Along with packing, we need to hardcore clean the apartment. I mean scrub and spackle, wash and shine! Hanna and I are banking on our security deposit that we paid a year ago to come back to us in full. I need that security deposit to help pay my October rent in London...therefore the place must be spotless. I ran some errands down in the Faltiron district to pick up cleaning supplies and drop off something to Hanna. I have rarely wandered around that area, but it was such a gorgeous day with the perfect temperatures (hinting that Fall is around the corner) and I just had to procrastinate packing for a bit. I would like to try to explore a little more of NYC before I leave. It's a shame I wasn't able to see and do more (even though I did a ton). I even chilled out in Madison Square Park for a bit and watched a commercial being shot. I wanted Shake Shack so badly but the line wrapped halfway around the park! I shouldn't have been surprised seeing as there is ALWAYS a line for Shake Shack. Shake Shack has become a popular burger joint in NYC and I guess has spread to some other cities. They also make homemade custard that is a popular item on the menu. There is just something about their burgers that I love! If you are ever in NYC and just want a cool place to have a burger check out Shake Shack. If you want to go to the one in Madison Square Park, go to their website first because they have a live webcam where you can check out the status of the line. So smart! Not sure I would remember to do that but still cool. Also a fun fact if you have ever seen the movie "Something Borrowed," the scenes where Ginifer Goodwin and John Krasinski always meet for lunch is Madison Square Park and Shake Shack makes quite a few cameos.
Anyways...after all my daydreaming about food, I trekked back uptown to my apartment with all my cleaning and spackling supplies and got to work. Not easy to do on such a gorgeous day. Once I got the hang of it, I was on a spackling frenzy. I was ripping out all the nails and unscrewing all the screws from the walls. When I would try to spackle the holes, sometimes there would be extra drywall in the way. I really could have used some sandpaper. I looked through our stuff to see if we had any. No such luck, so I had to get creative. Because they were tiny nail and screw holes, I thought that maybe my nail file would work. Well, sure enough, it proved successful. I would go around, rip out the nail, sand it down with the nail file then fill the whole with spackle. I must tip my own hat on a job well done. Anytime you need some spackling done, give me a call. Then, I got to work on the ridiculous amounts of scuff marks on the walls all over our apartment. Hanna introduced me to the Magic Eraser by Mr. Clean. It was incredible! All you do is soak the special sponge, ring it out and it instantly removes scuffs and marks on walls. I used them up so that they are now torn to shreds. What an amazing product. I really never expected it to work that well. Finally I finished up the day with starting to pack up all my clothes...my endless amounts of clothes.
I decided I needed to get out and see some of my friends as I am not going to be here much longer. I met a couple friends at ANOTHER BURGER JOINT called Mother Burger. I still had the idea of a burger in my head and this has a fun outdoor atmosphere and serves frozen lemonade! YUM! I had the "Single Mother" with cheese, onions and pickles (essentially a one patty cheeseburger). It was a great meal and a great time. I headed home with Hanna to quite the disturbance:
We had just gotten home and I was in the living room when out of the corner of my eye, I saw something scurry along the wall and behind the couch. I started freaking out and I told Hanna. She started screaming and we were just standing in the hallway holding hands. Such babies! We were both afraid to even look in the living room. I finally braved the walk to my room to get my Wellies and to shut my bedroom door in case he tries to get in there. We both are in tank tops, gym shorts and our tall Hunter Wellies standing in the middle of our living room on our coffee table. Hanna has her broom in one hand. We decide to move the couch out. As soon as that happens, we see the little guy scurry along the back wall behind the couch. I start screaming, Hanna starts screaming. We both run like chickens. It's embarrassing but it happened. We started to strategize. We would scare it out and capture it with a shoebox. Sadly we couldn't find him again. We hit and threw things all to try to scare him out, but nothing. Who knows where he went. I doubt it, but it's possible he could be sleeping in my bedroom with me tonight which I'm not happy about. It's possible he went back through the hole he came in. We thought there was potential for his hole to be near to the radiator behind the couch so hand took the remaining spackle and covered it up. It was quite a disastrous and hilarious scene. We made a mess tearing that room apart...just to find a silly mouse. Here is a panoramic shot of the disaster zone we created:
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