Out Sick

I have been sick since Saturday but I've only been can't-get-out-of-bed-im-going-to-die-sick since Monday. I went to my Asian primary care doctor in Chinatown (he's awesome) and he gave me a Z Pack which hasn't done much. My sore throat feels like jagged glass, fever, bad hacking mucus filled cough,runny nose and what I like to call 'bubble stomach' which means exactly what you think it means. Oh and i have my period. So i feel super duper awesome.

I have to go back to work tomorrow or I'll be too far behind. Oh how I miss the jobs where work can be left at work and no working from home. Those days are no more.

 I tried working from home Monday but the offices couldn't understand me. Even Cory can't understand me, I have no voice. I sound like a drag queen that smoked two packs a day and drank whiskey every morning.  

Today i was restless, so we walked to the financial district, which might have been too ambitious considering how i felt when i got home but was still nice. Cory and I love the financial district because its old new york. The blocks are small like they were hundreds of years ago and everything is protected for historical purposes so everything is mostly as it was.

 The photos below aren't really of the financial district but more of the buildings Cory felt like taking photos of.  I was sweating like a bastard and wasn't doing anything but coughing and hacking up loogies. 

Before Doctors Visit

Stock Exchange 

The Fall

So walking to work allows me to have all sorts of interesting things I would miss crammed into a subway or taxi (who am I kidding I can’t afford that daily) but yes, it’s great (until the dead of summer). Winter I don’t mind because snow is so new to me. Everyone else hates it so I have to pretend to hate it too. “oh yeah this weather blows, who wants to see beautiful snow everywhere? I don’t.”

   Anyways.

As I walked out my front door on Mott Street heading to Mulberry, I see no more than 4 steps out my door, an old Asian lady eating corn on the cob and walking nonchalantly.  Its 8:15 mind you, in the morning. Beside the oddity of the time, she was holding it so far inside her mouth I had thought it might have been a Popsicle. She then finished it and threw it at my feet. Definitely corn on the cob.

I honestly thought that would be the weirdest interaction I had this morning. Nope. As I walked along Mulberry, about to cross onto Prince Street, a girl passes by me.  There is nothing particular striking about her, she is like any other girl in Soho, well dressed and pretty.  We obviously don’t acknowledge each other. We are all in our own bubbles.

As she walks across me to go left and I go straight, I see her feet fly out from under her. Her left arm flairs up by my left arm and I reach out and hook my arm with hers.  She didn't even turn to face me but clutches me and regains her balance. She then whips around, wide eyed and scared. Her eyes are very blue and very wide as she says “thank you so much” and I nod, break eye contact and keep walking. Not because I don’t want to say something but it happened so quickly and I acted on instinct, it barely stopped by stride. Her face stayed with me all day, I wasn't sure why.  Maybe because I don't normally grab at strangers  or they don't sincerely thank me often from saving them from a hard fall? 

I came to the conclusion it's because the bubble can be broken. No one ever suspects it to break and when it does, human interaction that is often so impersonal here, is shocking. People walk around with headphones on, cell phones pressed to their ear, just ignoring each other. When people look at one another, really look, its always surprising. Most people look right past one another.

Trapeze Class !!!!!!!

(just skip ahead and see all the photos first)
At Zocdoc we always do team events, today we did Trapeze Class at Chelsea Pier. A terrifying, wonderfully scary trapeze class.

I've never been a fan of jumping into a small open net. Especially after climbing a skinny 4 story tall ladder, to jump off a two foot wide plywood board with ropes tied around me by two hippies telling me to 'feel the moment.'

Luckily the Sun was setting (we were there from 6pm until 8pm) and we all took photos of one another waiting for our turn. Sean, our boss, also spent 90 bucks for us to each get our own photos taken by the PROFESSIONAL photographer that was there. Those are the best photos! The photographer put all of our photos on a flash drive, so we all took turns saving them (if we took our laptops with us) to our computer at Houston Hall during dinner. 

The views are amazing from up there, very distracting from what you are about to do with your body. I was terribly scared to put my feet on the edge of the board while someone held my safety belt back until they said 'GO!'  but you look up and see the city and i help my breath and jumped. There is always a trainer at the bottom telling you what to do, to go, pull your feet over for a flip, let go (the hardest part).  You're in such a panic you cant hear the trainer (I couldn't) because your body is tensing up for your death so you swing your legs around to try and bring them up over the bar without falling to your death. It was fun........? The more we did it the better we all got. Also the bigger the callouses on our hands got. Everyone on my team has soft, white hands or we did before tonight.  My back is sore and my arms only 3 hours later. 

Photo Below, bye bye bar, hello net

                               

At Houston Hall with beers to celebrate survival, I'm hiding in the back whimpering, icing my elbow with my beer. 

The Weeks End

It's finally spring time in New York City!!

Cory and I ran 8.2 miles Friday and Sunday night, we like to run around the water and then nearly passed out. 

On Saturday night we went to a bar called Marshall Stacks (like the music amp) that played great alternative music and beer. 

Mason Jar restaurant

What Cory calls me when I sleep until 11 a.m. (maybe later) on the weekends (Tea is from this morning with Cory). 

A Visit Home In Pictures Part 1

This magnificent sign and balloons (thanks mom) were waiting for me when I got home at 3am since my flight was delayed 3 hours after airline budget cuts. 

My mom, Felicity and I went to the Pompano Beach Farmers Market. Felicity borrowed my sunglasses and attitude. 

Fifi liked the shading of the sign. 

There's always a band playing live music and Fifi loves to dance and have Nana or I watch. 

 After the Farmers Market Felicity, Nana and I stayed outside for a bit before nap time. 

Later that night I went out to Din Dins with Patti at Brule Bistro in Delray and met up with Elisha after at Dadas.

 Patti (lil Mermaid) and I have been friends since college. I don't often share Photos but we look cute in these:

More photos from home to come. 

Korean Beauty Products

Flew yesterday at 6am from Fort Lauderdale to JFK, arrived at 8:30am. Jumped into a Taxi, Taxi got into accident,the driver hit the front of a car and the car behind me hit us, delayed, worked, went home, slept.  Woke up super sore and tired today, emotionally and physically. Don't get me wrong,  I had a great visit home, saw my family and my friends and took sooo many photos... it just takes a while to adjust to a different environment. A family-less one. 
Side note: Whenever I say this to Cory he always tells me I'm the only family he needs and he's my family,  but still, he knows what I mean. Just let me wallow and be depressed gossshhhh. 

Anyways 

Arrived at work and saw my Korean Beauty Products had arrived. Such a nice pick me up! I loved all of them, inexpensive too (i used my tax return that didn't go to student loans) for the quality. Way better then something at the drugstore or non prescribed (my precious retinal), I'm  serious. Also, I'm obsessed with everything beauty related, my talents are WASTED in sales and anything numbers related.

Kollection K  is the BEST! 

Cherry Lip Gel - is a gel (obvs) you massage into your lips, let set and stains your lips for days! 

Wonder Pore- A clay powder you can mix with water in a small bowl spread on your face, let set, peel off and out comes the gross stuff stuck in your pores.  The directions are hilarious translated to English but it's pretty basic so you don't really need them. 

Korean products are soooo cute, everything is cute, even the packaging! These hand lotions were like 6 bucks each and made from Shea Butter. Smells great and made my hands super soft.  Buy them here 

These hair rollers are soft and squishy and can be used on only damp or dry hair made wet with hairspray but also soft enough to sleep in and not be noticed. Like 3.99 and amazing curls/no heat damage. 

This is something like a Benefit High Beam Cream but a lot cheaper and less shiny. More dewy and a lot less glittery, really great. 

This Eye Cream Stick is the most amazing thing ever. I use a lot of eye cream/serum/argan oil since I've been a squinter for years. I can say, this product is awesome. It slides on and it super cool (feeling) and makes the eyes super moist and hide whatever fine lines I might have. It just is soooo amazing. I wish i had ordered it in bulk! It also looks like a cute ice cream cone!  There's this one or the one i got which is this one , for under 10 bucks, it's amazing. 

Also, their soap is art, you can get saltines, cookies, cupcakes, amazing!