Cupcake!!!! 

Easter eggs or tulips? 

Cherry Tree Esplanade 

The proud parents to be...Mitzi and Billy and Baby Boy???
 

From Mitzi and Billy's baby shower on Saturday...lots of good food and drinks and laughing were had by all! 

Basquiat, Brooklyn Botanical Garden, White Horse and Dylan Thomas, and finally, a cupcake...

So Sunday was a good day, I met Megan at the Brooklyn Museum to see the Jean-Michel Basquiat (http://www.basquiat.net/) retrospective, which was supercool, I'm amazed by his paintings, they are so crazy and weird and facinating, I wanted to buy the catalog (I should have, now that I think about it) just because there is so much going on in his paintings and to really examine it all, you have to stare at each piece for hours and hours...he's truly amazing...then we headed out to the Botanical Garden to see some of the flora and fauna in its springtime bloom...it's actually a little too early, only the tulips and the cherry trees and lilacs are in full bloom right now, but it was beautiful nonetheless. As we walked along the Cherry Tree Esplanade, it was so windy out, all the cherry blossoms were falling and they looked like pink and white snowflakes falling...a lovely effect, kind of like this really beautiful scene in Kurosawa's Dreams where the tree deities come to life (but I think those were peach trees)...I love that name by the way, Cherry Tree Esplanade...there is also a Bluebell Wood...I told Megan I think I like those names so much because they make it sound like you are walking through Candyland or a fairy tale...
We were starving by this point and decided to go to the White Horse Tavern, Dylan Thomas' favorite spot, (http://www.pbs.org/hollywoodpresents/collectedstories/writing/write_greenwich_1.html)
where he had his famous last drink (supposed last words: "I've had 18 straight whiskeys. I think that's the record.")...legend has it his ghost still haunts the premises, sitting down at his favorite table for a drink and a cigarette...Mr. Thomas was not spotted, but a yucky old purple-faced drunk was - he was tossed out after lighting a cigarette and then insulting the staff and their mothers (on Mother's Day, no less) in a vulgar fashion...amusing, yes?
So then we went on a quest for cupcakes. Not just any cupcakes, mind you. AMY SEDARIS CUPCAKES. Many of you probably don't know how much I LOVE Amy Sedaris (http://amysedaris.com/), I get such a kick out of her...I loved the show Strangers With Candy, but I mostly like her for being her, like when she is a guest on David Letterman...weird, kooky, hysterical..very fine qualities! So Amy loves to bake, and bakes cupcakes on a daily basis and decided to make some money off of this habit and every day, she brings her fresh cupcakes to Joe's ( http://www.joetheartofcoffee.com/ ) and I want to be able to say that I have had one of her cupcakes. Alas, we arrive at Joe's to find it closed for the night. Yet the hankering for a cupcake remains...what to do? "Off to Magnolia Bakery" I exclaim, and we headed back to Bleeker Street where a too-sugary-too-much-frosting type of cupcake just like Mom used to make and a coffee were enjoyed immensely on a bench across the street, next to one of my favorite bookstores - I say favorite because the last time I was there, a cutie bookish type guy worked there and I need to go back there and hang out and see if he has any more good books to recommend to me...

Happy Mother's Day to the JuiceMonster!!!

I love you very much and I'll call you later...keep looking at the sky for "odd-shaped" clouds and remember these messages:

the fat man walks alone...
the chair is against the wall...
and the clock strikes 13...

a beautiful cherry tree, one of my favorite things about springtime in NYC... 

A much needed day off...

Sorry all, for the lack of comments on this dear blog, I have been:

a. Very busy and stressed out at work with no time to do anything for myself...my boss was out for a week and I had a lot to handle...life has been a little too much too handle since I came back from vacation earlier in April. Plus,

b. I've been sick for the past week and a half, the same stupid respiratory infection that I had in March...it was just tricking me into believing I was cured...cough cough...don't you all feel sorry for me? I want my mommy to make me a grilled cheese sandwich and hot cocoa and chicken noodle soup...or at least biscuits and water (ha ha, inside joke between me and Juicy Mama).

So my boss came back on Monday and I called in sick on Tuesday to recuperate. I slept in late and rested but then I had to go to a dentist appointment at 2...I love my dentist, she is this German woman who always has candles lit and flowers everywhere and she serves you tea if you want it and she's really into natural medicine and being healthy so she always has little tips for me - green tea, soy milk, stay away from over the counter medications, etc...her office is on 61st and Lexington, so after leaving her office, despite feeling not so well, it was too pretty a day so I bought a book at Borders down the block and walked over to Central Park and read and sat and peoplewatched for a while. I sat on a bench in front of the pond you see in the picture... everything's green now and the cherry trees and peonies are blooming and the tulips and daffodils are out too so it's so lovely and peaceful.

So all in all, I feel better...still coughing and a little weak, but well enough to go out to celebrate Cinco de Mayo tonight...no more than 2 margaritas though...I shall not get drunk!! What's up for this weekend, you ask? On Saturday, I'm going to a baby shower for my friend Mitzi, kind of all day sort of party, and then Sunday, I may have to work, but after seeing the park on Tuesday, I would love to go up to the Bronx Botanical Garden and walk around while everything is starting to bloom...last year, we didn't really get a spring and I want to really enjoy it this year...because that's what it's all about, isn't it, appreciating every moment as it happens? I think so...

Look at the pretty elephant...and look at the pretty elephant poop! (this is a sculpture at the entrance to Central Park..I just thought it was goofy)