Monday, March 27, 2006

20 Wonderful (Unexpected) Things From the Weekend

1. "How to Hypnotize a Girl Into Sleeping With You" video in Found Footage Festival

2. Possible new friend post-Found who likes pickles!

3. Wonderously funny chemsitry of strangers post-Found and resultant feelings of comfort and belonging and finally, finally, finally thinking that everything WILL turn out just rosey

4. Another newish friend saying she's relieved and glad that I have decided to stay in NYC

5. Easy shopping and cheap half-sweater-y item for wedding

6. Spontaneous snack date (churros! flan! milk cake!) with LL

7. D calling just to say "hi"

8. Wheeling around little wine cart in fancy wine store and resultant feeling of being a giant (and then nostalgia for Boston Children's Museum induced by prancing around wine store - remember the fake child-sized grocery store? you'd blissfully run around and pretend to buy groceries? or, in this case, run around pretending to know anything about wine with your miniature cart?)

9. D wearing a sweater

10. D's fabulous cousin and her fabulous cousin and her cousin's fabulous husband (more new people!) taking us out for dinner

11. Olive oil flavored gelato

12. Making up rules, later determined to be completely incorrect, to shovel board (and more new people!)

13. Norah Jones playing guitar incognito

14. Getting home early but staying up late

15. Having enough time to make my hair look good, two days in a row!

16. Tarentella!

17. Moustaches!!

18. Meeting another scientist (and another new friend with whom we are having diner soon!) from NYC! C'est impossible!

19. Dessert spread involving 15 different flavors of cake (one with canolis ON THE CAKE), cheese, fruit, jello, pastries, cookies, chocolate fondue, ice cream sundae bar, make your own sno cones, cotton candy and popcorn

20. Getting a ride home

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

aha, went to Otto?

Leah Lar said...

Indeed! Pizza was so-so, but the gelato was amazing.

Beth said...

Ummm, I thought that there were "issues" about the cousin. Are these different cousins, or did they suddenly become fabulous?

What the heck is shovel board?

Was this an Italian wedding?!?

Leah Lar said...

Different cousin. D has like 10 million cousins, and he refers to them all as "my cousin" so I never knew who he's talking about. Much like your "brother."

Shovel board is the table version of shuffle board - you know with like the sawdust and those weighted things that you slide across the table. I thought it was also called "shuffle board" but apparently it's not.

And YES! It WAS an Italian wedding! Wooooo!