After the Epicurious.com event I made my way uptown to meet Kendrick for some tea and stopped in Ann Sacks to look at the bathroom appliances (just ‘cause I like doing that kind of thing).
One day, this will be mine. Hopefully on a day when I don’t live in an apartment building where this would a) take up half the floor space and b) likely go crashing down to the basement because we have a slight issue with weak floorboards.
For Kendrick’s birthday, what he really, really, REALLY wanted to do was go to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. I obliged because a) I guess I have to practice in case we someday have a male child, and b) it sounded kinda fun to me, too.
The Intrepid is an aircraft carrier built in 1943, which went on several tours of duty during and between World War II and Vietnam. It survived numerous attacks, including one double kamikaze suicide attack that left the ship in flames for hours.
I’m not really a museum person (trauma left over from my father dragging me around art museums when I was a child and insisting on reading Every. Single. Informational plaque), but the Intrepid is pretty great. There’s a ton of interactive exhibits, including a display where you can try to perform basic tasks using astronaut’s gloves, and one where you can see what it feels like to be in a lifeboat.
You can also, as we did, try out the G-Force Simulator, which is a claustrophobia-inducing capsule that flings you (me) around while someone else (Kendrick) attempts to shoot down enemy fighter jets. Dear Kendrick: let’s never do that again, please. Take our sons. Thx.
Some of my birthday presents for Kendrick (I was able to get him so many because they’re all pre-owned, from Game Stop). All marital eye contact has come to a halt.
For me, video games peaked with Super Nintendo (which I still have). I love my Wii, but I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Super Mario II (which I own via the Super Mario All-Stars set). I get that today’s graphics have surpassed Super Nintendo by a factor of about a billion, but so help me, side-scrolling makes me happy. The world was a simpler place when there was only one way you could go. In video games, at least.
After the Showpaper benefit, a bunch of us slogged through the downpour to Bait & Tackle. I am the only one here with dry hair because, if you recall, I wasn’t allowed to get it wet for three days post-John Sahag treatment, so I wrapped my head in sweaters turban-style for the walk over.
Bait & Tackle had a Space Invaders game, which was pretty great (even though I lost, unsurprisingly). Only Frogger would have been an improvement.
Happy.
TJMaxx dress ($19!…purchased on the same trip to TJMaxx as this earlier one), vintage leather belt and necklaces, Tresics cardigan.
