April
I had an adventure day where I took myself to the Museum of Natural History for a few hours, which is all that is bearable when you're surrounded by tourists. Afterwards, had some drinks with Jordy and her friend Aaron. I worked at my internship and spent the weekends clowning. I went on a few dates with a few different guys but none of them stuck. On April 26, Jordan threw Dylan an amazing surprise birthday party. During the day she surprised him by having a singing telegram come serenade him at work and then when we were at their apartment getting ready to go to his birthday dinner his two best friends from home showed up! And twenty minutes later his parents showed up as well! It was so great, we all went to dinner and it was delicious, then we took Dylan to a bar down the street where- surprise! - Jordan had rented the entire upper floor and 30 of his friends were waiting for us. It was a super fun night and so great to be part of the festivities... also I met a cute guy on my way home, so overall very awesome times were had.
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| At the surprise party |
May started off with a bang with karaoke idol! Ashley sang at New World Stages at a karaoke competition and she rocked it! Me, James, Jess (our amazing new roommate) and the guy I was seeing had a great time having drinks and watching her do her thang. Speaking of Jess, we officially have a NEW ROOMMATE WHO IS NOT AN OLD ALCOHOLIC MAN! She's our age and works editing menus and books and she is totally awesome. She cook a lot of fancy food and likes to sit on the couch and shoot the shit with us. It's so terrific to have another girl in the apartment and has turned it into such a fun place. I'm so lucky to finally live with people who don't suck.
Later in the month I went to book club and then went out for Jordan's birthday. Ashley and James and I went to see Star Trek on opening day (which was awesome, just like Iron Man 3 was) and the next day our sorority sister Liz came to visit. I worked all weekend and Liz and I tore up the town on Monday. Liz is a fire cracker and our apartment was in shambles after she left, we were so busy going out and seeing the city that we made a huge mess. After she left I needed a day to recover! And then I had to clean because AMY WAS COMING!
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| I learned how to make a balloon monkey at work. Yes, it is as hard as it looks. |
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| Memorial Day |
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| Corona bucket! |
I also spent some time with my clown friends. Since I started working for the entertainment company my social circle has expanded immensely. I have hit it off with so many people, but I guess you have to be a certain person to be a clown. We went to the bar and had $4 margaritas. While we were leaving the owner said hello, and we kept walking. Two streets and an avenue over and I saw the same owner at another bar. He had made it before us by riding his motorcycle and since I shouted at him he invited us in and gave all 6 of us a free round of shots of Patron. Well, when he was picking up the glasses one dropped and shattered and somehow cut my toe. I was bleeding all over but I couldn't feel it so I wiped it off, stuck a band-aid on it, and put my heel back on. We went to a gay club and watched a drag show and then danced. The next morning I definitely felt my poor toe, whoops! So I just laid around and then went to see the Hangover because I had a free movie pass, and had a great casual night with Ashley and James.
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| This is before I cut my foot |
June
Almost caught up, whoo hoo!
The first thing I did in June was go with one of my favorite clowns to Coney Island. Frank and I took some whiskey and our bathing suits and rode the train all the way to the beach. The first thing we did was get hot dogs and chili cheese fries from Nathan's and pour our booze into big soda cups to walk with on the beach. We laid on the sand and finally got the courage to run into the ocean. We literally ran and dove in and turned around and ran back out because it was so cold! Ew, the ocean is super disgusting and salty and leaves you feeling sticky and gross when you get out. We rinsed off and then went to sit outside at the bar and work on a bucket of Corona's (yes, another bucket). After we had some more drinks we each paid $9 (!!!!) to ride the wooden rollercoaster. It was super fun, but definitely not worth $9. Really glad I'm not a tourist here. We proceeded to walk the boardwalk where we convinced a man to give us our beer in two to-go coffee cups (because, America) and when it was twilight we decided to head back home. On the long ride back to Queens we made friends with the kids across from us and spent the entire ride making faces with them and then transitioned to fart noises. You know you just don't care what people think when you're 24 years old trying to compete with your friend and the 6 year old across from you to see who can make the loudest, wettest, fart noise on a train full of people.
When we got back to my place we ordered a ridiculous amount of chinese food and watched Doctor Who and fell asleep. Just a typical Tuesday.
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| Clown game at Coney Island |
Later that week I got Jess and I tickets to go see "Fucking Up Everything" which was an off Broadway playing at Times Scare. Our manager offered all the employees free tickets which was awesome. The show was good, not great, but the lead was amazing. He played Danny in the Broadway revival of Grease and definitely stole the show. Afterward my manager and assistant manager saw us and we all walked through the haunted house, poor Jess, she was the only one who was scared. It's hard to be scared at your place of employment!
The next week Ashley sang at a cabaret competition at 54 Below. She is amazing and was clearly the best singer, but some of the other people had better developed stories and more friends. The voting was based on how many tickets you had in your bucket and to get tickets you had to buy food and drinks, so essentially the more people you had there the more chance you had of winning. Well, we did our best but the kitchen was shut down and six people can only buy so many drinks! After the singing was over everyone was heading home but it was Monday night and I decided to go out. I took a cab downtown to Avenue and met up with my old friend Jose. I had another drink and danced and talked to some of the security guards I recognized. I got in an argument with a girl who cut the line for the bathrooms and made friends with a pretty blonde girl and finally took a cab home.
The next day my friend Sig was in town for work so I went to meet him in midtown. His coworker was with him and we went out to eat where we had some delicious alligator sausage and amazing corn muffins and terrible burgers. We wandered through the city because his friend hadn't ever been and ended up down in the Village at a bar that had $3 bombs. It was amazing to buy a round for everyone that ended up in our group for only $15! We spend the night in the village shooting the shit and drinking and just hanging out.
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| Night out with Sig |
The rest of the month was spent clowning and working in the haunt. I went to the gym and worked out. We saw "This is the End" which was hilarious, as I knew it would be. Salvation Army came and picked up a ton of stuff we had sitting in the apartment which was amazing, did you know they come and take it from your place for you? Wondrous.
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| Elijah Wood came through the haunt and we got to meet him after |
Jordy threw an Etsy craft party where we made crafts, painted our nails, chalked our hair different colors, and at a lot of cheese and drank a lot of wine. I went to the dentist and it sucked, of course, so I got my hair cut. The place I go to, literally only one lady speaks english and she is in charge of translating for everyone. It's a tiny, broken down hole in the wall and they give the BEST hair cuts for only $15. Amazing.
The end of June I was working on a huge audition that I had to submit by video and that took up a lot of my focus. I finally submitted it and that night I went to Jordy's to celebrate, which we did by eating leftover cheese and watching TV and drinking Bud Light. The next day we slept til 2pm and watched a bunch more movies. It was just the day I needed because I had been working so hard on my audition and finally got to fully relax. I went to the haunt that night and had fun scaring some tourists and slept in the next day but poor Ashley came down with a crazy stomach flu and was in the hospital! So I packed up my overnight bag and some supplies for her and went to meet her and James down at his apartment in Brooklyn. I made her soup and watched over her while she slept and spent the day surfing Pinterest and watching movies. We camped out and finally came home last night and hung out altogether with Jess, me, Ashley, and James.
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| Haunt make-up |
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| Ariel |
I'm caught up! Ashley's little brother and his girlfriend are here for the weekend. I have one more week and then I'm going HOME TO MICHIGAN YAY! And after that Marcus is coming to visit, and a week after that Beth is back in the states and staying with me for a week in the city. July is going to be so busy!
Hope everyone is having a great summer and staying cool! Thank god for AC!
