Family

My Birthday

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Today was my birthday! I worked from home most of the morning. Then I meet up with Jayson, John, Danny, and Eric for lunch at Angelo Maxies. Steak birthday lunch was really good. I then headed to the office for a meeting in the afternoon. Then it was home to meet up with my parents and Beata for birthday dinner. Dinner was good. I had king crab legs! The perfect birthday food.

After dinner my mom gave me my gift. I knew what it was but it was still cool to see. A few years ago my sister bought me a sheet of $2 bills for a birthday gift. I wanted it since i thought it would be really cool. I hadn’t done anything with it for ages and mentioned to my my mom I wanted to get them framed. She got them framed (and had a much better job done than I would have paid for) and broght the finished product. It was really cool since I had it framed in a way that you can hang it with the front or back facing people. It looks awsome. I need to get a special hook to handle the weight of the frame and find a place to put it!

Xmas

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It is Xmas eve. Yeah, I am not going to try and spell it the normal way so I am writting it the Futureama way. I am on Metro North on my way to Jayson & Gretchen’s for Xmas. I will probably head home Friday. It will be nice to get out of the city for a few days even though I am going somewhere colder.

I am passing up on my family’s normal friends holiday party on Xmas night. I am disappointed I wont get to see the kids but not disappointed that I won’t see all the other screaming kids that will be there. It isn’t that I don’t like kids, but there are just way too many of them at this party. I am Jewish so it shouldn’t matter that I am not at an Xmas party that most of my family is at, right? I alternate going and having other plans to this party each year.

The Holiday’s

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For Thanksgiving I went out to my sisters for a few days. I ended up taking off Wednesday and Friday. I headed out Wednesday morning with my parents. We got to spend most of the day hanging out and my mom helped a little with getting the cooking finished. Thanksgiving day was relatively low key. It was only about 8 adults and my niece and nephew. Dinner took longer than anticipated to be ready to eat but when it was it was good! Desert was even better. The homemade brownies were really good. Zach seemed to love them, but anything with chocolate and sugar impresses him.

2008 Thanksgiving - 20

The funniest point of the day was when Zachary said he was thankful for Dinosaurs. Morgan was more practical and was thankful for food and oxygen. How a 5 1/2 year old can know to be thankful for oxygen I will never know!

It looks like I was able to avoid getting a cold from everyone. I was happy about that! I got a ride back to Manhattan Thursday night from Michael’s dad. We got a little lost but thankfully there was no traffic.

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I am cleaning my apartment so Zach and Morgan (mostly Zach) can mess it up later

Less Than 24 Hours In AC

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I went down to Atlantic City for John’s bachelor party yesterday. It was fun. I didn’t do anything crazy since I wasn’t feeling 100%. I got down there early so I had time to get a massage before we headed for probibly one of the most expensive steak dinners I have ever eaten. It was dam good though. After dinner we played a poker tournament. Out of 10 guys I ended up in like 5th place. I didn’t win anything but after having crap cards all night I was surprised to do as well as I did. I ended up heading off to bed around 1AM, right when everyone was about to head out to play the tables. I have the new job starting tomorrow and my parents coming over later so I wanted to leave for home early. I got up at 6:45AM to drive back. Overall it was a hectic trip to get out there and back in less than 24 hours but worth the trip.

Now my parents are coming over for some dinner. I think they want to wish me well before the new job.

Dinner With Morgan And A Screaming 2 Year Old

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I meet up with my sister near my parents house tonight to go for dinner. Carrie, Morgan, & Zachary are staying over at my parents from Monday until tomorrow. Since I didn’t see them while they were in PA this weekend I decided to head out to Bayside for some dinner. My parents were going to a show with friends so they were a no show.

I was surprised when I got picked up at the train to see my dad in the car with my sister. It turns out that my parents hadn’t needed to leave yet, and apparently my nephew didn’t really want to goto dinner without his Poppy. For a little guy of 2 he really lets you know when he doesn’t like something. Hoping to avert a meltdown my dad rode in the car to the restaurant (we went to Jackson Whole) and my mom picked him up there. Well, we may have delayed the meltdown but when my dad left Zach was not so happy. I think everyone in a 2 mile radius knew he wasn’t happy. My sister had to take him outside for a while. That at least gave me time to hang out with Morgan. I can’t believe she starts Kindergarden next week.

I can forgive Zach being loud, because hey he is my nephew. What I cannot forgive is he didn’t give me a hug goodbye, or even a high five. I even tried for a low five, and got nothing. Like he is going to get sugar or chocolate when my sister isn’t looking now. OK, maybe he will anyway but I won’t be happy about it.

I at least got a rid home. And to top off the evening I was able to snag my dad’s Garmen GPS for my trip next weekend.

The Wedding

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Yesterday was my cousin’s wedding. Family get togethers are always interesting. This one was fun, but thankfully on the less interesting side. I ended up not drinking since I was taking migraine medicine. I was stupid and didn’t eat lunch since I was waiting for my dad to come pick me up from home. He got tied up in traffic for over an hour and a half and then it took us another hour plus to get from my house to his. That meant it was around 3:30PM by the time I ate anything all day. That is a big no no for me. I took two different migraine medications I have before I started feeling better. Thankfully by the time I was at the wedding I was feeling ok.

My sister didn’t go to the wedding since my nephew was sick all week, and my niece was sick earlier in the week. That meant I thought i was sitting alone at a table with my grandmother. I love her, but she is not always the most fun conversation. I was surprised to find my cousin’s Synde & Wayne sitting with me. Their kids also ended up with us so I was not alone. I had a good time. The food was decent. I looked fantastic in my suit, but I always say I clean up nicely.

I stayed over at my parents house since it was really late by the time we got out of the wedding. As family get togethers go, this was a good one!

This morning my dad took me home, but not before I snagged his old computer that he had in his closet and a bunch of slides and photos my mom had. I am on a project to have all my families photos and slides scanned into the computer. My dad has been slow with scanning the slides so i decided to take them and 2 box’s of photos with me. Once I get back the VHS tapes from the conversion place I will send in the slides and some photos. The computer is my dad’s old one that he stopped using because the video card is messed up. He hasn’t used it since January and I totally forgot he was holding on to it so I could take it and maybe do something with it.

Once I got home I napped for a few hours since sleeping on the air mattress at my parents isn’t the most comfortable place to sleep. At least there was AC!

Dinner With My Parents Continued

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If you read the title of the post you would think that I had dinner with my folks again. Well you would be wrong. I wanted to write a little bit more about what I learned from watching the videos with some color commentary from my parents.

I now know my mom's original hair color. My dad didn't look so bad in the late 60's, early 70's. By the mid 70's he looked like a cabbie. I don't know what happened. He had a major fro by the late 70's but thankfully I didn't see that on any video, but we have photos.

I was a really skinny kid, but in baby video's I looked really fat. My mom always thought that was funny because I did look pudgy but i was never heavy, I just looked it. She called it baby fat. By the time I was 4 I was a twig.