Earlier this month Josh and I left Saffie with Pam and Kevin and headed out to NYC to party with the Johnstons. We were there to celebrate Julie’s 35th birthday (a wonderful age to be if you ask me!) and Scott’s 5 year cancer free milestone.
Josh and I started the weekend meeting Tyler (who was there on a Jet Blue stopover) for drinks with Mandy, Mark, Michael, and Alison. Josh and I then hit a greasy, yummy pizza place for a quick slice before seeing Wicked which I have been wanting to see for quite some time. It lived up to my high expectations! We then enjoyed a pedi-cab ride through Time Square on our way back to the hotel.
After a trip to see ground zero, a little shopping, and lunch with Guy and Matt (they conveniently called out “Barbie!” to Josh making it easy for me to remember they were fraternity friends) we had a great dinner with many of the party goers and then headed to TenJune to celebrate.
Scott and Julie had reserved a private room in the club and we danced from 11PM-4AM!! It was so much fun – and we were so happy to be there.
So great to see Chloe in New York!
It had been much too long since we had seen Matt and Rachel.
Mark and Mandy tear up the dance floor.
Such a cute shot of Chris and Saira.
Josh and I all dressed up.
Mandy and I enjoying some baby-free time.
You will all be happy to know Drew and Vivian came together and he is not taking advantage of her 4AM sleepiness!
I’m thinking Scott and Julie had a good time We did too!!!
The Peterkas came over a few weekends ago and things got a little out of control. . .
We were all feeling a little irresponsible until we realized Saffie (or maybe Kristen) had washed out the bottle before handing it over to Kai. Whew!!
It was great fun to see Saffie and Kai interact more and more. As they both are not crazy about large groups of children I see them hanging out together in the quiet corner of the playground – perhaps trying to drum up interest in a game of pinochle.
Now that the election is over my CNN watching has dramatically declined. I decided rather than using that extra time to read, clean the house, or do something to improve the world, I would watch more tv. I might feel bad about it but since this tv watching time is during Saffie’s nap time or late at night when I’m too exhausted to do anything productive . . . you see how I can justify this . . . moving on . . .
I decided to watch American Gothic. It’s a one season wonder of a TV show from Sam Raimi and Shaun Cassidy oddly enough. It aired sometime in the 90’s (I think) and was a bit of a cult hit. I heard “if you liked Twin Peaks or Carnivale . . . ” so I was sold. I bought the dvds years ago but got distracted after watching the first two. I did however discover while reading reviews of the DVD set that apparently the series was out of order on the dvd release. Huh? How could that happen? But it apparently did as reviewer after reviewer complained that a Gothic newbie would be completely confused watching the dvd set as is. So I printed out the list of episodes from one of the Gothic super fans and thought I’d try it their way.
Fast forward to yesterday when I decide to start watching it. I go downstairs and find the dvd set. I am happy that the episode list I printed out is still folded inside the case (I was actually swelling with pride I was organized enough to keep the two items together) I go to put disc 1 into the dvd player . . . and it’s not there. Or anywhere. Damn.
Oh, but this won’t stop me. I’m not even going to download it illegally – we have technology here to offset my dvd losing habits. I turn on a tv. I switch it to the apple tv. I go to this thing called boxee which then lets me access Hulu. I then watch the pilot of American Gothic on my tv via hulu via boxee via apple tv. The quality is atrocious. It errors halfway through when I push a button to try and get the gigantic bar on the bottom of the screen to disappear and I have to start over from the beginning (and I can’t fast forward).
Next step is to go on my computer. Add American Gothic to my “play now” queue on Netflix. Go back to the tv. Switch to the xbox360. Go to the new Netflix area and watch the second episode of American Gothic. Except for a brief freezing at the beginning of the episode when the xbox tells me my internet connection has slowed and it has to rejigger something it is a very pleasant experience. However. Episode 3 of American Gothic on the xbox netflix queue says “need disc for viewing” or something like that. Uh, hello netflix. If I had the fracking disc I wouldn’t be here would I!!!
Resigned to the fact that I may be switching from Xbox/netflix viewing to hulu/boxee/appletv viewing of American Gothic until I get to disc 2 of the series (which somehow isn’t until the 8th episode – when I rent The Wire episodes I of course only get 3 and then have to run in front of the mailman to make sure I catch him, to make sure I can get another Wire fix ASAP)
Then this morning Josh comes down the stairs with disc 1 of American Gothic. Wheww! Back to old school dvd watching (at least it’s old school in our house).
Saffie has been having all kinds of fun in her physical therapy to strengthen up her muscles. A few weeks ago in the therapy gym Saffie repeatedly pointed and cooed at her soon to be best new friend. Rody.
Rody is a bouncy horse for the over 2 crowd, but he’s used quite frequently in physical therapy for littler ones to help them with strength and balance skills. Saffie was hooked from her first ride and I of course felt the need to get her her own Rody. Here she is giving Rody a kiss.
We came up with a fantastic low maintenance family costume idea. Josh and I wore “I’m a Mac” and “I’m a PC” T-shirts and Saffie wore a onesie with a BabyiPhone on it complete with drool, burp, and poop apps.
Too bad this is the only picture we have of the 3 of us.
Seriously, could Saffie have looked more disgusted. We may need to stage another photo.
Wow! I am so happy, hopeful, relieved, etc. Last night reminded me of how I felt at Invesco a few months ago . . . it’s a good feeling. I used to be very politically ‘with it’. But after 2004 I admit I kind of shut down. It was just so depressing to see the direction the Bush administration was taking the country. So obviously I am happy with last night’s results, but a couple other things come to my mind about last night.
I’m so happy “Boulder Liberal Mark Udall” won his Senate race last night. Note to people running for a statewide office – maybe it’s not a good idea to throw a section of your state under the bus in your campaign ads. McCain/Palin I think also learned this lesson – I can’t believe how divisive some of their speeches were.
Which brings me to – maybe the Republican Party should split into 2 parties. A sane one and the wacko/hateful/lying/law breaking one. Who are these people telling Democrats to vote on Wed, calling for investigations into how “American” you are, etc. I hope you form your own Party and leave the decent Republicans alone.
And who are all these homophobic people in this country!! Shame on you!
Thank you, thank you Colorado voters for kicking Marilyn Musgrove out of her house seat. She had the craziest negative ads and I couldn’t even vote in that race because I don’t live in that district but I had to see all those ads. Bleck!
At least if Palin runs in 2012 she won’t hire the McCain crazies to run her campaign as they have been so happy to throw her under the bus for last night’s loss.
During McCain’s concession speech I felt like I was watching the end of Return of the Jedi where Darth Vader comes to his senses and realizes he has been led astray. I would gladly welcome back the McCain of 2000. I know you’re in there – I feel the good in you!!!
Good job Colorado and other western states going blue. Montana I am proud of you for being soooooo close!!
And finally. I hope Al Franken never concedes. Even if it is obvious he lost. It would just amuse me.
We did too!!!
