Hot water!

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 ;-)

home again home again

Great party, and very nice dinner afterwards with thirteen other partygoers. We went to an Italian restaurant a block from the party and after waiting about half an hour (the weather was nice, but my feet were hurting in the high heels) we were seated and had a delicious dinner. At least some of the aussies went drinking afterwards where they likely are right now! I suggested that going south on 2nd avenue from 42nd street (where we were) would probably be their best bet in finding a bar...I hope they found a good, cheapish one.