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weekend recap

Friday

saw just married at crossgates. the movie was ok... most of the funny parts were in the previews. i enjoyed it. i was also drunk... i had 2 bermuda triangles beforehand at houlihan's. a bermuda triangle is a drink with like three or four different kinds of rum in it (including bacardi 151) and it's very strong and they limit you to 2 per guest. but it's tasty... soyeah. so i enjoyed the movie but i'm not sure if that was a function of the rum consumption (love that rhyme) or not. yeah. so there was this awesome dog in the very beginning of the movie. it was adorable... a little french bull dog. i need one. that is my perfect dog. they're mini and tough looking and they have attitude. definitely need one.

Saturday

didn't get out of bed till 10... showered and headed to clifton park to borrow money from my wam so that i could go to the city. (yeah... didn't get to post about that, but it turns out that my bank just really sucks altogether and my payroll check isn't coming off float until tuesday at the earliest so i had to borrow money from my parents for this weekend... annoying) was on the road to poughkeepsie by noon. drove extremely fast and got there in about 45 minutes. very scary. i halved the time the trip should take. was early for the train (for a change) and had to wait in the cold for a few minutes. thus beginning my weekend of extreme coldness. train ride into the city was uneventful... cold...

got to grand central and found my friends: eric, sarah, sarah's sister jenny, ryan, and ryan's girlfriend corey. we did the hello/introduction thing and headed for the subway to go to the american museam of natural history. we accidently got on an express and ended up having to double back, and we only got to the museam at 425 (and it closed at 545). we paid the "suggested admission price" of $12... why do they call it that, really? who's going to pay less than that? who's going to stand there and say, "i really don't want to pay $12. here's $11" or "here's $1, that's all this museam is worth to me." i mean, if they were going to do it that way, they should make you pay at the end. then you should pay what you feel the museam was worth... whatever. anyway... we came in on the lowest level (LL) and we decided that we were going to take the elevator up to floor 4 to see the dinosaurs. well, the dinosaur bones. anyways... so we waited for the elevator, but every time the door opened, we weren't paying attention or weren't quick enough and tons of people with kids and strollers would pile in and we'd be left standing there. so finally we made a concerted effort and got aboard. and the elevator filled to capacity (or, really, what i would consider capacity) right there on the LL. but we had to go through floors 1, 2, and 3 before we got to our final destination. and on each floor, people would get on. now, i'm slightly claustrophobic. not really so bad, but i tend to get a little... crazy/panicky... when i'm in a super crowded space. and an elevator is the worst, because it could get stuck and you could be stuck in this small supercrowded space for god knows how long running out of air breathing everybody else's exhaust smelling everybody around you stuck there listening to stupid people and who knows the elevator could plummet to the bottom and that could be how you die. soyeah. so this elevator was crowded and there was some odd woman standing across from me by the buttons staring at me with her wierd bugeyes and there was a baby on her dad's shoulders right at head level with me and her diaper was full. and so i started to get hysterical. laughing at first silently to myself but by the time we got off it was kind of a crazy giggle. it wasn't helped by the fact that jenny mentioned that the capacity for the elevator was 6000lbs and eric replied that that was a lot of people and in my head i thought or just a few really fat people and that got me laughing even more. i was so happy when we reached floor 4 and i could get out into the hall and breathe air that wasn't directly expelled from someone pressed against me.

so we saw the dino bones. there would be pictures here but when i transferred and deleted the pics from this weekend off of my camera my computer crashed and i lost all of the pics and that sucks. there were only 12 pictures, but it's still annoying. anyway. so there was this one dino that was called an aliramadon or something like that and i thought that was cool :) so yeah. so we wandered around the museam for a while and then it was closing time so we left.

so we went to dinner at chevy's in time square. they told us that the wait for a table for 6 would be about 20 minutes. so we waited and waited and waited and waited. and in the meantime some group of 12 came in with this really annoying girl who we dubbed the captain. we called her that because she kept calling the group her "party" and she kept speaking with the hostest trying to get them seated quicker. and she was really ass annoying. she kept pacing back and forth and calling places looking for other members of her party. and she had a tail. well, she had some sort of ribbon sticking out of the back of her sweater and i thought that was odd. i wanted to pull on it and see what would happen. anyway. we were all starving and really thirsty and getting very impatient. everytime they got on the loudspeaker and said "chevy's would like to welcome..." we'd get all excited but it just wasn't to be. sothen we were getting all irritated and this captain girl because they got there after us and it looked like her annoyance was going to get them seated before us. and that's just not right. so when we saw a big table clear up, eric (our captain) went up and told the hostess that that table was ours and that if they sat the "party" there, there'd be issue. but they told him that the party would be sat there, and that they were clearing off a booth for us right then. but the big party got sat before us. and that captain was very irritating. she made a big show of standing on one side of us and motioning hugely with her arms and yelling to her party, "come on guys!" we tried to trip them and we gave them dirty looks as they walked by because dammit we were starving and parched and we were there first and it wasn't fair that captain annoying's party got sat before us. so shortly afterwards we were seated and when i went to the bathroom the captain was there and i discovered that her tail was part of a horrible sheer shirt that she had on under the sweater and i just wanted to tell captain annoying that she should have left the sweater on. butyeah. soanyways. the food was great.

sothen after dinner we walked over to the big toys r us in times square. it was a fun store... i quite enjoyed the huge animatronic jurassic park t-rex... i was also a big fan of the cabbage patch kids area and the big pink barbie house (i'm such a girl). we tried some bertie bott's every flavor beans and i had a booger one and i wanted to die. it tastes salty and eww...

after the toy store we got on the subway and saw the puppet guy. eric and sarah were very excited that the puppet guy was there, but unfortunately some other street perfomers had the current slot and he was going to be on next. i didn't realize that there was some sort of schedule for street/subway perfomers... i thought it was kind of spontaneous... soanyways, so eric talked to the puppet guy and he came over and introduced himself to the group and thanked eric and sarah for their complements on his show. he described his show to us: apparently he has these puppets which he performs from behind a purple cardboard castle... he does michael jackson and limp bizket and i forget what else. he said that his show was unique and highly elevated and that he was sorry that we couldn't see him just now but that we should go out and play and "kick this ass' town" and come back in about an hour or so... so we left and we visted eric's office on the 15th floor of 505 8th ave... it has a nice view of the empire state building and the office down the hall on the corner looks right out onto madison square garden. we braved the cold once more (and damn, was it cold) to get on the subway and head out to brooklyn to eric and sarah's apartment. (we broke our promise to the puppet guy... ah well). when we got back to the apt, we watched eddie izzard who is this british (executive/action) transvestite comedian and was hilarious. then we went to bed.

I'd like to write about sunday but it's suddenly after 11 and i'm an old lady who must go to bed because she has work in the morning and so i'll have to write about that sometime tomorrow.