A Birthday, A Wedding, and an Anniversary..

Well, it's been a long weekend-into-spring-break! Friday night we celebrated our friend Tony's 21st Birthday, so we went out to some bars in NYC. The next day we went to breakfast at Cafe Angelique in the West Village which makes the absolute best Belgium waffles I've ever had - if you ever find yourself in the West Village, go there! Unfortunately, there's a Cafe Angelique closer to my apartment but for some odd reason they don't serve the waffles there, so we make the trek because it's so worth it. On Saint Patrick's Day, Zach and I went to my uncle's wedding which was fun and definitely funny... Monday Zach and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary! We exchanged gifts, he got me a beautiful necklace and a lovely book, and I made him a scrapbook of photos and memories like ticket stubs and a card from the place where he got his first tattoo.. his present was obviously much better, and that's why he's such a great person. For our anniversary we went to Hibachi, which I'd never been to before, and was delicious and fun to watch. Then we saw The Great and Powerful Oz, which was pretty good - despite my initial thoughts that it wouldn't be. 

He looks so charming in his polka dots, but bars are always too dark to get good photos of ourselves in them :(

I'm telling you, best waffles ever!

At the wedding, on the right I'm with my dad. I found that photo on my parents' camera, it instantly became my new Facebook profile picture, it's just too funny.

Champagne & Marc Jacobs clutch.

What I wore and what he wore.

My gift and his gift.

Beautiful necklace with black and regular diamonds (!!)

Hibachi before anything exciting happened (except the great wine we picked out for BYOB), and a Starbucks date with Jayne yesterday.

Daisy, the queen. You can't see in this photo but she's laying down in front of a space heater.. and yesterday was supposed to be the first day of spring!

Melissa.

Not last weekend, but the weekend before was busy! Zach came up on Thursday night because we were going to see Murder by Death at the Music Hall of Williamsburg that night. They put on a good show, and co-headliner Man Man put on an entertaining show, too, but not really my type of music. The photo above is from the inside of the Music Hall - pretty cool look. Jayne came up the following day and we went to Crocodile Lounge (you get a free personal size pizza with every drink you order, dinner and a drink for $5!), the Brooklyn Flea, an art gallery in Chelsea, and a cool bar in Brooklyn called The Emerson. It was a really fun, tiring weekend. I can't wait to see Jayne again next week over my spring break, and can't wait to get a break from school!

At Crocodile Lounge. Zach says he looks like an alien in this picture, probably because of his bug-eyed face.

Crocodile on the ceiling!

Donuts at Brooklyn Flea, I had the blood orange one, all the way at the other end with the red frosting.

Jayne at the art gallery.

On the left was my favorite piece, and on the right was the cool view out of the office window there.

Drunk skateboarding on the subway ride home from Brooklyn Saturday night - which took about 1.5 hours since all the trains were delayed and stopped and we forgot to transfer when we were supposed to.

My monster (cute) dog, and a cool umbrella seen earlier today on the street. I've become pretty talented at the art of photo-stalking people on the streets of New York now, especially their dogs...

Melissa.

Drinks&Eats

I take so many photos of my food before I eat it, I thought, "hey, why not put them all together in a post rather than have them sprawled throughout a regular post?" So, here it is. And I think it's helped me to understand my diet better, and why exactly I'm not losing as much weight as I'd like to. It appears that when I eat something healthy, I always eat something unhealthy which ultimately cancels it out. Which sucks, because I have this idea in my mind that I'm a pretty healthy eater, but by looking at all my photos of food together I realize that maybe I'm not! I hope this visual representation helps me to fix my diet for the better in the future...

Anyway, on the right above is a delicious salad I made last weekend (on the most beautiful day - I sat in the sun in my backyard while I ate it, with my dog!). It was made of just lettuce, sliced apples and strawberries, and I made some dressing out of a mix of olive oil and honey. On the left is a delicious margarita which I ate with an equally unhealthy meal that night, haha.

Blood orange donut from the Brooklyn Flea! I've been dying to try this donut, I see it on Instagram all the time (who knew donuts could be Instagam famous?) Anyway, it was delicious. But one is good enough for me, now that I've tried it. Watermelon was on sale this week at the food store.

On the right are some leftovers from when I ate at this new restaurant The Cleveland, which I'm actually writing a story about for my Journalism of Empathy class. I had these french fries which were served with a delicious alioli oil and a kale salad which was delicious as well.

On the right was a Pinterest-recipe inspired fail. I'm not sure what I did wrong, but I didn't like the grilled onions in this. It tasted better before I added them, when it was just chickpeas, feta cheese, and fresh lemon juice.

On the right is from this place Crocodile Lounge we went to - they give you a free personal pizza whenever you order a drink! $5 for dinner and a drink, I love it.

Melissa.