Registering

Look, it has been less than a week since I last wrote a blog and I am writing yet another one. Am I on top of things or what.

Not much happened during the last week. I am pretty sure it was just going to work and coming back to the apartment to chill out for a bit. The only exception was Thursday of course. I went to BH and DKNY's for my weekly TV watching ritual. BH made some awesome lamb chops that she got from Trader Joe's', I have noted to try to make them myself sometime, and I made a couscous salad/side to go with them. I even made a cucumber, dill, mint sauce to go on top.

Friday after work Ice, CB Radio and I went to a shoe sale. It was a sale on sample shoes, but none of us found anything we wanted. We did find some stuff we liked, but didn't think it was worth the price, even on sale. After our shoe shopping, which did include Payless, we headed to Union Square for some dinner. On a quick side note, I tried on about 4 more pairs of boots, but still couldn't get any to fit over my freakishly large calves. Joel then joined the three of us, and we split a bottle of wine over dinner.

After dinner we hit up a few bars in the area and just kept drinking with each other. The more I go out alone on the weekends the more I realize how much I miss Ando. You would all think it was because I want to share all the fun New York has to offer every weekend with him, but you would be mistaken. I miss Ando's wallet. I never realized how much Ando paid for me drinking when we went out; what a guy! I have to pay and get everything myself now. Well, the getting part really isn't any different, but the paying is.

On Saturday I went out to register for the wedding. CB Radio, Ice, Coriander and BH all came along for the ride too. I wanted to get registering partially out of the way before the Holiday season hit. I hear it is a pain to register during the Christmas season. We all went to SoHo for the CB2 and Crate & Barrel for me to register at. CB2 was the first place on the list, and the store isn't too big so it didn't take too much time going through and picking out what I, I mean we, wanted for the wedding.

After CB2 is was time for some lunch and drinks before moving on. We ate at a Mexican restaurant in the area and split a pitcher of margarita's. The restaurant also had a ton of different hot sauces on the table so I had to try them all of course. I think I am the only one that did too. If only Teed were there he would been with me on the hot sauces. Lunch was good, and it was kind of nice having a slight buzz on to go to Crate & Barrel.

At Crate & Barrel I received a nice gift for choosing to register there. I was excited when the lady told me that I got a free gift because I like so much of what they have in the store, but oh how my disappointment hit when I actually saw the gift. Yep, the lovely heart shaped candy dish was my free gift! What I am going to do with it I have no idea. I want to give it to someone as a joke wedding gift, but I don't know anyone getting married that would appreciate the joke. I have a feeling they would all think I was giving it for real.

Well, after my free gift it was time to take the scanner over all two floors of Crate & Barrel. Going through two floors takes quite a bit of time I found out. I thought I did pretty good with all of the items I registered for, but according to everyone else I better find some more presents I want. I think I got around 100, or less probably, items between the two stores. Ando and I are still going to hit up Target, so that may add another 50 items to the list, but with 300 people being invited plus showers and such that probably still isn't enough. We will see what happens.

Saturday night I went out to a bar in Williamsburg with CB Radio, Goose, TB, Ice, Joel and CB's friend Gabby. It was a nice little place and we had somewhere for all of us to sit around and talk too. The bar also had second happy hour which you can't go wrong with. Between 12am and 2am they do another happy hour with drink specials. We also ordered every fry available in the place to munch on; waffle fries, sweet potato fries and tater tots. It was a lot of fries for one evening, but still tasty going down.

We left that bar at 2 because they made us and happy hour was over and we really wanted to go some place else. We stayed in Williamsburg, but it was nice because we ended up about halfway home on our long walk back to Greenpoint. I think it was 25 degrees out that night, but they said it felt like 12 outside. My first year here and I get January weather in November, of course.

I ended up getting home around 4 or so I think. Not really sure, but it didn't matter since I had nothing to do on Sunday. I could just hang out and do nothing for one whole day, which I don't think I have done since being here, and that is exactly what I did. I did some reading, watched some episodes of the L word, took a nap, and of course watched the Xavier game.

It was a little pathetic how I watched the Xavier game though. I couldn't find it on the internet anywhere, well I could, but you had to have a windows computer to watch it, damn them, so I watched the whole game via google chat. Ando turned the TV to ESPN2 and then put the computer up to the game for me to watch over google chat. Pathetic, yes, but hey it worked and I got to see Xavier upset Memphis.

I think that is about all I have for now. I don't know if I will write again before I leave for Cincinnati on Thursday morning or not. My guess is no, but hey I may write while I am home for Thanksgiving and the weekend. I need to remember my camera in Cincinnati because I am sure there will be plenty of photo ops.

I finally had a lazy day all to myself; that doesn't mean I am pregnant which makes you tired all the time.