Emy’s 25th brithday party.

Today we headed down to NYC to celebrate Emy’s 25th birthday party and there was a lot to celebrate. She’s got her own apartment in Brooklyn and a new job offer from this hip hotel in the meatpacking district, The Gansevoort Hotel. A five-star establishment, a room costs $400 a night, with her employee discount, we could stay there for a mere $200. They pay well, 20 bucks and hour (!) and after 2 months, health insurance becomes a benefit. Snazzy!

Katherine and Bob spent the morning buying amazing food at Zabar’s and we ate a nice brunch in Ben’s apartment. His roommate, Tim, was there as well as Ben’s friend Eric who spend Christmas making blueberry cobbler with Vince.

After the party, we headed to Urban Outfitters to see if Emy could buy some jeans, but no luck. Emy went home to nap before her own birthday party at her apartment and the rest of us headed to Central Park to see the new “The Gates” exhibit by Christo.

Mr. Mom

I also went on a cleaning binge tonight. I’m trying to get the downstair ready for a bridge night I want to host next week. As mentioned before, the owner came by and basically cleaned up the house a little bit. I sorta took that as a hint that he wants us to clean up a little more. And he moved my bike out into the garage, but I think that’s a hint I’m going to ignore. 😛

About Last Night…

Seems like my Saturday night is just as fun filled as my Friday night. I ended up watching more movies today. In reverse order, I saw: The Green Mile, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Eraser.

Steven Spielberg is always good at making the bad guys look super bad and the good guys feel super good. He always seems to be able to tug just the right amount on your emotional strings.

I like the alligator scene in Eraser. Basically 3 bad guys are chasing him at the zoo, and he only has 2 bullets left. So Ah-nold shoots the glass tank that hold some alligators that dutifully take out the 3 bad guys and the last bullet is saved to kill the alligator. Which right after, Ah-nold tells the dead alligator, “You’re luggage!”. a hahahhahah!

Dinner at Martin’s

Tonight, Martin and his wife, Patrizia, invited us over to dinner. They live in the next grouping of buildings over from us, so we just walked over. Jeremy made a lemon poppyseed cake and we brought over some cheeses and wine. Their kids, Johann and Clara were there. Frank (another German AMD co-worker) and his kids, Ben and Henri were there. Annette, Frank’s wife was ill with a stomach virus, so was unable to come. We had a nice time talking about vacationing in California, American women, the inability to find hip, cheap, men’s clothing and Dirty Harry.

Whatever.

I don’t care very much about things. Either that or people care too much about their things. The owner of my house came by this morning to move a couple beds to his new place. I just found it funny that he took so much care with it. He laid down a carpet on the floor of the uhaul. He couldn’t fit the mattress in totally flat cause of the wheel wells, so he made a ramp over the wells so that it would lay flush. He also didn’t drag the box spring over the ground at all. I think I would have just thrown it all in the uhaul. whatever. Apparently the owner had bought it off one fo my other friends a long time ago, and I didn’t have to courage to tell him that the original owner probably never treated that bed very well to begin with.

Anyways, being poor is great in a way. I really pare down the things I have and I learn not to buy every random joe thing that I want.

Good morning!

Today is dedicated to cleaning up from our illness. The house looks as if an elephant has come in and settled down and invited all his zoo friends over for a playdate. I need to plan for next week’s meals. Maybe a mexican theme for one night.

Jeremy and I are learning, very slowly about all the resources on the Web for the Ipod. Learning about audio blogs and other things you can download. These things are happening so quickly and are so exciting and I know I’m not even aware of a lot of these things. Things like TIVO, video games, etc..