August 25, 2007

Evocations

I've posted a similar, if not the same image above before, but this morning, for a Saturday which finds Craig sleeping in and neither of us with expectations of today (for the first time nearly all summer!), I'm inspired to recall just how wonderful it feels to have a home that we love so sincerely. Today, also inspired by the 90+ degree heat outside, we intend to clean our home, scrub it down like we're preparing for guests only we're not, and entertain each other versus a string of other people. Fun!*It's been a really eventful several weeks, including but not limited to going to Pianos a second Sunday in a row (last weekend) to see Jeff drum, only this time with our friends Laura and Brian from Brooklyn, eating sushi (maybe I've mentioned that but it is deserving of another mention, since it's a treat for me and I can rarely drag Craig to eat sushi), eating at Don Pedro's a second time (the second time not as commendable as our first go round), working long hours with little reward through the weeks, discovering and making two terrific Cooking Light salads, one which we shared with Alison and Scott which they can't stop talking about, and last night, going to Alison and Scott's to help make Spicy Chicken Cakes with Horseradish Aioli, Creamy Parmesan Orzo and Asparagus (second time for us to have these, first time for Alison and Scott - they loved it!) Their apartment is beyond belief beautiful - huge, for a New York apartment, with glossy kitchen appliances, a granite countertop large enough to fit our entire kitchen, and perfect hospitality provided by Alison and Scott, to boot. They are into their first week of Weight Watchers and I must say, this idea of becoming healthy as a 30-something just fits right nicely into life. But it's hard. It's really, really hard. The restaurants in New York - where to begin to brag of their overindulgence? Exercise? Are you kidding me? When? We wake up between 5 and 6, we're out the door not long after, we don't get home until anywhere between 5 and 7 each night - calculate the free hours there - 3? (that's not very much time) and then we're in bed to wake up and offer our souls back to the job the next day. Granted, we are New Yorkers and New Yorkers walk, on average, a million more steps than other Americans, so at least we've got that. Anyway, we encouraged Alison and Scott last night as well as we could - they feel their encouragement is just seeing us in the flesh, considering they traveled to England a year ago with the two of us carrying around something like 45 lbs. more combined than we carry around now! Amazing.*I really intend to get back to posting more frequently. I think summertime is a wash. Everyone pitches it out the window because really, who gets anything done in the summertime? Last weekend we traveled to Long Island to sit by our co-workers' pool and drink and eat all day, which ultimately resulted in several of us being thrown in the water, Craig included, equipped with wallet and cell phone in pocket. That has yielded us to cancel our Sprint service (did so yesterday) and to go purchase new razor phones with AT&T service with the eventual dream of owning iPhones someday. Meanwhile, Saturday mornings like this one, where we stayed on the West Side with Alison and Scott until 3 a.m. and slept in and now plan to watch a movie before cell phone purchasing/cleaning, are we really going to get anything productive done today? Bring on the fall, which will find me writing fiction again, in a routine again, recording television series on our DVR box for weekend morning tv catch-up again, and altogether feeling back together again.*Coming up: next week is a full week, with work, work, work, followed by our Labor Day weekend plans of a Williamsburg, Brooklyn pub crawl next Saturday with Paul and Stacy, Laura and Brian undetermined plans Sunday with a party at Cilantro for Jeff and Lauren Sunday night, who are kissing Manhattan goodbye and moving their lives one train stop out of the City to Long Island City, where they will inhabit a brand new unit in a brand new building complete with such amenities as a dishwasher - gasp!, a rooftop pool, a fitness center, and square footage exceeding 600, which, for New York, aside from Alison and Scott's place on the West Side of the Park, is a rarity. Monday we will recover from the weekend, thankful for the holiday, and Tuesday night we have Yankees tickets - potential big game as the baseball season nears its final month of regular season play. We have a wedding to attend in September, tickets for a Mets~Cardinals game that was delayed earlier in the season, and intentions to plan our Christmas around each other for a change versus around our families. The idea was hatched by a possible trip to Ireland which was vetoed because of timing, but we still may pursue something outside of traveling to see our families for Christmas. I would like that - a chance to let the year unravel into an extended relaxing adventure for just me and my boy. We'll see. Life doesn't seem to slow down long enough to let us breathe, it seems.*Today is Saturday, at least.

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