last evening finds us in chelsea at the gallery of a friend for a summer show vernisage - great and cool. we later sit down for a very civilized meal in the meatpacking district, enjoying light summer sophisticated fare paired with a glass of wine ... even a plate of cookies for dessert. the city is totally alive, the west side swarming with people at every venue! it's a warm and muggy evening - new york at it's best!
we decide to pick up magnolia cupcakes and other treats for the kids - it's their camp visiting day this sunday, and we leave for canada this morning ... a swirl of multicolored icings, huge cake wedges, cookies (with numerous discussions on the finer points of preserving them until sunday ... freezing? refrigeration?). before leaving the city, we relent and decide to fulfill their request for katz's pastrami sandwiches.
we make our way to the lower east side, and jane, he has hitherto been looking quite stunning and glamorous with a flowing mane, decides to take off her wig in the car as i'm parking (a little hot today!). she prepares to put it back on and i protest: "you look great without it - very hip! just leave it off, you're not going to see anyone at katz's at 10pm!". she shoots me a look - in fact, her hair is all grown in and looks really sweet and downtown chic - but she does want to get a proper trim, etc. before 'wearing' it this way.
she sheepishly agrees, and we start the ordering process at this noisy and brightly lit establishment, made famous by meg ryan for sexual antics in the movie when harry met sally. as we are standing in plain sight of all, we end up bumping into friends (which is great, but unexpected). i see jane looking at me, practically ready to kill. she doesn't need to say to me that she was about to put on the wig before we came in, and to make matters worse ... little pieces of her hair are sticking up in different directions, protesting against being stuck under a wig on this very hot day!
so just a small example of murphy's law - a we laugh it off! well, it IS kind of funny!
we decide to pick up magnolia cupcakes and other treats for the kids - it's their camp visiting day this sunday, and we leave for canada this morning ... a swirl of multicolored icings, huge cake wedges, cookies (with numerous discussions on the finer points of preserving them until sunday ... freezing? refrigeration?). before leaving the city, we relent and decide to fulfill their request for katz's pastrami sandwiches.
we make our way to the lower east side, and jane, he has hitherto been looking quite stunning and glamorous with a flowing mane, decides to take off her wig in the car as i'm parking (a little hot today!). she prepares to put it back on and i protest: "you look great without it - very hip! just leave it off, you're not going to see anyone at katz's at 10pm!". she shoots me a look - in fact, her hair is all grown in and looks really sweet and downtown chic - but she does want to get a proper trim, etc. before 'wearing' it this way.
she sheepishly agrees, and we start the ordering process at this noisy and brightly lit establishment, made famous by meg ryan for sexual antics in the movie when harry met sally. as we are standing in plain sight of all, we end up bumping into friends (which is great, but unexpected). i see jane looking at me, practically ready to kill. she doesn't need to say to me that she was about to put on the wig before we came in, and to make matters worse ... little pieces of her hair are sticking up in different directions, protesting against being stuck under a wig on this very hot day!
so just a small example of murphy's law - a we laugh it off! well, it IS kind of funny!
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