{"id":1208,"date":"2008-01-27T22:41:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T22:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2020-11-04T11:29:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T16:29:58","slug":"apartment_hunting_juno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=1208","title":{"rendered":"apartment hunting + juno"},"content":{"rendered":"

i just noticed how long my archives have gotten. five years\u2026holy shit thats a long time to be blogging. or not blogging, as has been the case lately. i still remember posting five times a day every day when i first started\u2026craziness. yea, those days are over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SAKE, TAKE ME AWAY<\/b>
it was pretty good weekend, following a pretty grueling week. friday couldnt come any faster. a few of us were so glad it was friday that we snuck out and went straight to go get liquored at en<\/i>. i dont even know how much sake i had\u2026i just know i had enough to dissolve the meh of the week away. it was like a calgon commercial, except with alcohol instead of bath products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

APARTMENT HUNTING<\/b>
my parents finally had a chance to come into the city to check out apartments with me\u2026woo! they admitted that they really couldnt apply what they know of jersey real estate to ny real estate, so it was good for them to just come in, see the apartments, and get a feel for what it is to buy real estate in manhattan (700 sq ft? for serious??) our broker francesco showed us a number of apartments, saving my personal favorite (the one i saw with g+r) for last. we saw a number of nice apartments around washington heights, but my favorite was still hands-down the best. even my parents were thoroughly impressed\u2026yay! the only stipulation was that they didnt actually see the apartment. they saw a similar unit (for sale too) in the building. but that one was enough to impress them, and they liked the building too. the views out to the hudson river were a plus too. heres to crossing my fingers, getting a mortgage pre-approval, and seeing if they want to move on it\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

after my parents bailed on me for a party they had that night (of course), i met up with sally to go watch juno<\/i>. ah juno\u2026<3. good movie. it lived up to all the glowing reviews it got, and kitty pryde makes for a good disenfranchised pregnant teen. i heard tho that meet the spartans<\/i> still became the number one movie this weekend, which makes my brain sad. what the fuck is wrong with you people? its like you actually like pulling your eyes wide open and getting pooped on your eyeballs. ugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we followed up the movie with some setagaya<\/i>. not counting minca<\/i> since i havent been in a while, i have to say that im starting to prefer the ramen at setagaya<\/i> over those at rai rai ken<\/i>, oh noes! minca<\/i> still has the best broth tho imo. <3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PASSPORT BLEH<\/b>
and tomorrow i have my passport renewal meeting in the morning. im a fucking citizen\u2026why is it so difficult to renew my passport in a timely manner? i hate you people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

oh and one other thing i got to do this weekend. i got to play with my new 17-50mm lens while apartment shopping\u2026yay! its just a starter lens, not expensive and not low-light friendly. but i wanted a wide angle before i get shipped back to amsterdam. woo\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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i just noticed how long my archives have gotten. five years\u2026holy shit thats a long time to be blogging. or not blogging, as has been the case lately. i still remember posting five times a day every day when i first started\u2026craziness. yea, those days are over. SAKE, TAKE ME AWAYit was pretty good weekend, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7369,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/7369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}