I woke up at 7:50 this morning, well before my alarm. I was done sleeping and couldn't get myself to go back to sleep! I really enjoy early weekend mornings when I have nowhere to be immediately!
The Food Network was on for the majority of the day in our apartment. I'm loving this channel these days...It's great "background noise" for when I'm getting work done (I can't do work in complete silence!) and when I need a few minutes for a breather I can look up to learn something pertaining to the culinary arts, which I'm trying to become better educated in!
Eggplant was cooking in the crock pot all afternoon, so when I walked in from rehearsal the whole apartment smelled like delicious pasta sauce! It was really wonderful!
Took another fabulous Saturday night contemporary class at Broadway Dance Center tonight! The only thing I don't like about that class is having to wait until 7:30 at night to take it! It's such a nice breather from schoolwork and break from the usual classes I take during the normal school week!
What I really loved today though, was seeing this:
I actually pass by this Chevy's on 42nd and 7th every weekend when I go to Broadway Dance Center. Why is this so exciting? It's not, really. But the memory it evokes is one that I love remembering. I came to New York City for the first time in 6th grade during spring break. I was excited beyond words and remember being able to talk about nothing else for weeks leading up to the trip. I saw my first Broadway show that trip (42nd Street), we went to Central Park and rode the Merry-Go-Round, I ate my first street vendor pretzel (still my favorites!)...At one point we also ate at this Chevy's right off of Times Square. I don't remember when it the trip it was, but I do remember that it was one afternoon, we were getting sleepy and hungry, and it was time to eat! We sat on the upper level next to a window behind one of those neon letters...It was so awesome to me to be eating in a restaurant in Times Square, little did I know that this is simply a tex-mex chain restaurant that we have at home! (We're not usually Chevy's people, but it was perfect at the time!) It wasn't until one of my mom's more recent trips to visit me here at school did I find out that this was actually where we ate that one day eight years ago!
Passing by this restaurant every week and stopping for a split second tonight to think about the excitement I experienced during that trip made me think about how in life one never really knows what's going to happen! As a wide-eyed 6th grade vacationer I had absolutely zero idea that I would someday end up living in this place. That that "Tex-Mex restaurant in New York"--that one Chevy's that stuck in my memory for all these years--would be something I would see on a regular basis.
It may sound silly, I think it's very cool how that happens; how one seemingly small piece of everyday life conjures up recollections of years' past, connecting the dots between the then and the now :)
Tonight, re-experiencing youthful joy and remembering the importance of the little things and the memories they hold make me happy :)
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