current selection | the strokes – is this it
feelin’ | burned

okily…weekend continued. after my super-fun walk around manhattan, i bummed around my apt and cooked myself din. met up with marisol and terence later for drinkies at double happiness. nice and relaxing…and their gimlets are pretty damn good. we left around 1ish b/c i had to get up early and marisol had to work the next day (blech!). so this morning i get up around 9ish and make my way over to newark. me and fish were gonna make our way into pennsylvania for some kayaking. wooha! as we were headed along the roads towards the starting station, we saw alot of ppl on the water. it was a pretty coo day to be on the river. we went on the 10 mile course from pond eddy to matamoras. this is supposedly a 4.5 hour ride…but we actually tore thru it in a little over 2 hours…that even includes the half hour we spent relaxing on some rocks eating lunch. the whole time we’re baking nicely in the blazing sun…i think i toasted pretty nicely. im this nice shade of red right now…woo! anyhoo…after this trip we thought that we should start looking for more advanced runs. pond eddy was supposed to be advanced, even tho the rapids are rated 2…so we’re prolly gonna go hunt down level 4 rapids. afterwards we grabbed coffee and chess at this nearby coffee shop called 7th street coffee. they had a nice deck with umbrellas and benches…really coo. i got my ass kicked per usual. *shrug* we headed back to jersey and caught din at panera’s, where i got my ass kicked in chess again. fuck.

current selection | groove armada – chicago
feelin’ | pooped

ah…weekend. yay. weekends are nice…especially when weekdays suck. i decided to cook myself something different last nite, so i picked up a bunch of groceries on the way home. whenever i got bored of normal pasta in italy (alot), i cooked myself up some tortellini ala me. this is basically jus a meat stuffed tortellini cooked in (really) concentrated chicken broth served over olive oil and pesto with lemon garlic chicken. i was hungry last nite, so i skipped the chicken part and made the tortellini over pesto. yum. met up with sally later that nite to stroll around. we got some drinks and s’mores at cosi and jus lounged around talking. ah…so nice.

this morning i got up a little earlier than usual b/c me and my roomie fonz were meeting up with our hs bud rosen for lunch. i dropped by the post office first to send off my p.art to betty and anna, and then we went to around the clock for yum lunch. afterwards i headed off to take photos of projects for work. i took the longest possible way down to the greenwich st. project. shite. but b/c of this i got to pass alot of coo stores on the way. i stopped in mxyplyzyk and picked up some dog magnets, a woven table mat, and a kikkerland cranky. afterwards at the site, i took about 18 photos of greenwich and then decided to head over to chinatown. on the way, i passed by the coolest t-shirt store since goto shut down called zakka. they had alot of custom t’s, a design book area, and japanese toys! holy shit i luv this place. im broke, so i didnt get anything…but im definitely making it a point to head back. i headed onto chinatown to the elizabeth center, then eventually made my way home. phew…too much walking. i took the subway once…from 3rd ave to 8th, and i walked the rest. oochies. anyhoo…time to wind up cranky. look at him go!

whew…i feel like uking. but not on my white bedsheets…mebbe in the bathroom. apparently working out after 3 years of not working out makes u queesy. i felt like doing something with myself, so other than my on/off biking excursions (my shocks are fucked at the moment) i decided to go try out the gym facilities in my apt building. its a small room next to the common lounge with weights, a gym system, and about 6 machines. it has about one of each kinda workout…not bad. i started off with my flaky stretches…they bore me. so i started with sit-ups. after about 50 i was already feeling dizzy. super. then i hit the leg presses. easy. then some weight lifting at ultra-fly-weight. all this to the pounding soundtrack of law&order. woo! if i make this into a routine, ill eventually get really……….in shape. and thats all i ask for.

current selection | jamiroquai – virtual insanity
feelin’ | relaxed

4th of july weekend recap
last day of my mini-vacation. phoo. well…im pretty rested, so i suppose i wouldnt mind going back to work and the such. my new swishy sofa arrived thursday. i took the whole day off jus to be at my apt when it arrived. usually im peeved that deliveries happen at the most inopportune time, but this time they call me and tell me theyll deliver it sometime between 7 and 9…am. im like…u mean pm right? theyre like, nope…am. cripes. so i wake up at 7am and sit around in bed til i get the call from the doorman around 8ish. woohoo. after it was delivered, i doted around the apt for a while b4 heading out to pick up more apt kibble. met up with marisol and paulie later that nite for some drinks at the boxcar lounge…which happens to be around the corner from me now. woo! they were headed up to cornell for the weekend, and i was headed to jersey, so it was our pre-weekend-outing drink fest. we even got to sit out in their garden. sweet.

saturday i headed back to jersey. port authority was crazy…i actually missed my bus b/c they rearranged the gates for the weekend and there were a shitload of ppl in line getting tix and stuff. anyhoo, when i get back, my ‘rents pick me up and we head straight for the hunan noodle house. taiwanese beef noodle soup….yum. i jus doted around the house the rest of the day. havent watched tv in ages. sunday i meet up with fish for lunch and some chess at panera’s. i got a frontega chicken panino and a chicken noodle soup…with a side of coffee frap snuck in from starbucks. fish beat me stupid the first chess match and we drew the second game. i blew a big lead the second game, but didnt fuck up too much afterwards. damn. tomorrow/today’s sunday…time to find me some storage thingies for my closet.

current selection | seatbelts – the egg and i
feelin’ | still cold! argh…

i got a new hard drive today…woo! 80 gbs extra to store my stupidly massive database of project pictures, my 10+ gigs of design files….and uh, my mp3s. had a nice din last nite with alice and sally at shabu-tatsu. shabu shabu….yum yum. we had 3 orders of shabu shabu…which in hindsight was prolly too much. oochies. on the bright side, sally had to leave a little early to catch her train home, so i got her green tea ice cream. yum. so my sofas arriving in 2 days…woo! and ill prolly be heading back to nj for the 4th of july weekend. u kno…do the whole good son thang. in the meantime…going shoppin’ today for various apartment kibble.