"seven henrietta street"

recently fell in love with this video by kinga burza made for kate spade ny.
so romantic....
hope you'll like it too



xoxo, elvina.

chelsea market

hope you had a wonderful weekend and  monday and tuesday and …wednesday !

i was off sunday and we did a bit of shopping at chelsea market and here are some pictures taken with iphone using my favorite instagram application. 

that's how many different stores located under the roof of chelsea market

 if i  ever will need new york- themed souvenirs-i definitely will get them from chelsea market's little stores, the items here are so much better quality then those sold at times square.

 listening to life performance right in the hallway made me really happy

 one of the best coffee places (did i tell how much i love coffee?)

 these sign never cease to cheer me up

 'dog show' exhibit all over the walls at chelsea market - pictures featuring dogs and pet owners,

 yet another bakery store

 and what i love most- 'pop up stores' featuring young designers  (everything from jewelry to clothes)

 as seen in antropologie store

 those lobsters are quiet impressive (i am vegetarian but could not resist taking this picture) 

 seafood at lobster's place

yesterday I finished being on service on team "a" – special team in our hospital that takes care of hiv- infected patients. the whole team consists of attending, social worker, pharmacist and two medical teams- junior and senior with one resident and two interns in each. i was leading the senior team.  my two interns were awesome and though towards the end of two weeks our team gradually turned into geriatric (we were carrying more geriatric private patients  from nursing homes on our  list then actually hiv patients) , we really  had a great time working together and accomplished a lot.

 today i was already off to outpatient clinic (we have  two weeks of outpatient internal medicine after every six weeks of ward rotations)  and  those two weeks are going to be lighter with the opportunity to wake up a bit later in the morning (i am not an early- bird person and usually go to bed late). 

at the 'whole foods' (market)  today i saw this: 

it's just made my day...those chocolate pieces looked a lot like serious prescribed medications in the bottles from pharmacy. 

so next time i will prescribe chocolate to patients :   

 Mr X

Rx: chocolate pieces PRN q4-6 h per day

        to cheer up.

Dispo # 1 bottle. 

Refills: #5.

but if you into something spicy- this is a good one!

 or salty

 have a wonderful and chocolaty end of the week!

(as prescribed by the doctor)

Valentine's day

ahhh, i think it's such a romantic day...if there were no such a thing as tons of chocolate wrapped in the red color and red roses and stuffed toys holding red hearts.... a bit too much

 i spent v's  day evening (right after work) listening to the lecture on the "awesome review" course in preparation for the internal medicine boards.  

i already know the day of my exam - august 15th and very glad that i will be over with it by my birthday...

we do need to prepare in advance, since im boards cover quite extensive field of medicine. 

when i finally got home  from that course askhad met me with my favorite flowers- orchids and homemade dinner.

 we enjoyed watching a bit of the tv show- "pan am" before falling asleep past midnight.  

i was getting a lot of flowers and love notes and texts on the phone from askhad this week, so i can even  call it a valentine's week for a good sake. 

Mari Vanna

our recent dinner with friends at "mari vanna"in gramercy,  last monday made me and askhad somewhat nostalgic about russia. the atmosphere in the restaurant was great.  the interior is creative, with meticulous attention to details, and vintage- styled: peeled wallpapers, samovars, vintage pictures in old frames on the walls, valenki, newspapers from pre- and post soviet era, stacking dolls and russian books on shelves.  

i loved everything there from design to attentive personnel and i was really glad that menu offered vegan and vegetarian options.

we were so nostalgic that right after we came from mari vanna we watched  'moskva slesam ne verit' (moscow doesn't believe in tears), movie of 1979, that i surprisingly never saw before.
we both enjoyed...

be awesome today!

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Who's birthday is it?

gorgeous weather outside and it felt like spring today! this winter we were so lucky regarding weather,  i remember only one day for the whole winter when it's snowed

and today is akina's birthday!!!

we got her magnolia bakery cupcake and handmade birthday hat.

she is turning one year!

we got her from the breeder from the upstate new york last spring when she was about 8 weeks old.  luckily we met up in new jersey instead of driving all the way up. breeder brought two little puppy-girls with her- so we could choose. akina ran toward us right away and we knew that we are not leaving without her!!!! she was a damn cute little bear-fox-wolf mix and we totally loved her from the first sight.

now we can't even imagine our lives without her. she is totally a family member.