As of April 30th, it has now been a full year that Bob has been formally working for Morgan Stanley and we are quickly coming up to the first year of our two year apartment lease being over. We do love living here in our builiding/apartment and I don't really expect that we would move at the end of the two year lease but if they raise the rent then we would seriously look elsewhere. I may even look around a bit next spring anyway just to see what else is out there in our price range. We really only looked at this apartment at the price we are paying as we didn't find anything we liked in the lower range I had given the agent when we first were looking. We were so taken by this apartment in comparison to what we had been seeing that we took it immediately at the higher price. I think it might be good for us to do a little comparison shopping now that we know what we can afford. We will see, it still a while off, but time is really zooming by.
Just got back from seeing Love, Loss, and What I Wore by Nora and Delia Ephron with this months rotating cast of Anne Meara, Conchata Ferrell, Minka Kelly, B. Smith, and AnnaLynne McCord. Anne Meara and Conchata Ferrell are really gifted actors, their years of experience really outshown the younger actresses. I was much more impressed with both of them than I had expected to be. It's a very touching play in some parts and certainly they cover a lot of topics in very humorous and realistic ways that most women can relate to. Conchata's monologue about a woman's purse was really funny and rang so incredibly true. I think there may have been a handful of men in the audience. I am glad I went on a complimentary ticket as the other three actresses were trying their best but they have a lot of experience to accrue to match Anne Meara and Conchata Ferrell.
This is now probably the 4th play that someone's cell phone has gone off despite repeated requests prior to the beginning of the performance for people to silence or turn off their cell phones. This time was particularly bad in that the same person's phone went off TWICE. She finally just got up and left the performance as her phone went off the second time. The audience and actors applauded her as she left. Really bad form.
Just made plans to visit the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens on Friday afternoon with Megan and Lena. This should be an infinitely nicer walk than our last one in the tiny playground near Chinatown with the sotted drunk passed out on the park bench. Margaret was just there on Sunday and let me know it's all in bloom and to try to get there soon to enjoy it. Looking forward to it. Now that the weather is so nice, I am going to try to visit at least one or two new outdoor nature destinations per week within the five boroughs while in town and before leaving for India in August. I just found a great website that lists 51 parks or outdoor nature destinations within the five boroughs. That should definitely keep me busy!
Bryant Park is issuing their Monday night movies in the park schedule on Thursday--should be fun to get to some of those. They will also be publishing their concert series soon. It's all free too. I am excited to experience summer in NYC!
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