Trying To Get It All Out Of My System.

It was a full New York weekend, since, unless a knight-in-shining-armor comes along, or I win the lottery this week, it's my last week here! (BTW, Macy's offered me $11.00 an hour to do visual at Herald Square. I couldn't live as far out as the trains will go on $11.00 an hour! But, I'll have to let the visual manager take that up with HR. She said she knew it wouldn't be enough. But, then again, some dumb kid from FIT will take the job for less I'm sure. Say hello to your college debt and a 500-bedroom convertible apartment, sucker!)

Anyway, Sunday was the City Bakery's Hot Chocolate Festival. They shipped in snow, put down faux ice for skating, and gave away hot chocolate and marshmallows at their shop near Union Square. The homemade marshmallows were toasted over a grill (see pics). And that was good, because the square blobs just tasted like bread dough when they were raw. Something about toasting them actually made them marshmallow-like in flavor. Unfortunately the chocolate needed a dash of vanilla or something to curb the sugary but not sweet cocoa flavor. Leave it to Lillian and me to deconstruct everything from Petco store windows to the city's "best hot chocolate." I will concede, the sugared danish was tasty. Flaky baked pastry crust soaked in sugar water is a good idea to me!

Saturday, I spent the day shopping on Soho. Oh, how I'll miss shopping in Soho! I visited an outrageously expensive Frenchy chocolate shop called Vosges. I ordered a Cappuccino Bomb - a cappuccino with my choice of chocolate truffle dropped into the mug. I selected a Gatsby: dark chocolate combined with bubbly Joseph Perrier Champagne & dressed with a tear of a red rose petal. IT WAS GOOD! (And that's just how it should be for $6.50.) If anyone would like to send me over a Gatsby + Daisy box of Valentine's chocolates, you can for just $25 - $40! I prefer the latter. It's more bang for your buck! I can provide a mailing address by request.

Sloppy Joe/Dirty Jane had been marked on my calendar for some time now. But it was a disappointment and ironically, because of my distaste for its name, Yellow Rat Bastard was a veritable gold mine of apparel treasures! And of course, Daffy's is my favorite of all. One Daffy's is better than TJ Maxx, Ross, Marshall's and Value City combined. Dare I utter such words...