World’s Smallest Sundae – Times Square NYC

During one of our recent outings to a Broadway Show we stumbled across a tasty restaurant: HB Burger.  It’s located at 127th West 43rd St.

(It’s across the street and down a couple of doors from the theater where the Broadway Show “Anything Goes” is playing.)

Do NOT confuse this with it’s brother restaurant “Heartland Brewery” that is almost next door.  HB Burger is a dream of a restaurant.  It’s burgers in many varieties (including free range Bison and local beef), beers and sodas in their own house varieties, and the glorious-ness that is Haagen Dazs ice-cream.  They even combine draft beers or liquers and ice-cream to make floats for grown ups.

Perhaps most exciting is the littlest item on their menu:  “The World’s Smallest Hot Fudge Sundae” for only $1.75

For those of us who are counting calories or trying to limit our dairy intake, this tiny taste of a Hot Fudge Sundae is just the perfect size.

YUM!

Such a nice surprise to find a restaurant in Times Square that has exciting items on it’s menu.  Check it out!

Thankfuls: not dying in an explosion last night

I could have been 15 minutes away from dying last night. Well, technically it was 1 a.m. this morning.

I had been out dancing and was making my way home. I got off the subway and quickly walked down the couple of blocks between the subway stop and my apartment. The cold weather had moved in earlier that day and I hadn’t worn my warmer coat. So, I hurried along, even commenting to a guy who was going into his house that it was really cold.

I got home, readied myself for bed and hopped into bed exhausted after such a long day.

It was only a total of about 15 minutes after that moment when I had mentioned the cold to that guy on his doorstep, when I heard a huge explosion. It sounded like a plane fell out of the sky. (Not that I know what that sounds like, but it’s the thing that comes to mind.)

It sounded sort of like the huge bang sound of a car crash, only 10 times bigger.

I was concerned but figured I was safer inside than venturing out to see what that noise was all about. But now that I’ve seen the damage and have had several hours of sleep, I realized that it was very, very stupid to not venture outside to find out how close the drama unfolding was to my apartment.

Dumb.

Note to self: get up and investigate.

As I was drifting of to sleep I heard numerous fire trucks arriving and figured that they were taking care of things.

Again: stupid! Go investigate to make sure that the fire isn’t coming to your house!!!

I drifted off to sleep and. Few minutes later F.H. got home from his job. He said that there were fire engines everywhere and that he had seen our upstairs neighbor out there checking out what was going on. But he said that it was further down the block and that we didn’t need to be worried.

In the morning on my way to work, this is what I saw:

When I checked the news it informed me that one person had indeed died from the fire. Four others were injured. Three homes were destroyed.

So yep. I’m thankful that I was already safely inside. I’m thankful that F.H. was safe. I’m thankful that I still have a home. I’m thankful for the fire-fighters. I’m thankful that more homes weren’t destroyed- with the houses in my neighborhood being so close together, it could have been an entire neighborhood on fire.

Yep. Thankful. 🙂

Thankfuls: Wedding and Engagement Rings

Today’s thankful has to be quick. Hurricane Irene is headed for NYC so I’ve got to prepare my household and myself!

But, I wanted to take a moment to be thankful for my wedding and engagement ring.

After one week of avoiding the foods that came up on my food intolerance/allergy test, I am able to put my real wedding and engagement ring on my finger. Yay!

Until now, my eczema was so bad that I had to wear an imposter wedding ring and the ring that F.H. had actually proposed with (which was a little nice in itself).

Ok time to prepare for Hurricane Irene!