and the snow is all gone.

So the snow is all gone, but ironically it is 7 times colder! We have winds going at 40 mph, on the bright side it is sunny out.

This week went by fast, I sat in training for 40hrs, nothing interesting out side of learning a lot of stuff I had no idea about. I did find a coffe stand guy on my walk to work. Best coffee! and I can get a large coffee anda pastry for $2.50 that's right! $2.50!! its the bomb.com as david would say. So I leave home a little earlier so I can stop and get my coffee and cheese danish. The guy already knows my order and has it ready by the time I get to him. LOVE it!

David found an internship!! hooray! He should start soon :-)  Im not sure what is going to happen with dinner now.. haha Im sure we'll figure it out.

David and I are happy that our apartment management is actually taking care of all the stuff that needed to be done over a month ago. All it took was a nasty email to the management and the building owner. Sent Thursday night, received Friday morning, workers in out apartment Saturday morning. I feel like we have a  new bathroom! Liking this place a bit more now.

My work fixed my employee line and I officially have a phone number with a 917 area code!

Well... its sunday and David is making sauce. So I gotta go!

Have a good week!

The night we neet out neighbor.

Thursday was the launch of the iPhone, needless to day it was crazy at the store. We opened at 7 am! There was a line of people ready to come in the store and get out of the 15 degree weather. We had our hands full, I worked from 6:30am to 8:30pm without a break, it was nice to get that experience and adrenaline rush of selling again. 

When I came home, we ordered a pizza. Me being tired, I forgot to add the apartment number on the order, so we did not get our pizza until 11:30pm! We were both ready to pass out at this point, David had spent the day exploring and looking for a neighborhood for us to move into once we are done with our lease. 

Friday came along, and another 12 hours of work passed and David surprised me and took me out for drinks. We started at a restaurant near the store, had a few drinks, some fries and a delicious platter of assorted cheeses. 

We then decided to go "downtown" and took the subway down to NYU. I finally had made it to Washington Square!!

Walking around trying to figure out were the good places were, along came 2 grils and 2 guys. So we asked them where a good nearby place was. They were so helpful, they walked us to the right street and pointed us in the right direction. 

This whole theory that New Yorkers are rude, is absolutely wrong. I have yet to see anyone be rude or be rude to me, everyone has always been helpful, nice, and polite. 

We walked another 4 blocks and made it to the NYU crowd. It was great! all the restaurants and bars were open, and there were a lot of people. We ended up at the mexican bar (go figure) and we ordered a pitcher of margaritas. and sat there for hours drinking deliciousness and eating chips with salsa. 

It was now 3am and it was time for us to go home. 

.....

When we got to the apartment we had the wonderful surprise that we were locked OUT of our apartment!!!! How the "F" does this happen you ask? well you see, the apartment's locks apparently dont work as they should. To be a little positive, at least we learned that no one could get in the apartment, and that our locks really are safe... 

So I called a locksmith. yes at 3:45am. ETA: 15-20mins. David and I sat at the bottom of the stairs waiting for this man to come and trying hard not to fall asleep, he finally makes it to our building at 4:20am I explain the situation and take him to the 2 posible entrances and see which would be the easiest and cheapest way to do this. 

This guy had tools! I felt a little bad for our neighbors since this was not the quietest way to get into an apartment... We woke one of our neighbors and she came out to see what was going on. She told us she got locked IN her apartment too!!!! So obviously it wasn't me who was locking David in on purpose!!!  We talked for a while and found out she is having the same problems that we were (good to know we are not alone) and told us to expense the cost of this out of our rent (thank goodness this is possible, let me tell you this was not cheap). Finally the door opens at 6:10am.  We now have a door without a lock. Perfect!- NOT. We blocked the door and fall asleep after laughing about what we just had gone through for about 20 minutes. The locksmith will be back later today to place the lock back in, as if this had never happend. 

Just another experience in NYC...

3 weeks in...

Lets see...


Our apartment is practically furnished and ready to go, with exception of a few details.

I started work, I love it! My official training started today its 4 weeks, my trainer if great, I really like him.

The weather has been interesting, I think today has been the coldest day yet, it was just really windy "with gusts of air of 30-40mph" the walk from the train to the building was not fun.  This is pretty ironic considering it was technically one of the "warmest" days since we have been here, in the upper 30's.  This wind chill is what makes it soo cold!!!

I have had some interesting experiences on the subway. Including a guy who was a mayor divo and changed his shirt 4-5 times while dancing and looking at himself in the window. I have had some solo singers and a 4 part quartet groups, David got a whole mariachi band! Some people do magic, some dancing, some just sleep. At the stations I have seen full jazz ensables, african drums, trashcan drumming, mime musicals, and some gospel singers.


We found Atomic Wings on 2nd and 60th, LOVE it ! best hot wings and its a bar. They are also close to work and they deliver. We had a few beer pitchers there

Last Sunday was great, well... for the most part. We woke up got ready and headed to the Museum of Natural History. We took the F train and transfered to the D train that was suppose to stop right at the museum... well it didn't it skipped 7 stops! we ended up at harlem on 125th st. we then too the C train that would take us back down  to the stop and it decided to skip 7 stops too! we were now back to square one. David and I decide to give it one more try and take the A train that also had a stop at the museum... well go figure we ended up at 125th street again. We, at this point, took a cab and made it to the museum!

It as a lot of fun!

We have had dinner at home most nights, thanks to david most nights... we have had pasta, chicken, tacos, burgers, etc... yummy yummy! we even have had a formal dinner on the floor watching TV in our living room!

That's it for now!

.. and we have a place

We finally go the keys to the apartment.. its big! There are some things that we need to make sure get done to it, but things will get there and things will be good.

We went to Ikea and bought all of our furniture and things we needed like cups, trash cans etc.. Getting there was quite an interesting ride. The F train is under maintenance so it dropped us off and we had to take a shuttle into downtown Brooklyn. From there we needed to take another bus to the Ikea store, we decided to stop and get some delicious pizza before going. The bus ride was... ok I guess, nothing different from a Tucson City bus, rather just busier.

Ikea was a fun and exhausting experience. We spent 6.5 hours there!!! They had a fantastic deal of delivery for only 49$, so we HAD to get it all!! hahaha. We went through the whole show room picking up stuff and choosing color schemes, we then started to write all the numbers down of all the stuff we wanted. David kept checking amount to make sure we were within budget. Well there are only 2 of us a waaaaay too much stuff to take so we had to do everything in 2 trips. Went through the delivery section and can now expect all of our stuff today. 6 carts of stuff later we were out of the store by 9:20pm.

Since the delivery for all of our stuff wouldn't be at our apartment until today, we had to get another hotel room.  So we called Athena (thanks again) to do that "name your own price" for another night in a hotel.  We got a great deal in Murray Hill.  Getting to Manhattan was a bit more complicated since our train was under maintenance so we had to take 4 different transfers to make it into manhattan, made it to bed at around 11:00pm.  We had to take the bus back to downtown Brooklyn, then figure it our from there.  Thank goodness for maps and intuition!

We have been cleaning the apartment today and getting it ready for when all those boxes get to our front door. However today will be a short day since I have to be out the door by 5:30am for orientation!

A fabulous night to a not so shinny day...

David and I arrived safely yesterday at 3-ish. We got our bag and shared a "cab" with some woman and paid 40$ to get into the city. we checked in and went out for a walk... for 2 hours

when we came back, my legs were ON FIRE!!!  why didn't anyone warn me about "cold wind burn"?!?!?!?!?! I looked like i had been laying at a beach for 8 hrs without sunscreen... and it hurt!! luckily it eventually went away... learned my lesson of layers fairly quickly into our arrival in the big apple.

david wanted to go out, me on the other hand, couldnt bring myself back into that wind... david won. we went to dinner... took a cab into little italy where we ended up at chacha cafe. it was delicious. david ordered the bruschetta and i ordered the fetuchini alfredo, i've never had a sauce so thick.... it was a good change. filling and not bad in price. The owner talked to us after dinner and gave us "vip" cards that gets us a little discount every time we go. not bad at all.

after dinner we were wipped and ready for bed.


today...

David and I had a lazzzzy morning, once we finally made it out of bed and into the 20-some degree weather we went out to look for a safe deposit box.  First stop: the BofA across the street from my work. No luck. 2nd stop: 52nd and Park. No luck. 3rd Stop: 48th and 5th. NO LUCK!!!! but we got an appointment for one at 72nd and 1st.....

it was now 1:30 so we had to get to Brooklyn to get out keys to our new place.

1.5 hrs of conquering the subway lines (thanks to David's black berry) we make it to the property manager's office.

OH were we in for a trip!!!  Attitude anyone? Oh yeah i forgot i was in Brooklyn! Well our fantastic realtor forgot to tell us the small tiny detail of needing a CERTIFIED check! She also tells us we cant get the keys today. After a little "nice" words, she says "ok you can have them today once we get the deposit". Yeah I thought so.... so we go in search of a BofA (mind you we had been to 3 this morning...)

Oh wait! Brooklyn has 2 BofAs and they are 30 mins from where we were... we tried to go to a HSBC to see if we can get this check there, but only to find out we needed the funds to be there.. So we called this woman back and told her we will see her tomorrow.  So much for getting the apartment today.

it is now... 4pm and on our way back to manhattan with empty stomaches, pissed and annoyed.

we get back to the hotel by 5-ish and I had the fantastic idea to go to a restaurant called "la bonne soupe" on 55th between 5th and 6th.

Boy did our night turn around! i got a "prix fixe" dinner: bread, salad, french onion soup, dessert and a drink for 18.25... david got a steak and pommes frites. it was in a cute place, warm, busy, cozy, and very... french. will definitely go back again!

in the middle of dinner we decided to go to a broadway show so david rudely interrupted my latte drinking and hurried me out the door. we walked over to times square and bought tickets to see wicked. let's just say we wont be going to broadway shows as much as we thought we would.... either way, we got fantastic seats in the orchestra's center section. The show was AMAZING! laughed a lot, and if you seen it... doesn't david remind you of Gah-linda???

We are now out of the 19 degree wind and in our hotel room in much better moods and optimistic for tomorrow.