Just Messin' With You Sasquatch in Magical Realism

Tuesday afternoon I went out with my work colleagues for a team dinner. We started off with hot popovers and fresh butter, which I don't think I'd ever had but were completely awesome. We shared a ton of appetizers, grilled octopus, calamari, etc. - I didn't want to get too full before my main course after the popover so I mainly snacked on the (delicious!) tuna tartare. My main course was made up of sea scallops with some purple and green cauliflower roasted with some sort of tumeric coating. I don't think I'd ever had tumeric but I liked it! Plus I believe it's a superfood, so bonus for that.

Lots of wine with dinner and then we went upstairs to their rooftop cocktail bar. They were having a special on Sazeracs in honor of Mardi Gras, even when I'm not paying I still love a special! Then they brought us gift bags, and king cake cupcakes. I was super-full so didn't have mine until the next day but it was tasty, and festive! A stopped by and we went to another place for our traditional Mardi Gras rum and cokes and Jack Daniel's. Then we went to the drugstore. Somehow I managed to run out of shampoo, sunscreen, and lotion all on the same day, so it was fun to restock. After that we went home, where I then proceeded to stay up most of the night watching "The Talented Mr. Ripley" on NetFlix. I had seen it at least once before, but extra surreal to watch Philip Seymour Hoffman's character die in the movie when he just died in real life. Sad stuff. We used to see him around the block a lot - he tended to draw my attention as he was usually wearing sweatpants.

Wednesday I worked from home, made chocolate protein pancakes for lunch because it was all we had left in the house. (That and the king cake cupcake which I'd already eaten for breakfast.) Headed out around 5pm for a Metabolic Conditioning class, I got there super-early somehow so I walked on the treadmill with Kendra for a bit before class, haven't seen her in several weeks with our respective travel schedules. Class was great, but then I had to run back downtown straight away to get on a 7pm conference call.

A and I went to the grocery store after that and got loads of lovely fresh food. He made me a tomato and mozzarella sandwich on this awesome fresh sourdough bread, then I did lots of chopping/seasoning and put chicken, brussels sprouts, and butternut squash in to bake in the oven for lunches. (That is all I ever seem to eat these days, but it's so easy and I love it!) Took a shower, put everything away, and then fell asleep about 5 minutes into "The Following."

Then this morning I woke up to the lovely sounds of the NYPD buzzing and then knocking on my door at 7am! It was like a "Law & Order" episode. Crazy stuff. I had no idea what was happening at first, but they were investigating someone who used to live in the building. They showed me a picture and had me identify them and everything. I have this person as a contact on a social media site so I looked up some info for them, kind of funny that this is a tool for law enforcement now. Someone in my building must have called the cops on them from the loud buzzing/knocking - they started laughing when this happened. They said they are based in Brooklyn and said they do the same think all the time there and no once complains, but the second they come into Manhattan people call the police on them. I love that they called the cops on the cops.

The rest of the day has been uneventful in comparison, but there is still time.