Tuesday Things.
1. Pretty sure I mention it every year but I do NOT care for April Fools. I’m just no fun, apparently! However, it is fun to do April Foods jokes with Max and next year, I have a few lined up.
2. Absolutely dying over this fresh strawberry pound cake.
3. I’ve wanted to buy a fiddle leaf fig forever (like, years!) but can never find them around me. It’s probably for the best since my house doesn’t get much natural light, but I’ve definitely considered buying one online. I need more greenery in our house! So I kind of love this article on where to buy instagrammable plants (ha, we’re the worst) – and I have to get some!
4. Why we procrastinate! I can be the biggest procrastinator ever. This is verrrry interesting.
5. There was SO much good TV on last week. That episode of Grey’s? Maybe my favorite in years. It was so good. I thought This Is Us was so, so good too. I loved Billions because anytime Chuck and Axe interact, it’s great. And OH MY GOSH who has seen the Southern Charm trailer? Dying over it.
6. So into Robyn Arzon’s Peloton work diary. Wowza.
7. Max has a new obsession: folding laundry. I don’t know where he gets this (Eddie?) because he sure didn’t get it from me. But he loves to fold all the kitchen towels and they look a bit messy, but I just let him put them away. It makes him ridiculously excited.
8. I’m headed to NYC today and have a leeeettle bit of free time! What is the one thing you would do? Besides shop kid free, because that is definitely happening!
31 Comments on “Tuesday Things.”
I don’t get a lot of natural light in my house either. I bought a fake fiddle leaf from target online and put it in a new pot and it looks just like a real fiddle leaf. And it can sit in my dining room, which is basically a cave.
I’m taking a peloton class at 4:30 and can guest you into it if it isn’t full… It’s on 23rd. Just sayin’.
Kid free time!! I would eat a great meal all by myself. No cutting other people’s food, no sharing, no being at the table by myself eating cold dinner because I was getting the kids milk, getting them more milk, telling them to get back in their seat and scoot in (not buying chairs with casters ever again)… sorry, what was the question? :)
I haaaaaate April Fools’ Day. Currently 3 days overdue with my first babe and of course more than one grandparent used that as a reason to try and trick people the baby was here. I couldn’t even pretend to think it was funny, haha, I just am not a fan! And if that makes me lame, that’s okay. :)
in NYC get yourself to Emily for their AMAZING pizza with vodka sauce and alllll the pickled peppers. You’ll love it. They also have an incredible burger!!
Yes, to Emily’s. I live in Fort Greene and it’s so good.
Cooooould you possibly make a GoT Premiere menu list? Song of Fire and Ice Chili, obviously.
Go see Waitress! It’s insanely good (they also serve a to-die-for salted caramel chocolate cream pie slice at intermission that is a MUST EAT). Food wise? The pasta at L’Artusi is incredible.
Go see Waitress! It’s insanely good (they also serve a to-die-for salted caramel chocolate cream pie slice at intermission that is a MUST EAT). Food wise? The pasta at L’Artusi is incredible.
NYC = spa time! Message me and I’ll give you my secret recommendation.
Can I have it too lol? I am in NYC typically every second month and am always looking to try something new. Spas are tough!!
Hi Charlene! Any chance you’d be willing to share an email address! Jessica can confirm I’m not a creeper, haha. I’d just prefer not to share the locations here in a public comments section.
of course! courshel@me.com and trust me, if anyone looks like a creeper, it was me jumping on to your comment lol! Thank you :)
Thank you, Charlene! I just emailed you :)
I live in Brooklyn and would love the list too!!!
Hi Amy! If you’re willing to share your email like Charlene did, I’d be happy to share my recommendation! I’ll only contact you for this topic, I promise ☺️
Totally, grossmanamy@ymail.com
It really is ymail not gmail, everyone thinks it’s a typo! Thank you!💗
Thank you, Amy! Just emailed you :)
Literally procrastinated reading that procrastination article – oh the irony!!
I’m in Brooklyn and if you can make it to this side come to Dumbo and eat at Cecconi’s. Great view and delicious food! And I know it’s debatable but Juliana’s is truly the best pizza in all of NYC.
I have a pretty dark home, built in the 60s with smaller windows and only a few large picture ones that don’t really face the right way. After a few years of messing aorund I now have about 20 houseplants that are (mostly) thriving. Heart leaf philodendrons are my fav, I have some snake plants and a peace lily that is kind of dying? I do, however, have a bird’s of paradise and a fiddle leaf fig which are both bright light houseplants. The fiddle took some messing around with, but it’s happy in our kind of bright patio room…but I supplement it and the bird’s of paradise with putting plant bulbs into our regular floor lamps near the plants. My fiddle leaf fig has grown so many leaves!
If you find yourself in or near Times Square (I know) or Chelsea Market go to Los Tacos #1! Most delicious tacos you will ever have in the United States. Quick serve eat at the counter (no seats) type of place with a salsa bar and homemade agua frescas! The menu only has chicken, steak, or carnitas tacos. I recommend carnitas! Line gets long during lunch time so go off hours.
I got completely hoodwinked by Petco for April Fools. I got an email in my inbox announcing their “Furever Weddings” pet wedding planning services. I opened it, read the whole newsletter and visited the web site (because I HAD to), and then promptly announced to my coworker, “With all the crap that’s going on in the world, Petco has decided that it’s important to plan pet weddings…” And as I said the words, I realized what day it was. *DOH* Totes got me. I hate April Fools Day. Because I am the most gullible person alive. :-D
I love to try new workouts or beauty treatments in NYC. There are so many cool gyms (I love AKT, LeSweat and good ol Soul Cycle). My last visit I had a facial at the Face Gym. New, trendy and so cute to IG. it’s just a block away from GOOP which is neat too. Or for nails, try to get an appointment at Bisou,. And if in flatiron, just walk and eat in Eataly…I could spend all day in there. Enjoy!
Grey’s was sooooo intense. I wept through most of it. Between Jo’s mother rejecting her and the scene with women lining the corridor, it was almost too much to handle. I plan to watch it again as I know I missed so much through my tears. I read some where that this was the first time a TV program had handled exactly what happens during the collection of sexual assault evidence for forensic processing. It certainly was both information and gut wrenching.
I imagine Max will love a few April fools tricks…so fun with littles.
Enjoy NYC!!
I’m with you about April Fool’s Day. Maybe it was just me, but there didn’t seem to be as many crazy pranks as previous years (which is totally fine by me).
Target has some great fake fiddle leaf plants for a decent price. They look very realistic and no need to worry about water or light!
Brunch at Olea in Fort Greene or Sunday’s in Brooklyn. Dekalb Market Hall, and Amole hills my favorite is in Gowan’s or red hook. Oh and the Farmacy ice cream parlor in Carroll Gardens.
Walk the Highline! So quintessentially NY, meaning it’s a people scene, and it’s an urban scene but with a cool perspective above the street, a brilliant example of breathing life into an underused site. So clever and beautifully conceived. The design of this linear park is just brilliant.
I went to a local garden center and bought a ZZ plant for my dark cubicle that is far from a window. It is THRIVING! I barely have to water it. Also, I bought my mom a fiddle leaf and she lives in Western NY. It’s in a little south facing window but has grown so much. I bought the one from Costas Farm off amazon for like $35! It came in great shape and has tons of good reviews on amazon. Also, Home Depot has fiddle leafs that you can buy online. Ikea does to, but the ones I saw in store didn’t look that great but they’re super cheap!
for me…in nyc…..its always the park. its just my fave place in all of the city. now….i need to go read the procrastination link….since im reading this procrastinating getting my work done ;)
Could not stop laughing over the “Chicken Bill” song from this week’s Billions episode!!!
i know this is late but when I lived in the ciy, i would go to Fatty Crabs down near the Meatpacking district. Then walk around. Always went up to Gansevoort rooftop deck for a cocktail and sunset to finish the afternoon..