What Happened?

This has been a crazy weekend. I can't even recall if there was a weekend. So let's recap the weekend shall we?!

After a long day and week at work, all I wanted to do was come home, check into work a bit just to make sure all my stuff were doing o.k. for the night and spend the rest of the evening relaxing and playing World of Warcraft.

I walk into my office and I stood there eye to eye with the infamous ...

"BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!"



SHIT! .... I scramble to my computer and press the power button. I wait for the restart and cross my finger. The computer screams at me, "Please insert boot disk..."

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"

I turn off my external hard drive and I am no longer surrounded by the soothing humming of a computer's harddrive, but I am surrounded by silence. The silence is suddenly overpowered by the strong beat of my heart when I realized that my harddrive was officially fried!

Friday, another long day at work. I enjoy the holidays very much and the thought of Christmas around the corner excites me. For most of the day, I listened to old and new christmas music on the internet radio - it never gets old. I try not to sing out loud at work. I'm sure it would probably merit for some weird looks from my coworkers so I usually let it all out in my head.

After work, Katie and I went out for dinner at the cuban restaurant near my workplace. We had my usual half baked chicken that we shared and a chicken soup called Asopado de Pollo - which was recommended by a nearby customer to be the best; and it was. We both enjoyed our dinner and promised ourselves to bring visiting guests to the restaurant. Shortly after we walked across the street to the mall to fancy ourselves with a little bit of window shopping while we held each other allowing our full stomachs to settle. I bought Katie's birthday present that night which is coming up this Wednesday - and we also bought a split queen box spring.


Earlier this year when we first moved to New York. We couldn't fit our regular queen box spring up to our apartment, so we had to get rid of it. We strategically placed wooden planks beneath our mattress to temporarily make do until we can find an affordable solution. Lucky for us, the boxspring was on sale because of Veteran's day!

On Saturday, Katie spent most of the day looking for a dress to wear for the company party at the end of the month. She also helped out our friend Merideth paint her dresser and armoire. Her husband Mark is my coworker and we were both working that day in preparation for the Thanksgiving holiday. At the end of the day, Mark, Merideth, Katie and I had chinese for dinner and attended an adult storytelling session at the Rye Library. We heard folktales and poems from Ireland to Japan, from the native Indians to a heart warming story of a young woman and her unforgettable table cloth shopping experience with her father-in-law, during the mid 1940's. The rest of the night was well spent at a nearby Starbucks warming ourselves with hot mochas.

Sunday morning started with a filling breakfast to prepare ourselves for the long day of cleaning. We rented a carpet shampooer and moved all our furniture out of the carpeted areas. We spent most of the day shampooing the carpet and doing laundry. We were both exhausted by 9pm and were probably in bed by the time 10 o'clock rolled by.

Our long arduous weekend was liberated this morning when the first snow fell in our little town of Harrison. We were watching the morning news when I glanced out the window to see snow fall. "WAAHH!! IT'S SNOWING!!" I yelled as I kept pointing at the window like a boy standing in front of a candy shop. "No way, are you sure?!" she said. "YES I'M SURE! Let's go outside." But it was too early in the morning to be outside in the cold. So we decided to stare out the window and watch the snow falls before our eyes.

What a weekend!

Art by Kean Soo