Thursday was one office holiday luncheon, where someone brought homemade conquito (?!) a Puerto Rican rum drink made of sweet condensed milk, coconut juice, cinnamon, nutmeg and lots of rum. It was TOO delicious. Someone also brought their iPad and a photobooth app with it, so we were taking pictures of each other and letting others dress them up. The Santa's and elves apparently got boring, because my picture turned out like this:
I just love the gelatinous cranberry sauce floating in the air.
On Friday was another office's Christmas party that I was invited to. Their's was amazingly better than the lunch with their spread and decorations and a projection of a roaring fire. After the party, I was on the train with a coworker and we decided to head to the Village to get drinks. We were at the Blind Tiger until it was too crowded and we were too tired to stand and made it to a super cute little basement-level wine cellar bar in Greenwich and stayed there in a dimly-lit corner for the rest of the night with pinot noir. It's always a nice time with this guy because he's very intelligent, and there's always an interesting exchange of ideas and conversation. And it helps that we're like, the only two people our age at our work and at a similar place in life. So it was a nice Friday night.
On Saturday I had to will the headache from the beer+wine away as I headed out to SoHo early to meet Ronnie and Betsy for brunch. At Cafe Noir I opted for the unlimited Bloody Mary and boy did we stick around to get our money's worth. Afterwards, we went shopping in the SoHo neighborhood (which is always so cute!) and there are even a lot of stores that aren't on the ground level that you kinda have to know about to get to, this was one Betsy took us to, up on the second floor of some building
Ronnie and I stayed in and around SoHo almost all night, walked up to Midtown via Koreatown, where we stopped into a Korean lounge/bar on the third floor of some commercial building and made friends with the bartender (Joseph!) who gave us a free parting vodka shot. Not bad at all! Then, God knows how, but we ended up in the Disney store in Times Square. I HATE that place, how are we always there?! And we still have yet to re-meet our friend Ryan that we met there back in February! I hope he didn't get fired.
This was a lifesized holiday card set up right in front of the Flatiron building
On Sunday I was not feeling well, so I stayed in and listened to rain and watched Lion King and worked on my own projects and found the energy to get ready for my diving banquet. My diving team is encompassed by an entire Aquatics team that includes swimming and water polo as well, and they put together a really lavish affair on the Upper West Side with a cocktail hour, dinner, dessert, coffee, etc. It was so fun to get fancy and to hang out with the diving team outside of the pool and meeting some of the other people! When I was walking into the place, I walked in with what turned out to be some of the swimmers and we were wandering the halls of this huge school looking for the banquet area together and one of the guys said it looked like we were in Hogwarts. I laughed and said "So we're looking for the Great Hall then?" and he said "At this rate I think we have to find the Room of Requirement" and I laughed more... and thought, what would I do if I had never read Harry Potter and couldn't get these references??
On the way out, someone said "Happy Hannukah!" to me and handed me this
So this is officially my second hannukah.
Nothing really going on this week, but considering I had the energy to get up and even curl my hair on a Monday, I guess it can't be too bad.
I'm kneeling in the front row with a one-sleeved blue dress
The divers!
On the way out, someone said "Happy Hannukah!" to me and handed me this
So this is officially my second hannukah.
Nothing really going on this week, but considering I had the energy to get up and even curl my hair on a Monday, I guess it can't be too bad.
No comments:
Post a Comment