bowling in shaolin & shopping in manhattan
oy i have been a horrible blogger these last few days. part of it is my job work has picked up and i am actually doing some work on my dissertation (not writing, data gathering and analysis-but at least its working toward the end goal of being done). anywho, i am here to redeem myself with stories of hilarity and many, many pictures. let us begin with our trip to STATEN ISLAND to go bowling last saturday night.
so, kim from supper club was born and raised in staten island. in celebration of her origins, we decided to load up seafoam and take a little field trip to showcase bowling allies on the island. but before we could partake in glow in the dark carpet and stinky red white and blue shoes, we had to eat dinner at none other than: APPLEBEE's. yeah, that's right dt and jes went to applebee's. see, we orginally planned on stopping at the BRAND NEW TGIFriday's in the mall, but apparently everybody and their fucking brother had the same great idea so the wait was over 45 minutes. it was RIDICULOUSLY cold out on saturday night and the waiting area was getting packed so rather than stand by the door and freeze our balls off, we went across the street TO THE OTHER MALL and ate at applebee's. they had not one thing vegetarian on the menu so ali had to ask them to make her a grilled cheese. to accompany her sandwich, she order a "side salad" which was enough lettuce for four families. it only cost $2.79. that is b-a-n-a-n-a-s! i got a tilapia filet with mango salsa (not great), jes got fish and chips (not great), glendda got herself a divine fried chicken salad and kim got delish chicken quesadillas. apparently, chicken is the way to go at applebee's. for dessert we shared a very delicous brownie sundae. because of a servers mistake we got two instead of one which was very nice. the entire meal cost less than $60. can't get that in manhattan, yo!
here is a picture of glennda and kim rockin the applebee's (see the sign behind them):
from dinner, we headed to showcase bowl, which, for the record, was pretty posh. each lane had a flat screen television and a computer with all these crazy graphics when you got a strike or a spare. nothing like any bowling alley i have hung at. we couldn't get a lane right away (it was saturday night and all) so we proceeded to the attached arcade. our first trip to the arcade was pretty good. jes and i played this game called "house of dead" (or something like that) where you shoot these zombies. take a look at the picture, don't i look butch?
here are some photos of kim & ali playing air hockey. i think kim won. but then when jes and kim played, jes won (they had been trash talking about this for DAYS):
just as they were finishing their game, our name was called and we proceeded to bowl. overall, everyone did great bowling. jes had the highest score, with glennda a close second. here is a picture of ali and glennda waiting for their turns. can you say "hello cleveland?"
two things made the whole bowling experience EXTRA special. first, we were sharing our ball retrieval system with four or five young girls who were hasidic. they all had on long denim skirts and tshirts with hoodies. and they all had pony tails. at first i think they were THRILLED that two cute boys (jes and kim) were going to be bowling across from them, and then i think they figured out who they were lusting after were not in fact, boys. they did A LOT of staring, but eventually i think our gregarious group gave them permission to get a little kooky too. they even asked jes to take a picture of them with their disposable camera. they left half way through our game and were replace by four dudes in sweatpants and one of the dudes superfemme girlfriend. for a minute i thought glennda and her were gonna have a smack down over the purplish pink ball glennda had been using, but it all smoothed out.
after our bowling time was up, we went back to the arcade, which had now been infested with obnoxious and violent little fuck face pre teen boys. these kids were beating the fuck out of each other in the corner of the arcade with no adult supervision in sight. they were running everywhere and bumping into us and running across our games. now i am a lover, not a fighter and it took everything in me to not lunge at a few of their throats. finally the worker told them to calm down, and they really didn't but at least they stopped their pre-teen fight club in the corner so that jes and ali could rock a little dance dance revolution. note the serious concentration:
ok so that was saturday and then on monday (because everyone had the day off from school and work) we went into the city to shop. the thing i needed the most was a new battery for the very computer i am typing on right now. i was also looking for some incredibles bubble bath. see my friends alyson and nicole are visiting soon with their babygirl and i wanted to have something special for her for bathtime. she LOVES the incredibles so i thought that would be a good place to start. glennda suggested this store called "rickys" and lo and behold here is what i found:
i was so excited to find this. the first one is the incredibles dad and the other one (the other side of the bottle) is the bad guy. i forget his name. i was also excited to pick up a few dish towels at crate and barrel. they are brightly colored and lovely. we also stopped in victoria's secret so i could look at these ipex bras everyone is telling me are so comfortable. for about the last year i have resigned to wearing sports bras b/c regular bras just hurt. so everyone i was with was sending me workers to measure me. finally i get to the dressing room, and this sweet young thing pulls out her measuring tape and starts feeling me up and shit. she was darling and complimented me on my tattoos and such. i ended up getting two: one that was lined and one that wasn't. i have worn the lined one all day and it hasn't started hurting yet. maybe this is the one to help me in the fight against gravity.
the other exciting thing that happened this weekend is that jes finished her first big paper of her second semester. it is apparently worth FIFTY PERCENT of her grade, which i think is pure craziness (i.e. "jennyness" for you l word fans). anywho, she made it through and turned it in. and here are pictures of her when she did:
and here is her happy dance:
this is very exciting for the both of us. just one more step to sexy lawyer and lots of suits and ties.
HOLLA!
so, kim from supper club was born and raised in staten island. in celebration of her origins, we decided to load up seafoam and take a little field trip to showcase bowling allies on the island. but before we could partake in glow in the dark carpet and stinky red white and blue shoes, we had to eat dinner at none other than: APPLEBEE's. yeah, that's right dt and jes went to applebee's. see, we orginally planned on stopping at the BRAND NEW TGIFriday's in the mall, but apparently everybody and their fucking brother had the same great idea so the wait was over 45 minutes. it was RIDICULOUSLY cold out on saturday night and the waiting area was getting packed so rather than stand by the door and freeze our balls off, we went across the street TO THE OTHER MALL and ate at applebee's. they had not one thing vegetarian on the menu so ali had to ask them to make her a grilled cheese. to accompany her sandwich, she order a "side salad" which was enough lettuce for four families. it only cost $2.79. that is b-a-n-a-n-a-s! i got a tilapia filet with mango salsa (not great), jes got fish and chips (not great), glendda got herself a divine fried chicken salad and kim got delish chicken quesadillas. apparently, chicken is the way to go at applebee's. for dessert we shared a very delicous brownie sundae. because of a servers mistake we got two instead of one which was very nice. the entire meal cost less than $60. can't get that in manhattan, yo!
here is a picture of glennda and kim rockin the applebee's (see the sign behind them):
from dinner, we headed to showcase bowl, which, for the record, was pretty posh. each lane had a flat screen television and a computer with all these crazy graphics when you got a strike or a spare. nothing like any bowling alley i have hung at. we couldn't get a lane right away (it was saturday night and all) so we proceeded to the attached arcade. our first trip to the arcade was pretty good. jes and i played this game called "house of dead" (or something like that) where you shoot these zombies. take a look at the picture, don't i look butch?
here are some photos of kim & ali playing air hockey. i think kim won. but then when jes and kim played, jes won (they had been trash talking about this for DAYS):
just as they were finishing their game, our name was called and we proceeded to bowl. overall, everyone did great bowling. jes had the highest score, with glennda a close second. here is a picture of ali and glennda waiting for their turns. can you say "hello cleveland?"
two things made the whole bowling experience EXTRA special. first, we were sharing our ball retrieval system with four or five young girls who were hasidic. they all had on long denim skirts and tshirts with hoodies. and they all had pony tails. at first i think they were THRILLED that two cute boys (jes and kim) were going to be bowling across from them, and then i think they figured out who they were lusting after were not in fact, boys. they did A LOT of staring, but eventually i think our gregarious group gave them permission to get a little kooky too. they even asked jes to take a picture of them with their disposable camera. they left half way through our game and were replace by four dudes in sweatpants and one of the dudes superfemme girlfriend. for a minute i thought glennda and her were gonna have a smack down over the purplish pink ball glennda had been using, but it all smoothed out.
after our bowling time was up, we went back to the arcade, which had now been infested with obnoxious and violent little fuck face pre teen boys. these kids were beating the fuck out of each other in the corner of the arcade with no adult supervision in sight. they were running everywhere and bumping into us and running across our games. now i am a lover, not a fighter and it took everything in me to not lunge at a few of their throats. finally the worker told them to calm down, and they really didn't but at least they stopped their pre-teen fight club in the corner so that jes and ali could rock a little dance dance revolution. note the serious concentration:
ok so that was saturday and then on monday (because everyone had the day off from school and work) we went into the city to shop. the thing i needed the most was a new battery for the very computer i am typing on right now. i was also looking for some incredibles bubble bath. see my friends alyson and nicole are visiting soon with their babygirl and i wanted to have something special for her for bathtime. she LOVES the incredibles so i thought that would be a good place to start. glennda suggested this store called "rickys" and lo and behold here is what i found:
i was so excited to find this. the first one is the incredibles dad and the other one (the other side of the bottle) is the bad guy. i forget his name. i was also excited to pick up a few dish towels at crate and barrel. they are brightly colored and lovely. we also stopped in victoria's secret so i could look at these ipex bras everyone is telling me are so comfortable. for about the last year i have resigned to wearing sports bras b/c regular bras just hurt. so everyone i was with was sending me workers to measure me. finally i get to the dressing room, and this sweet young thing pulls out her measuring tape and starts feeling me up and shit. she was darling and complimented me on my tattoos and such. i ended up getting two: one that was lined and one that wasn't. i have worn the lined one all day and it hasn't started hurting yet. maybe this is the one to help me in the fight against gravity.
the other exciting thing that happened this weekend is that jes finished her first big paper of her second semester. it is apparently worth FIFTY PERCENT of her grade, which i think is pure craziness (i.e. "jennyness" for you l word fans). anywho, she made it through and turned it in. and here are pictures of her when she did:
and here is her happy dance:
this is very exciting for the both of us. just one more step to sexy lawyer and lots of suits and ties.
HOLLA!
posted by dj love at 6:08 PM
1 Comments:
i am glad that jes is sporting our BFF bracelets in the last picture. are you wearing your's donna?
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