The Zereps

We left Jabba at home today to go visit Central Park this afternoon. We stopped by this cafe called ‘SoHo’ for lunch and then went on to the train headed for the park. We stopped by Strawberry Fields, walked to the lake, and had a nice little tour of the surrounding areas. Meanwhilst, Jabba turning to his mischivous side, snuck into the bedroom, opened my zippered shoulder bag, took out my cookies, and gobbled them up! When we got home there were cookie crumbs all over the floor next to the bed and my bag was half-way under the bed with the zipper open. After we got home, he proceeded to throw up the cookies in the kitchen…. I guess indulgance does have its price! 😉

Here are a few pictures from the $8 camera I got on eBay. I guess for 8 bucks I can’t complain too much…

Outside my work:

My computer at work:

View from my desk:

Today was another exciting day at work for me.. I wont go into any details, ’cause I’m too tired, but not too much really happened worth mentioning. My dad made it safely to our humble abode here in the little town of NYC. Luckily for us, he has a rental car so we can get to places we normally would be able to get to. Also, luckily for us not having a car in these wonderful times of >$3 a gallon for gas. We saw a place here today that was $3.89 for regular, and $4.19 for premium! Anyway. We had dinner at a vegetarian restaurant in Union Square called Zen Palate. It was pretty tasty. Candice wants to go again sometime.. and it’s only about 10 minutes (walk) from my work. We then struggled through evening weekend traffic and accross the river from Manhatten back into our litle ‘ole borrough of Queens. Then to bed for lack of energy to continue being awake. ::snore:: zzzzzzz…

this evening eric, aram and myself met up at zen palate for dinner. it was oh so yummy! we got zen rolls (or something like that), hot and sour soup, stickey rice (taaaassstttyyyy!), and two main dishes whose names i cannot recall. eric and i also split a pear and blueberry pie. everything there is vegetarian and vegan, which is nice. the food is SO good. eric and i will definately be going back there for dinners. it’s only a 5 minute walk from his work, which makes it handy for meetups.

well, it’s off to bed (or relaxing at least) for me! somewhere after dinner and the ride home a migrane took possession of my left temple. i took some extra strength tylenol with some diet cream soda (which, btw, has more caffeine than a coke) so it should ge gonners in another 10. toodles!

Today was a long day for me. Work actually takes up about 12 hours of my day… 1 to get ready, 1 to travel there, 9 hours at work, and then 1 more to get back home. By then I’m usually pretty tired. Today Candice took Jabba over to Lorrie’s house and I stopped by there after work. We had pizza for dinner with her and then I set up her entertainment center and her new DVD player. I hope it’s all working for her–especially since she has about 6 remote controls now. Candice and I didn’t get home until about 11pm tonight. Tomorrow’s friday (thank goodness) and my dad is flying over to visit us, so we’re anticipating his arrival. He’s going to rent a car, so we can acutally get to places like Target that are only about 5 miles away, but almost impossible to get to using public transportation.

it was yummy! nice and semi-dry on the inside, crisp on top. no gooey runniness in the middle, more like reheated pasta…my favorite. and no orange grease squirting out like cafeteria macaroni. eric liked it, too. i made a half recipe and eric and i, together, could only eat half of what i made. it was just your basic mac and cheese recipe, nothing fancy, nice and cheap.

oh, let me say that i have recovered from my aversion to spaghetti. i now eat it with no sauce, garlic, salt, and fresh parmesean, etc. potatoes are nice, too with massive amounts of fat-free sour cream and baco-bits. 🙂 but i still don’t like boxed macaroni. it gives me the blue box blues.

i just made macaroni and cheese! and no, it’s not the blue box please. *mine* smells so yummy! i don’t think i could eat the boxed stuff again. i ate too much of it growing up, along with spaghetti, and microwaved potatoes.

i’ll say how it tased after dinner.

Well, today was my second day of full-time work. The company I started working for is called Distance Learning, Inc. It’s a small company (less than 50 full-time employees.) They call my position ‘Help desk technician” but I’m more like a Junior Network Admin. Helpdesk usually involves helping people with problems with their internet connection or email and the like, but what I do is more like make sure the servers are running properly, doing backups, suggesting new ideas, updating software, and other maintenance tasks. It takes me about an hour (walking and on the subway) to get to work. Like most people, I wish there were more hours in the day. I also wish more places were open before 8 or after 5 or 6, ’cause I work all during that time. Anyway… I’m tired and getting ready to retire. Good night all.