Well, here's a whirlwind synopsis of my long holiday weekend thusfar...
Monday Spent the morning cleaning and putting up my sad Charlie Brown Christmas tree. Picked the parents up from LaGuardia. It was very nice to see them.
Tuesday Went into the city. Began to realize that my parents are really, really midwestern and don't do well in NYC. My mother works at the Law Library at the University of Georgia and now is a total library freak. As a result, she wanted to stop at the New York Public Library. I really like the building and got this great shot of the Empire State Building out one of the windows. Then went to look at Christmas windows before we went to Radio City. This is what Christmas windows look like to me. Wound our way over to Radio City after a short diversion to St. Patrick's. Also saw this great grafitti. Word.
Went to my mother's long-awaited fantasy, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. It wasn't as bad as I had anticipated. They had a real cool 3-D movie of Santa flying around Manhattan at the beginning and the rest was just so cheesy that it was enjoyable. Wasn't particularly fond of the camels and donkeys that the brought onstage during the nativity bit. The copious use of "little people" was also a bit odd. There was a crazy bit where the Rockettes pulled Santa's sleigh complete with glowing antlers. I had two funny movies of this but when I renamed them before I downloaded them they went bye-bye. Damn. They were really good. I did manage to keep this bizarre one. It looks like some weird marching aliens and a giant spider. Then again, we've already established that I'm basically insane...
Had dinner at Josephina (or "Guiliani's," "Googenheim's" or "Julliene's" as my mother kept mistakenly calling it all weekend.) and headed back to Stamford. Oh, at some point my mother decided that wearing new boots was a good idea and ended up limping with blisters. It was a fun walk...
Wednesday Made my mother really upset because I wouldn't eat Nisu, traditional Finnish Christmas bread, that she makes every year(her parents emmigrated from Finland). Egg, milk. Nope.
Spent the morning opening gifts. Nothing very exciting. Shouldn't I still get at least one toy? I mean, I like clothes and shoes and all, but damn... Okay. Sorry. Continued the Christmas tradition of putting antlers on Ali. Doesn't she look pleased?!
It began to snow at around noon after raining all morning. By 7:00 we had about 10" on the ground, the most snow to ever fall in Stamford on Christmas Day. The parents were very excited and decided to take a walk. They made it about a block before they remembered that snow is very cold and slippery.
Thursday - Got my car back. It looks great. Smacked the mirror on the Intrepid. See below. I don't want to relive. Went to Ikea to look for CD shelving. Went to see Two Towers again with the parents.
Friday - Literally spent the whole day putting these together. Now I have a lot to organize.
More details later. Really! There's more!
Hope everyone's having a great long weekend.
Posted by mikewolf at December 28, 2002 01:46 PMok, I realize that, as a Jew, I'm not really qualified to make this judgment, but that is SO not a Charlie Brown Xmas tree. It's small, but it has needles and stuff. It's a cute, cute tree.
And the empire state pic is smashing and if you don't frame it and put it up, you're a big poohead. Or heck - send it to me and I'll put it up. It'll remind me of home.
Posted by: Paige on December 28, 2002 03:47 PMHappy holidaze, Miguel. Weird being on the computer right now, so this will be brief. I have to say though that while watching your 'christmas windows' clip, all I could think was 'christmas crotches.'
Some perverts would kill for your perspective on the holidays! ;-) Enjoy the rest of them and see you in '03. Man, this millenium is sailing right by, ain't it!?
deano
I agree with Paige, the Charlie Brown tree is adorable. And the picture of the Empire State Building is spectacular. I kinda feel bad for your mom and the bread. And WOW 2,000 CDs is a lot of CDs. So how do you even start to organize something like that...alphabetically? by who you liked first? by specific music genre?
Posted by: Cassie on December 28, 2002 09:53 PMI think you two are missing the point. I'm the one that's adorable!!
Okay, maybe not...
They're organized alphabetically and chronologically within each artist's group.
Mike H? You here? Do you still sort yours by purchase date?
Posted by: mrw on December 28, 2002 10:05 PMHave I mentioned lately how much I love my Cassie? You're right. I could have (should have) given in. At the time I was all about the principle. Now I'm quite certain I was wrong. After all they've done I could at least give in on Christmas.
Posted by: mrw on December 29, 2002 12:40 AMIf I were you I would sleep with one eye open, Ali may seek revenge! She is very cute.
Oh and I like the new picture of you!!! Very cool glasses!!
(Did you get my email about the ins. claim?)
I hope you also have renters insurance after showing off your new toys on the internet...
Posted by: Meredith on December 30, 2002 08:12 AMChristy - I got it. Thanks SO much.
Meredith - Please. Of course I have renters insurance. I don't have a sweet set-up like that Susan girl who had her apartment burn down. That said, I think getting into my building is a bit tougher than Ft. Knox. I've forgotten my access card a couple of times and it's a nightmare. Finally, the pizza guy can't even find my apartment with the number. I think I'm pretty safe. Oh, and I have an alarm...
Posted by: mrw on December 30, 2002 10:17 AMNice site you have!
Posted by: lolita on November 4, 2003 04:19 AMHUH )
Posted by: Preteen on November 10, 2003 10:29 AMGreetengs
Posted by: Underage on November 10, 2003 10:49 AM