Saturday, March 18, 2006
Live From New York....
Years ago, during my first overnight stay in the New York area, I had immediately acquired a taste for whatever New York had to offer. However, I was too young to venture into the city on my own and the nightlife....forget about it. Needless to say, most of my trips here were day trips with family or a social group. In recent years, I started to come up to the city with a friend or with a relative and stay overnight in the city, but the nightlife... I was seriously aquiring a fever for it.
This weekend I blended in with the thousand of native New Yorkers and tourists. I saw the play the Color Purple, had a late night dinner at a nearby cafe', woke up the next day and headed to a coffee shop and sucked down a pastry and a blended fruit drink. I did go into tourist mode as I watched parts of the St. Patrick's Day parade along 5th Ave. Then I met up with my cousin and ventured with her as we went into a well known fabric shop, Moods, in the fashion district. Being that she is a student at FIT, she had to go to Moods to collect some swatches for a portfolio of designs she is working on as a project. It was neat helping her out with what patterns and colors would work with a few of her designs.
We did a couple of other things, shop and had dinner at a resturant called The Coffee Shop at Union Square. Soon it was getting close to 8 and she had to be back in Brooklyn in time to change her clothes for her job at a club in Times Square. So, I hopped on the subway headed for Brooklyn with her. We got there in time to relax for a hot minute and for her to change her clothes. Then he hopped back on the train towards Manhattan, where I went back to my hotel room, changed my clothes and met my cousin at the Fashion 40 lounge.
Of course the good thing was I was able to get in free, since she works there. The bad thing I guess is that I got so drunk that I vaguely remember what happened last night. I just know the place was jumping when I got there at 11:30. Everyone was dancing and having a good time. No profilers!!! Amazing!!! A few fellas bought me drinks. I was drinking Melon Balls all night. The rest is a blur.
Needless to say I did make it back to my hotel room safely sometime around 5 am. I'm ashamed to say that I have never so far gone be that I don't rmember much, until now. However, I think I'm paying for it royally as I am in the room with a hangover and suffering from menstrual cramps.
For all it's worth, I did have fun and I'm a bit sadden that I do have to leave tomorrow. I'm glad my hotel is in a good location. I'm right in the fashion district on 7th Ave. I'm directly across from Madison Square Garden and Penn Station, a few blocks from Times Square, and a couple of blocks from Macy's and the Empire State Building.
My cousin has mentioned to me a few a times that she could see me living in NY. Yesterday her words were no different. Who knows. I've contemplated or played with the idea, but never gave it any serious thought. I love visiting the city but to live... maybe. As I told my cousin, if I move to NY or anywhere I would have to make sure I have some type of finacial cushion to help me along the way.
However, as I have stated plenty of times... my heart is still with DC.
Posted by KomplexPhemale ::
6:42 PM ::
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