The Three Bees, or My Boring Sunday
Sunday, April 02, 2006
My weekend was pretty low-key--it started out with wall-to-wall plans that got cancelled bit by bit as a cold slowly took over my life. I'm hoping it'll head it's merry way tomorrow, given I stayed home today to mend and sleep. Last night I couldn't sleep b/c I was all hopped up on cold meds. Is it wrong to take Delsym while the Mucinex in your system has a few hours to go? Regardless, I won't be repeating that again tonight as I would rather not think the shower curtain is moving by itself when I wake up tomorrow morning after having hallucinatory dreams.
On Saturday, Gen and I went to help our friend paint her new apartment. We're pretty good at painting, given that we've painted both our current apartment and our last one. And we've got the tools. So we're good people to have around when you need a little help on the wall color front. Our friend's apartment is lovely and now quite colorful, plus it was fun to help out. But I think being in the "move" mindset got us thinking about things we needed, and that let right to the Bed Bath and Beyond on the Upper West Side.
I usually go to the BBB in Chelsea, so this was my maiden trip to the new one on the UWS (which is infinitely closer to where I live). Yay. Our coffeemaker broke three weeks ago, and I was on board to get a new one, but I've been out of town so much that I hadn't dealt with it. So after laying on the couch all morning, nursing myself and whining a lot, I got Gen to agree to go down there with me.
The problems with shopping at Target have been well documented before, and I too have trouble getting out of there for any reasonable amount. But the thing is, at Target, things seems so necessary. Of COURSE I'm buying toilet paper. I need it! And it's so much cheaper there than the Gristede's on the corner. But BBB is all... accessories. I mean, sure, I went there to get a coffeemaker, which is a necessity (for me, at least). But then, I decided a new hair dryer was in order. And then I remembered I needed two euro sized pillows for my bed. And suddenly I was in the kitchen tool department and... I went a little crazy. At one point, I had one of those wooden citrus juicers, a lemon zester, a salt mill AND a pepper mill, a mini-whisk, kitchen shears, an avocado slicer, and a little thingie you drop in the water when you're cooking eggs and it'll tell you when it's soft or hard-boiled. Definitely all useful purchases. But definitely not necessary purchases. I walked over to the cart and Gen looked at me like I was insane, and I realized she was right. So I put all but the kitchen shears back (those we really DO need), and stuck with my original list.
But to be honest, I'm really jonesing for that avocado slicer now. I may have to go back and get it.
The coolest part about our trip to BBB though was that Gen bought a food processor/blender combo. It's two appliances in one! We didn't have either, and we spent the subway ride back discussing how many different things we were going to make with it last night. But once we got back, and I set up the coffeemaker and cleaned a bit and all that, I was so wiped I couldn't even think about cooking mac and cheese, let alone the mexican fiesta we were planning (guacamole and quesadillas and margaritas! Definitely that was the Delsym in conjunction with three Halls drops and a tea with honey talking.) So I parked myself on the couch, snacked on the perfect, oh-so-paper-thin apple slices Gen food-processed, and ordered Chinese. There's nothing like wonton soup and veggie dumplings to make a girl feel better. Nothing. Well, except your mom making you noodle soup and toast or something, but given that mine is 3,000 miles away, I'll settle for wonton soup.
On Saturday, Gen and I went to help our friend paint her new apartment. We're pretty good at painting, given that we've painted both our current apartment and our last one. And we've got the tools. So we're good people to have around when you need a little help on the wall color front. Our friend's apartment is lovely and now quite colorful, plus it was fun to help out. But I think being in the "move" mindset got us thinking about things we needed, and that let right to the Bed Bath and Beyond on the Upper West Side.
I usually go to the BBB in Chelsea, so this was my maiden trip to the new one on the UWS (which is infinitely closer to where I live). Yay. Our coffeemaker broke three weeks ago, and I was on board to get a new one, but I've been out of town so much that I hadn't dealt with it. So after laying on the couch all morning, nursing myself and whining a lot, I got Gen to agree to go down there with me.
The problems with shopping at Target have been well documented before, and I too have trouble getting out of there for any reasonable amount. But the thing is, at Target, things seems so necessary. Of COURSE I'm buying toilet paper. I need it! And it's so much cheaper there than the Gristede's on the corner. But BBB is all... accessories. I mean, sure, I went there to get a coffeemaker, which is a necessity (for me, at least). But then, I decided a new hair dryer was in order. And then I remembered I needed two euro sized pillows for my bed. And suddenly I was in the kitchen tool department and... I went a little crazy. At one point, I had one of those wooden citrus juicers, a lemon zester, a salt mill AND a pepper mill, a mini-whisk, kitchen shears, an avocado slicer, and a little thingie you drop in the water when you're cooking eggs and it'll tell you when it's soft or hard-boiled. Definitely all useful purchases. But definitely not necessary purchases. I walked over to the cart and Gen looked at me like I was insane, and I realized she was right. So I put all but the kitchen shears back (those we really DO need), and stuck with my original list.
But to be honest, I'm really jonesing for that avocado slicer now. I may have to go back and get it.
The coolest part about our trip to BBB though was that Gen bought a food processor/blender combo. It's two appliances in one! We didn't have either, and we spent the subway ride back discussing how many different things we were going to make with it last night. But once we got back, and I set up the coffeemaker and cleaned a bit and all that, I was so wiped I couldn't even think about cooking mac and cheese, let alone the mexican fiesta we were planning (guacamole and quesadillas and margaritas! Definitely that was the Delsym in conjunction with three Halls drops and a tea with honey talking.) So I parked myself on the couch, snacked on the perfect, oh-so-paper-thin apple slices Gen food-processed, and ordered Chinese. There's nothing like wonton soup and veggie dumplings to make a girl feel better. Nothing. Well, except your mom making you noodle soup and toast or something, but given that mine is 3,000 miles away, I'll settle for wonton soup.
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