King Baby's Crazian Persuasion

Well for the 2 or 3 people that actually read my blog, I must apologize for not keeping it up to date. A lot, and I mean A LOT of stuff happened this month but at this point it would take me hours and hours to re-tell everything, so I'll do my best to give it to you short and sweet.

The job i'm waiting for never called. We can only assume it's due to the fiscal crisis...still not worried, it's only time.

Frannie and I finally had the closing for the queens apartment. Very bitter sweet for us but what a relief to finally be finished with the process.

We bought a new camera, the latest in Canon's G series. The G-10. You can read my review of the camera on the best buy page for the camera. My ID there is ineeda63. It's a fantastic piece of photography equipment, and gave us fantastic shots for our trip to Maine.

Frannie and I decided that we needed to get away, with the closing in hand and our anniversary just passing we decided to go and enjoy ourselves over a weekend in the state that I feel saved my life (but that's another story). It was exactly what we needed. It was relaxing, beautiful, and a refocusing point in our lives. That and I totally overdosed on lobster.

All month I have been battling the effects of kidney stones and the subsequent infection I got. I'm feeling pretty good right now but there will always be the chance I'll have to go through it again at some point. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

Victoria ended up catching Roseola which basically caused her to have a high fever for 4 days and then gave her a bad rash all over her body for the following 4 days after the fever broke. Aside from extreme crankiness, she is fine now as well. Vivi has also kicked her pacifier (BaBa) habit and has even slowly started sleeping in her own bed now. (We hope potty training goes as smooth when the time comes)

For the most part, that catches us up to everything except the suicide cock wings incident at the Don's house, and our trip to the farm a few days ago... But it's late, and I'll have to write about that tomorrow.

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Frannie and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary last night at a japanese restaurant on Staten Island called Tomo. I had heard of this restaurant previously but had never had the pleasure of dining there. I have to say Frannie and I were pleasantly surprised. The food was absolutely fantastic and the service was second to none. They were very attentive and helpful with menu items we weren't familiar with. We started with an appetizer of kumamoto oysters, in my opinion the best raw oyster I have ever had. Every year when they come in season, Francesca and I make sure to have a good dozen or 2. I had never seen a japanese restaurant offer kumamoto's. In fact Frannie and I have only had these small delicate oysters which have a sweet nutty taste in higher end seafood restaurants. We also ordered a fantastic bottle of cold sake which had lychee fruit infused with it. It was sweet and very refreshing(frannie drank the whole bottle and I only had one glass lol), the perfect compliment to the love boat for 2 we ordered as our entre which was a fantastic mix of sushi and sashimi. We ended the evening with a desert order of Mochi (frannie had mango and I had red bean) mochi if you have never had it is a small disc of ice cream with a very thin pastry dough covering it. A very light satisfying desert. The red bean mochi they had was the best I ever had, actual pieces of red bean in it instead of the puree with artificial flavors I'm used to at other restaurants. Overall the experience was top notch. We were worried when we first pulled into the lot of the restaurant which is very long and narrow. The restaurant itself is set very deep into it's lot right off the corner of amboy and richmond ave. I have to admit I almost missed it. We pulled in and were a little worried, there must have been parking for 40 cars but there were only 3 cars there. We got to the restaurant and the outside was nothing spectacular. Inside was better. The design was nice but could use an update. I like how they used a lotus flower pattern all over the restaurant and the entrance has a huge cascading waterfall but unfortunately it wasn't on. Also as with all the japanese restaurants on staten island, compared to queens there is roughly a 10 to 15 percent increase in price. However the restaurant shines in service. Little things make the difference...cloth napkins instead of paper, quality wooden chop sticks that did not split improperly or had splinters...and as I said before, attentive service. I highly recommend Tomo and will definitely be going back.
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Well I find myself sitting where else but the doctor's office... I've been dealing with a considerable amount of pain in my left side and lower back for the past few days. I really didn't think much of it as I have been dealing with stomach problems on and off for the last 3 months. I noticed I also had the urge to go #1 more often then usual so I thought it might have been my sugar getting out of wack. Well yesterday morning the pain pretty much went from a 4 to a steady 8. Very painful and even laying down didn't help subside the pain. I happen to be assigned to the health department location that houses the NYC Poison Control Center. The director of the PCC, Dr. Hoffman took one look at me and insisted I come see him in his office. He tells me he can't give me a definite diagnosis without running blood work and getting a cat scan and sonogram, but it could be anything as simple as a bad urinary tract infection to kidney stones. So now I went home slept and woke up this morning feeling great. Except for the fact I had to pee every hour I had no more pain, just soreness. So I'm now in the waiting room of my doctor's office hoping it's not too serious and wishing it won't screw up my anniversary tonight.



Today also happens to be my 3rd wedding anniversary. It feels weird that 3 years has passed. It seems longer and shorter at the same time. Longer in the sense that we have gone through so much in such little time and shorter in that our lives were stuck in an emotional limbo living in the apartment in kew gardens.



Aside from my health there has been some good news since I last wrote. We finally have a closing date for the sale of our apartment. October 9th @ 10:30 and our nightmare officially ends. Also I have unofficially heard (again) from multiple sources that the next academy class enters October 27th. So let's see what's going on with my kidneys and tomorrow I should hopefully update saying that all went well and our anniversary was wonderful...

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