Hot water!

[ellen_datlow]

Never thought I'd be so happy to have hot water. I was able to shower and wash my hair in time for the party this evening. (I took a cold shower this morning but was pretty unhappy doing it).

Rick Bowes picks me up for the Oz embassy party in about 10 minutes and it's off we go.
I had lunch with Barbara and Chris Roden, their lovely child Tim, and Barbara's lovely mom, Heather. Showed them the ruins of my neighborhood-the meat market--we ate at Florent, the very first restaurant that located there before goddamned Sex and the City came on and made the nabe famous. Then took them to Magnolia bakery and gobbled cupcakes--we'd stopped at Li-Lac chocolates first where they picked up and ate goodies. So Tim, who I thought really wanted a cupcake, didn't have one. I only have them maybe once a year and they're really not very good. I love the texture of the icing, but the cupcakes themselves are kind of tasteless overall.

Porto Rico trading company is having a 100 anniversary sale, which I hadn't known, or I would never have gone there after dropping the Rodens off at the subway. It was packed. 85 cents for the first pound of Peter's Blend coffee, other coffees on sale for $4.99 a pound, so I stocked up after waiting...and waiting. Also, the filters I needed were on sale. Whoopie! The little things make me happy ;-)

Comments

[stevengould.livejournal.com]

Porto Rico! Aaaaaaggghhhh. Just a hundred yards from our old apartment. I'd completely spaced it until your post.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

So, um, do we ever get to find out what happens to the baby when the mother jumps while it's in utero?

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Hi Steve,
Not sure that one's still there. This is the one on Bleecker, right off 6th avenue.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Sex and the City was in New York? I suppose this is weird, but for some reason I thought it was set in a fictional city. (I've never seen it.)

Do you bake? I have a wonderful recipe for moist rich chocolate cupcakes filled with cream cheese "frosting." I was debating with myself about whether I could do it for 11/17 (bookgroup, plus my mother's birthday where I have coffee and chocolate, her favorites, to remember her) but I don't even have cupcake pans anymore and I'd have to buy every single bit of ingredients except salt and water.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I've never seen it either but yes, I believe it takes place in NYC and sometimes in my neighborhood.
Afraid I don't bake, except for banana bread every few years. Unfortunately, I don't like cream cheese frosting. I like the kind that has a very slight "crust" on top and is soft (not exactly creamy) underneath. See? I'm very choosy in my cupcakes :-)

[readwrite.livejournal.com]

You have a bathtub, unlike me (there's only a shower stall in my place)> If you have that problem again you can heat a big pot of water on the stove and then add cold water till it's approximately the right temperature.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I know I know. It's more the hair that's the problem. The cold shower was painful but I managed it. It would take ages to get soap out of my hair with a pot and the sink...

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

We got 6 different kinds earlier this week from Porto Rico.

Doncha love it, how they've followed the U.S. take over of the island and changing the name to a name that does NOT exist in Spanish?

They could have fixed that with only a couple of letters -- Puerto.

Love, C.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I always wondered why they did it!

I don't know if I'd have room for six packages of beans in the freezer, but now I've got two (in addition to whatever was left over--I didn't bother checking).