A Trip to Spanish Harlem

After watching my boyfriend crazy glue his glasses together for the tenth time I decided on his Xmas present. Today I got him out of bed and took him so Spanish Harlem to get some glasses. For those of you that don't know Spanish Harlem has a shopping stretch, from 103rd and third to about 112th and third that is absolutely unbelievable .

Dollar store heaven flourishes here.I might not have the money but I get the shopping bug bad and when I do I pop on a bus take my twenty dollars and knock myself out at the dollar stores. Today I bought two towels (cause I had none and have been showering at the gym because of this) two beautify huge red and white candles for Xmas, a three pack bag of underwear, two pairs of sunglasses , a Danskin sports bra which is awesome (it's my second one) and three bags of very warm ,very fluffy socks. The grand total? Twenty-two fifty. If had bought the same stuff in my neighbourhood on the upper east side I would have been in for at least a hundred dollars

I know about this area because I lived there for about three years from 1999 -2003. The area is Spanish. When I lived there I was privleged to be introduced not only to the Spanish language but to Spanish food, which, if you avoid the fried stuff can be really great. They have this dish they make on Friday's which is called Ba-ca-la. They take dried cod, and set it in water over night to make it nice and light and fluffy and then serve it in either a cold salad with potatoes or in a hot stew with tomatoes and peppers. The thing I like about it is that fish does not taste fishy it's healthy and extremely low cal. I swear I lost ten pound by eating this stuff and I often wonder why this great dish cannot be found below 103rd street.

Today I decided to take my boyfriend to Spanish Harlem and get him glasses for Xmas .My boyfriend whose first answer to anthing is , "no", finally reluctantly got into a cab and we headed over to a store called Sight n' Style. This is greatest glasses shop in Manhatten. Not only is their selection unbelievable but they have everything organized according to designer and price. I've been wearning glasses for years so I've been in a lot of glasses shops and the biggest problem is that you have to ask the girl at the counter to give you the price of everything, and it's pain.

Not here, you can browse freely and get a sense of prices which are unbelievable. I got my boyfriend the same special I got for myself about two weeks ago. Two pairs of glasses for seventy-nine dollars, including eye exam. True, you have to select your frames from a special case but the selection they have is terrific. I got one pain of regular glasses and then popped for an extra ten dollars to get a pair tinted as sunglasses.

My boyfriend got the same two pair special and the poor man can now find my breasts without fumbling. If you need glasses of like to change your frames often this it the place for you. Tell them Kay sent ya.