make anyone like me. And I realize that I'm a good person and Ira not liking me doesn't mean I'm not special, or fun, or cute, or that I am worthless. I just am frustrated about the whole situation and the secrecy of my feelings and the fact that Erin talks about Ira frequently. I also feel frustrated because irrationally I want Erin to invite me when she hangs out with Ira. I want to be included. But, Erin is not obligated to me and doesn't have to invite me to hang out with her if she doesn't want to. If Erin wants to spend one-on-one time with Ira she's more than entitled to.
It still bothers me.
I'll write an entry tomorrow recapping tangible things that have happened to me.
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I just wrote this whole entry and thought it seemed stupid so I erased it. But I still think that it would help me to write about my angst therefore I'll recap, briefly, what's bothering me. I like a guy at work named Ira. I'm not sure if it's because I think he's cute, or that he's a good person, or because he's just there, but I like him. I talk to Ira sometimes at my desk, or at lunch, or at work meetings and that makes me happy. But I feel that Ira pays much more attention to my friend Erin, the administrative assistant for his department, than he does to me. To make matters worse I can't confide in my friend Erin about the situation.
I can't tell Erin that I like Ira because it would make work awkward. I can't tell anyone at work that I like Ira because it would make work awkward.
Erin goes out to happy hour with Ira and Ira calls Erin to hang out. This makes me feel sad.
I want Ira to call me to hang out and to take an interest in me.
And he isn't/doesn't.
I realize that I can't make anyone like me. And I realize that I'm a good person and Ira not liking me doesn't mean I'm not special, or fun, or cute, or that I am worthless. I just am frustrated about the whole situation and the secrecy of my feelings and the fact that Erin talks about Ira frequently. I also feel frustrated because irrationally I want Erin to invite me when she hangs out with Ira. I want to be included. But, Erin is not obligated to me and doesn't have to invite me to hang out with her if she doesn't want to. If Erin wants to spend one-on-one time with Ira she's more than entitled to.
It still bothers me.
I'll write an entry tomorrow recapping tangible things that have happened to me.
Monday, February 4, 2008
The Giants Win!
So today is the 'morning after' a few things:
The SUPERBOWL
and
MY WEEKEND WITH ANDREA
Both went really well :)
Andrea came into town Friday night, around 7:30. It was raining and really cold AND really windy (a person can only take so much bad weather at once!) but we made the best of it. We went over to Debbie/Jason's and played games and talked. It was really nice :) We had some wine and cheese (the cheese was especially delicious!) and margaritas (I actually didn't have wine but had one margarita instead. Otherwise-EW. wine and margaritas in the same sitting?)
Saturday, we did SERIOUS shopping. I had heard about a big target/mall near my apartment so I looked it up online and Andrea and I went. WOW. The more I learn about my neighborhood the more I love it! It really does have everything! So now, in addition to having NY&Co./Modells/Gap/Victoria's Secret/Payless/Starbucks 5 minutes from my apartment, I also have TWO BIG MALLS 5 subway stops away!
Consequently, Andrea and I spent four hours shopping at: H&M, Target, Macy's, Daffy's, Famous Footwear (got two pairs of shoes for $22!). It was a lot of fun :) And it's good to know that there's a target so closeby. I can't live without target.
We made dinner together (a delicious pizza with brocoli and tomatos MMMM) and then got ready to go out. We met Kate at a bar downtown in the east village for drinks-hooray! Considering the fact that I live in Queens it really doesn't take that long for me to get from my apartment to downtown Manhattan. It was probably 30 minutes door to door! Which makes it really easy to go out at night. Though, none of the trains near my house run at night...so not perfectly easy.
We had a good time at drinks. We went to one bar called "telephones" which has British telephone booths as the entrance and is really neat inside. The drinks weren't that great there though. So then we went to a little pub a few blocks away and had cider, and shots :) I really LOVE alcoholic cider! It's so much better than beer!
We got home not too late, around 1:30, and went to bed. Sunday morning was pretty relaxing. Andrea was working a news story for her internship and I read and watched TV while she did that. Then we walked around near my apartment, got some bagels (there is a bagel place about 10 sts. away that has the BEST bagels! They're warm and gooey...MMM. I could kind of go for one right now) Then we went and got Andrea's ears pierced (she got a second hole), back to my apartment, and off to Erin's sister Mara's apartment for a superbowl party!
Well, the party was pretty funny. There were about 15/20 people, 2 TVs, 2 "viewing rooms" and lots of food. The TVs were off from each other, so one room was watching the game 5 seconds ahead. I was in the room with the slower TV, so we'd be watching the game, then hear big cheers from next door, and then see a good play/bad play happen. It kind of ruined the suspense of the game but I don't really care about football so it didn't matter to me. One of Mara's sister's fiance's co-workers stumbled into our room DRUNK. And then proceeded to have 8 more beers. And spill all over the place and not clean up. And then CLEAR AWAY OUR FOOD as we're eating it. You can't clean up your huge spills but you can take away our food as we're eating it?
So Andrea, Debbie, Jason and I are sitting there laughing hysterically as this guy tries to talk about the Giant's strategy with us. He couldn't put two coherent words together.
I mean, as it was we were already sitting in a room without food, with a delay on our TV, to have this drunk guy there was just so ridiculous. But annoying. But also funny. And then his friend came in to sit with us and just kept screaming "GOD DAMNIT-GO BABY GO". He probably said that 80 or 90 times. Tourettes?
So finally these guys leave our room...
And then we hear a tap on the window and he's STANDING OUTSIDE LOOKING IN AT US. WEIRD!
The game ended. We went back to my apartment and Andrea worked on her story some more. Went to bed...woke up and she left. It was really nice having her-not weird at all like I thought it might be. We had a lot to talk about. We laughed a lot. We did some fun barhopping and shopping. Ate some good food.
All in all a good weekend!
The SUPERBOWL
and
MY WEEKEND WITH ANDREA
Both went really well :)
Andrea came into town Friday night, around 7:30. It was raining and really cold AND really windy (a person can only take so much bad weather at once!) but we made the best of it. We went over to Debbie/Jason's and played games and talked. It was really nice :) We had some wine and cheese (the cheese was especially delicious!) and margaritas (I actually didn't have wine but had one margarita instead. Otherwise-EW. wine and margaritas in the same sitting?)
Saturday, we did SERIOUS shopping. I had heard about a big target/mall near my apartment so I looked it up online and Andrea and I went. WOW. The more I learn about my neighborhood the more I love it! It really does have everything! So now, in addition to having NY&Co./Modells/Gap/Victoria's Secret/Payless/Starbucks 5 minutes from my apartment, I also have TWO BIG MALLS 5 subway stops away!
Consequently, Andrea and I spent four hours shopping at: H&M, Target, Macy's, Daffy's, Famous Footwear (got two pairs of shoes for $22!). It was a lot of fun :) And it's good to know that there's a target so closeby. I can't live without target.
We made dinner together (a delicious pizza with brocoli and tomatos MMMM) and then got ready to go out. We met Kate at a bar downtown in the east village for drinks-hooray! Considering the fact that I live in Queens it really doesn't take that long for me to get from my apartment to downtown Manhattan. It was probably 30 minutes door to door! Which makes it really easy to go out at night. Though, none of the trains near my house run at night...so not perfectly easy.
We had a good time at drinks. We went to one bar called "telephones" which has British telephone booths as the entrance and is really neat inside. The drinks weren't that great there though. So then we went to a little pub a few blocks away and had cider, and shots :) I really LOVE alcoholic cider! It's so much better than beer!
We got home not too late, around 1:30, and went to bed. Sunday morning was pretty relaxing. Andrea was working a news story for her internship and I read and watched TV while she did that. Then we walked around near my apartment, got some bagels (there is a bagel place about 10 sts. away that has the BEST bagels! They're warm and gooey...MMM. I could kind of go for one right now) Then we went and got Andrea's ears pierced (she got a second hole), back to my apartment, and off to Erin's sister Mara's apartment for a superbowl party!
Well, the party was pretty funny. There were about 15/20 people, 2 TVs, 2 "viewing rooms" and lots of food. The TVs were off from each other, so one room was watching the game 5 seconds ahead. I was in the room with the slower TV, so we'd be watching the game, then hear big cheers from next door, and then see a good play/bad play happen. It kind of ruined the suspense of the game but I don't really care about football so it didn't matter to me. One of Mara's sister's fiance's co-workers stumbled into our room DRUNK. And then proceeded to have 8 more beers. And spill all over the place and not clean up. And then CLEAR AWAY OUR FOOD as we're eating it. You can't clean up your huge spills but you can take away our food as we're eating it?
So Andrea, Debbie, Jason and I are sitting there laughing hysterically as this guy tries to talk about the Giant's strategy with us. He couldn't put two coherent words together.
I mean, as it was we were already sitting in a room without food, with a delay on our TV, to have this drunk guy there was just so ridiculous. But annoying. But also funny. And then his friend came in to sit with us and just kept screaming "GOD DAMNIT-GO BABY GO". He probably said that 80 or 90 times. Tourettes?
So finally these guys leave our room...
And then we hear a tap on the window and he's STANDING OUTSIDE LOOKING IN AT US. WEIRD!
The game ended. We went back to my apartment and Andrea worked on her story some more. Went to bed...woke up and she left. It was really nice having her-not weird at all like I thought it might be. We had a lot to talk about. We laughed a lot. We did some fun barhopping and shopping. Ate some good food.
All in all a good weekend!
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