The Zereps

clerks II. i have a good feeling about this.

in other news, it’s been really hot here. and since we’re on the 2nd floor, we don’t cool off, ever. so that means i can’t bake! ::collective gasp:: so to solve our problem, i picked up this little beauty, also known as the minicooker. now i can bake tasty treats, not the house!

mmmm! cornbread and snickerdoodles from last night!

[i failed to mention that due to excessive wear and tear, among other things, eric’s famed ultravection has gone into indefinate storage. hence, the minicooker. :D]

Kinder Suprise! wow.. anybody remember these from Canada? Milk chocolate on the outside and white chocolate on the inside (mmmm) and a toy suprise in the middle, to boot! (Way better than those crappy stickers you get in Cracker Jack’s too.) ya can’t find these ANYWHERE in the U.S. (’cause the FDA has banned them here,) but lo and behold in a tiny import store in Astoria they had a box of them! Look at the cool toy I got in mine–it’s a convertible ‘micro-machine’-type car.

in case we don’t mention it enough, it is very hot here. very hot. very. hot. but somehow eric and i managed to make it oot and aboot this weekend and, with the help of our air conditoners, we survived the night to talk about it. 😀

actually, it wasn’t as ‘oot and aboot’ as it could have been, given the temperature, but i snapped a few photos.

eric thought he’d play it sly and not tell me where we were going when we stopped off at 5th avenue…but gee….hm…i don’t know….it’s kinda hard for me to miss a towering, gigantic glass cube. hm…could it be 10,000 square feet of apple goodness causing him to actually *skip* and trot faster, pulling me along behind? yup yup, it was, of course, the new apple store. now i know where he’s been for about an hour every day after work! 😀

the store was pretty cool. we took a glass spiral staircase down below street level. there was also a glass elevator. there were many, many, many items that caught my eye. like a new ipod. 😀 eric was giddy with excitement. but alas, we had to leave, as we did not want to become too attached to anything.

for a late afternoon lunch, we went to alice’s teacup on the upper east side. it was super yummy and totally cute. we had scones with cream and preserves, finger sandwhiches, and cake with cookies, and tea, of course. i believe it was the ‘mad hatter’ lunch special. i wanted to snap a picture of eric holding his dainty, flowery teacup, but i held myself back. 🙂

we also happened along this little guy sitting in a store window selling shirts. how cute is he?!

and because i can’t help myself….

[jabba told me to remind you all of his blog, too!]

OK, so the weekend is long over and the next one right around the corner, but I didn’t have time to do any blogging last weekend. The only ‘eventful’ thing I did last weekend was go to the Puerto Rican Day Parade. I’m not sure how many years it’s been going on, but as far as I know it is one of NYC’s largest annual parades–40 city blocks down 5th avenue were closed off last Sunday. And let me tell you, I’ve NEVER seen so much red, white, and blue in all my life. Thousands ands thousands and thousands of people waving their flags around, or for the more hard-core sporting their ‘national’ threads. Apparently Mark Anthony and J Lo were there, but I didn’t see any of that action. Actually, the stop I decided to get off on the subway was very disorganized and I couldn’t even get very close to the street to see the floats, etc. up-close, unfortunately. It was fun for an hour or two to get out of the house and celebrate part of my heritage, though. Next time I just have to remember to bring the camera. d’oh!

i realized that i had a couple pics that weren’t album worthy, but that i still wanted to share..so here they are!

this here is the strawberry-rhubarb crisp i made with the organic rhubarb we got from our veggie share, through our local community shared agriculture. every tuesday we get organic, farm-fresh produce! yum!

oh! and here is jabba playing dress-up in eric’s shirt. yeah, i know he has a *whole* site just for these cutesy pictures, but i can’t help but post them here, too! 😀 but please, check jabba’s site, too, as there’s videos, etc…

lately i’ve been knitting my first sock..here it is! and no, it’s not a kids sock, it’s an anklet for *me*, it just has a strand of spandex in it so it stretches.

about once a week i pop into our local thrift store searching for mugs…i love mugs…usually they just have some early 90’s corel or something, but i got lucky the other day! i got a set of 4 (4!!!) green fire-king mugs for *a buck* each! i was so excited! i love fire-king mugs! i also got a japanese unicorn mug, just for kicks. the next vintage kitchen glassware i want to seriously acquire is a set of jadite mixing bowls, or anything jadite..i just love it..and milk glass….but i’m always on the look-out for quirky mugs.

and finally, if you’ve ever wondered what eric and i would do if we had $50k for our upcoming move (i’m sure you’ve spent hours contemplating it) check out my updated wishlist…hehe

Well, Friday was a commuting disaster in the city here. There was rain and flooding and mysterious subway ‘incidents’ that caused all queens-bound (read: homeward-bound for me) trains to be halted and thousands (who knows, maybe millions!) of people to be stranded and traffic to grind to a halt in mid-town because of all the people taking taxis and busses and anything they could find to get back into Queens. Normally, it takes me 1 hour door-to-door to get to and from work. On Friday, I spent 2 hours on a bus and I barely made it 40 blocks. At that point I decided to get some dinner and saw on a TV that the train I needed was finally running, so I headed to the station. Some unlucky people had their trains not start running again until the next day–I guess that either means stay with a friend in Manhattan, get a hotel, or walk the couple miles across the bridge (or something!) I finally got home around 9:45 at night (after leaving work at 6.)

Today, I did do something fun though–I went and visited the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum, conveniently located on the deck of the retired USS Intrepid, aptly enough. She was commissioned in 1943 and was destined for the scrapyard before somebody rallied to turn her into a museum. The ship itself is a massive aircraft carrier; she fought in World War II and all the way through the Vietnam war before she was decommissioned in 1974. She now resides at 12th ave and 46th st at Pier 86 (Google Satellite Map.) I spent a couple hours there when Candice was at work this afternoon (she didn’t want to go anyway. 😉 ) Unfortunately, I was not well-prepared as I forgot my camera and sunglasses, so no pictures (and lots of squinting for me.) It was a pretty fun museum to visit–the first museum on the sea that I’ve ever been too. Also at the museum was a Concord airliner that you could walk through and a submarine tour (USS Growler,) which I didn’t have time to see.