Carpe Tuesday

I was asked to teach a class on interior design for the enrichment night for the women at our church. I have a lot of good stuff to share but this was my favorite. So I made it in to a handout and will be sending it home with all of the women tomorrow night. I love the quote and the picture and the source. I was really luck to intern for Harry Heissmann in New York who worked under Albert Hadley. Happy Tuesday everyone!

uh...he did it.

Today at work went pretty well, I actually accomplished some stuff with Harry. I went to the bank, typed emails for him, showed him stuff online for my internship, researched hardware. In the afternoon, Harry left me with Samson so he could go to some meetings and gave me instructions on when to take him out. Around 445, I started playing with Samson to get some energy out of him since he'd be alone in the office for a couple of hours til Harry returned.

I picked up Samson's favorite toy, a shredded mess of what used to be a stuffed fox (I think this is where Harry gets Samson's nickname, Smelly Fox. Original, right?) and play tug of war, fetch, and chase with it and Samson is eating it up. At one point, I lift the fox a little out of his range so he can jump for it and that's when fun time came to a screeching halt. Samson stood on his back legs and straight up punches a purple ceramic piece off of the snail pedestal in the middle of the office. I say its a 'piece' because I don't really know what it is or what its supposed to be. It's the kind of thing where Harry's blind niece could have made it or its a billion dollar work of irreplaceable art by some famous artist. Regardless, Samson Chuck Norris's the 'piece' of crap/art off the pedestal and it shatters on the shag rug.

Samson and I both stare at eachother for a few seconds and then he just goes and lays by the door. Little sucker. I try to play his little game with the fox and he sells me out. This is him at the scene of the crime:

He looks guilty, right? He knew what he was doing...

This is an up close view of the damage. I stacked all of the pieces on top of eachother
hoping that it would resemble the original 'piece'.

This is a picture that I snapped a couple of weeks ago when I was alone in the office and wanted to document everything. I think it's a purple pumpkin...



UPDATE: It's the next day and Harry is having me go to the drugstore to get some super glue to fix the thing. Ugh. Why? I just don't get it.

what the?

Alright, don't get me wrong. I have loved my internship and hated it at times... I just wanted to drop this quick line and ask what the crap? I come in to the office today, knowing that I will be by myself today. Harry emailed me last night telling me that he left me a list by the computer.

Okay, if anyone can tell me what this list means, you are a genius. This guys has the WORST hand writing I have ever seen. Please, someone translate.

Ugh, what to do...

It's all kind of a blur...

I ain't gon' lie. I'm a sucky blogger, I warned all of you. I feel like I should blog but when it comes down to it, I'd rather sleep. Or lay in front of a fan in our un-air-conditioned apartment in my bathing suit after my 4th shower for the day.

So here's the deal, I don't remember what I did when, for a couple of weeks in the middle there anyways. I shall just post in a clump for this one. Here 'tis.

The day before I got to the office, I guess a cabinet that was hung on the wall fell and broke. So Harry had me look for a new set and then sent Jen and I to Ikea in Brooklyn for it. We took a ferry and ate lunch in their cafeteria and set up a delivery for our shelves. Just so you know, delivery in New York City is ridigulous. The shelves cost $60 and the delivery was $70.

This is a really great showroom that Kim, Madison, and I went to on their last day in New York.

These next couple of pictures are from our night-time walks around the reservoir in Central Park. At night there is a great breeze and it's really a beautiful view. If I EVER live in New York City, I want to live near Central Park. It's the coolest part of the city.

This is Samson kickin' it in the D&D with me.

I don't know if anyone really cares about what I ate for lunch...but this sandwich is delicious! We order from Lenny's, a sandwich place nearby pretty often. This sandwich is the Autumn Special, I'm not making this up. It's roasted turkey, brie, arugula, and cranberry sauce. Yum.

These pictures are from another night-time walk near our house. The top is the Met and the lower is the Guggenheim, both museums. The Guggenheim was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

This is the blue whale at the Natural History Museum. It's in the middle of an enormous two-story room, surrounded by all types of sea creatures. It's really cool.

Dinosaurs @ the Natural History Museum

Me and Megan were gettin' pretty jazzed up to see Harry Potter. We bought tickets a month in advance.

The Cloisters!!!

Here's a little blurb on what it is:

Located on four acres overlooking the Hudson River in northern Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park, the building incorporates elements from five medieval French cloisters—quadrangles enclosed by a roofed or vaulted passageway, or arcade—and from other monastic sites in southern France.

It's really amazing, it's basically a huge castle with these pieces from French history built in to it. These pictures are just from my phone so I hope you can still see how great this place is:

Limes! This courtyard reminded me of being in California.

After we went to the Cloisters, we took a train to Williamsburg, a neighborhood in Brooklyn. We went to Buffalo Exchange, an amazing consignment shop. I got my sweet nerdy glasses I've been sporting lately.

Also, we went to Vinnie's in Brooklyn. It came highly recommended and holy crap, it was good. Mac&Cheese pizza! So good!

Our view from Williamsburg towards Manhattan at sunset.

That was kind of a quick look in pictures of our extra-curricular activities. It pretty much brings us up to the week that Will came to visit! I'll post on that soon...