I kind of hate the term, but since someone else coined it, whatever: I took all of last week off from work in order to take care of some personal business. Taking vacation from work but not going anywhere is called “Stay-cation” now… Honestly, it feels weird to not go anywhere, but I am trying to save money, so it made sense. Even though I still went out… as the pictures will show!
Friday, June 20, lunch:
Exactly the reason I avoided street meat for so long. Yes, I had a tummy ache later. This awful place on Water and John Streets also tried to rip me off by giving me change of $14 when the sign said $5. I asked about my missing $1 and the guy said “Oh, sorry, mistake! mistake!” The sign also said I’d get falafel. No falafel here…
Friday night… picked up a sweet treat for BF and myself from nearby Crumbs Bakery. I like their cupcakes alright- not my favorite, but they’ll do, and they’re close.
My Red Velvet on the left, his Coffee (or was it cappucino? or mocha?) on the right. Ironically, we both liked the other’s cupcake more.
June 21: Saturday brunch/breakfast. Courtesy of myself… made for the BF, I rarely eat French toast. And yes that’s a little sprig of basil from my own plant !!!
June 22, Sunday, brunch after volunteering at the soup kitchen. Look at all the dipping sauces/spreads! Food was only alright, but cheap: for all that, it was $11.95.
Monday, June 23 lunch: yes, even at home, I like to plate my food. And I actually used my plate from Color Me Mine to eat – I usually use it as the um-what-do-you-call-it thing you leave on your stove to rest drippy spoons. A spoon rest, I guess.
*gasp* First look at the Feisty Foodie’s kitchen!
Basically what I took care of on Monday: cleaning, arranging, organizing my kitchen. It’s tiny! Not as small as the last one, but squishier nonetheless. See the little one who HAD to jump into the picture?! Brat. (So yes, I have an eat-in-kitchen but I haven’t really eaten in there aside from standing at the sink perhaps. And I really do need a 2nd coat of paint but I’m all moved in and stuff so I kind of feel whatever about doing that.)
Tuesday, June 24 lunch: yes, I ate the whole tray for lunch. Inhaled it, really, I was so starving by the time I got back and was able to sit down to freaking eat.
Tuesday June 24th dinner… kind of bento style. A little bit of everything. (Roast duck, crispy skin pork, gim bap, marinated fishies, marinated cuttlefish, spicy garlic beans, pickled cucumbers, vegetarian duck, choi sum, some beef pancake thing my brother said was good, and seafood pancake, with white rice in the middle.)
My sad and lonely lunch on June 26th.. yes I skipped a day. I don’t know what I had for lunch on Wednesday. I know I went grocery shopping and picked up loads of stuff, then went to my sister’s house to celebrate my brother-in-law’s ancient birthday, and had dinner with his parents at their house, so I didn’t take pictures of that (but DAMN was it GOOD!)… but not sure what was lunch. And you wonder why I take pictures of all that I eat? Anyway, the above is basically much of what I had on Tuesday again. And some char sui.
For those who know me, this is a true accomplishment. I wrapped this. I was so proud, I had to take pictures.
I wrapped it, then put the ribbon on and attached a charm. I thought it was a cell phone charm when I ordered it, but it’s rather, well, large. HOW PRETTY DOES THAT LOOK? Me, the totally-not-craft-inclined!!! Hehehe.
Of course, when it was time for the bday celebration, I left it at home and was glad I’d taken pictures, since I wound up showing the pictures to the bday girl instead. And to everyone else. (What’s inside isn’t even that exciting, or I doubt it will be for her. Oh well.)
Friday afternoon @ the game. Didn’t take pictures of the soggy nachos or the hot dog, which was good as usual, even though I literally inhaled it… but DAMN WAS THAT A GOOD GAME. If you’re a baseball fan, or somewhat observant of all the baseball pictures I take, you’ll notice that I’m not sitting in my normal seat… nor am I in the same stadium… and plus I go to games on Sundays, not Fridays! What gives! Well it’s the YANKEES/METS BABY!!! and I got excellent seats (look how close we are! Actually we even moved down an hour later so we were on the plushy seats!) for an excellent price so off we went on Friday. Oh damn, what a GREAT game! including a GRAND SLAM BY DELGADO, afterwhich we noticed a SQUIRREL running around the field, and then a MAN RAN DOWN ONTO THE FIELD and was tackled by 5 security guys! When all is said and done, the final score speaks for itself: 15-6, MY METS BABY!!! (Admittedly, the night game of the two-stadium double-header was 9-0, Yankees.)
After the game, we headed back into the city to pick up some stuff: my first paycheck as a freelance food writer (squee!!!), some stuff from his office, and we were planning on hitting a bar to watch the 2nd game but honestly it was sooo gross out, we were so sticky from sitting at the first game, well, we headed home. Not before stopping by this place for dinner, however, and we were both pleasantly surprised with the food. (Review to come, of course.)
photo credit: the BF
Most of the photos of this day can’t be shown here, but it was the bday party! This was our last stop for the night (3rd Floor Cafe, ahhh brings back memories!). We started off at the batting cages – I’m STILL sore!, then bowled two games where I proved that 5 years away from the lanes will really hurt- boo…, then dinner at Korean BBQ place in K-town and then off to 3rd Floor Cafe. Oh, it was a ton of fun, made even more so because we started drinking at the bowling alley and didn’t stop until we went home. Wow. Haven’t drank that much in a while. I also effectively proved, once again, that I AM AWESOME… but did you ever doubt? 😉
Sunday made it a baseball-heavy weekend as I headed back to Shea Stadium for the last [regular season] Subway Series game ever to be played at Shea (and yes, Friday was the same for Yankee Stadium). The only way another Subway Series game would be played at these stadiums is if they both go to the World Series this year but that’s looking highly unlikely, so. Anyway, we rocked the house again – way to go OLLIE! – and won 3-1. Awesome game. I was happy… very happy.
Afterwards, I headed to my sister’s house for a BBQ where I ate so much that I seriously was ready to blow chunks right after I finished eating. Good stuff.
Leading me back to today.
Ok, stay-cation over, back to work!
As always~ happy eating~ as you can see, this is a motto I take very seriously…
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