May 17, 2008
Some Non-Food Related Notes
- It's a Diana!
1. Vote for my friend Diana on Artists Wanted! And by that, I mean give her five stars. Or whatever you want to give her, but I think five is appropriate. Anything that could help her take more photos is a good thing.
- I would say that Tristan is the one on the left, and I'm the banana-wielder.
2. I'm moving to Brooklyn on June 1, more specially to an apartment off the Hewes Street stop on the J/M line (just two stops out of Manhattan), and most importantly with Tristan as my roommate. Actually, it's more like me as Tristan's roommate—on Tuesday he scoped out apartments, Wednesday morning he picked one and paid the deposit and first month's rent, and on Thursday we signed the lease. It happened hella fast.
Why did it have to happen so fast? He found out he had to move out of his current apartment by the end of the month just this past Monday night. Not a whole lot of notice, but maybe it's good to be under pressure so you get your butt in gear. I was first in line as his pick for a roommate, and BOOYA, that's that.
I've been warned about the potential horrors that come with living with a best friend (and, just to clarify, that's all our relationship is), but I think we'll be fine/not at each other's throats. The apartment is quite nice—two bedrooms, decent bathroom, kitchen area, and a separate living room. Now I don't have to commute!
Of course, the downside is that I'll be out $750+ when before I didn't have to pay any rent. If I start to eat out less in June, now you know why. :\ But perhaps I'll cook more! And then this blog will be really boring!!! Please don't leave me. Please.
I should be more excited about moving, but I'm mostly thinking about what a pain in it ass it is to move. The excitement will come once I'm settled in and not sleeping on an air mattress.
Posted by roboppy at 2:30 AM
Comments (27)
dude, i'm going to elevate my cooking to entirely new levels to live up to this entry. maybe i'll take a night class, even.
Posted by: tristan at May 17, 2008 9:37 AM [#]
oh yay. i'm moving tomorrow and i haven't started packing! :D
Posted by: jodie at May 17, 2008 12:09 PM [#]
there are some pretty good taco places near you --
Taco Santana (301 Keap just north of Broadway). Down 'n dirty tacqueria but good, and cheap.
Taco Bite (S. 4th @ Rodney) A former taqueria run out of the back of a Greenpoint Italian restaurant that moved to become a legit restaurant. Better than Santana but more expensive.
Mexico 2000 (Broadway just west of Keap). It's a grocery store with a taqueria in the back. Santana is better, but it's an option.
i'll still read you if move and then eat less. you're funny even if you move.
Posted by: kristina at May 17, 2008 5:09 PM [#]
hey!
1. awesome picture and i voted for diana already. 5 stars, yea!
2. yay you're moving to brooklyn and i'm sure if you don't eat out, tristan would cook yummy food so your blog would not be boring but filled with photogenic grub.
:)
Posted by: claudia at May 17, 2008 7:01 PM [#]
Mahar: I AM NEAT! Yahoo.
Su-Lin: Thanks! If you come to NYC (you should!), you can crash with us!
Tristan: I need to elevate my skills too! I think the key is "use lots of butter."
Tina: I shall fool everyone with my misleadingly tasty looking photos!
Jodie: Sweet jesus...I hope you're packed by now. ;D
Bill: Holy crap, thanks for the recs! They sound awesome. Looks like I may have a very taco-centric blog soon.
Annie: WEEE, I wouldn't think that YOU would leave me. :D
As for the apartment (which he found on Craigslist)...well, it is Brooklyn! Haha. Not the far out part though. I guess you wouldn't find that in Manhattan, but go further a few subway stops and you can save lots of money. Weee. We did have to pay a broker's fee though. Meh.
Julie: I'm rooting for "awesomer"!
Kristina: Thanks! :D ONE MORE READER, SECURED!!
Claudia: As part of our roommate agreement, Tristan did say he would cook lots of awesome healthy food for me (or at least it was implied somewhere...subconsciously). BWAHAHAHA. I could use the fiber and vitamins. :)
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at May 18, 2008 12:49 AM [#]
Robyn! Eating out less??? nooooooooo!
Will that mean less photos of INNARDS? :(
Well hey congrats on living in NYC :)
Posted by: G at May 18, 2008 5:30 AM [#]
Wow, how cool is that! Countdown must be ticking, 10 days left...
Wish you all the best for your new inner-city life!
Posted by: Mickjagger at May 18, 2008 8:10 PM [#]
I'm moving house too and when I think about the exorbitant amount of money I'll be paying for the 'privilege' of living in Sydney, my heart starts to beat scarily fast, and I worry it's going to jump out of my chest.
The rent is actually higher than your Brooklyn digs, but I would rather live in NYC in a second! How that is fair, I don't know.
So, looking forward to some great tips on how to make the money last and still be eating the yums.
Posted by: Yas at May 19, 2008 3:43 AM [#]
Congratulations on moving. I only have good experiences from living with my best friends, and you'll be just fine as well.
Oh, is there space on the couch for me and Behnaz? You know I'll be in NY some day ;)
P.S. Loved the banana comic. The important thing isn't the size of your banana, but how you wield it.
congrats dude! oh and i totally dedicated a post about you starting my macaron craze
Posted by: chocolatesuze at May 19, 2008 10:05 AM [#]
zomg! 2 bdrs and each only 750!?! wheeeeere? me want
but woot woot we'll finally hang?
(btw sinister tristan just needs someone to clean his crazy bike wounds :: i hope it never happens again yikes::) can we we have house warming?
Posted by: olia at May 19, 2008 3:10 PM [#]
Woohooo! I live on the J/M line also but I'm on Halsey, a few stops further into brooklyn than you! The J train skips Hewes during rush hour so make sure you catch the M! -=)
Posted by: wonders at May 19, 2008 3:18 PM [#]
G: Ahh, the innards...I can't forget about the innards! Wait, I haven't had many innards lately. OH NOOES!!
NYC's nice, but it ain't as lovely as Bergen. Le sigh. (Well...we have lots of tacos around where I live, I guess I'm happy.)
Yann: OMG COUNTDOWN! I didn't think of doing that, haha. Ahh it's too soon, I have a lot of crap to pack up. :(
Yas: If I lived in Manhattan it'd probably cost more. SO YAY BROOKLYN!!!
As for how to make the money last, I figure...hm...short term fasting interrupted by some feasting. Haha. ...Nah.
Clare: OHHH I love making Thai curry! So much that I haven't made it in years. Haha. Crap. I better get back on that!
Morten: Come within the next year and YEAAH, you have a place to crash. Not that we won't be there longer than a year, but definitely...at least a year.
I agree, the banana comic is the awesomes.
Suze: Aw, I'm so glad I could encourage your macaron-eating ways! Those maccies look awesome..nicer than most stuff here! Wah.
Carl: GLEEE FOR BANANA FRIENDS!!!
Olia: YEAH WE WIN! We just have to live across the river. Heh. House warming shall occur! But not for a while cos it'll probably..be a while until our apartment doesn't look like crap. Waah moving..pain in the butt.
Maybe before house warming we can have another group meal? More Russian food?!
wonders: Sweet, we're semi-neighbors! (Well, more so than we are now.) You'll have to give me some food recs. MAYBE WE CAN GET TACOS?!
And man, the rush hour trains confuse me. I have definitely missed stops that way before. :( I better memories the schedule..
Posted by: roboppy at May 19, 2008 5:49 PM [#]
I do as you command. She is quite an artist, btw.
Posted by: C. Goud at May 20, 2008 2:52 PM [#]
Ooooh, the travails of moving! I'm excited about the prospects of you delving into home cooking, though.
Best of luck, and in the meanwhile, here's something that might interest you: a review I did of your website for the zine I write for, Sequential Tart. Cheers!
Posted by: miss marissa at May 20, 2008 5:14 PM [#]
Molly: Brooklyn owned my soul long ago when most of my friends moved there and thus made me..go there..a lot. Waarh! I mean. Yaay!
Doug: YOU DO AS I PLEASE BWAHAHAHAHA.
Yes, yes she is! Oh man I just realized..you haven't met her yet. Someday, you shall. When dinner plans collide.
Posted by: roboppy at May 20, 2008 11:23 PM [#]
moving sucks but at least thats once a yr and no more daily long commutes for you lil' lady.
you may not be eating out as much but luckily you work in a food related place. still lub ur eating adventures no matter where it is. :P
Posted by: maomau at May 22, 2008 5:25 PM [#]
maomau: Yay, now I'll have a 45 minute commute!...haha. Okay, much better than NJ. However, this also means I have no excuse to leave the office at 7pm every day! Oh nooes..
Posted by: roboppy at May 23, 2008 2:06 AM [#]
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