a thing in 74 photos in 2016 e9th apt showing 2016 only · show all years I feel like Maddy is really emblematic of the party's vibes. Happy 2016, everyone! Good night! Afterwards, we went back to my apartment to cheeeeeil. Sarah came to say hi on her way to a real party. I showed Jared my latest batch of massage gadgets. This guy is great. Sarah put some tunes on. Max was excited to see my apartment. ...to my apartment in the East Village! Monday night with the plants. ...for a new office carpet! ...cleaning up my office and getting it ready... Spent Friday afternoon.... Trying to take care of my two dying potted palms. Spend a lazy Sunday... I had to run some errands on Thursday so Meredith came over to hang with Coney. ...the still-destroyed state of my living room. Hi, sorry I'm a crazy person. On Wednesday afternoon, Vin came over for a hang and we laughed about.... Spent the cold, dreary day in the living room... When all my winter hobbies conspire to clutter my apartment! Had a Messy, apartment-cleaning Saturday. Later that evening Gurj came over for a hang. Maddy loves to snuggle in "leg alley." Water my plants... We went back to my place for a srrrrious late night party session with the Volcano. ...and unbox it! Grant hooked me up with a fancy new foam mattress through his writing connections! He helped me lug it upstairs... Hung out with my new neighborhood friend, Michaela. State of my living room Sept 2016! I spend more time than most people would believe.... Kevin came over for reiki and an empanada feast! Later that evening, Gurj came over for a hang... Read a bit with my lap buddy. Meredith & Jane Anne came over early to hang out. My new loft-less bedroom is coming along nicely! Good news as the party was outside in the garden across the street! Picture perfect day! Got an afternoon rainshower, but otherwise perfect party weather! Woke up feeling excited / anxious! I like attending parties, but get a little stressed when I'm the host! Saturday was the day of my 40th birthday party! (2 days in advance of my actual birthday). Spent the morning... On Monday Meredith & Gurj came over to eat and hang! We ended up making 3d models. Lol. Sunday kitchen cleaning and plant care! Nice to not have to climb a ladder to get into bed (but weird to be sleeping on the floor again!) Ta-Da! Moved the bed back into my brand new blue bedroom! So weird to see this room empty! Cleared everything out and vacuumed, and then it was time to disassemble the bed! That meant that it was time to take apart the excellent loft Pauly built and installed the week before Meredith and I moved into this apt in April 2010 ! After three and a half years of living alone, I decided I was ready to trade in some apartment storage space to not have to climb a ladder every time I get in or out of bed! ....gone! I love to watch Maddy sit in the sun and slowly squint her way to sleep. Going, going... Cleaned my apt real good on Monday. Out walking with Maddy on Thursday... Filled with water and running! Looks pretty nice and it's LOUD AS HELL. Indoor fountain dreams really do come true! Unboxed! I'd been wanting an indoor fountain for a while to use as a white noise machine to drown out the noise from the bar downstairs when it's loud. What my crazy-person's living room looks like when I wake up in the morning! Spent the evening playing guitar! Looked out the window to find the paper mache dragon I'd seen my neighbors making in the garden a few days earlier! Looked really great after being painted! Woke up Sunday morning to the sounds of a street parade! Rolando also had some paper mache magic tree that was decorated with his famous soda cans he turns into metal flowers! Then I did my exercises with my Persian clubs. Back home in NY on Wednesday. Spent the afternoon taking care of my plants! ...and installed a new shelf / coat-hook combo next to my front door. So much extra storage. Hooray! Spent a raining Monday at home... On Thursday morning Vin came over again to work on the comic! Was walking Maddy on Saturday and someone had put this awesome shelving unit out for trash! Scooped it right up and put it in the living room! SCORE! Snowy Friday morning! Vin came over on Monday morning for our weekly work session! Woke up on Saturday to the sight of my new carpet... Much better! Removing a rug and putting a new rug down without being able to move the furniture out of the room is the ultimate New York puzzle. My living room was looking kind of crazy with the patterned rug I'd gotten, so I decided to swap it out for something simpler. ...and then moved everything back in! Ta-da! New painted office! ...painted all the trim in there... Looks so much better than with the white walls! Thanks, Vin! Later Sunday afternoon, my most recent shipment of WEIRDO GEAR arrived courtesy of Amazon. Kicked off my 2016 with a chilly Sunday morning... 
