The Zereps

hum de dum….been a while since we’ve updated. to be honest, not much has happened, which can be a good thing since nothing bad has happened. 🙂 last weekend we were going to go ice skating in bryant park (which is free) but eric didn’t make it to the subway before popping into last stop cafe for pizza and coffee. so we had pizza and coffee. oh, the previous evening we patronized a new italian place that’s 1 block from our front door. it was oh so very tasty. eric and i split a plate of penne garlic and broccoli and then shared a chocolate mousse pie. mmm mmm mmm…. i’m also making lots of headway in my harry potter gryffindor scarf. i’m starting to work feverishly on it since harry potter and the goblet of fire come out this friday. 🙂 i’m so excited i’m giddy. honestly. i start giggling like a 4 year-old when i see the trailers.
on another note, yay for thanksgiving! eric’s dad is coming to visit and we’re going to the thanksgiving day parade (provided i get my sorry butt out of bed to be there at 6). and in stead of cooking dinner, we’re going to go to counter for an all-vegetarian thanksgiving meal. i am very excited. i *love* good food. then we’re going to go to dart’s tree farm on long island out by the hamptons for our christmas tree. hopefully we’ll bring jabba and he can romp around and chase things. maybe we can even squeeze a skate in rockefeller plaza in, too. eventhough bryant park is free, rockefeller plaza has the christmas tree!
ohmagoodness…i feel so dumb today. i had another show of martha stewart lined up today, but i over slept! i had set my alarm for 6 *pm* in stead of 6 *am*. darn those hello kitty clocks!
toodles!

OK. It’s late in the day… I worked hard and long, but I’m still making time to write a little sumthin’ on the blog. Hmm.. let’s see. What happened today? The TV show Law & Order cordoned off our entire block to film a scene for their show today (I wan’t actually here when it happened, but maybe Candice can provide some insightful details.) I basically just worked all day–nothing too exciting. 🙁

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well, well, well…fun things have been happening here, but all i have to show for them are a couple pictures. hope that’s good enough! today we went to central park and the fall colors were really pretty, the pictures don’t do them justice. um…what else have we done…oh, i entered my mom in a contest called ‘give thanks’ and won and now she gets a $100 gift certificate for fredflare.com! 🙂 that was nice. oh yeah, i carved my pumpkin last monday. jabba was my helper, trying to eat the guts and lick the carving knife. he’s a little rascal. while we were gone today he opened up eric’s messenger bag and ate his cookies and ate a whole pack of gum. rascal…
we’re also looking forward to going ice skating. there’s a new rink that opened up that’s free to the public, which is great. i’m really looking forward to christmas this year, too. since we’re not flying anywhere for christmas we’re looking forward to spending it together, just the two of us, plus jabba, of course. we’ve never been able to spend it with just us and now that we can we’re really looking forward to it!
anyhoo..enough rambling…here are the pics!
[apologies for not having a gallery. we need to acquire more space]

i am the shake-zula the mic rula you wanna trip, i’ll bring it to ya.

here’s a pic from where i was sitting in the audience. the set was *so* big. it was lots of fun! i was going to go to the book signing, but i couldn’t really afford her new baking cookbook, which i am just dying for!

in the park.

the leaves were actually much prettier.

Well, tomorrow is my first full day at my new job.. should be pretty exciting. I can’t wait until I am able to get settled down into a normal work schedule… recently, I’ve been doing my full-time job and doing part-time work for this new place and it’s been getting kinda stressful.

Candice met me after I got off of work today and I took her out to eat at Rosa Mexicano in Union Square which is just a couple blocks from where I work currently. We’ve been hard-pressed to find good Mexican food in New York, but this place takes the cake so far–none of that tex-mex crap for us! We had their guacamole, which is rumored to be some of the best in the city, but it wasn’t the best I’ve ever had. It was fun to watch them make it from scratch with fresh ingredients right at the table though.

Apparently, Candice hasn’t posted any pictures from halloween yet, but I promise they’re coming soon!

OH, and one more not of interest. The other day we got a green piece of paper in our mail slot from a location scout for the show Law & Order saying that they are going to be shooting part of an episode right on our street on November 9th! Pretty cool.

OMG OMG OMG!!! i got to see martha stewart! the woman i have idolized since i first saw her show on pbs years ago! it was everything i thought it would be! 😉 hehe….the show was so much fun! i’ll post pictures tomorrow (i’m feeling really sick right now). she’s having a book signing for her new cookbook on friday and i desperately want to go and actually see her close up! i would totally die! more on the awesome set, etc, later! i just had to say OMG OMG OMG i saw martha!!!!

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!