i\u2019m home! and when i say \u201chome<\/i>\u201c, i really mean \u201chome<\/i>\u201c\u2026as in \u201cmi casa<\/i>\u201c. it\u2019s been nearly a full year since i first started looking for an apartment to buy\u2026but now i\u2019ve finally closed, moved in, started piling shit into my place\u2026etc. and its been pretty good so far. the apartment is nearly fully furnished. there are only a few pieces left to either build or put up, but hopefully by the end of this week i can say that my apartment is 99% done (with only random household doodads left to buy). k, now i have to backtrack (per usual) since it\u2019s been a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FURNITURE SHOPPING<\/b>
the saturday before i moved in, i headed out in the shitty weather to furniture shop around manhattan with ky. i had an entire list of shops to check out\u2026for some reason i thought i\u2019d actually hit all the stores. ha! we spent most of our time browsing cb<\/i> and cb2<\/i>, who are admittedly straight up my alley. cb2<\/i> more than cb<\/i>\u2026but i dig both their stuff. i ended up ordering a couch set from cb<\/i>, along with a number of other pieces of furniture from cb2<\/i>. by this time it was already well into the evening\u2026bugger. we ran thru the rain to have dinner at blue ribbon sushi<\/i> in soho, followed by drinkies at little branch<\/i>. then i had to dart back to port authority to catch the bus back to joisey (i won\u2019t miss those)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MOVE-IN<\/b>
i moved in the following saturday\u2026and then pretty much spending every day after that picking up extra household necessities and assembling the furniture i\u2019d ordered (with a ton of help from g+r). they were pretty much over every night helping me assemble furniture and setting up my apartment, so mucho thumbs up to them\u2026you two rock. ikea in red hook too on sunday to pick up some book shelves (and other random shit i happened to come across). i met up with ky again afterwards for dinner at cube 63<\/i> in\u2026whatever brooklyn neighborhood we were in. lets be honest\u2026i know shit about brooklyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FIOS<\/b>
the verizon people swung by wednesday to set up my fios cable and internet\u2026.fuck yea! wednesday nite was also g\u2019s big berfday bash at kanvas<\/i>! except kanvas<\/i> is gone! so we relocated to la bottega<\/i> instead\u2026woots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FUGIO DIEM<\/b>
thursday was steph and jj\u2019s premier party for their short film fugio diem<\/i> at the knitting factory<\/i>. very cool\u2026there were even boobies. boobies!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MARISOL\u2019S WEDDING<\/b>
i continued picking up more things for my apartment all week long\u2026eventually leading up to saturday\u2026m\u2019s wedding. omg! i met up with sean and anna saturday morning at grand central to catch the metro north. m and chris were having their wedding at a water-side park in connecticut, so we took the train out to new haven, then caught a taxi to the wedding site. the ceremony was held out on the beach (should\u2019ve brought sandals\u2026doh) and the reception was held in a carousel house next to the beach, replete with a working carousel. very cool. it was a nice and not-too-formal wedding\u2026word. grats you two. considering my currently-broke nature, i took a ton of photos for them in lieu of an actual wedding present. only a few hundred photos left to photoshop\u2026whew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SUNDAY REMAINDERS<\/b>
\u2026and ideally i wouldve ended the post there. but hey\u2026the fun continues. sean and anna came over for brunch sunday morning after they got out of church (they were already uptown). i made them home fries and my specialty omelettes, feta and chorizos with cilantro, basil, pepper, and other random spices. the home fries came out especially good\u2026yay! they headed home to rest after brunch, while i headed down to soho to pick up extra things. i actually ran into ky and her friend outside of cb<\/i>\u2026which was a nice coincidence. we talked for a while before they headed back to brooklyn and i went into cb<\/i> to find some nice coasters. i decided to continue south towards muji<\/i>, and while waiting for the lights to change at prince st, i thought i spotted another friend of mine and called out to him. holy fuck its brad! brad not only went to cornell with me (one of only a few non-architect friends of mine), but is actually from my hometown also. he wouldve even been a frat brother if i hadnt come to my senses and wondered to myself \u201cwtf\u2026did i just rush a frat?!?<\/i>\u201d i hadnt actually seen brad since he graduated from cornell and headed off to tulane for med school. we had just gotten back in touch thru facebook about a month ago, but shit\u2026this was just freaky coincidence. we grabbed coffee at cafe angelique<\/i> and caught up on about 8 years worth of stuff, which was pretty nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
i headed off to continue shopping after coffee and met up with di later for sunday night ramen. shoyu char-siu ramen at setagaya<\/i>\u2026yum yum. we grabbed a round of drinks at angels share<\/i> to round out the night, since i hadnt actually seen di in a while and had a ton of stories to tell. woot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
k, now im shit tired. ive gone thru only about 10 photos so far from saturday. *sigh<\/i>* so many\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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