Lil adventure

Here's some pics of my s.o. and I on a trip to Lambertville, NJ.
We ended up walking over the bridge which was beautiful and before we knew it, we were in New Hope, PA. I think this is common knowledge amongst NJers, but it was a surprise for us! We'd like to go back and explore more soon. :P

Day About Town

I got out of NJ and wandered NYC the other day with my friend, cohort, and co-conspirator, Ian. I had never been to the Highline park so we wwalked around there and then wandered the Chelsea Market a bit.
Later we met up with Sean and went to the Ace Hotel lobby and then wandered a lot more and then ended up at an Irish pub on 2nd Ave.
Good times.

so sorrrrrrry

Yes, I've neglected this bloggy, sorry. I've been so busy trying to anchor the ship and get the tea house going.
For those of you who don't already know, I'm attempting to start a tea house.
camsteaparlour.com
After many negotiations, one spot fell through. People are not willing to give reasonable prices. And this landlord wanted me to pay his yearly increasing real estate taxes. Wtf? Maybe it was a ploy for me to be super excited when he took that clause out of the lease. I was not. So yeah, that was a bummer, but I knew nothing in this process would be easy.
Right now my main prospect is the Valley Arts District in Orange, NJ. I am very excited about this up and coming neighborhood that one "can't tell apart from Brooklyn" right now. Haha. Bringing me back to my roots, perhaps?
If you or anyone you know have any tidbits to share about this area, please don't hesitate to write to me at chevytothelevyfilms@yahoo.com or teatime@camsteaparlour.com.
Thanks!


In the meantime, I was recently a part of this art show. Small, but quite fun. I will post pictures as soon as I have them.
I put two pieces in the show and also read tea leaves as a performance piece. I did a bit of research into this process and it's really interesting! I'd love to get into it more and perhaps have tea leaf readings at the shop in the future.

Tide turns once more...

As I mentioned my epiphanies before, more keep coming. The healer in me is still there, but as for a "business and lifestyle" model, I realized that I really would like to "steer my own ship". Also, I've found, I want to create a center for intellectual and social discord. In the most beat poet, hippie, cafe-mentality way possible. That leads me to opening a tea shop. It is going to be overflowing with great energy, live music, open mic nights, and just a general place to rest your head and have some extremely innervating and delicious tea.
I have support by loved ones, and I hope this will create a community and not just customers.
More on this to come, but check out the rough website I created for the tea shop by clinking on the image on the home page.
:)

evolving

I have a rotation of passwords that I use and one of them contains the phrase work is fun. I am now rethinking just exactly what that means to me. I have had many small "epiphanies" over the years as to what I'm meant to be doing, careerwise. I remember at least three years ago if not more walking down Broadway to look at the building front of a natural health sciences school, mainly for acupuncture.
Well, it's coming full circle again. There were some small "signs" lately that came together, and I am now seriously considering going back to school to be a healer, as they say. I am mostly interested in Chinese Medicine and Ayurvedic Medicine, as well as "newly-forming" theories of Kabbalistic Medicine.
Wish me luck on my journey, and I'll keep updating...

Hot Pandemonium

It was like a zoo today in Manhattan. Everybody was out, walking around, being in heat, in every way possible. It's been between 80-90 degrees for the last three days in the tri-state area. I have to admit, being in cold dreary weather really does pay off when you get that delirious euphoria that comes with warm weather! We would all be howling if it were socially acceptable.
Bryant Park was body to body. I took a cell phone picture of it but I don't think it came out very well. I wanted to go to the center and lay in the grass, but I sat in the side of the fountain and moved onto finding a place that juiced their own fresh fruit. (I ended up at Health King - crowded, good, but very pricey)
All in all, there's a magic in the toasty air in NYC.

Pesach in Urbia

I'm now living in NJ and suburbia has come upon me like a wave. The town I live in is lovingly called "urbia" by my partner and I because it's not quite the rows of identical houses with mowed yards. It's a bit"rougher", if you will.
But since I've moved here I've been to my first Red Lobster (several times now), been to two different Targets and WalMarts in one day, and been to and enjoyed my first Applebee's/
Noooo, it's got a hold of me! :)
I'm freelancing for the show Chopped, on the Food Network, and that's taking up a lot of my time. (I just adore Ted Allen, the host, and his cute little facial expressions and chic glasses - if only I were a gay man).
I made a mini seder tonight which turned out to be a lot of food. We ended up looking up "short seder" on the internet and finding a 30 minute seder and doing it off of my laptop. Way to go, 21st century! And Happy Passover! I'm going to my friend's seder tomorrow night since no one had time to have a big one until tomorrow.