yes indeed…we had ourselves a real humdinger. hehe
tofu hotdogs, tofu burgers, a canadian beverage, and fireworks in high-def! very patriotic 😉
the glorious homemade tofu burgers…fresh off the stovetop.
and a small shot of our fireworks display. sure beat sitting outside all day in the sun with tons of people just for 20 minutes of action.
It’s been exactly one year to the day since we started this blog and took our first steps towards our final destination of New York City, where we now reside. Here’s a link to our first post and some statistics about the blog so far:
-We’ve gotten 18033 visitors
-I’ve written 158 posts and Candice, 95 for a total of 253
-9 people have commented on our posts, although we have 25 ‘subscribers’
-Posts have slowed down considerably since we first started, but we’re a lot busier now and do more every-day stuff that’s not blog-worthy.
BUT, where would Candice and I be without another adventure on the horizon (besides living in the same place for more than 2 years.) It’s pretty much official now–we’ve talked with our landlord and he’s allowed us to renew our lease for another 6 months. This means that by the end of January, Candice and I (& Jabba too!) will be making our way to Colorado by land, sea, and air–okay, maybe not by sea, but definitely by air and land. So you can definitely expect a new thread of daily posts while we are on that trip. And technology (and hosting space) has advanced enough now that we can psot from just about anywhere and be able to put up as many pictures as we like. whoo-hoo!When we moved here, we never really did plan on staying more than two years. So it was pretty advantageous for us when I was able to find a job where most of the technology team is located in a place we’d like to settle and raise a family–Boulder, CO, lovingly known as “The People’s Republic of Boulder” by some and located about 25 miles to the north-west of Denver. Granted, we probably wouldn’t have picked Boulder as a possible place to move if my company didn’t have an office there, but when Candice and I visited last November we both really took a liking to it.
I guess we’ll see what happens in the next year of blogging. OK, so it’s not an award-winning site or anything, but it is a pretty good way for us to keep friends and family on the heels of what we’re up to all the way over here on the east coast. Have a great 4th everybody!
Candice left for work this morning and when she did, little did she know the transformation the living room would take during the hours that she was absent.
The rat’s nest of cables in our living room had grown out of control; as we got new toys and electronics set up, many times wires were hastily thrown together in the easiest fashion to get devices hooked up in the fastest possible way. The cable mess wasn’t really that bad–unless of course you looked behind our couch. 😉 Today I set for with a mission; a mission to de-claw the rat and return my household to it’s former tidy state. Here are some snapshots of my work-in-progress, and a final ‘after’ shot:
I had to move the couch away from the wall in order to corner the rat where it lived:
After that I separated the wheat from the tare:
Close-up of the ‘tare’ (yes, that is Shinobi III and Altered Beast for the Sega Genesis, TYVM):
::wiping off hands:: All in a day’s work…
Man, these pictures turned out fuzzy.. I guess that’s what you get for indoors shots with no flash. =|
clerks II. i have a good feeling about this.
in other news, it’s been really hot here. and since we’re on the 2nd floor, we don’t cool off, ever. so that means i can’t bake! ::collective gasp:: so to solve our problem, i picked up this little beauty, also known as the minicooker. now i can bake tasty treats, not the house!
mmmm! cornbread and snickerdoodles from last night!
[i failed to mention that due to excessive wear and tear, among other things, eric’s famed ultravection has gone into indefinate storage. hence, the minicooker. :D]
Kinder Suprise! wow.. anybody remember these from Canada? Milk chocolate on the outside and white chocolate on the inside (mmmm) and a toy suprise in the middle, to boot! (Way better than those crappy stickers you get in Cracker Jack’s too.) ya can’t find these ANYWHERE in the U.S. (’cause the FDA has banned them here,) but lo and behold in a tiny import store in Astoria they had a box of them! Look at the cool toy I got in mine–it’s a convertible ‘micro-machine’-type car.
in case we don’t mention it enough, it is very hot here. very hot. very. hot. but somehow eric and i managed to make it oot and aboot this weekend and, with the help of our air conditoners, we survived the night to talk about it. 😀
actually, it wasn’t as ‘oot and aboot’ as it could have been, given the temperature, but i snapped a few photos.
eric thought he’d play it sly and not tell me where we were going when we stopped off at 5th avenue…but gee….hm…i don’t know….it’s kinda hard for me to miss a towering, gigantic glass cube. hm…could it be 10,000 square feet of apple goodness causing him to actually *skip* and trot faster, pulling me along behind? yup yup, it was, of course, the new apple store. now i know where he’s been for about an hour every day after work! 😀
the store was pretty cool. we took a glass spiral staircase down below street level. there was also a glass elevator. there were many, many, many items that caught my eye. like a new ipod. 😀 eric was giddy with excitement. but alas, we had to leave, as we did not want to become too attached to anything.
for a late afternoon lunch, we went to alice’s teacup on the upper east side. it was super yummy and totally cute. we had scones with cream and preserves, finger sandwhiches, and cake with cookies, and tea, of course. i believe it was the ‘mad hatter’ lunch special. i wanted to snap a picture of eric holding his dainty, flowery teacup, but i held myself back. 🙂
we also happened along this little guy sitting in a store window selling shirts. how cute is he?!
and because i can’t help myself….
[jabba told me to remind you all of his blog, too!]
OK, so the weekend is long over and the next one right around the corner, but I didn’t have time to do any blogging last weekend. The only ‘eventful’ thing I did last weekend was go to the Puerto Rican Day Parade. I’m not sure how many years it’s been going on, but as far as I know it is one of NYC’s largest annual parades–40 city blocks down 5th avenue were closed off last Sunday. And let me tell you, I’ve NEVER seen so much red, white, and blue in all my life. Thousands ands thousands and thousands of people waving their flags around, or for the more hard-core sporting their ‘national’ threads. Apparently Mark Anthony and J Lo were there, but I didn’t see any of that action. Actually, the stop I decided to get off on the subway was very disorganized and I couldn’t even get very close to the street to see the floats, etc. up-close, unfortunately. It was fun for an hour or two to get out of the house and celebrate part of my heritage, though. Next time I just have to remember to bring the camera. d’oh!
i realized that i had a couple pics that weren’t album worthy, but that i still wanted to share..so here they are!
this here is the strawberry-rhubarb crisp i made with the organic rhubarb we got from our veggie share, through our local community shared agriculture. every tuesday we get organic, farm-fresh produce! yum!
oh! and here is jabba playing dress-up in eric’s shirt. yeah, i know he has a *whole* site just for these cutesy pictures, but i can’t help but post them here, too! 😀 but please, check jabba’s site, too, as there’s videos, etc…
lately i’ve been knitting my first sock..here it is! and no, it’s not a kids sock, it’s an anklet for *me*, it just has a strand of spandex in it so it stretches.
about once a week i pop into our local thrift store searching for mugs…i love mugs…usually they just have some early 90’s corel or something, but i got lucky the other day! i got a set of 4 (4!!!) green fire-king mugs for *a buck* each! i was so excited! i love fire-king mugs! i also got a japanese unicorn mug, just for kicks. the next vintage kitchen glassware i want to seriously acquire is a set of jadite mixing bowls, or anything jadite..i just love it..and milk glass….but i’m always on the look-out for quirky mugs.
and finally, if you’ve ever wondered what eric and i would do if we had $50k for our upcoming move (i’m sure you’ve spent hours contemplating it) check out my updated wishlist…hehe