i really do wish there were a way to stretch the period of time between thanksgiving and christmas. it flies by way too fast. maybe we should move thanksgiving to sometime in…august. yes, august…then we can pop out the christmas decorations at the end of summer and ride the holiday season all through fall and winter. word.
END OF NOVEMBER
hmm, i guess i haven’t posted a “journal” entry in a while. bullet-point time…or at the least a summation of various things i did, but without the specific times or days. the end of november saw fonz’s berfday drinkies at 2a in e.vil, luis’ berfday drinks the following day at the whiskey tavern in chinatown, brunch with pho at nyonya (hey they moved across the street!), and thanksgiving with my sis and her extended family in joisey.
DECEMBER PROPER
decembers events are a bit better catalogued, and it started with a mini-hot pot gathering at my place last weekend with i4, max, patsy, mai, and john. we loaded up enough food from chinatown for probably a small village and fired up dual hot pots. we got stuffed. it was good. i spent the rest of the week in a food coma, then met up with melissa friday nite at robata-ya for plates and plates of robata goodness. i think (it’s a bit fuzzy) we also tore thru a round of shochu, followed by 3 rounds of sake. this was then expounded upon with 2 more rounds of sake at decibel, and another 2 rounds of…stuff…at angels share. i’m surprised that i shook it off as easily as i did the next day.
di and i went to check out the samurai exhibit at the met the next day. the exhibit was ending january 10th (it’s a relatively short exhibit), and this was one exhibit that i would stab someone with a shank if i missed. the sizable collection of robes, samurai armor, and seriously gorgeous katanas made me giddy, though i sort of regretted that i took this long to see it (they change out the exhibit every week or so since their collection for the exhibit was larger than the amount displayed). god i hope they bring back a similar exhibit in the future.
afterwards, we decided on a ramen dinner in midtown. this was actually a stupid idea…i don’t know what i was thinking. we got out of the 6 train and had to fight our way west towards sapporo on 49th and broadway. and for those unfamiliar with midtown geography, rockefeller center is between the 6 train and the aforementioned ramen joint. *sigh* well, i will admit it was nice walking past the rockefeller christmas tree. i hadn’t actually seen it in person in years. so purty. after our ramen dinner, we decided to get the fuck out of midtown and back to more familiar locales (e.vil, duh). we actually had decided on cha-an for a post-dinner tea retreat, but that was overruled after seeing the long line winding down the stairs. fuck that…we’re going to go get liquored. i’m not usually one to double-dip bars on the same weekend, but yea…i found myself back at angels share. this was however ok, as we tried out their seasonal fair this time around. di had their “hot cocoa” drink (earl gray infused godiva chocolate liqueur) and i had their “hot apple cider” (calvados, hot apple cider, caramel syrup, and roasted apple slices)…holy shit good. we also chatted up our neighbors to our left who were curious about the drinks and about eats around the area (you asked the right dude!).