7. Do something extra special for Alex’s 30th birthday. 15. Go to 5 new restaurants. 16. Try 5 new cocktails. 51. Visit a foreign or domestic city I’ve never been to before. As previously chronicled, I “surprised” Alex with a trip to Chicago for his 30th birthday (#7, #51) which conveniently fell on Labor Day [...]
58. See a Jets game in the new stadium. Let’s see: $120 a seat per game, 16 games a season, plus $1000+ for a PSL . . .didn’t think this goal was going to happen. Thankfully, the football gods were smiling on Alex and me. A friend’s father got four tickets to the Jets-Packers game [...]
62. Try 10 new board/card games. 64. Beat Alex 10 times (gaming). For the third year in a row, Alex and I made the pilgrimage to Indianapolis for Gen Con, the largest gaming convention in America. This time, we brought along a Gen Con noob, our friend Jon, to join in the fun. For four [...]
56. Watch the sun rise on the beach. One of the advantages of rising at 4:20am for Alex’s first triathlon was seeing the sun rise over the Atlantic. It was a perfect day and I’ll let the pictures (and Shakespeare and Homer) provide the commentary. “The grey-eyed one bestirred/ the fresh Dawn from her bed [...]
15. Go to 5 new restaurants. 16. Try 5 new cocktails. 50. Visit a museum I’ve never been to before. Alex and I are not spontaneous people. We like to make plans, lists, itineraries, schedules. We threw that to the wind and planned a quick getaway at 10pm on a Saturday night. As Alex was [...]
64. Beat Alex 10 times (gaming). 98. Visit 5 of our friends’ homes that we’ve never been to before. On Saturday, we helped our friend Chris move into his new house. The move was exceedingly easy as Chris did not have a ton of stuff to move and it was well organized from the get-go. [...]
So, yes. It is my 33rd birthday today. You know the me now. This is me then – cute and adorable – and the hot woman with me is my sister Barbara and our awesome dog Tramp: I’m enjoying the fact that as I get older, I make less and less a fuss about my [...]
Fail. I was supposed to watch at least half of the Best Picture nominations, but since I didn’t get my list together until mid-January, I was a bit behind. Plus, the Academy upped the number of nominations to ten! However, I did see two during the summer: Up (fantastic) and Inglorious Basterds (meh). Through the [...]
Baby steps. That’s what I keep telling myself. Baby steps. I consider myself organized, efficient, and a Type A+ personality. So of course, I feel like I have to accomplish my 101 AS SOON AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE. I keep trying to remind myself that I have until September 2012 to complete all of my goals. [...]
Today, I was facing a bit of a conundrum: I’m still working on my 101 list and really haven’t accomplished any of my tasks yet, but I still wanted to start writing in this blog. Solution? Tell the stories behind the photos in my banner. July 2006. Here we are on our honeymoon in Puerto [...]
