Gemini's Quadruplets

Happy 29th Birthday, Margot!!!!!! We're celebrating her birthday on Sunday with cocktails and Super Soakers at the new waterfront park on N. 7th and Kent in Williamsburg. Cupcakes for all!

gemini's twin - chanterelle

Tomorrow is the big birthday bash for me, Colleen and Maria. We all have June birthdays (mine isn't till the 12th), so we decided to throw a group party so that we could have all our friends together and party like we used to when we were young, single and able to drink for 12 hours straight. So, we have a big venue rented out in Manhattan, 3 bands lined up (included HEXA - the band Maria is in), and we're picking up 4 kegs and 6 boxes of wine to fuel the fun.

Should be fun waking up Sunday morning to go to rehearsal for my Grand Street Community Band concert at 1pm. Thank god this isn't a super serious band and I should be able to handle it no matter how hungover/tired I am. At least I have Margot's picnic party to looked forward to later in the day.

Sex and the City

Last night I went to see "Sex and the City" the movie with two of my galfriends. We went to the theater on 13th and 3rd at 8:30 and there must have been 4 or 5 additional screens in the theater playing the movie besides the showing we went to. We got there at 8 and we had to wait in line in the coordidor. When we finally got in and sat down the seat filled up in 2.0 seconds. Luckily we were at the beginning of the line and got seat right away.

Waiting for the movie to start was interesting. Margot and I were saving a seat for Meredith and we had to fight a crazy, drunk bag lady so that she wouldn't sit in Mere's seat. She kept telling us "I'll get up when she gets here."

We saw a couple awesome chick flick previews - "Mama Mia" and "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants II" and "He's Just Not Into You". And then the movie started. Hello! I loved it! The people that gave the movie horrible reviews obviously don't understand the SATC is supposed to be ridiculous and stupid and unbelievable. Hello, that's why it is so awesome. They're cartoons in fancy clothes. Anyway, I couldn't have asked for more and I highly reccommend seeing it (and sneaking in some beer or wine).

In other SATC news...everyone in NYC should pick up a copy of the Daily News today. There is an awesome spread by Piper Weiss (an extraordinarily talented writer, editor and cultural observer). With photos she cleverly points out that the Golden Girls may have more influence over Hollywood than anyone suspected.

Sunday = I don't want the weekend to end!

Yesterday I spent the hours of 8am to 7pm working on my website. I only got one page done, but that's because I'm trying to do it the *right* way now and use CSS. Hopefully I'll be able to finish everything by the end of the week so I can post my new goods.

I needed a break last night so I went over to Black Rabbit and met up with a bunch of friends to play BINGO and drink some drinks. I love that bar because you can sit in a booth with doors and pretend you are in the Wild Wild West. There is even a service button to push and a light will glow on your booth so the server knows you need more alcohol ASAP.

Multi-tasking.


BINGO was hilarious. It was hosted by Bobby Tisdale and everytime someone won the whole bar sang a song. Brooke won, which was very exciting. Our table was rewarded with 4 lemon drop shots.

Brooke showing off her skillz.

Piper was so happy for Brooke.

Daytime Drinking

Dangerously delicious.

There's nothing like a warm Saturday afternoon in McCarren Park. It's like the whole neighborhood is out and on display. Abe and his buddies were playing a weird version of football and I was out strolling around and decided to sit and watch them. I got myself a to-go cup of whiskey and ginger ale with limes from the Turkey's Nest (I'm ca-ray-zay!) and lounged on a bench until a softball almost hit me in the head.

Abe and Sam both showed up wearing their Wired Birds shirts so their team was called the Blue Birds. It's really adorable how they call each other up to match their outfits.

(Abe is probably going to make me delete that last sentence even though I'm only joking. Jeeez.)

Some ice cream was had and then we headed back to our apartment to host an impromptu BBQ . We had lots of sausage, lots of chips, and Sam and Chelsea both kicked off this season's "Back Door Egg Roll", which is when we are hanging out in the back yard and order food from the Chinese restaurant by knocking on the screen door that connects to their kitchen. Later in the night we headed into Williamsburg and went to a pretty big rager on S. 3rd and Roebling.

Weekend of Exercise

Saturday morning I participated in the Revlon Run/Walk for Women with 7 of my friends. Team "Adult Babies" (don't even ask...) raised over $1,500 to be donated towards women's cancer research (I don't have the official total yet because we donated checks on the day of too).

The walk was fun. We met a little too early (8am, but the walk didn't start until 9:15), but it was kind of neat of be in Times Square without any cars zooming by or tourists walking into you. Of course, we were surrounded by thousands of females, which can be a little overwhelming in itself. The run/walk kicked off with a sky of confetti (best part of the whole day) and Tiki Barber waved from the catwalk above (second best part of the whole day).

Saturday night I was wiped out and getting ready for Bike NY so I decided to make baked beets. They were delicious, but I got a little too excited when taking them out of the oven. It looked like someone had chopped their hand off in our kitchen.

On Sunday morning Abe and I rode into Manhattan to ride in Bike New York. This bike tour rides through all 5 boroughs of New York City. At least 30,000 people participated this year and it's quite a production. Major streets like the FDR highway and teh Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) are shut down so we can ride on them. In addition, we ride over the Madison Avenue Bridge, Queensboro Bridge, and Verrazano Bridge. The tour is 42 miles, but we rode extra and I think we ended up doing around a total of 50 miles.

In Astoria Park

6th Avenue right before Central Park

After Bike New York we went over to Meredith's house for a BBQ. I was exhausted, but totally rallied because, like my mama always said: "There is nothing better than sausage and beer after a 50 mile bike ride."

Abe about to eat a Bill Cosby-style hot dog: sausage and ketchup topped with potato chips.

This little guy is surprisingly loud.