Bollywood Hawaii in Magical Realism

Thursday - worked downtown, did Tabata high intensity intervals class, then vinyasa yoga right afterwards. Showered, went home, and A had made quinoa salad for us with radishes, avocado, and cucumber.

Friday - did a volunteer event with our interns, with pizza for lunch, but A had made me a really nice salad with radishes, baby spinach, baby kale, grilled steak, and fresh lemon, so I ate that. Very tasty! It was a short day, but afterward I had to go up to Times Square to pick up some stuff for my mom. I wanted to go to yoga afterwards and had even packed my bag, but had some time before the next class, so went home to drop off the stuff. I lay down and was completely knocked out by allergies. I even found this amazing show, Little Women: LA on Hulu and could not even stay awake for that! A went to a happy hour until about 8pm, by that time I had been asleep for like 3 hours! He came home, I woke up a bit and we watched some Orange is the New Black, and I passed out until like 3pm Saturday afternoon.

I really wanted to watch the Belmont Stakes, but again could not muster to get out of bed. A ducked out to the local sports bar for like 15 minutes to catch the race, then picked up some food. We ate, watched a bit more OITNB and then went to sleep. On Sunday I slept in until like 3pm that day too, but got dressed to go to an open house in Chelsea at 5pm. Really wild space, couple had been living there for 40 years - the building itself seems like kind of a handful but definitely has potential. Amazing high ceilings, top floor, great location. Unique, but I go back and forth. Anyway. After that we walked home and got 16 Handles on the way. I got a mix of sorbets but should have gone with the Birthday Cake flavor. Went home, took a shower, went to sleep. Allergies knocked me out practically the whole weekend!

Monday was back to work - I worked from home to take delivery of A's new computer, very exciting. Around 5pm I started getting ready to go out - showered, blowdried, make-uped, put on a black cocktail dress and red peeptoe heels. Brought out my super-cute half-moon WOC clutch instead of a massive totebag for once - score! Took subway up to the NYPL to meet A for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Awards. Lots of wine, a little bit of cheese, and most of the cast of Boardwalk Empire, but not Steve Buscemi.!

From left to right: Guy from Boardwalk Empire, Michael K. Williams (Chalky on BE, Omar from The Wire), Gretchen Mol (who is in a lot of things, but always looks like she's from the flapper era), annoying moderator girl, (who luckily didn't talk much, unlike the time she "interviewed" Joan Didion and didn't let her get a word in edgewise!) Kelly MacDonald (PRINCESS MERIDA!!!) and Arnold Rothstein from BE.)

Each of the actors read a passage from the nominated books. The readings were okay, it was obvious most of them hadn't put too much time into preparing. The book I was rooting for won, so that was good, and we took home four free books, which was awesome!

After the event we walked crosstown through Bryant Park into Times Square. It was less hectic than usual and the moon over the Chrysler Building was really beautiful. We took the subway downtown and went in search of food. We decided on a spot near our apartment - it has changed names/themes a bunch in the past couple of years, and we hadn't had their food yet in this incarnation.

Very weirdly, Dave, one of A's best friends from his hometown was waiting tables there! Dave is an actor (supports himself with waitering and commercials mostly, but does a ton of wacky performance art/theater.) Dave is kind of random and goes on and off the grid a lot, so A had no idea he was even working there...and it's like a block from our house! We had drinks and a spot of dinner (tuna crudo, ridiculously good Balthazar bread, and scallops with charred ramps and some sort of puree.) Dave was done for the night so after he finished he sat down with us for a glass of wine. After dinner I figured I'd let them chat, so I said goodbye, went home, washed up, and went online. I ordered a wig, colorful hair extensions, and a sequined costume. (Because I am a drag queen.) Went to sleep.

Yesterday I worked from home, and ate pretty much everything we had in the house. I made crepes twice, from whole wheat flower, an egg, chocolate milk, and cinnamon. In late afternoon I ate baby carrots, tuna cup, and drank Java Monster, a canned coffee energy drink that we'd gotten in a swag bag from some event like 6 months ago. It was pretty good! Went to the rowing circuit class (my favorite) and power flow yoga (my yoga favorite.)

Took a shower at the gym, and headed to the grocery store. Got a watermelon, blueberries, purple cabbage, and red apples. I was getting green apples for A when he came up behind me. Ha! We got flour, tumeric, Siggi's yogurt, eggs, and on a whim, I got some textured vegetable protein. I got some canned tomatoes and beans with idea of making a chili type dish with it, will see how that goes. Apparently you can also make taco filling, veggie burgers, and even pseudo-oatmeal with this stuff - I can never get enough protein so am very intrigued.

We went home and A cut up the watermelon while I did some work. The watermelon was so good and we were tired so we just ate the watermelon. Not the best idea! A made us each a protein shake too, but I still don't think that was enough food.

Went to bed too late, woke up this morning a bit before 7am. Went through our mail, washed dishes, and made us salads for lunch. A's had grilled chicken, baby kale, some sort of bibb lettuce, carrots, and cucumbers with the skin on. Mine had a little bit of grilled chicken, half an avocado, carrots, kale/lettuce, and cucumber with skin peeled. (The lettuce, cucumber and avo were all on their last legs so needed to be used ASAP!) Got washed up/dressed/ready for work, ate two fried eggs, and got to the office a bit after 8. Had a call at 8:30am and am now eating a red (gala!) apple and drinking iced green tea.