My Hot Streak Continues...

The Best Friend and I decided to do one of our semi-annual trips out to Long Island today. I know most of you live in places where "going to the mall" is a normal occurrence, but there are no malls in Manhattan - and every once in a while I get the urge to shop in the comfort of air-conditioning and visit a food court. Especially a food court that contains the roast beefy goodness that is ARBY'S! Like malls, there are no Arby's in Manhattan.

So we bought our $14 round-trip tickets, jumped on the Long Island Railroad, and got off at the Hicksville stop about 1/2-hour later. The Arby's is in Hicksville's Broadway Mall, and my Best Friend's favorite fast food - Long John Silver's - is about 2 blocks past the mall.

I was DYING for Arby's - considering I haven't had any since December. And NO, none of the Drunken Dust Bunnies brought me any delicious roast beef when they came to visit recently (that's OK, I'm not bitter). Anywhore, we decided to hit Arby's first, shop the mall, and then head to Long John Silver's.

We arrived at the mall...

We rushed past IKEA on our way to the Food Court. Actually, I rushed - the Best Friend tried to keep up...

As we went up the escalator to the Food Court, I could ALMOST TASTE those curly fries. The last time we went I took a picture of the Arby's (below), which happens to be right at the top of the escalator...

We got to the top of the escalator ... and THIS is what I saw...

ARBY'S WAS CLOSED!!!!!!! Shut down!! Outta here!! Ixsnay on the OastBeefRay!!! "Would you like Curly Fries with that?... Well TOO BAD, because WE'RE CLOSED, BITCH!!"

Here was my reaction...


Followed by...


Followed by...


I spent fourteen dollars to go out to Long Island so I could get my Arby's on ... and there was no Arby's. Just my luck.

So we went to Long John Silver's ...

My chicken planks were cold and the counterbeeyotch was evil and stupid - needless to say, I wasn't happy. The Best Friend, on the other hand, was thrilled ...

How DARE he smile like that when I'm having a crisis?!? But I must say, he loves LJS as much as I love Arby's.

So, STILL no Arby's for me ... maybe I'll get some delicious roast beef at Christmas...

What A Nice Weekend!

For the second weekend in a row, I actually DID something! I am on a roll...

On Friday night I had dinner with my cousin Mollie, who lives in Texas. She is in NYC doing an internship, and I threatened to tell our grandmother on her if she didn’t visit with me.

On Mama Bunny’s side, I am the oldest cousin, and Mollie is the youngest. I had not seen her since she was in elementary or middle school. She is now 22 years-old – which would make me, ahem, A LOT older (almost 20 years older!!!). We had a four-hour dinner, shared two bottles of wine, and had a lovely time. She is a delightful young woman – and it was really neat to sit down and catch-up with her.

On Saturday we celebrated my BFF’s birthday by going to his absolute favorite restaurant – Long John Silver’s. Yes people – Michael LOVES him some fried fish, hush puppies, and fried ‘skrimps’ from LJS. Since there are no locations in NYC anymore, we did our normal trek out to Hicksville, Long Island (yes, it’s REALLY called “Hicksville”). There is an IKEA there, as well as a mall.

While at the mall, I hit my favorite store, Steve & Barry’s:



And guess where I had “dessert”:


Yes, darling Dust Bunnies, “dessert” consisted of a Roast Beef sandwich and curly fries. And I couldn’t have cared less that I was totally screwing up my diet. It was DELISH!

The Long John Silvers Trip

Michael has been my best friend since Penn State matched us as roommates a million years ago. And I wouldn't trade him for the world. But the boy DOES have some quirks.

One of these quirks is his utter OBSESSION with Long John Silvers. There are none near his home in New Jersey, and there aren't any within the 5 boros of NYC anymore. There used to be one in Brooklyn (where we celebrated his 40th birthday - I'm not kidding) but it closed.

So for his most recent birthday, I found a Long John Silvers in Hicksville - on Long Island. We took the Long Island Railroad to the Hicksville station, and the restaurant is a short walk away. This is also the location of the Long Island IKEA, and a nice mall, so we made a day of it.

Recently Michael has been talking about taking another trip. We picked a date, and yesterday we took our second trip out there. It was a nice day for shopping and fried foods, I must say.

Our relatively empty Long Island Railroad car.

The Hicksville Station.

Arriving at Michael's favorite place in the world.

Michael says: "DO NOT mess with my fish, bitches!"

It was getting dark by the time we headed home, full of hush puppies and cheap stuff from IKEA.

Who says my life isn't full of excitement??