The Zereps

Hello All. This is my first post from Colorado. It’s been a challenging, but productive couple of days here. Candice has had quite a bit of time to run around and check out the sites. I, on the other hand have been stuck in an office all day, but I’ve been learning web production from my company’s team of developers and designers. Boulder is a very beautiful city. It has about 100,000 residents and is about 50 minutes from Denver. Candice and I are flying back to New York Wednesday afternoon (yes, the day before Thanksgiving!!) Oh.. my title. Yeah.. as previous Subaru owners, Candice and I both noticed the uncanny fact that almost 10% of the cars in this town are Subarus–it’s weird. Anyway, it’s been fun. Wish us luck on our way back.. Thursday is the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade and dinner at a vegetarian restaurant in Manhattan for us. Pictures of Boulder to come soon…

we’re here! we landed in denver at approximately 10.45 am local time. our airline was Frontier, which was a pretty nice airline, btw. low cabin noise is always good. and free muffins, i hate it when they charge you $3 for a muffin. we then took a shuttle from denver to boulder which was a little scarry. the driver was going 85 mph in an econo line van over potholes and around corners. but we made it to the university inn at last. let me just say one thing….i love it here! this is a great place! it’s not what i was expecting. sure there’s the occasional cowboy hat, but there’s more hippies and normal people here in downtown boulder. it’s totally not a normal suburb. for one thing there’s the university right in the middle of town. where we were today, on pearl street, it was like a giant downtown santa rosa. anyhoo…this place is super cute. and there are TONS of subarus! yay! and the cost of living is cheaper, too. 😉 i’ve been looking at real estate prices for this area…pretty low. oh, and we ate lunch at illegal pete’s and grabbed dinner from the wild oats across the street from our hotel.
anyhoo…tomorrow starts eric’s training, the main reason we’re here.
i’ll take and post some pics tomorrow! or at least i will try!
goodnight.

So, you’ve waited all year long for the holiday season.. you don’t want to wait until December 20th to buy all of your Christmas presents like you did last year, so you decide to hit the streets on Black Friday to get a head start (like 50 million other people.) Well, everybody knows that the best deals in town come out in the newspaper circulars for companies like CompUSA, Best Buy, Target, etc. Now you don’t even have to wait until Thanksgiving to find out all the best deals. Somebody has compiled all the after-Thanksgiving deals from about 30 major retailers into one very long web page. Check it out:

Black Friday 2005 Complete List

welp…we’re headed to boulder! yay! eric’s going for job training and i’m tagging along. 🙂 the main tech office for his work is in boulder, so he’s going to go for some intense training, or something. we’re leaving tomorrow morning and won’t get back ’till wednesday night. i’ve never been to CO for more than a layover so it should be fun. i’ll take pics and post tidbits along the way.
off we go! we’re taking jabba to lorrie’s so he can have a 4 day party with his pals, frankie and freida. 🙂

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.