The Zereps

Poor Candice. This is the first Halloween that she didn’t get to get all dressed up for. We spent the evening over at Matt & Samanthas’ place. For dinner, ‘bloody worms’ and ‘brain cookies’. (I’m sure Candice will post pictures later.) Unfortunately, since I was at work all day yesterday and today, I didn’t have time to carve my pumpkin. Candice did her’s this afternoon–“Master Shake” From Aqua Teen Hunger Force. (Once again, pics to come of course.) Other recent news: This week I’m switching to a new job so that’s kinda fun. The new one will probably be a little bit more exciting than my current job. Anyway. I’m tired, so that’s all for today.

woohoo! out apartment is warm! it was very exciting to smell the aromas of hot dust and old steel last night as our radiators kicked on. our place is now a comfortable 68-70 degrees, compared to the 60 we have been used to.
well, not much has been going on, honestly. i gave jabba a bath this morning and right now he’s curled up under my arm, snuggling. eric’s playing half-life in the office. I finished a good book just now, too. it was called ‘lovely bones’ by alice sebold and i highly recommend it. i got through it in a day it was so good. best book i’ve read lately. another good one is ‘eragon’ by christopher something. but good in a different category.
and now for some pictures!

notice the candle. the living room radiator is about 3 feet below the scounce and the candle was like this when i woke up this morning. good thing there were halloween spider webs to catch the candle or else it would have fallen off! now i have to find another place to put it.

this is from last weekend when eric and jabba were having a boys’ day playing half-life.

here’s jabba curled up before the heat was turned on.

ep: Wow.. it’s been so long since I’ve posted, I don’t even know what to write anymore–it used to just come so easily. Things have been pretty busy lately.. not too utterly exciting, but just pretty busy. Last week I worked quite a bit and didn’t have much time to do anything else. There were a number of times this week that I wished that I had a camera with me. Sometimes I also wish that I had an audio recorder so I could record the random musicians that play for tips in the subway. Anyway.. I’m just rambling. Maybe tomorrow (or later on) I’ll have something more interesting to say. Sorry!

i just took the test to see which sci-fi character i was. aparently i am spock. “a focused advisor whose actions are dictated by almost pure logic, you believe in exploring the fascinating possibilities around you.” oh yeah, that’s me. 😉 forget calling me candice, just call me spock.

the taste of chinatown this last weekend was lots of fun. the weather has been so perfect lately! i absolutely loved the rain and now i am in heaven with the nippy wind! it’s SO much different here in the fall/winter. all the trees are turning colors and the air is nippy so i can wear sweaters and scarves and coats. 🙂 yay! and now for pictures!

here is mott st. where most of the yummy food was.

here’s me eating a sweet bun, very yummy with some sort of meat filling ( i don’t ask questions, i just eat ) it looked all cute and fluffy so i had to try it.

here is eric with some veggie beef noodles.

here’s a shot of the front of fay da. eric got a lemon coffee cake and i got some sort of roll/cake/filled thingy. all very tasty!

i also got the best milk tea tapioca drink i’ve EVER had! 🙂 plus some green tea squishy balls that tasted like nothing and felt, well, i’ll just say ‘silly.’

three cheers for cheap and tasty food!

I had a really nice weekend this week. Yesterday we did the ‘taste of Chinatown’ thing (Candice is supposed to post pictures soon!) Today we stay at home in the morning, then headed out for dinner at a Japanese place (which I didn’t care for too much) and then to Freeze Peach for a Hurricane Relief Benefit that they were sponsoring there. The house was completely packed and I think everybody had a good time while raising money to help people who have been displaced by the recent hurricanes.

All last week it had been raining around here–ok, if you walked 1 mile in the rain get to work in the morning last week, raise your hand. Anybody, anybody? Apparently, in New Hampshire and other places in the Northeast, there was pretty bad flooding, but we didn’t get it that bad around here. Now the weather is starting to cool off (finally!) and people tell us that by mid November or so, there should be some snow. I can’t wait to walk a mile in that… it will be like living in Canada again and taking a stroll to Lacombe.

You can now check us out at our new domain https://www.thezereps.com. Of course, ericperez.com still works, but thezereps is a little more neutral as Candice and I do both share this blog. Either one, it’s your choice.. 🙂

This week went by pretty quickly for me… lots of work kept me pretty busy during the day-time–and things always seem to pass by more quickly when you’re busy
(for me anyway.) We’ve been getting quite a bit of rain over here–which really sucks, especially when you have to walk about 3 miles in it every day. Luckily, it has subsided tonight–there’s still the 90+% humidity to deal with though.

This weekend Candice and I are going to go to China Town. Apparently, there is this thing called Taste of Chinatown going on this weekend where you can sample all sorts of goodies from over 50 restaurants for only one or two dollars. It sound like fun to me. Candice and I have only been to Chinatown once when we visited during one of our spring breaks. And while your at that site, you can try your hand at writing a creative fortune for a fortune cookie and if you win, get it ‘published’ in cookies around the country. 🙂

Boy did I have a fun time getting to work today.. I was pretty tired when I woke up this morning, so I lazed around and took a little longer than usual to get ready. So I was going to be 15 minutes late to work–big deal. I take my usual 1-mile hike to the subway station only to find out that all Manhatten-(where I work)bound trains were suspended due to (choose one:) a fire/signal problems. Whatever the reason, hundreds and hundreds of inconvienienced people, mumbling and grumbling, had to find alternate transportation to work, including me. I had a chance meetup with Samantha, who was also in the same predicament as me. We decided (along with many, many other people) the quickest way to get to Manhatten was to take the bus, then transfer to a train that wasn’t suspended. We stood in a line that went around the block to try to get on a bus. Luckily for us, we were pretty close to the front of the line. I had never taken the bus into Manhatten from Queens, so that was an experience. Eventually, I caught a working train and made it to work.. and was only an hour and 15 minutes late. The joys of public transportation. 😉