A Moving Weekend

This last weekend, I helped my housemate, Marnie, move her remaining things from her old apartment on the upper west side (think Madonna).   She is featured in the first picture attempting to turn the revolving cube.  After some effort, she was successful.  This is at Union Square.  We took a trip to the "local" K-Mart to pick up some household essentials.  I also took the opportunity to grab a couple of plants to GREEN up my room.  

K-Mart is in the middle of the city (lower east side) and as you can imagine, it was packed.Luckily we found a parking spot and were on our way.  Before the K Marche stop, we had spent a few hours lugging her stuff down a flight of stairs and into a moving van.  After reviewing her leftovers I could see the importance of keeping over 20 cook books.  Particularly with the internet still widely hidden from most Americans.  She also had some kitchen things including a fondue set, every dry herb you could imagine (please question freshness here) and a wide variety of baking supplies.  Did I mention our oven in not functioning...well aside from it's use of housing our pots and pans.  

We stopped by the Housing Works thrift store (I will dedicate a blog to Housing Works in conjunction with my plans at a later point) and grabbed a slice of delicious pizza.  I am still holding out for Chicago until I make a judgment. 

We then stopped and picked up my new computer.  Now it isn't pretty or new but it was a heck of a find for an outstanding price.  Along with the computer, I also found a desk on the street near my apartment (pictured) below.   

    

 We ended the evening at a local restaurant, "Beast",  which was delicious and very well priced.  She bought in consideration of my trekking up 4 flights of stairs with the "book boxes."  If you need to know how to move in NYC on a budget, I am your man, now having done it twice.  I was also able to help my other housemate get her ipod up and running and attempted to move her beyond the use of the 3 1/2 Floppy Disk and starting using her ipod storage.  But after discovery she had a slight technology phobia, I am now in charge of maintaining her ipod music so we will focus on one thing at a time.  

This weekend also included round two of the mouse trap.  After altering the trap, the mouse still was able to defeat me.  So the tally is Mat the Mouse 2 and Jason the Human 0.  To watch the first of three installments in the epic battle, please go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWUX5ovRNPc

As the Green New Yorker, I embrace the reality of living with mice and cockroaches and accept the challenge of dealing with them in a human and environmentally friendly way.  Well- maybe not humane with the roaches.