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Life has been pretty good for the most part. I’ve been keeping busy. Saw a bunch of movies in the past month… Hangover 2, Bridesmaids, the new Xmen, Beginners, and Midnight in Paris. I’ve been trying to make it a tradition of going to the movies every Tuesday either to the Clearview theatre for free or to the City Center for $6, trying to take advantage of those deals. Also go on the weekends too.
Going out to dinner a lot, that’s always fun. Mike, Justin, Jen and I have been talking about going to Stir Crazy in the Palisades mall for forever now and we haven’t gone yet. We were supposed to go on a Thursday a couple weeks ago, but as I was leaving work it decided to thunderstorm like crazy. And there was too much traffic at 287 at that time. So we went to Applebee’s instead.
I’ve been to the Palisades mall twice in the past month for other things though. They’re getting an Ihop which is exciting. The one in White Plains is too damn crowded all the time, but this one should be alright. I tried the new restaurant Tony Namos (?), which was pretty good. And I went to the bowling alley there, never been there before. I have to talk about that…
This past Wednesday Mat and I decided to go bowling. I had to work ‘til 6 so we said we’d meet up at White Plains Bowl around 7. The fucking place had no lanes available. They said not until 9 o’clock. So we tried to figure out what else to do, perhaps go to a restaurant for dinner and then come back or do something else. I suggested we go to the bowling alley in the Palisades. Originally I didn’t want to go there because there’d be traffic, but at this point it was almost 7:30 so I knew it wouldn’t be bad.
I drove us to the Palisades and we went to Lucky Strikes. This place is AWESOME. It makes bowling look cool. It looks like a cool lounge. There’s a bar and tables to sit and eat and of course music playing. There are also pool tables and a couple other arcade games. We bowled a quick game. I haven’t been bowling since I was a kid and the Wii Bowling does not count, haha. I did pretty well though (probably just really lucky) and won. =)
We bowled just one game and went to eat. We decided to just eat there in the restaurant area since the place felt so damn nice. We just didn’t want to leave. For dinner I got a cheeseburger slider and fries and we shared these little tomato/mozzarella/basil sandwiches. They had a ton of things on the menu that looked so good, especially the appetizers and sides you could split. Our waitress was terrible so dinner took over an hour.
At a certain point, something about the music changed. It sounded like someone was doing karaoke, but there wasn’t. We were like looking around to see if there was a DJ setting up somewhere. Then I looked at the flyer on the table… Wednesdays were karaoke nights! How friggin’ perfect? lol. It said karaoke started at 9pm and we checked the time… 8:50. We were so excited.
It took a little bit before someone actually sang. But once it got going, it was so much fun to listen to. We couldn’t really see that well from our table unless we leaned over a bit. We couldn’t wait to finish/pay our check so we could move to closer table. Our waitress took FOREVER. Mat had to go up and ask someone else (who turned out to be the manager) for our check. But thankfully we finished and were able to move to a booth right near the DJ.
There was this woman Donna who was up there all night. Like literally every other song. Sometimes she would sing a duet with someone, but even if there was someone else all you could hear was Donna. I said it wasn’t karaoke, it was more like Donna in concert or Donna’s cabaret, lmao. But a couple other people went up too. There was this one young crazy (probably drunk, or at least acting drunk) dude who sang the funniest, best rendition of “Genie in a Bottle” I’ve ever heard. He was basically like screaming it and seducing the DJ by rubbing his head and doing some sexy moves. It was HILARIOUS.
Mat sang “Uptown Girl” and was SO good. He kept encouraging me to go up there and do a song or do a duet with him. And I actually did. He put our names in for “Don’t Stop Believing.” Soon it our turn. Mat asked the DJ if it had both a girl and boy part to it and the DJ was like, “Oh, you want the Glee version!” haha. So we did the Glee version of it. We were awesome! I’m surprised that he got me to go up there. Neither one of us has gone karaoke-ing before. Everyone in my family knows that I love to sing, and I’ll do it at someone’s house or something like that, but never in a bar full of strangers. But I did it. I was even more shocked that I lost my stage fright once I got up there. The only thing that sucks is that the music is so loud, you can’t hear yourself at all. But the audience can hear you so I guess it’s alright. Hopefully Donna loved us. She was dancing in her seat so I guess that’s a good sign. =P We wanna go back so bad, we’re already talking about what other songs we’d do together.
Going out to dinner a lot, that’s always fun. Mike, Justin, Jen and I have been talking about going to Stir Crazy in the Palisades mall for forever now and we haven’t gone yet. We were supposed to go on a Thursday a couple weeks ago, but as I was leaving work it decided to thunderstorm like crazy. And there was too much traffic at 287 at that time. So we went to Applebee’s instead.
I’ve been to the Palisades mall twice in the past month for other things though. They’re getting an Ihop which is exciting. The one in White Plains is too damn crowded all the time, but this one should be alright. I tried the new restaurant Tony Namos (?), which was pretty good. And I went to the bowling alley there, never been there before. I have to talk about that…
This past Wednesday Mat and I decided to go bowling. I had to work ‘til 6 so we said we’d meet up at White Plains Bowl around 7. The fucking place had no lanes available. They said not until 9 o’clock. So we tried to figure out what else to do, perhaps go to a restaurant for dinner and then come back or do something else. I suggested we go to the bowling alley in the Palisades. Originally I didn’t want to go there because there’d be traffic, but at this point it was almost 7:30 so I knew it wouldn’t be bad.
I drove us to the Palisades and we went to Lucky Strikes. This place is AWESOME. It makes bowling look cool. It looks like a cool lounge. There’s a bar and tables to sit and eat and of course music playing. There are also pool tables and a couple other arcade games. We bowled a quick game. I haven’t been bowling since I was a kid and the Wii Bowling does not count, haha. I did pretty well though (probably just really lucky) and won. =)
We bowled just one game and went to eat. We decided to just eat there in the restaurant area since the place felt so damn nice. We just didn’t want to leave. For dinner I got a cheeseburger slider and fries and we shared these little tomato/mozzarella/basil sandwiches. They had a ton of things on the menu that looked so good, especially the appetizers and sides you could split. Our waitress was terrible so dinner took over an hour.
At a certain point, something about the music changed. It sounded like someone was doing karaoke, but there wasn’t. We were like looking around to see if there was a DJ setting up somewhere. Then I looked at the flyer on the table… Wednesdays were karaoke nights! How friggin’ perfect? lol. It said karaoke started at 9pm and we checked the time… 8:50. We were so excited.
It took a little bit before someone actually sang. But once it got going, it was so much fun to listen to. We couldn’t really see that well from our table unless we leaned over a bit. We couldn’t wait to finish/pay our check so we could move to closer table. Our waitress took FOREVER. Mat had to go up and ask someone else (who turned out to be the manager) for our check. But thankfully we finished and were able to move to a booth right near the DJ.
There was this woman Donna who was up there all night. Like literally every other song. Sometimes she would sing a duet with someone, but even if there was someone else all you could hear was Donna. I said it wasn’t karaoke, it was more like Donna in concert or Donna’s cabaret, lmao. But a couple other people went up too. There was this one young crazy (probably drunk, or at least acting drunk) dude who sang the funniest, best rendition of “Genie in a Bottle” I’ve ever heard. He was basically like screaming it and seducing the DJ by rubbing his head and doing some sexy moves. It was HILARIOUS.
Mat sang “Uptown Girl” and was SO good. He kept encouraging me to go up there and do a song or do a duet with him. And I actually did. He put our names in for “Don’t Stop Believing.” Soon it our turn. Mat asked the DJ if it had both a girl and boy part to it and the DJ was like, “Oh, you want the Glee version!” haha. So we did the Glee version of it. We were awesome! I’m surprised that he got me to go up there. Neither one of us has gone karaoke-ing before. Everyone in my family knows that I love to sing, and I’ll do it at someone’s house or something like that, but never in a bar full of strangers. But I did it. I was even more shocked that I lost my stage fright once I got up there. The only thing that sucks is that the music is so loud, you can’t hear yourself at all. But the audience can hear you so I guess it’s alright. Hopefully Donna loved us. She was dancing in her seat so I guess that’s a good sign. =P We wanna go back so bad, we’re already talking about what other songs we’d do together.