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And again, I unintentionally went on a little hiatus from the blog.  I've had a few requests for an update. This time it mostly had to do with not having internet and being SUPER busy trying to get everything done.  I took two trips and moved all the remaining stuff from the old apartment to the new apartment, including the cats. They joined me the night before last and are adjusting to their new home.  The first night they ran up and down the length of the apartment.  In addition to just being freaked out, I think they were enjoying all the new space!

Things are coming together. I got the last of the things I ordered yesterday, including my TV. Woo hoo! I ended up finding a great deal on a 42" plasma, and I got my cable and internet yesterday as well too.  I still have so much to do.  I need to finish doing some sewing, including the duvet cover, possibly some shades, some shams, and maybe even some curtains.  I need to finish painting the furniture, buying and hanging some wallpaper, and I need to find some good decorative pieces for the walls.  I miss all my tools that I left in Texas, and having cable now is decreasing the chances of me getting my stuff done anytime soon.

Speaking of sewing, I bought some of the most expensive thread I have every bought. Yikes.  I had several errands to run the other day and realized that if I took public transportation it would take me hours upon hours.  I needed to load up stuff from the old apartment anyway, so I just rented a ZipCar to knock my errands out.  First stop, I picked up a vase I bought on Craigslist down in Greenwich Village. Next stop, a fabric store on Fashion Avenue to check out the fabrics and get some thread. Whoa.  I have never seen so much fabric in my whole life.  Three stories of hundreds to thousands of bolts of fabric.  It was almost overwhelming.  There were young designers browsing everywhere (don't ask me how I could tell they were designers, I just could).  I didn't figure I had time to look through all the fabric so I just grabbed some thread and ran.  It should be noted that the elevator up to the fabric store on the third floor of the building was actually run by hand by an elevator attendant.  I have never seen that except in movies.  It was kind of awesome.  Anyway, by the time I got out to my ZipCar, I had a nice orange parking ticket sitting on my windshield.  I knew this might be a possiblity since it was 30 minutes before the commercial turned into a regular parking zone, but I seriously ran in for 10 minutes.  That was obviously 10 minutes too long. And yet another lesson about New York...parking tickets in NYC are not your normal $20 tickets.  Of course not.  No, it was $115.  Fantastic.  So that is why that was the most expensive thread I have every bought. 

The rest of running errands went better, but I was pretty worn out by the end of the night.  After moving the rest of my things including my clothes, I was ready for bed.  I stayed in the new apartment, and have to say...I. Love. My. Bed.  After spending the last 2 months sleeping on a horrible mattress with an equally horrible pillow that both caused me neck pain, it's like sleeping on a cloud.  The only problem is that I have been late to work the couple of times I have slept on it because I don't like waking up.   I ordered the mattress from Walmart.com for an amazing price so I was a little concerned I would be getting what I paid for.  I am extremely impressed.

This past week hasn't had too many interesting events.  I am part of a Fantasy Football league, and we had a training session on Wednesday at my friend Farron's house.  The training session mostly consisted of the boys fighting over the rules, my ADD keeping me from being able to pay attention, and me eating more pizza than anyone has any right to eat.  I am not sure what came over me.  I think it was magic pizza because all the girls just about doubled their normal intake.  Yeah, that sounds good.  Magic pizza.  Our live draft will be occurring next Wednesday.  I am not really sure what I am doing, but we will see how it goes.  Hopefully, the magic pizza won't be making another appearance. Or will it...

The next day at work we got a little unexpected break.  A transformer blew up and caught fire next to the hospital, and we had no power.  No power equals no clinic.  The other residents and I headed to a pub for beers and lunch and stayed for a few hours.  What a nice, easy day.  Oh yeah.

So now I have a chaotic old apartment to clean and a chaotic new apartment to clean, and I am not feeling much like doing either.  Oh well.  I will pull some motivation out of the deep recesses I guess.  I have been getting lots of requests to send pictures of the apartment.  I will send them once the final touches are put on.  It might be a little while, but it will be worth it.  Promise.

Oh! I almost forgot to tell you guys about all the good food I have been eating! And you know this blog would not be complete without a section describing food.  Lauren and I made a deal with each other to make more of an effort to try some new restaurants with the coupons she's been buying on Groupon and LivingSocial.  The first place we tried was Mr. Chow's. You may have seen Mr. Chow's in tabloids or celebrity magazines because it's seems to be a celebrity hot spot.  We tried it for restaurant week (which has now been extended to restaurant month).  Restaurant Week is usually a week during July when NYC restaurants offer a three course meal for $35 for dinner and $24 for lunch.  The idea is to make normally inaccessible restaurants more accessible to the general public.  We picked Mr. Chow's because we figured we would get our money's worth and more.  We were right.  This place was awesome.  We each ordered an appetizer.  Lauren got Mr. Chow's noodles, and I got the Squab.  Both were great.  The squab was like lettuce wraps with a yummy chicken mix. For the main course, she ordered sea bass and I ordered the Ma Mignon.  Again, both were awesome.  I don't even like fish, and I thought the sea bass was light and not too fishy.  The Ma Mignon was incredible.  It's sliced filet mignon that had a nice light, peppery crust on the outside.  Dessert was an assortment of ice cream including green tea, vanilla, and chocolate.  Yum yum.  If I could afford it, I would go back there.  ;) Maybe for restaurant week next year. 

The next night we went to a pharmaceutical dinner at Ruth's Chris, which is Lauren's favorite restaurant.  Of course, we were not let it down.  Ruth's Chris is always good.  It was a pharm dinner on a Friday night, so I think it ended up being more like an awkward dork convention, but we enjoyed the food nonetheless.  Lauren and I were the only residents there.  The next day we headed down to midtown to do some shopping.  We grabbed a bite at a Thai/Japanese fusion spot and walked a few avenues to Macy's.  This is the Macy's on 34th street (think Miracle on 34th Street, Macy's Parade, etc.).  They were having a One Day Sale, and it was INSANE. We found some great deals though.