I enjoy the going to the Y to exercise my ass off, but it does come at a price. Now I think I might be able to cancel the gym membership if I get the one of these Hawaii Chairs. It’s only 6 easy payments of $70/month. Check out the video on the right on the site.

When Iben dropped me a line to head to Woodside for Thai food, I was somewhat disappointed at the choice of cuisine since I had dinner a couple days ago. He made a point that it’s imperative for us to show up by 6pm for dinner, and promised the most outstanding Thai food this side of Bangkok. So sure, why not? If for no other reason to drop by Woodside, good food is good enough for me to go. We got to the
Sripraphai a little after 6, and the place was already packed. It reminded me a bit of the old Planet Thai in Willy’B. The 1 hour wait for a table for 4 gave us plenty of time to peruse and drool over the extensive menu. It’s not just pad thai and red curry. We skipped the usual pad thai and curry and opted for a fried snapper (with the head attached), spicy beef kebabs, curried tofu, chinese vegetables, and shrimp noodles. You can get thai food almost anywhere in town, just not this kind of thai food.

[Sripraphai: 6413 39th Ave (Between 64th Street and 65th Street)
Woodside, NY 11377]
[photo by: foodite]

With the frigid temperatures, and what seems like a weekly snowstorm, here in the Northeast, it’s easy to forget all the ballyhoo about this being a relatively warm winter. That 70 degree day in January seems so long ago that it might as well have been in January 1999. Ok, well not that long ago. When the temps were hovering around the low 40s, Karen and I ditched behind the daily grind and spent hump day snowboarding. We drove about an hour and a half to Mountain Creek, and spent about 4 hours falling all over the slopes. Hey, sure beats sitting on our asses all day pretending to work.