For the past two weeks, a ton of the off-Broadway shows have been on sale for $20, 20 minutes before the show starts. I didn't find this out until Wednesday and the sale was ending today, but I still managed to fit in 2 $20 shows. Thursday night, I went to see "Altar Boyz". I've been wanting to see this for over a year. It's a comedy about a Christian boy-band and won a lot of Tony's last year. I thought it was funny and entertaining, but I did not love it as much as I thought I might. Saturday night, I saw "My First Time", which is basically all about sex. It's sort of done along the lines of "Vagina Monologues" if you've seen that. So, it was definitely racy, but not horribly so. It was very funny.
Friday night, I went to see Joy's friend, Adam, play at a place in the East Village. He sings and plays the piano and he includes me on emails all the time trying solicit people to come out to one of his shows, but this was the first time I actually went. I was surprised at how much I liked his music! The place he played was nice too...it was the upstairs room of a bar and was set up really dark and cozy and had a white grand piano that he played. Afterwards, a group of us went to eat at a French-Moroccan restaurant. I wasn't very hungry, so I just got a little cheese plate with baguette. The cheese was rolled in herbs that were very spicy-hot, which I didn't expect and didn't like! Everyone else's food looked amazing though.
Saturday, my church had a block-party for the Upper East side. I volunteered and ending up spending 2 hours helping little kids make beaded bracelets and necklaces. It was fun and I thought we had a great turn-out.
Before the show Saturday night, Joy and I met for dinner at Blockheads- a Mexican restaurant with good food and margaritas that taste just like the ones in Texas- yum!
This morning, I went and taught S.S. at church- the 3/4 year-olds. We had more kids today than I am used to and it was a little crazy. The pastor's son is going through a really bad time of separation anxiety and throws really terrible fits. Since he's the first kid to arrive, the other kids come in to a screaming/crying boy and that scares them, so now they're ALL having separation anxiety! It doesn't last long for most of them, but poor little Jud is having a real hard time of it. I finally got him to calm down and then he was really sweet and then suddenly he wet his pants, which upset him. I had to get his mom at this point since she had the change of clothes and then when she brought him back with his clean jeans, we had to go through the whole raging fit again. She warned me he might pinch and boy did he. He basically grabbed the skin on my neck and twisted it in a way I've never been pinched before. It hurt!! It's weird thought, because after that whole experience this morning, I like him more than I ever had before. He kind of latched on to me after I calmed him down twice and then he was so sweet. I think he's just going through a rough time.
After church, I went down to MacDougal street - the area where Amber & I did the NYC food tour in July. There were so many restaurants our guide pointed out that I wanted to go back and try, so today, I tried The Hummus Place. It was really good, but tasted so different from hummus I am used to. I think this was the REAL stuff. Their pita bread was also amazing - so thick and fresh and warm!
I went to a wine-tasting class with Joy this afternoon. I was disappointed. It was at the restaurant where Ebonee's going-away party was last weekend. It gets really good reviews, but I didn't feel like I learned anything and it was not worth the money.
Tonight was church. I had another random run-in. After church, the guy I know from Columbia, who I also went to college with chased me down. He wanted to introduce me to a girl he had just met - who is also from Columbia, Mo! So weird to be standing in my church (which is still pretty small) in NYC with 2 other people from my hometown. She was a nice girl. A young one who has moved up here to try to become a star...she's auditioning. I've met a lot of those lately. Such is life in NYC!
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Who did you see at church??
Well, Jeff E. goes there - I see him occasionally, but he runs the sound-board in the morning and I usually go at night. Today, was the 2-year anniversary of the church and they had some members share about their experiences there. Jeff was one of the people who was asked to share. He mentioned when he was on stage that he's from Columbia, so afterwards, this girl goes up to him and says she's from there too. Then, he just had to introduce her to me. It was kind of funny! The girl's name is Mallory Fletcher...she graduated from R.B. in 2002, then went to college in Indiana.
I love Blockheads - never been to the actual restaurant but we would order it in for lunch all the time. That was the closest we could find to getting our Texas mexican food fix.
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