OUR SATURDAY ACROSS THE EAST

every now and then our old borough will call to us from across the east river. "come to meeeeee!" she calls. it's really rather poetic of her. but no, mostly i just get a real good craving for sushi every now and then and since we're too lazy to find a decent place on the uws, a sushi date necessitates a brooklyn day. we should really find a decent sushi place on the uws.

but we do love any excuse visit our old hood. it's so quiet. sometimes i think we'll move back. sometimes i think i'll bump into 23-year-old natalie while we're out wandering around those old fruit streets. i think i'd like that. i'd like to give her a hug.

▲▲▲ the matching toenails, i'll have you know, were huck's idea. okay the matching saltwaters . . . that was mine.

▲▲▲ while poking around those old familiar brownstones and narrow streets we happened to walk right next to lena dunham. theeee lena duhman! my heart skipped a beat. my heart skipped five beats! i lo-oove lena dunham. we were, like, three feet from her, waiting with her for the light to change, and i was thiiiiis close to walking up to her and being that silly person falling all over myself to tell her what a huge fan i am, and how lovely i think she is, and how much her obituary for nora ephron meant to me--oh i was totally going to lead with the nora ephron angle, you better believe it. obviously we would have become best friends on the spot, i mean us nora fans are a tribe, man. i even gave myself a pep talk, but then the light changed and i completely chickened out. womp womp.

▲▲▲ so, okay brace yourself this is cheesy. we've been coming to this little sushi place in brooklyn heights since we lived there in 2005, and this same lovely lady is always there waiting tables. she may own the joint for all i know. we came here for our last meal before moving to idaho, and when we told her we were moving it was sort of an emotional experience for me. i can't explain it but she'd somehow become like a mom to me. like my sushi mom. anyway, i'd always wondered if she remembered us from those old days way back when, and then today out of nowhere she mentioned that i hadn't aged much since we first started coming in. oh hey! she loves us too! (and oh hey, thanks for those great genes, mom) oh it was a sweet moment. she's officially part of the family now. 

▲▲▲ next comes a slow stroll down the promenade, as per official holbrook brooklyn tour rules. and i may be ovulating right now but dang, that husband of mine is dead sexy. ;)

brooklyn heights this time last year

p.s. thank you sonnet james for the play dress!