One Week Anniversary

...and still running!

Today I slept late (1 p.m.; slept so hard my head was virtually pounding when I woke up). After a bowl of Lucky Charms I was off with my camera to be a tourist. I took pictures for several hours of various places I see during, before, and after work every day. Those pictures are below the text of this post.

I grabbed a BK cheeserburger and water before hopping a train to Penn Station, 34th Street. I looked in the 3-floor K-mart there for some odds and ends, but was dismayed with the selection. Upon walking out, my eye caught the Macy's store. I had heard it is the largest department store (or store, for that matter) in the world. So I decided to venture in.

MASSIVE. 11 floors, one city block long. It is quite a spectacle. I've never ridden so many escalators within such a short time period before in my life. I actually decided to browse men's dress shirts for the heck of it. I was surprised to actually purchase a men's white long-sleeved Oxford-collar dress shirt for only around $16!

After Macy's, I tried walking down to 34th and 5th Avenue to go to the top of the Empire State Building, but to my dismay, I got a floor up and found out there's a $20 charge to go to the observatory on the deck. I think I'll go back after I get my first paycheck, and go at night. It's open til midnight. Actually let me revise my thinking on the fly here.

If I'm going to go back and pay $20, maybe I'll go around 7 p.m. and take pictures while it is still light, and then wait till it's dark to take more. I know I'll have some downtime, but hey for $20, I'd better make the most of it.

I stopped a local grocery on the way home and bought some cooking ingredients...

Talked to my roomate Brian for a while and then went for a run in Central Park. It was much harder than last time, as I was partnerless. Grueling, no less. Exhilarating though. I came back and started pulling out ingredients to make chicken fajitas and then realized I had no way to defrost my chicken breasts.

I called Geralyn to ask if I could defrost chicken breasts in her microwave; she suggested I just cook down there. So I carried my Deloitte-logoed back of ingredients, a skillet, and a cutting board with 3 raw chicken breats downstairs and cooked. When I first started it up, I was surprise that the room filled with smoke. I pulled the skillet off in time to pull the remaining burning brand label from the bottom of the skillet. I later was surprised why the raw chicken was cooking so slowly. Geralyn helped me by informing me there was no flame (in an appropriately eye-rollish tone of voice). It turned out well though! They tasted great!

Now I have a load of laundry running, and I pray I don't stay up too late...
Wait, that reminds me, "I pray." Yes devotions coming up shortly.
And then I pray laundry doesn't take too long because I have church at Times Square Church tomorrow! I hope Pastor Wilkerson is preaching.

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