Tag: NYC

  • Trader Joe’s Tuesday:  Gluten-Free Plain Bagels

    Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Gluten-Free Plain Bagels

    Trader Joe’s Gluten-Free Plain Bagels Tastes Like:  These, you guys, are the best gluten-free bagels I have ever eaten!  The texture of bagels usually comes from extra gluten, so making bagels that hit close to the right texture without gluten is tough.  They usually taste like dry sponges.  But these, guys, are so good I…

  • 5 Fandom Friday:  Nerdiest Things I’ve Ever Done

    5 Fandom Friday: Nerdiest Things I’ve Ever Done

    Time to spill the beans:  the nerdiest things you’ve ever done!  I pretty much think everything I do is pretty nerdy, and I’m pretty sure I’d get a lot of backup on that one as well.  1.  Work for a walking tour company  unlike some items on this list, I’m really proud of this!  I…

  • New York Transit Museum

    New York Transit Museum

    This post is SO belated but a million years ago, my boyfriend and I and his friends from work went to the New York Transit Museum!  Which is conveniently located betwixt our respective workplaces, in “downtown Brooklyn,” whatever that means (NOTE:  I seriously do not know what that means. If you’re an “old stuff” junkie…

  • 5 Fandom Friday:  RIDES RIDES RIDES

    5 Fandom Friday: RIDES RIDES RIDES

    I LOVE RIDES.  I LOVE RIDES.  I LOVE RIDES.  I love getting in line all cocky, totally sure of yourself, trying to show off for your friends how cool and brave you are and then feeling, as the coaster goes up, that you are certainly going to die and this was a horrible mistake and…

  • 5 Fandom Friday: Fangirl Out!

    5 Fandom Friday: Fangirl Out!

    Five Times I Totally Fangirled 1.  Alan Cumming  when I was 19 years old, I worked at the Target on Reno Blvd. One afternoon Sunday shift, customers kept remarking to me offhand that a famous person was in the store.  Being a local star of the stage, I assumed they meant me.  However, it soon…

  • Currently…in April 2015

    Currently…in April 2015

    FEELING:  Confused beyond words!  I’m so uncertain of what my future should be like.  It’s almost completely crippling!  But I’m really upbeat about it! WATCHING:  I’ve been eagerly awaiting each new RuPaul’s Drag Race and devouring the entire Broad City! LISTENING TO:  Lots of bouncy new wave, especially Morissey! READING:  I started Love in the…

  • Macy’s Flower Show 2015: Art in Bloom

    Macy’s Flower Show 2015: Art in Bloom

    On yet another grey Saturday in March, I woke up and declared to my still-uncaffeinated boyfriend, “I need to see some flowers.” Behold, the Macy’s 2015 Flower Show.  The perfect antidote for chilly, drizzly days!  Fight the crowds to feast your pupils on bright colours and awesome installations!  This year’s theme was “Art in Bloom”. …

  • Street Harassment Selfie

    Street Harassment Selfie

    To everyone who actually buys that myth that looking “too hot” and walking alone late at night on the street is the reason women get harassed:  below is a picture I snapped of mysself less than 50 feet from where, on Sunday, March 22nd at 5:57pm, a strange man brushed himself against my arm as…

  • Here Comes The Sun

    Here Comes The Sun

    I am a July baby, that’s for sure.  I think I actually hibernate during the winters, until my true self can come out at the first sign of Light Jacket Weather.  Which is exactly what we’re starting to have up here in the frozen tundra New York City.   After the winter we’ve had, it’s…

  • Just the Facts

    Just the Facts

    It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these memes and I picked this one up from an old classmate of mine from back before the turn of the century… Crazy Tragic Sometimes Magic Michael went to high school with me!  Isn’t it strange how paths cross again later in life thanks to the…

  • Sunday Stealing + MY 1500th POST!!

    Sunday Stealing + MY 1500th POST!!

    HELLO, 1500th POST!Bonjour, Sunday Stealers!  Welcome to my 1500th post!  Why, just yesterday, I had hit my 936th post and now here we are! I’m just tickled pink and red and lacy and chocolatey that I’ve made it this far and still going strong!I can’t believe I’ve actually accomplished something so big and monumental as…

  • Happy Valentimes!

    Happy Valentimes!

    Happy Valentimes Day, lovers. To those who celebrate, and those who scoff! If you were my bae, I would take you on a romantic sunset stroll through Central Park tonight. And we’d take pictures like this – oooh! Awwwwww! And I’d tell you, for the millionth time, how underrated the park is.  Yep, underrated. And…

  • Better Loving Through Science

    Better Loving Through Science

    This New York Times Modern Love article made the internet rounds a couple of weeks ago, but with Valentine’s Day coming up (and you know how much I love Valentine’s Day!), I thought this was a perfect time to share it.  In the article, Mandy Len Catron talks about using a series of 36 Questions…

  • Drunk Furniture

    Drunk Furniture

    Have you seen the hot trending topic “Drunk Furniture” ?  Basically, you find old furniture thrown out at the curb and give it a caption like it’s drunk. THIS IS THE FUNNEST GAME EVER. Now, whenever I see ratty old gross furniture chucked out on the sidewalk, I don’t think about the bedbugs that most…

  • 5 Fandom Friday: I LOVE WINTER!

    5 Fandom Friday: I LOVE WINTER!

    Okay so I can’t say anything about the weather this winter so far in NYC because if I say something, I’ll jinx it.  Suffice to say, it’s been an pretty decent winter up in here and I ain’t exactly complaining about it.  So I might as well throw NYC some props for being cool during…

  • Miss Turnstiles

    Miss Turnstiles

    There’s a rule in New York City that when you look your worst, the coolest things will happen to you.  Awww, yeah, like that.  That’s super hot.  Not winning any beauty competitions like that, I’m surely not. Anyway, on this, the morning after two great parties (clearly!), taking an F train uptown when this antique…

  • Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Roasted Garlic Marinara

    Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Roasted Garlic Marinara

    Trader Joe’s Roasted Garlic Marinara Tastes Like:  Perfect tomato sauce.  A tiny bit sweet, a touch of garlic, savory and perfectly seasoned. Great With:  Spiralized zucchini or yellow squash, brown rice pasta, or splashing over the top of an omelette. Perfect For:  Stocking up as a cupboard staple.  Much easier than thinking about cooking is…

  • Strawberry Fields Forever

    Strawberry Fields Forever

    My favourite December tradition is to go to Strawberry Fields on December 8th and sing around the Imagine mosaic.  This year’s crowd was as chill as the weather and I barely noticed that I spent nearly two hours outside in the cold singing allllll the hits, up to and including the entire B-side of Abbey…

  • Currently… in December 2014

    Currently… in December 2014

    FEELING:  Excited and challenged!  I have a lot of catching up to do at my new job but I’m so excited to feel so useful, and I love hoping that I can make a difference!  I feel like I should have done this a long time ago. WATCHING:  After watching Cold Case at the laundromat…

  • Sunday at NYCC

    Sunday at NYCC

    Sunday was my longest day so far at New York Comic Con, with the least photos to show for it!  I decided to try to throw together a last-minute costume and felt really cute doing this twee, hipster, gender-bent Fourth Doctor!  Saw the talking K-9 and couldn’t resist.  We made a smashing pair, isn’t that…