The weather has been crazy this week! It was in the 60' and 70's all week-- so nice!!! Then, today, it starts snowing and icing. It's supposedly the worst storm of the year-- won't know until tomorrow if that's the truth. They did close our office early- at 3:00. Most offices here don't do that, but for whatever reason, the NHL looks out for people when the weather is bad. I did some fun things this week- here's a synopsis...
Monday night I went grocery shopping at Trader Joe’s. My family discovered Trader Joe’s when my parent’s lived in California—they have them all over out there. It is a great place for groceries, but there is only one in NYC so it is always a mad-house. The line to check-out wrapped around the entire store. It was worth it, though. Their food is so cheap and really good. Ever since I moved here, I’ve been buying a salad at Central Market that I take to work for lunch a lot. I decided to buy the ingredients at Trader Joe’s and start making it myself. It has turned out really good this week! It has cranberries, walnuts, and goat cheese—a great combination, I’ve discovered. The main reason I went to Trader Joe’s was to get ingredients to make a chicken dish. A girl in my church was hit by a car a couple of weeks ago and is still in a coma. Her parent’s have been in from California, so my Bible study was taking food for them. My friend Jennifer, who is a personal chef, came to my rescue with a recipe for something they could easily freeze for later. It was a fiesta chicken dish with rice and black beans. I made enough to keep some for myself and plan to try it for dinner tonight!
Tuesday night was food-delivery night for my Bible study. We dropped off the meals we prepared at one of our minister’s apartments and he was going to deliver them to the girl’s parents. This minister, Kenny, just came on staff at Apostles and moved from Dallas just last month. His apartment was really cute—much more decorated than mine is! He made a comment that in Dallas he had started to get the 7-year itch. That made me realize that I had moved after about exactly 7 years. I wonder if I had the 7-year itch, too? It really makes me think it’s a real thing! After dropping off the food, us girls went out to dinner. It was fun just hanging out together.
Wednesday night I had class. We had our first quiz this week. We graded our OWN! Hysterical. I’m sure everyone got 100%. I really did get 100%-- I missed one, but there was an “extra-credit” question that I got right. After the quiz, we began discussing themes and I was having so much fun. We were split into groups and given a color and had 4 minutes to come up with a themed party based on that color. My group was assigned the color white and we came up with a Winter-Wonderland party. We had a white-carpet (instead of red) entry outside and as you walked into the event, you would walk through a cold igloo-type tunnel filled with snow. We would serve white-chocolate fondue, have white-chocolate martinis, The Average White Boy would provide entertainment, white snow-flakes would decorate the room, the caterers would use white-glove service, the bar would be made of ice, etc…. It was a lot of fun to come up with all these ideas in 4 minutes. My group presented first, but I had to leave early so I missed the other groups and was disappointed!
I left class early because Joy and I had tickets to the opera at Lincoln Center! We’ve had the tickets since before I registered for the class. This was my first opera experience! We saw Madame Butterfly and it was amazing. I loved it. I didn’t know before that the musical Miss Saigon, is based on Madame Butterfly. Miss Saigon happens to be my favorite musical, so that made me love Madame Butterfly all the more. The singing and costumes were so pretty. They have the English translation on a screen high above the stage, which was kind of awkard. I’m sure from some seats it is okay, but from where we were sitting, it was like watching a movie from the first row and it was impossible to watch the stage and the words at the same time. There is another theatre next door and I’ve heard that it has individual screens at each seat with the translation- that could be interesting. I loved the show anyway- just had a slight headache when we left!
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