A blog about New York City, my books, and my cats. Mostly.
Someone famous lived here. e. e. cummings? I forget. I could Google. It’s gated. You have to have a key to walk on this block. Doesn’t seem quite fair, but there it is. Oh, the Wikipedia entry is well worth reading. My favorite part was this bit about e. e. cummings, who did live there, and writer Djuna Barnes. “After her return to New York she became so reclusive that Cummings would occasionally check on her by shouting out his window ‘Are you still alive, Djuna?'”
At the Perry Street fair, on my way to get … what did I get? Oh. Food. I wish the focus was better in the second shot.
The flower thing is on her head. She isn’t standing in front of a bunch of flowers, which is how it kinda looks. She also looked great, which you can’t quite tell.
I think I’ve mentioned how I dread shopping. Hate it, hate it, hate it. So it’s great when it goes well. I bought these lightweight jeans at Old Navy yesterday. They are perfect for three reasons: they are very flattering, they’re lightweight as I said, and they’re cheap!! The website says they’re $38 something, but they were $29 something in the store. Plus I had a 10% off coupon, so I felt particularly satisfied. Okay, I have to pay $10 to get them hemmed, but still. A new pair of jeans for $36 is not bad.
All my Spring Cleaning work is done, except for the windows, which will be cleaned on Monday.
I am planning a relaxing weekend of working on choir pieces for our performance NEXT WEEK, magazine reading, tv watching, and general luxuriating in a fresh clean apartment.
Food is an issue. What am I going to eat now that Balducci’s has closed?? I’ve started scoping out new food sources. Yesterday I tried Whole Foods. I know it’s tremendously popular, but it’s not convenient and it didn’t really wow me. I need more prepared meals.
Is she done cleaning yet?? YES. Mostly. The apartment is completely, spotlessly, clean. Two big jobs are left.
First, all my clothes. Every Spring Cleaning and every Holiday Cleaning I try to pare down my clothes to only those that fit now, and those that I actually wear. I always fail. For instance, right now I have a bunch of relatively expensive tops I bought last Spring that just don’t look good on me. I can’t bring myself to admit I wasted my money (something I don’t have a lot of). Plus, I don’t enjoy clothes shopping. I blame my mother. All those times waiting waiting waiting bored to the point of physical pain while she tried on clothes. Sorry, mom.
Second, the window guys are coming on Monday! Woohoo!! Sparkling clean windows are such a mood enhancer!
I ache! Like I finished a marathon workout. Today it’s the bathroom and the bedroom. Tomorrow it will be more fun stuff. One, going through my clothes and getting rid of what doesn’t fit or doesn’t look good, or is too raggedy, and two, re-arranging the bookshelves. I got rid of a few hundred books and I have to arrange what’s left.
Meanwhile, Michelle Obama is perfect. PERFECT.