The Zereps

two words…..frackin’ freezing.

it was unimaginably, bone-achingly cold today when i stood outside in duffy square for an hour and a half to see criss angel perform…mind you it was worth it, though. very entertaining.

i got there a half hour before it was supposed to start so i didn’t have the BEST place to stand, but not as bad as people standing on the other side of the street. if i had gotten there like 15 minutes earlier i would have gotten in the vip section…darn it!

he was late in getting started, so people were getting antsy. once he came out, it got rowdy…hehe…lots of women and girls screaming “we love you chris”, and “take it off!” here’s what he did:

he was locked in a crate, with his hands handcuffed outside and was raised into the air. he had 2 minutes to get himself out of the crate before it was dropped and smashed. unsurprisingly he made it. the crate crashed and he hopped up on top of the heineken truck with a celebratory cold one (obviously his sponsor, hence the ‘light beer’ sign on the crate…hehe). i have no idea how he got to the gound, since he wasn’t in the crate..i think that was the whole point, though. i’ll have to see it on tv. then i waited for another half hour for him to come around to my section of the crowd to sign autographs and tell us how much he loved us and appreciated our attendence, given the freezing winds. the ladies i was standing next to were very much in the midst of swooning and i have to admit i gave an excited jump and screech myself..he’s quite a cutie. i overheard the obsesive females next to me talking about how his mom and his gf? wife? never miss a performance and they were pointing them out.

anyhoo..it was fun and i’m glad i went! 🙂 thanks kit for letting me know about it! i wish we got A&E so we could watch the tv series!

(click thumbnail to view the album of the performance)

i just have to say something about this super cool site i’ve started using lately. it’s called fresh direct and it basically makes it so i can go grocery shopping online, and then choose the time that i want it delivered. yesterday was the second time i’ve used it, and so far it’s been great (except for delivering it too early, but oh well :)) the prices are fair and now i don’t have to lug around the granny basket!

here’s jabba helping eric unload the boxes yesterday (i was at work):

well, it took us until almost 2 in the morning, but we finally got our new theme pretty much all set up. there will of course be a few little tweaks here and there in the coming days, but for the most part it’s set up how we want it. hope you like it.

well well well…we’ve finally gotten around to changing the look of our page. or i should say i finally got around to picking out a template, modifying the template, and making a main banner-thing, all the while pestering eric to upload everything ’cause i’m too lazy to put the ftp client on my computer. 🙂 thanks eric 🙂

so yeah..i like it better than the plain stuff we had before. when i’m done with jabba’s site, i’ll let ya know 🙂 hopefully this weekend….

anyhoo…we watched ‘star trek: generations’ tonight and then ‘battlestar galactica’ and i’m tired….goodnight!

oops, some stuff on the site doesn’t work yet..sorry! eric doesn’t like it so expect things to change a bit…

Well, I guess we’ve kinda been busy, kinda lazy, and kinda sitting around with a couple tricks up our sleeves’. Candice and I have been working on some projects ala blog/website lately, but most of the things we’ve been working on are behind the scenes so the changes aren’t too apparent (yet.) In other news, things are going pretty well for us. We never did plan on staying in New York forever, so I was happy to hear my manager say it would be fine if we moved to Boulder, CO eventually and I worked from our office over there. Candice and I just finished watching Star Trek: Generations and eating Papa John’s pizza. Have a great weekend everybody!

You may notice some strange things going on in the next couple of days as I try to iron out all the wrinkles associated with migrating wordpress and the rest of our entire site to our new servers. Right now the wordpress database and all the html/graphics have been migrated and it’s been mostly successful. Now all I have to do basically is upgrade to WordPress 2.0. I’ve diasabled a number of plug-ins, and you might notice some things disappear or break completely as a side effect of the move. I’m trying to fix everything as soon as I can. Stay tuned…

UPDATE: I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.0.1, which is pretty slick. Most everything seems to be working now.

UPDATE 2: theme change coming soon.. You might notice the look of our site change a couple times in the next couple days–stay tuned.

homemade pizza with *real* (not canned) sauce and fresh mozzerella and basil…mmmmm! the dough came out kinda thick ’cause i couldn’t roll it out very flat, my baking sheet was too small. i need to work on my yeasted doughs more…they never ‘double in size’…::shrug:: still good though. brought to you by ‘the martha stewart baking handbook’!

oooohhhh yeah……red velvet cake. the photo is crummy, it’s actually dark red, but it tastes divine! the recipe is crazy, there’s a big mystery as to its origins, southern or from the waldorf-astoria hotel….all i know is it’s very tasty. i will definately make this again. mmmmm…i love paula dean’s recipes (foodnetwork).

(anybody remember that scene from ‘steel magnolias’? i considered doing a variation on the armadillo…..)

…I wish I had taken some pictures. 3 days after the biggest blizzard here since record-keeping started in 1869, it’s sunny and hit a high of over 50 degrees here. The snow is visibly melting–it’s practically raining from all the snow melting off the tops of the buildings onto the sidewalks below. 4-foot tall piles of collected snow still dot the metropolitan landscape though. Right after the storm, it was almost like being in a giant ant farm. The entire ground was covered in up to 27 inches of fresh powder–everything was completely covered in white. But then trails started being carved out. Plows would come through, shovels would clear out the sidewalks, millions of feet would stomp it down or slush right through it. But it’s all melting now; I guess that means I have to turn off the snowflakes plugin. drat.