Spring Weater Means Exploring

Listening to: Fall Out Boy - It's not a scene it's an arms race

After an usually hot week last week, spring weather is all around. Almost all the trees are in full bloom and the weather is a pleasant 65 degrees with a nice breeze. Michelle and I explored the west village, Greenwich village, Soho and little Italy yesterday. We grabbed a few slices of pizza at Bleecker Street Pizza (the Nonna Maria is SO GOOD!!!!) and had dinner in Little Italy at La Mela. The meal at La Mela was decent but not incredible. Afterwards we walked up Mott st and FINALLY had gelato from Ciao Bella. I had been wanting to go to this place for months and it did not disappoint; very yummy gelato.

Crunch Time is Coming to an End

Listening to: Embrace - Even Smaller Stones

I've been so busy at work that it's almost hard to contemplate how hard I've been working... I'm not even going to go into details because it makes me tired thinking about them. The good news is that the end of all this hard work is at least in sight. Today I finished the big presentation that I spent hours and hours (of my "free time" since it's for an extracurricular committee) preparing, tweaking and practicing. Ay, it feels so good to get that out of the way and with such success. I felt very confident presenting my material even though it was in front of my entire department of 170 people including senior management. It's finally over with and I don't have to spend my time in meetings.



My project and enhancements are wrapping up as well. How come everything has to come in the same week? It always seems to work out that way...a lot of big projects and tasks always create a crunch time because they fall on the same day or week. Not cool but that's life, right? I'll be finishing phase I of my project this Friday and I will also be rolling out my enhancements which is a big thing to get off my plate.



Hopefully things will cool off for a bit because I've seriously gained like 5-10 lbs during the past 3 ridiculously hectic weeks. I need to get some exercise!



And more good news is I finally had time to fix the email script that sends out a notice when I make a post. Enjoy!

Listening to: Orbital - The Box 2

It's been a GOOD Friday. I thoroughly enjoyed sleeping in today and catching up on some much needed sleep. It's been quite hectic around here the past couple of weeks and I haven't had any time to update, not like there's a whole lot of action write about. I take that back, I meant to write about Michelle's birthday last weekend but I didn't get a chance. In short, we had a GREAT time both hanging out in a lounge on Friday and going to a tapa's bar and club on Saturday. A lot of Michelle's friends came down from Boston to celebrate which added to the enjoyment of the party weekend.



So...back to today. We headed out late this afternoon for a walk through central park. It's fairly cold for April with temperatures hovering around 40 degrees. I was surprised that I needed to pull my long, winter coat out of the closet this week since it is indeed April. I'm not complaining though, more cold is fine by me. :) We walked across the park to the east side and checked out this gelato cafe I've been wanting to go to since I looked it up last July. Unfortunately, to my disappointment it was closed but Michelle promised me we'd go back so I'm holding that to her. We walked down a few blocks and admired the striking differences between the upper east and upper west. The street's are narrower, cleaner and slope more often. The feel and vibe of the UES is completely different, it's just hard to explain.



We continued walking down Madison ave until we reached 84th street where we headed into the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There were some great exhibits in there, far too many to see in one day. We vowed to return for another day of the Met. On our way to the met we passed by a restaurant that we thought only existed on 64th between 2nd and 3rd ave, at least that's the only location citysearch told us about. It was called Jackson Hole and known for it's super size, 7oz burgers. We ordered two and come chili cheese fries which was far too much for us to eat, even though we were really hungry. The food was SO GOOD thought, especially the giant burgers! YUM-O!



Later that night we went to see 300 at the Lincoln Center IMAX theater. What an experience that was! We both really enjoyed the movie and thought it was awesome to see it in an IMAX theater since the sound was great and the screen was HUGE! As soon as we walked out of the theater Michelle said "that was definitely a guy kind of movie." So true.



After gorging on burgers, fries and coldstone we decided to walk to 30 blocks back to my apartment. It was a really nice night for a walk and we barely noticed the distance. It actually isn't that far and it was so quiet at midnight. There are very few people out and the streets are relatively calm. We both really enjoyed our nice stroll back to 215 W 95th.

Addition: There was also some snow flurries that swept through the city on Friday which was really weird to see in April...