my life as a new yorker: week 5 - run now, pizza later

In case you've missed what's been happening so far, check it out here: week 1, week 2, week 3, & week 4!

Gahhh. week five. It's been crazy.

I've been keeping up with my Kayla guides and eating healthy and it's just been really great. I've felt great. I need to work on my water consumption – even though I gave up soda and energy drinks I still have trouble with keeping track of my water intake. I'm hoping that it'll also help with my skin. The coconut oil has still been working miracles, but I feel weird about putting it on my face. Is that a thing?

I've been making ALL my food for dinners and lunches during the week and it's been wonderful. I've been going crazy for zoodles and my new spiralizer. I love it. I want to spiralize all the things and then eat vegetables ALL THE TIME. is that normal? probably not. But it's an improvement over the bread and oil I was consuming as meals last week… or is it?

I also made a roast chicken and roasted sweet potatoes and yams and it was glorious. Pro tip: roast a chicken and chop some of the meat up and mix it together with cilantro pesto to make a cilantro chicken salad and eat it on toast squares. It makes for a glorious, cutesy Sunday lunch with ya friends or loved ones! So casual. So loungey. Is loungey a word? Spell check tells me no. I hate spell check.

The snow stopped this week! (I'm knocking on wood don't worry.)

Or it at least SEEMS like it's stopped. The weather at the end of the week was SOOO nice. It couldn't have been nicer for my franzzzzz to visit (I suppose it could have been if it were summer…. but its WINTER people so just go with it).

Cause my friends visited this past weekend! and omg it was so nice to be able to have an impromptu visit because we're not crazy far away from each other.

We drank QUITE a bit of vino. and just hung out. It was perfect. we've all pretty much seen the main new york attractions so there wasn't anything toursity on our list during this weekend. Britty came on Thursday night and we spent Friday being lazy and eventually exploring the streets of the Upper East Side. We did everything on foot and just moseyed our way around after grabbing bagels and coffee in the morning.

Until we found a bar. muahahaha. We ran into the stumble inn and I knew I had heard good things about it so we stopped in for a quick drink because neither of us were hungry for lunch yet. [I'm kicking myself for not making the “stumbled into” joke and going with “ran into”… GAH WHO AM I?!?] then we made our way over to the meatball shop, which is just ughhh. so good. SO GOOD. I'd had it before and each time I go I get a few sliders because I can never make up my mind with all the choicessss.

but it didn't take us long to decide on sharing the sangria… naturally.

LJ didn't show up till late Friday night and we headed back to my apartment and I had my first shake shack experience (spoiler: the shakes are awesome)! Then we played xbox…. all night. because that's who we are.

side note: the kinnect is SO COOL. we played virtual bowling and tennis and all kind of things.

Saturday we went and saw the art exhibit I mentioned last week! It was super cool. Frankie was not as amused… at all. he thought it was okay, but just “didn't get it.” hahahahah.

We had a late breakfast and late lunch so we weren't really hungry all night. We stopped into a really cool bar that we found just walking around and scouring yelp. It had a speakeasy feel and also a sort of vampire-ish vibe – according to Laura. i love the music. And the drinks were great. and it had couches… so i was sold. donzo. don't need to see any others… just kidding. i need others.

Then we went home and watched pitch perfect… while eating pretzels and bread with olive oil. damn I thought i got away from the bread and oil meals in week 5.

The next morning we got muffins from a bakery next door and caught up on tv shows and it was perfect.

Apparently I really needed a lazy weekend of just hanging out in order to recoup from all the apartment work I'd been doing over the last month.