Things I Will Buy that I Will Love: New York Edition

I am going to be in New York for about 36 hours and I hope to spend a lot of money while there. New York is terrible on the wallet for this blogger. Actually, all cities are bad for me. Except Prague. There is nothing to buy in Prague, I swear to God.


First off, a facial with Eva Scrivo of the Eva Scrivo Salon!


Eva is a tiny little brunette pixie (with the coolest name ever) who has the unromantic job of prodding blackheads from my nose. This is one of those fancy facial places, so I had to make my reservation from Los Angeles, so I'm really, really excited to go. If I skip it, I'm out:
Price :$170 (around. I also add on things like brow waxes and whatever trendy peels or scrub they offer. Something with pumpkin in it this season, I bet.)
632 Hudson St (Cross Street: Between Jane Street and Horatio Street)

Now my face is clean, sensitive and probably a little tingly. I'm gorgeous. However, my blood sugar is most likely low from lying down for 90 minutes. Time for something sweet.

Brownies you guys!



Fat Witch Bakery. Chelsea Market, 75 9th Avenue, New York 10011

Their brownies are good. Sadly, the ambience is lame, unless you like kitsch or stressed-out rude Barnard girls who bake brownies and are also working on childrens books in their spare time.

But the Blonde brownies here are fucking delicious. Buy some skim milk too. Take the brownie on the road and look at tomatoes or tulips or something in the vast, cheerful Chelsea Market.

Price: $2.50 per brownie. (Great as gifts during Christmas time. They have a huge mail-order business).

Now I'm full and I'm cold because I packed poorly for the fall. Oh, shit. What am I gonna do? Oh, I know. Take a cab to the luscious Bergdorf Goodman.



What a dream this store is. I like hoity toity department stores. What I hate is places like EMS or whatever where people talk about kayaks and rope and boring shit like that. I like people inquiring how my shopping experience is going. They're like short-lived friends.

My new friends show me to the accessories wing and without thinking about it too much, I buy this buttery, adorable, snuggly and perfect over-sized winter-creame colored shawl:



I won't even mention the price, you'll all die of sadness.
Bergdorf Goodman, 75 5th Avenue, New York
Later tonight, I think, I'll be snuggling in this with someone in the back of a taxi. It was good I bought this shawl. This is how I spend some of that money I got back from my taxes. Remember that, Mindy? I repeat this a few more times.

Now I feel incredibly guilty for having spent so much money. I better go work on my spec screenplay, the third installment of the "Ghostbusters" movies - with a girl-power update, starring Amy Poehler, Zooey Deschanel, Amber Tamblyn and myself - called "I Ain't Afraid A'No Ghost". I need to sit in a diner and write all afternoon. So I go to Veselka.



I don't write at all. I munch on spinach and cheese pierogies and icy cold diet coke, and watch hot-looking East Village hipsters eat borsht. I hardly remember my movie, I'm too in love with the Justin Theroux lookalike reading those weird political cartoons in the Village Voice, and seeming, sadly, to totally understand them.

Veselka
2ND Ave (Cross Street: 9th Street)
New York, NY 10003-8305
Price: $15 (will get you a nice hearty Ukrainian soul food meal).

Then I spend nearly $40 over the course of the weekend on surcharges using my ATM card at bodega ATMS that are not Bank of America. I love New York!