So I’ve been back for the past week and a few days and I have been ever since jet lagged to the limit! It’s either that or I am the queen procrastinator (which I also am) you see ever since before I left my clock has been whacked out at the time I was telling myself that I was preparing myself for New York time and the shift there but I think I’m just being too lazy, spending so much time watching shows and turning my brain into a cabbage patch kid than doing anything important but I’m not sure the jury is still out for that verdict.
I came back to the heat, and although I hate it hehe I get to hibernate and that I love hehe until the a/c stops working! Then I start hating everything and everyone. I am really trying to find a solution to my sleeping patterns you see even if I wake up at 10 or 11 and then stay up all day without a nap I can’t seem to sleep (even though I’m dead tired) before 4AM! I don’t know why, maybe I should change the clock on my MacBook Air from New York time to Kuwait time. But I kinda like the New York time since it tells me when my shows are out without having to convert time in my head LOL! :P
Anywho, I hope I get back to this thing called “blogging” I really do! I need to do something useful and I should but I don’t wanna promise myself because I worry that I won’t keep it up. Otherwise, I’m happy to be home (until I start craving some good decent Max Brenner’s Chocolate!)
So I celebrated the 1st of July in New York! That’s kinda awesome I guess (playin’ it cool because I’m that awesome! :P JK) but the 1st of July was nice it was our last furniture shopping day as we wanted to get that out of the way so we spent the day at IKEA, had lunch there and left by 6PM-ish! We ended up grabbing a nice sofa bed from there, our first choice all along, a nice set of cubicles and extra foldable chair along with a chair cushion! It was all good!
Lujain modelling the couch we choose back home! :D
My dilemma on this trip is the walking all over the place I am developing leg muscles simply because I walk everywhere! God I miss my car (not 100% though) I know that the best thing about walking is that when I go home I’m like insanely thin (not really, I’m lying to myself mostly) But I look like I’ve lost some nice pounds so that’s good but I need to work on my endurance a bit (I guess this means I have to get back to the gym now when I go home!)
Anywho, we went back home and waited for delivery of our items the next day.
Saturday, the 2nd of July was upon us, the day the exterminator came over to spray the apartment, I was half asleep but chose to stay in bed as my sister walked around her small studio apartment with him while he sprayed. We were playing a day at home, starting off with the visit from the exterminator and then later that even a visit from IKEA to build our couch and deliver our items. Unfortunately IKEA cancelled on us therefore we chose to go out and have lunch at “Sunflower Diner” right down the street from where she’s at, it was nice but normal food you know. Afterwards we had our nails did and just chilled back home! It’s funny that I wanted to “work” on my designs or writing but I just couldn’t I watched some TV and then off to bed we went!
All in all, I’m having fun not being a full on tourist in New York simply because I want the time to just recharge and dial everything down and it’s what I’m getting I loves it!
I am one lazy bugger simply because I don’t have the urge to take a thousand pictures to illustrate my day not to mention I’m a very shy tourist so whatever I take is the only thing on my iPhone, I pack a camera every year but never use it more than the few touristy landscape shots otherwise it’s all stored in my memory. The day they make a camera that fits in my eyeglasses is the day I take awesome pictures! :P Seriously!
So after Flight day, June 30th, it was basically have fun day without really stressing out well not really but something like that. My sister recently moved into an apartment and therefore the furnishing part was still not complete as she didn’t have a couch yet. I was looking for a good sofa bed couch but sadly enough nothing worked out as great as the IKEA Sofa Bed I saw back home, which luckily for her was here. Before purchasing it we thought to walk around the stores and check out what’s there and we found the perfect couch a Jennifer’s one but sadly enough it was sold out and next available shipping date would be around August. We’re leaving mid July! So we furniture shopped, ate at Olive Garden (yeah I know boring) but then when we were trying to get to the Port Authority Buses to get to IKEA we kinda missed on it and thought let’s walk around in Times Square. Luckily they were still showing “Pirates of the Caribbean 4″ so we got our tickets and went in! Afterwards it was Disney Store & Forever 21 Time!
The couch we loved from Jennifer’s!
Fun fact: By June 30th I had gotten on a bus, subway, and a taxi cab all in one day LOL! Don’t you love New York!
You see every trip I promise myself that I will write more but between the shopping, the walking around in the city, and the reading/catching up with my Google Reader feeds I just can’t seem to find the time to write but now before I head out to enjoy some July 4th fun I thought to update this ol’ place it’s been almost a month since my last update so here goes!
Last Wednesday the 29th was “Flight Day” in which I wrote on my iPad2 the following excerpt:
“So I am back on the Kuwait Airways plane getting ready to hit NYC again! This time it will be a much more relaxing trip as I will be only hitting NYC and no other state! This is the much needed vacation that I need and I can’t wait to touch down. However it is 9:44AM at the moment and we still haven’t taken off as there are some idiot passengers who haven’t boarded on time! Bah humbug! I just want the flight to take off as I had only 2 hours of sleep and I want me beauty sleep afterall! LEt’s see if I can keep updating this journal on this trip or not!
Update: 10:05AM we are now moving and about to take off yay!”
So basically that was Flight day! It took some idiots who thought the plane belonged to Daddy and came after everyone boarded to make us late! But when we were up in the sky I fell asleep and well woke up mostly for the bathroom breaks! It was a cool flight that’s the best thing about it. We (wait why am I saying we? I’m travelling alone it’s a me!) Okay I arrived in NY at around 3:33PM by the time got down from the plane and into the line for Immigration it was around 4:00PM, it took me all of 5 minutes to finish with Immigration and off I went to grab my luggage!
I was travelling on First Class this trip and you’d think that First Class luggage comes out first? Well no! Because of the idiots who made us late they were rearranging the luggage last minute hence all the bags were mixed up by the time we flew! I had to wait an hour just to grab my 2 empty bags! Yes I travel very lightly to ensure whatever I purchase when abroad will be brought over with ample space! I was out of the airport by around 5-ish and arrived at my sister’s new place shortly after! Dropped my bags freshened up and off we went to have a late lunch/early dinner and saw a movie!
Lunch was at the awesome Max Brenner’s Chocolate Bar (ohhh how I love thee!) and Movie was “Bad Teacher” it was a cute one!
And that marked Wednesday my first day in NYC let’s make it a first night! :P
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a 28 year old Kuwaiti Gadget Freak who is obsessively in love with Apple Products so much that she probably has everything made by Apple. Currently she's being a lazy bum and putting off writing and everything else but when she does this is her space where she likes to vent and release everything, so welcome to it.
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