okay so there are cons to city life. i admit that it sometimes sucks not to be able to see the sky. it's not necessarily worth moving to montana for, but it would have been nice to see jupiter and mars set just after the sun did tonight. we went up to the roof before sunset, and venus was bright under the thin crescent moon, but as the clouds got dark it became clear that our horizon of skyscrapers wasn't going to cut it. i suppose it was pretty cloudy out, anyway.
here is the article at marssociety.org
happy 2009.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Saturday, December 27, 2008
happy birthday to me
it's my 30th birthday. after midnight, it won't be my birthday anymore; i'll just be 30.
daisy and i went to toys r' us in times square; if you asked me where i wanted to be on my birthday that's the last place i'd say. but we got the diamond edition of scrabble with the black tiles. the blanks have pictures of diamonds on them. it's great.
we went for sushi. we went out for dinner on a saturday night. which, if you asked me what i wanted to do on my birthday, is the last thing i'd say. it was delish.
we got a bottle of pierre gimonnet and on the way home from dinner we stopped at fish's eddy and bought two flutes. they were 25% off. which is quite a mark-up in this economy.
on an unrelated note: i submit that if you live in new york city and you get the urge to spend a little money frivolously on the off chance of winning a little more, take a cab instead of buying a scratch off lottery ticket. since i moved back, i've found three cell phones, several twenties and once, a hundo -- all in cabs i've taken when i should have saved money and taken the train. so there you go. you won't win $1000 a week for life, but you might get twenty bucks right now.
incidentally, if you asked me what my ideal birthday surprise would have been, i would probably have said catching the cash cab. but a girl can't have it all in one day. although that bottle of bubbly is about to get me closer.
daisy and i went to toys r' us in times square; if you asked me where i wanted to be on my birthday that's the last place i'd say. but we got the diamond edition of scrabble with the black tiles. the blanks have pictures of diamonds on them. it's great.
we went for sushi. we went out for dinner on a saturday night. which, if you asked me what i wanted to do on my birthday, is the last thing i'd say. it was delish.
we got a bottle of pierre gimonnet and on the way home from dinner we stopped at fish's eddy and bought two flutes. they were 25% off. which is quite a mark-up in this economy.
on an unrelated note: i submit that if you live in new york city and you get the urge to spend a little money frivolously on the off chance of winning a little more, take a cab instead of buying a scratch off lottery ticket. since i moved back, i've found three cell phones, several twenties and once, a hundo -- all in cabs i've taken when i should have saved money and taken the train. so there you go. you won't win $1000 a week for life, but you might get twenty bucks right now.
incidentally, if you asked me what my ideal birthday surprise would have been, i would probably have said catching the cash cab. but a girl can't have it all in one day. although that bottle of bubbly is about to get me closer.
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