The Cheese Stands Alone

I'm not really sure where I left off but I'll try to do a recap:

X-Mas with Christina's Family! If you didn't know Christina's mom invited me to their xmas dinner in MD which was super nice of them but also sorta awk cause Christina was actually in Pasedena with her Dad. Woooo so i hung out with her mom, bro, stepdad, and stepdads mom. It was cool tho, I've met her brother Hansel (HANSEL SO HOT RIGHT NOWwillferrelvoice) before so it wasn't like total strangers. They made some pretty bomb ass food including a rack of ribs tied in a circle with stuffing in the middle and the such. We also played some marvel vs capcom 2 and watched some basketball. On an amusing note, the stepdads mom thought Sonia, which is Christina's mom's name was a Korean name. How silly.

Anyways there wasn't much to do in DC with everyone being gone, I did manage to get my new mattress in (YAYYYY) and I figured w/e and got a bus ticket back to NYC.

Upon arriving I went to go meet up with Karri and Sam at some tapas bar. It sorta sucked tho because it was raining pretty good and I didn't have an umbrella. I must have looked fairly hoboish because I had a backpack, hoodie, pea coat, and big duffel bag over my shoulder as I trudged through the rain. Anyways the tapas place was ok, pretty pricey but they gave unlimited bread and the oysters made for great dipping. Because the girls were being girls and refusing to eat a lot of things I had to do some dump trucking which involved more goat cheese than i'm really down for. I like goat cheese but it has to be one of those limited quantities type foods.

Afterwards they wanted to walk to the empire state building which I told them was stupid since it was raining and we wouldn't be able to see anything. They wanted to go anyways so off we went, them with umbrellas and me being soaked for about a mile till we got there, they told us it was closed due to rain, and we walked to the metro after. This was one of those "I told you so moments" where the only person who really lost out was me because I was sopping wet. Excellent.

Yesterday luckily it did not rain so we were able to hit the road and do some stuff. We woke up pretty early to go check out the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Long as lines and people buying their shit in advance meant that we couldn't even go in the statue only walk the grounds around it. Less than ideal but it was still pretty cool. Afterwards we went to Ellis Island which was pretty cool with their immigration museum and all but once we went in to their movie theater all three of us fell asleep through the whole thing. A combination of the woman who does the intro sucking, us waking up too early, and the warmth of the room knocked us out. After we woke up we were then too lazy to see the rest of the museum (we'd seen like 1/3 maybe) so we ended up leaving to manhattan to go get lunch.

We finally made our way to Lombardi's pizza which was supposed to be the 1st pizzaria in the US. We waited 40 minutes while i conversed with random middle aged women from Phoenix and North Carolina (cougar hunting?) until we were finally seated. The food was pretty good, not mind blowing and perhaps not worth the wait but it was still good. They whole damn place has a hot two bathrooms so it takes for ever and when I was waiting a waitress came in and went in to change into her work clothes which took literally 15 minutes. Awesome. Afterwards we went to this place called rice to riches that sells 7 dollar things of rice pudding. It wasn't bad but rice pudding by nature can only be so good. The decor was clearly meant for the faux girl power ness and was the visual equivalent of that "you're hot and you're cold" song on repeat.

After that we doddled for a while before going to soho so the girls could shop. Me being not much of a shopper and simply not slim fit enough for soho (my shoulders don't even fit most of the coats..." meant it was a pretty w/e experience for me. Afterwards there was some contention about where we wanted to eat where It got pretty annoying because I would suggest somewhere like shake shack or carnegie deli but the girls, feeling too guilty over their pizza lunch would just remain silent. Then when we finally settled on the second momofuku location where since you had the option of smaller portions they were more down for. In the end they ate a bunch of cookies so the final calorie/fat count probably would not have been any lower and the places I wanted to go. But it gave them the illusion of eating less. Oh girls and the mind games you play with yourselves...

After that we made our way to the Empire State Building where Karri had to leave to go finish some stuff before work today. Sam and I went up which took the better part of two hours. They ingenously split it into a bunch of small lines so you always have this feeling of progress despite it actually taking forever. Once we were finally up the view was fucking amazing. Since it had rained the day before it was super clear and really in the end totally worth it. I busted out my ipod and listened to empire state of mind and new york, new york. I know that's silly but who says my life can't have a soundtrack.

So that pretty much brings me to today. Lets see what happens. Besides that I got some sort of sad news on FB that I wont' go into. All I can say is I coulda been a contender ::punches the air""