Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Magnolia Bakery

Last night we went to a cabaret to see a friend of ours perform.  He did an awesome job but this post isn't about that.  It is about Magnolia Bakery.  It is one of the most delicious places in the whole city!  There is an argument among New Yorkers about which bakery is better, Magnolia Bakery or Crumbs, and I am firmly in the Magnolia camp.  Crumbs is excellent but it isn't as good as Magnolia Bakery!  Magnolia Bakery is like the Harlem Globetrotters and Crumbs is like the Bruins.  My husband disagrees and says Crumbs is superior but he is welcome to be wrong about that if he insists.  Most people in the country know of Magnolia Bakery from this episode of Sex and the City:
They are most famous for their cupcakes but they also sell slices of regular cake and other assorted baked goods.  I got a Whoopie Cookie, which is 2 sugar cookies with a maple cream cheese frosting filling in the middle.  Little Debbie wishes her oatmeal cream pies tasted half as good as a whoopie cookie!  It was the most fabulous cookie in the whole world.

I also got a double fudge brownie for today.  Normally that would be a lot of sugar but since I got pregnant my blood sugar has been dropping with an alarming regularity so I need to have sweets on hand to keep from getting dizzy and passing out.  I suppose if you have to have a medical problem during pregnancy having one with a delicious solution is the best kind!  I would like to send a big Thank You to the wonderful people at Magnolia Bakery for helping me stay healthy (okay, maybe healthy isn't the right word...perhaps I should say conscious instead) while pregnant.  This is the box we carried our dessert home in, but my thumb ended up in the picture somehow.  That is not a toe, I promise!

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

NY Mets - My Favorite Squadron!

Last weekend we were fortunate enough to get tickets to see the Mets!  The Mets and the Yankees are the two major league baseball teams in NYC and while the Yankees tend to be much better players the Mets fans are more dedicated so it all kind of evens out.  The Mets used to play at the incredibly famous Shea Stadium but recently it was torn down and replaced by the brand new CitiField Stadium.
Our seats were in the Mr Met section, where the Mets mascot came by and handed out t-shirts and posed for pictures with the kids.  The view was pretty good and the seats were only $20, which was a steal!
His giant baseball head makes him one of the most adorable mascots in major league baseball!
In the end the Mets lost (which wasn't unexpected) but we still had a great time.  Best of luck next time guys!

Friday, April 15, 2011

Radio City Music Hall - Shine On

I'm back!  On Tuesday we had tickets to Shine On, the Good Housekeeping celebration of remarkable women at Radio City Music Hall.  It was amazing!  I had never been to RCMH before but it was gorgeous inside and much, much larger than I had anticipated.
The show was phenomenal!  I had no idea how star-studded the evening would end up being.  The staging was gorgeous as well.
We were constantly amazed at the presenters and performers.  The awards were given to Michelle Rhee, Christy Turlington Burns, Indra Nooyi, Elizabeth Blackburn, and the sOccket girls.  They were all incredibly deserving of the awards and the recognition.  My pictures didn't come out very well, but I will post them for you anyway.  Are you ready for the list of presenters?

First, there was the host of the evening, Rebecca Romijn.
 She introduced Eve for the first performance of the night!
Then she introduced Goldie Hawn to make the first presentation and introduce the next performer.
Then we got to hear a performance of I Hope You Dance by Leann Womack!

The next presenter was none other than Gweneth Paltrow!

The next presenter was Ali Larter of Final Destination fame.

Ali was followed by Alexis Bledel.
Alexis was followed by the hilarious comic duo Frangela.
The next presenter was Bridget Moynahan.
Fran Drescher was the next presenter!
The next presenter was my absolute favorite of the night!  My own personal idol, Meryl Streep!
After Meryl we got to see a performance of It's a Man's World by Trisha Yearwood.
Then we got to see a presentation by Heather Graham.
Then there was a tribute to two women we lost this year, Elizabeth Taylor and Geraldine Ferraro presented by Kathy Ireland.
Overall it was an incredible evening!  I've never been in the presence of so many amazing women before.  It makes me hope that our baby is a girl so she can have been exposed to all of these amazing women in utero.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Baby on Board

I have been super busy!  As it turns out I am seriously pregnant (by which I mean pregnant and terrified of it) and, as such, I have been spending most of my days trying not to hurl all over the sidewalks of New York.  I will be back with regular updates in another couple of days once I've gotten used to functioning through nausea.  I have some really amazing posts coming up too, so please check back in later this week for non-baby related updates on life in NYC!

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Doctors and Godiva

Today I had a doctors appointment at the New York Downtown Hospital.  It was a very long, very bad day.





They had to take blood.  I do not do needles.  I have a deep, intense fear of needles that is far worse than my fear of birds.  I would be a horrible CIA agent because all a counter agent would have to do is come at me with a syringe and I would scream and squeal and spill all my secrets.  I would make up totally fake secrets to keep them away from me.  I seriously cried and cried while my husband held me and stopped me from jumping out of the chair and running out of the door.  They took six vials of blood!  Okay, I know that is only about 4 oz. of blood, but it is still a ton of vials.  I was ticked off that after all of that they didn't give me a cookie and juice, so as a reward for letting someone violate my veins my wonderful husband took me to Godiva.

I love chocolate.  Chocolate is my vice.  I don't drink, smoke, or do drugs but I will attack a pint of chocolate ice cream like it has the ability to make you rich and attractive.  I love chocolate in a way that is a little bit frightening, so it was a fitting reward.  I got Godiva chocolate-covered Oreos and a couple of their truffles.  They are so tasty!  I still don't like that I had to give up precious bodily fluids to get it, but in the grand scheme of things I suppose the awesome of the chocolate cancels out the horrifyingness of the blood work.  Thanks for helping me get through my day, Godiva!