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Having an extra day off today for MLK Jr. Day is fabulous. The weekend felt extra long and we were able to get a lot done. On Saturday, after doing loads of laundry, hubby and I made our way to Brooklyn Brewery to meet up with his co-worker. The brewery is great - it holds tours and also has a bar area where you get all of their different beers. (My favorite - the pilsner!) We arrived there around 4pm, but it seemed that many of the people there had been there since the brewery opened at noon. There were a few tables that were making pyramids out of the plastic cups they had from all the beer they drank. We then met up with the French and a couple of other friends at Brooklyn Bowl around the corner from the brewery. Have you been there? It's a huge bowling alley with a concert stage, big bar and a restaurant with food by Blue Ribbon. The waiting list for bowling was three hours long! While we waited, we watched performers try to get through every Beatles song (over two days) performing with a guy on a ukulele and then grabbed dinner at Sea Thai. Three hours later (literally!), we made it back to the bowling alley and finally bowled. I did terrible (terrible!) our first two games - I bowled a 33 our second game! I made a comeback in game three but of course we ran out of time and couldn't finish the entire game. Hubby, with his hurling style beat, everyone each game and the other ladies bowled like champs.
We made it home in time to watch one of the funniest SNL digital shorts with Andy Samberg and Pee Wee Herman.
Yesterday, we went furniture shopping! We're looking for the perfect couch, but choosing just one is not as easy as it seems. Here's our first choice, the Greenwich Sofa from Pottery Barn:
I know I haven't posted any photos of the new apartment. Patience my darlings. They're coming.
do you remember the leg lamp in the christmas story? i have one of those in my apartment. yesterday one of the new floor lamps we ordered came and it's hideous. it's glows red! i must have been tired or just not listening to hubby when we were looking online for lamps. it looks fine when it's off and the top torch part matches with our red couch. but hubby turned it on last night and my skin crawls. it's terrible and i hate it! hubby, on the other hand, really adores it. why?! it's ugly and it glows red! as a supportive wife, i said he can leave it for a day and i'll think about it. ok, i've considered it and it's time to go. i've already found it's replacement.
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ok, it's not "new". we were debating whether we should stay in the apartment for another year or not. pros: lots of space, convenient to everything, we both walk to work, in our price range, quiet neighbors. cons: older building and older apartment. obviously the pros outweighed the cons, but we both needed a change. so..."we" (meaning michael) vaccuumed all the corners and footboards which made it a thousand times cleaner. we moved around our furniture and made a lot more room. i put up new pictures on the walls. we ordered more artwork and lighting and changed our curtains. we also bought a new tv (!) and took advantage of cyber monday. whew! i tried taking pictures of the new space but it doesn't look very photogenic. here's a photo of the frames i put up with photos from the waterfalls they put under the bridges last year and a wall of bottles from the brooklyn brewery. (i heart ny!) to see everything else, you'll just have to visit!
