I really enjoyed my birthday this year!

It started at midnight, when Danya presented me with a very homey and cozy flannel pajama (first PJ in my life I must add). I didn’t sleep in it though since it was warm in our apartment, but I put it on in the morning (I know, I know — normal people do the opposite) and took it off only when we went outside to get something to eat.

I got a lot of birthday wishes from my friends and family — and this made me feel so loved and important. Thank you all very much for thinking about me and sending me your love!

In the afternoon Danya and I went to get some crapes in a little Russian place nearby, and then we went hunting for a birthday cake. I wanted to buy a cheesecake, but since it was nowhere to be found, I settle on a “tiramisu”. The cake turned out to be good, but it has as much to do with tiramisu as a sea cow with a real cow. Yeah…

In the evening we had a dinner at Wasabi Shushi Restaurant on the 86th Street. Our family and friends (those of them who live in New York) came — and I was so happy to see everybody! I got very nice presents too!

After dinner some of us went to our apartment for desert and conversations. Both were good. We had an improvised concert — Sasha and I switched playing guitar, Danya and Maruk drummed using iPhone (don’t ask ), and pretty much everybody sang at some point.

It was a very fun night, and again — I really enjoyed my bithday! Thank you so much everybody!

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Alex says:
November 19, 2008 @ 13:57

Hmm… Who is that bearded Japanese guy at the end of the table?

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Yo says:
November 19, 2008 @ 16:23

я ОЧЕНЬ-ОЧЕНЬ рада, прям как-будто немножко с вами там побывала

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Lenchik says:
November 19, 2008 @ 22:46

doh sorry i missed that. at the range all week been kicking my ass.
happy birthday though.
best of everything. and then some
have fun

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Alena says:
November 20, 2008 @ 07:06

Кузь,

Лёнчик — спасибо!

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I don’t know why I’m posting this. When we went to Utah we bought a bag of potato chips at the airport, I think. Somehow we ended up bringing them back. And they were sitting on our kitchen table all this time. I was feeling hungry so I ate our Utah chips. However they did expire it seems on June 3rd. That’s it, end of story.

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Artem says:
November 12, 2008 @ 18:07

Dude, just so you don’t waste time searching on the internet: “Loperamidum” is an excellent remedy from diarrhea.

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Daniel says:
November 12, 2008 @ 18:28

Спасибо…

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Alex says:
November 17, 2008 @ 11:28

“Loperamidum”, как известно, переводится с Латыни как “затычка в жопу”

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Daniel says:
November 17, 2008 @ 12:28

Не, Артём явно погорячился. Все обошлось без каких либо затычек.

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Vicky says:
December 16, 2008 @ 14:55

This is great but you havent posted any new recipes. I am patiently waiting.

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Several weeks ago we did a small photo-shoot on Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. We were mostly taking photos of 2 cars — 300C and Caprice. However I think I ended up with several pretty good portraits, and that doesn’t seem to happen often to me.

Yesterday we went out to celebrate Maruk’s birthday. Maruk picked Red Bowl — Williamsburg Chinese Restaurant, owned by a long time friend of Maruk — David. David’s wife had a birthday as well, so they spent the whole evening at our table. We had a good time.

Вчера готовила новый для меня омлет, рецепт которого подсмотрела на блоге у Юли-Sweetlady. Получилось вкусно и сытно — вобщем, отличный завтрак для разнообразия!

С разрешения Юли, я просто хочу вставить её вариант перевода этого рецепта (оригинальная версия напечатанна в книге Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics):

На 2 порции:
Бекон, порезать на кусочки по 2 см - 3 куска

One of the cool things about working in Manhattan apart from the abilities to admire the city’s architecture and to shop in a variety of stores around is that sometimes we can go to museums.

Of course, a lunch break is kind of short for this purpose, but if you skip lunch one day and then add additional half an hour to the lunch hour that you’ve got the next day, you’ll get just enough time to take a quick look at a couple of masterpieces.

So this Friday Galya took me to the Museum of Modern Art, more widely known as simply MOMA, which is located just two avenues and one street away from our office building. I must admit that it was my first visit to the place, even though I wanted to check it out for a long time. To my luck, Galya has some museum membership which provides free passes for two people, so we got in free of charge (although, as I ones wrote, I usually don’t mind those fees).

We saw some very nice paintings of a very famous artists like Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Ludwig Kirchner, Gustav Klimt.