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WHAT. A. WEEK. At last, a Sunday for loafing! It started out with finishing touches on the luxury magazine (and I'm being kept up at night worrying I forgot to correct one crucial instance of palate/palette, but there's nothing to be done now), then a spontaneous A+ pizza-and-cocktails experience with 
theladyscribe, and then Friday was supposed to be my "I'm heading out to a sunny place in the park wearing my brand-new bathing suit and a bunch of sunscreen and you can't stop me" day. Except when I stopped for lunch and was halfway through a delicious crusty tequila chicken sandwich, I... realized that my fake front tooth, which had been feeling wonky and tenuous for a while now, was... no longer where it should be.
Luckily, I snagged an emergency first-time dentist's appointment at an office that didn't close at 1 or 2 on a Friday (seriously, Brooklyn dentists, WTF??), and the lady who rebuilt the tooth (as opposed to the shady guy who did it last time by literally just gluing the broken piece back on) had such A++ music, and I'd never been happy with that tooth anyway -- it was crooked and too short and it stuck out between my lips when I smiled, so I was self-conscious about my smile for four and a half years. But this lady was super attuned to the aesthetics of it all, and holy shit, my front teeth look great now!
Also, the most amazing ad for kittens was taped along the front desk:
The Yankee Doodle Kittens need you!
Over the July 4th weekend, a rescue mission began to liberate 4 kittens from the fate of lives spent in a dangerous parking lot in Bay Ridge where they'd taken up residence.
The first two brought to safety were HAMILTON (black male) and LAFAYETTE (tabby female). The next one to be saved was ROCHAMBEAU (orange male). MULLIGAN (cream-colored male) then joined forces with his mother who protected him and helped him evade capture (even though it was for his own good!) for weeks!
The 4 have been reunited and are in good hands while waiting for that special someone - who could be you - to be their hero and offer them forever homes.
Hamilton & Lafayette have been inseparable and would be best adopted together. They love to play. Lafayette likes to have her chin and belly rubbed. Hamilton makes "yum-yum" noises when he eats his favorite meal!
Rochambeau is a dream come true; playful, sweet and a real purr machine.
Mulligan is a beauty who is happy to be swaddled and held in your arms.
If you've seen the musical Hamilton, you'll know their namesakes.
If you haven't seen it, adopting one (or more) of these "heroes" may be the next best thing - or even better!
To be a part of their history and join this rescue mission… &c &c &c.
I'M ALMOST TEMPTED, NGL.
So, having my teeth fixed happily meant that I didn't have to cancel my plan to head into Manhattan for
isjustprogress' birthday drinks! That was its own hilarity, because it was at Fulton Market, which I visited at age 8 when it was still full-on the Fulton Fish Market, and my primary association with it, as someone who gets ill at the smell of too much fish, was always as the worst odor I'd ever experienced in my life. It's outrageously gentrified now -- the only reason I recognized it at all was because of the highway overpass behind it.
Saturday started off delightful and just stayed that way the whole dang day. Beloved K from work's fiancee's grandmother is also named Esther, and C wanted to throw her a huge surprise birthday party at her favorite restaurant. Grandma Esther is now 90, although because she was a teenager when the Nazis occupied Bucharest, all her papers were confiscated and destroyed, so when she was reissued a birth certificate, it was for 1928 instead of 1926. Eighteen people showed up to hang out with her, enjoy a phenomenal lunch and sing for her, including the professional opera singer who did "O Solo Mio" and "La donna e` mobile" while holding her hands. (Video is on FB if we're friends there.) IT. WAS. GREAT. Beloved K's whole family was there, as was C's dad (they look exactly alike and it's darling!!), and it's always so nice to meet up with your friends' friends and confirm that they're wonderful people too.
This is us meeting for the first time. That's K in the middle. Grandma told me she hoped I had such a great life when I turned 29 too!
After that, I had some time to kill before my next meet-up, so I took a walk that
phoenixchilde will recognize, which was along the Battery (in full sight of Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty and Governor's Island) all the way to Union Square. All told, this turned out to be a 9.5-mile walking day, not too far off from a half-marathon. I got in good phone conversations with my dad and with my sister Erika, who because she lives in Seattle and has a very busy life working full-time and raising her now early teen and just-pre-teen daughters alone, only ever seems to call me at 9:30 on a Friday or Saturday, because of the three-hour time difference. It was muggy and stinking hot all day, which meant I was skeptical about the threat of thunderstorms, but I needn't have been, because HOLY CATS, it rained super, super hard and it was magical, frankly.
Which meant my shoes were still wet but I was freaking happy when
skygiants and I met up at a ridiculously fantastic Greek restaurant, where we both decided we couldn't resist the amazing cocktail list (click around for it) and laughed and laughed about tire fires and other contemporary topics of conversation. (She also has convinced/enabled me to try a draft of BBW immediately post-WWII, so that might be the rest of today - we'll see!) Then, as it turned out, she had an extra theater ticket for the evening, so, I mean - I wasn't going to not see The Curious Incident of the Dog at Nighttime from the second row!
I didn't know anything about the show or the book, save that the ceiling fell in during the London run in 2014 and that there is a trained rat of some significance and popularity. It was incredible! But so, so intense. (Ha ha, also, side note, Becca! Spoilers there.) Yeah, I will have to review that in another post, because it was so much to take in and think about. I understand why it's won so many awards, though.
So yeah, that brings me to today! When I got home last night around midnight, I still felt like I could keep going forever, which meant I was up reading this new comic book I bought for myself on Friday as consolation, despite being broke as hell. It's Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen (summary + buying/other languages links), which would make a great Yuletide fandom, note to self. I keep looking at comics now and trying to see if any of them are styles I want to learn or copy. One thing about Dylan Horrocks I was noticing was the way he does eyes as vertical ovals, and how interesting that was. I have a quick comics design of myself, but as I was doodling on the train Saturday morning, I tried the different eyes, and I'm really struck by it.
Not entirely accurate, as I need to account for my massive overbite a little more (see profile of me meeting Esther!), but I like it. That might wind up being part of today too. However, it's now noon and I need to hit the shower, so. So! What a good weekend so far! What a good Sunday it's going to be! ♥
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theladyscribe, and then Friday was supposed to be my "I'm heading out to a sunny place in the park wearing my brand-new bathing suit and a bunch of sunscreen and you can't stop me" day. Except when I stopped for lunch and was halfway through a delicious crusty tequila chicken sandwich, I... realized that my fake front tooth, which had been feeling wonky and tenuous for a while now, was... no longer where it should be.
Luckily, I snagged an emergency first-time dentist's appointment at an office that didn't close at 1 or 2 on a Friday (seriously, Brooklyn dentists, WTF??), and the lady who rebuilt the tooth (as opposed to the shady guy who did it last time by literally just gluing the broken piece back on) had such A++ music, and I'd never been happy with that tooth anyway -- it was crooked and too short and it stuck out between my lips when I smiled, so I was self-conscious about my smile for four and a half years. But this lady was super attuned to the aesthetics of it all, and holy shit, my front teeth look great now!
Also, the most amazing ad for kittens was taped along the front desk:
The Yankee Doodle Kittens need you!
Over the July 4th weekend, a rescue mission began to liberate 4 kittens from the fate of lives spent in a dangerous parking lot in Bay Ridge where they'd taken up residence.
The first two brought to safety were HAMILTON (black male) and LAFAYETTE (tabby female). The next one to be saved was ROCHAMBEAU (orange male). MULLIGAN (cream-colored male) then joined forces with his mother who protected him and helped him evade capture (even though it was for his own good!) for weeks!
The 4 have been reunited and are in good hands while waiting for that special someone - who could be you - to be their hero and offer them forever homes.
Hamilton & Lafayette have been inseparable and would be best adopted together. They love to play. Lafayette likes to have her chin and belly rubbed. Hamilton makes "yum-yum" noises when he eats his favorite meal!
Rochambeau is a dream come true; playful, sweet and a real purr machine.
Mulligan is a beauty who is happy to be swaddled and held in your arms.
If you've seen the musical Hamilton, you'll know their namesakes.
If you haven't seen it, adopting one (or more) of these "heroes" may be the next best thing - or even better!
To be a part of their history and join this rescue mission… &c &c &c.
I'M ALMOST TEMPTED, NGL.
So, having my teeth fixed happily meant that I didn't have to cancel my plan to head into Manhattan for
isjustprogress' birthday drinks! That was its own hilarity, because it was at Fulton Market, which I visited at age 8 when it was still full-on the Fulton Fish Market, and my primary association with it, as someone who gets ill at the smell of too much fish, was always as the worst odor I'd ever experienced in my life. It's outrageously gentrified now -- the only reason I recognized it at all was because of the highway overpass behind it.
Saturday started off delightful and just stayed that way the whole dang day. Beloved K from work's fiancee's grandmother is also named Esther, and C wanted to throw her a huge surprise birthday party at her favorite restaurant. Grandma Esther is now 90, although because she was a teenager when the Nazis occupied Bucharest, all her papers were confiscated and destroyed, so when she was reissued a birth certificate, it was for 1928 instead of 1926. Eighteen people showed up to hang out with her, enjoy a phenomenal lunch and sing for her, including the professional opera singer who did "O Solo Mio" and "La donna e` mobile" while holding her hands. (Video is on FB if we're friends there.) IT. WAS. GREAT. Beloved K's whole family was there, as was C's dad (they look exactly alike and it's darling!!), and it's always so nice to meet up with your friends' friends and confirm that they're wonderful people too.
This is us meeting for the first time. That's K in the middle. Grandma told me she hoped I had such a great life when I turned 29 too!
After that, I had some time to kill before my next meet-up, so I took a walk that
phoenixchilde will recognize, which was along the Battery (in full sight of Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty and Governor's Island) all the way to Union Square. All told, this turned out to be a 9.5-mile walking day, not too far off from a half-marathon. I got in good phone conversations with my dad and with my sister Erika, who because she lives in Seattle and has a very busy life working full-time and raising her now early teen and just-pre-teen daughters alone, only ever seems to call me at 9:30 on a Friday or Saturday, because of the three-hour time difference. It was muggy and stinking hot all day, which meant I was skeptical about the threat of thunderstorms, but I needn't have been, because HOLY CATS, it rained super, super hard and it was magical, frankly.
Which meant my shoes were still wet but I was freaking happy when
skygiants and I met up at a ridiculously fantastic Greek restaurant, where we both decided we couldn't resist the amazing cocktail list (click around for it) and laughed and laughed about tire fires and other contemporary topics of conversation. (She also has convinced/enabled me to try a draft of BBW immediately post-WWII, so that might be the rest of today - we'll see!) Then, as it turned out, she had an extra theater ticket for the evening, so, I mean - I wasn't going to not see The Curious Incident of the Dog at Nighttime from the second row!
I didn't know anything about the show or the book, save that the ceiling fell in during the London run in 2014 and that there is a trained rat of some significance and popularity. It was incredible! But so, so intense. (Ha ha, also, side note, Becca! Spoilers there.) Yeah, I will have to review that in another post, because it was so much to take in and think about. I understand why it's won so many awards, though.
So yeah, that brings me to today! When I got home last night around midnight, I still felt like I could keep going forever, which meant I was up reading this new comic book I bought for myself on Friday as consolation, despite being broke as hell. It's Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen (summary + buying/other languages links), which would make a great Yuletide fandom, note to self. I keep looking at comics now and trying to see if any of them are styles I want to learn or copy. One thing about Dylan Horrocks I was noticing was the way he does eyes as vertical ovals, and how interesting that was. I have a quick comics design of myself, but as I was doodling on the train Saturday morning, I tried the different eyes, and I'm really struck by it.
Not entirely accurate, as I need to account for my massive overbite a little more (see profile of me meeting Esther!), but I like it. That might wind up being part of today too. However, it's now noon and I need to hit the shower, so. So! What a good weekend so far! What a good Sunday it's going to be! ♥
This was originally posted on Dreamwidth, where it has
comments. I would love to hear from you at DW! If you can see this post, you can comment here using OpenID. Thanks!