Alternate titles for this entry:

When All Things That Could Go Wrong Actually Do
Went to Hell and Lived to Tell the Story

Itinerary O'FUN (Notice the first two letters of "fun" are F U)

1:50pm - Leave Northern Jersey, drive into city via the George Washington Bridge
2:50 - Arrive at Riverside Drive and Park there on 95th street .
3:02 - Meet Mitch at his apartment. Work on installing Finale to his computer.
4:17 - Leave to go to the "new" High Line (http://www.thehighline.org/). Try every metro card, realizing there is insufficient fare on all the cards. Have a "nice" guy swipe his unlimited card through to let me go through the turnstile.
5:12 - Go to Old Navy on 6th Ave, shop for "travel pants."
6:05 - Go to dinner on 8th Ave. Order Penne Vodka and Pinot Grigio.
7:03 - With much silliness, travel back to the Upper West Side. Realize there's still insufficent fare, miss 1 train, but catch the next one.
7:36 - Hang at Mitch's apartment, still silly, and work on Finale.
7:44 - Call Erica for technical support on Finale because it just doesn't work the same on Macs.
7:46 - Develop bad stomachache from said Penne Vodka and Pinot Grigio.
7:50 - Mitch puts on "Alien" and it reminds me of the time last year I had a stomachache and I tried watching the episode of Anthony Bourdain where he's eating a pig head in Romania and I literally had to run to the bathroom to vomit .
7:55 - Mitch changes channel to something more appropriate.
9:30 - Travel with Mitch to the convenient store for something to make me feel better before the trek home to Jersey.
10:11 - Realize, with much shock and dismay, that my Ford Focus is not on Riverside and 95th.
10:24 - Walk up and down, searching for vehicle.
10:48 - Go back to Mitch's apartment and figure out who to contact to get the car back.
11:23 - Realize that I don't recall my license plate number and proceed to wake up mom and dad in order to get it.
11:33 - Thoroughly freak out mom and dad, but unable to retrieve a license plate number.
11:36 - Mitch calls 311 for the towing company.
11:47 - Realize that "Alvin" at 311 gave us the wrong phone number.
11:52 - Call the police.
12:22 am - Realize that I still need a license plate number or VIN number.
12:43 - Get in touch with the Towing company, they are able to figure out car details.
1:03 - Thoroughly relieved that at least the car wasn't stolen.
1:05 - Still have a stomach ache and sleep in Mitch's livingroom .
8:45 - Wake up and get ready to retrieve car. Realize the toilet is clogged
9:00 - Wake up Mitch.
9:06 - Toilet overflows several times, water everywhere. Can't find mop.
9:11 - Find mop.
9:46 - Go out for breakfast, in the pouring rain.
9:55 - Get extremely soaked, but make it to the diner.
9:59 - Order food, get order taken by guy who usually is nice, but is extremely short with us.
10:10 - Get my food, but Mitch sits without food.
10:14 - Waiter finally realizes Mitch is without food and gets his order.
10:22 - Finish as much food as I could stomach.
10:34 - Feeling comatose, go downtown on the 1 train (with sufficient fare - thanks Mitch for swiping your card!).
10:59 - Arrive at 42nd Street/Port Authority, hear "Alleluia" played on trumpet in the distance by a subway performer and think it's strikingly, eerily fitting (you know, that Catholic/Christian hymn they perform around Easter), hail cab and travel to pier 76 to pick up car.
11:23 - Is relieved to be reunited with my beloved car. Pay excrutiating amount of money to the NYPD, realizes that I still have a parking ticket on my car .
11:46 - Sit in traffic to get through Lincoln Tunnel.
12:35pm - Arrive on Rt. 3 in Jersey.
1:05 - Arrive home and take a much needed lavender bubble bath.

These misadventurous situations are pretty nuts, but really absurd and will make for funny stories in the future. They make me very grateful for good, patient friends who have mops and umbrellas and pull out couches. Thank you, Mitch for getting through this day with me!! Agh!