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the december roundup: part two

december, 2007

Here are all the pics from the second half of December 2007 (almost 2 years from the time I'm writing this! Eeep!) that didn't make it into their own entry!


Saturday, December 15th
seth miller
On Saturday night I took the subway out to Park Slope to attend Frank and Liz's annual holiday party! Here's Seth and Frank tearing it up in the living room.   tags:seth miller

brian battjer, david fateman
Fatty and me on the couch.   tags:fatty me


Liz's friend crazy Jen was there again! I only get to see her once a year and it's always at Liz & Frank's Christmas party!   tags:crazy jen


Oh, did I mention she was ha-ha-hammered? Check out that yob! She looks like a pirate yelling for more mead! Hahaha.   tags:crazy jen best drunk

frank picarazzi, liz picarazzi
I love this photo of Frank. I'm not 100% sure, but I think this cake was for Lydia's birthday.   tags:frank liz cake laugh point

frank picarazzi, liz picarazzi
Surprise!   tags:frank liz cake surprise

, david fateman
Seth on the horn while Fatty slapp-uh-da-baaaasss.   tags:fatty seth

david fateman
If Fatty's holding a bass, and he notices that you're a holding a camera in your hands, the forecast says there's a...   tags:fatty bass

david fateman
...one hundred-percent chance of an 80s Rock Face being pulled.   tags:fatty bass

, amanda berkowitz, brian battjer
Marina, Amanda and me.   tags:amanda marina me


Ok, back to photos of wasted Jen partying it up! Hahaha.    tags:crazy jen best drunk laugh lick

, brian battjer
Here Jen, why don't you stand right here for a minute...   tags:crazy jen me

, brian battjer
...BRAINED! Hahaha. I think I've managed to brain Jen every year at this party.   tags:crazy jen me brained

, brian battjer
Farewell, sweet princess! Happy Holidays to all!   tags:crazy jen me drunk


Tuesday, December 18th

On Tuesday night, Meredith and I met up with her parents for dinner and to exchange presents!   tags:mr silverman ms silverman gift


Check shows off his Grill Slinger tool belt! Hahaha.   tags:mr silverman point


JoAnn shows off the birdseed (and birdfeeder) that Meredith picked out.   tags:mrs silverman gift

meredith silverman
   tags:meredith gift

meredith silverman
Meredith got real excited about extra RAM for her laptop...   tags:meredith gift

meredith silverman
...and an extended-life battery! Yes, this is what my girl asked for for the holidays. Hahah.   tags:meredith gift

brian battjer
And here's my reaction to opening a card and finding a slip for a pre-ordered Amazon Kindle from Mer's parents. Holy moly, awesome gift! Thanks so much!   tags:me excited gift


Thursday, December 20th
brian battjer
On Thursday morning I woke up feeling awful.   tags:me sick


Yep, fever.   tags:sick thermometer

brian battjer
Check out my homeless hair! I had a cold that somehow turned into bronchitis. I spent the next 4 days totally bedridden.   tags:me homeless hair


Monday, December 24th
meredith silverman
Four days later, I finally was feeling well enough to get out of bed. Meredith and I were supposed to go out to New Jersey for Christmas Eve, but I was still feeling pretty awful so we decided to stay in NYC.    tags:meredith couch stuytown apt


This is the hydrocodone cough syrup that my doctor prescribed to me for my terrible bronchial cough. Meredith also ended up getting sick and was having trouble sleeping, so she decided to take some of my medicine because she knew the codeine in it would knock her out. Except, instead of reading the label and taking the recommended one teaspoon dosage, she filled up a Nyquil dosage cup and took that!

   tags:medicine sick


Her overdose may also help explain why she rented Tequila Sunrise when she went to Blockbuster for movies. Hahah.   tags:dvd movie


Tuesday, December 25th
meredith silverman
Tuesday was PRESENT DAY (our atheists version of Christmas & Hanukkah) in our apartment. Meredith and I both pretty much buy what few things we want all the time. So Present Day is about fun little gifts you think the other person will love but might not have gotten on their own. Meredith went first and opened up some...   tags:meredith gift

meredith silverman
...creepy soap molds I found online! Now she can make rat soaps and brain soaps!   tags:meredith gift

brian battjer
I went next and got...   tags:me gift

brian battjer
...Mario Kart and...   tags:me nintendo ds videogames

brian battjer
...Mortal Kombat for the DS.   tags:me nintendo ds videogames

meredith silverman
Meredith went next and got this ugly-ass stuffed animal that she had on her Amazon wishlist (???) AND...   tags:meredith gift

meredith silverman
What will it be? What will it be?   tags:meredith gift

meredith silverman
WONDER WOMAN sexy-time pajamas! Which is basically lingerie for NERDS! Hahahaha.   tags:meredith gift laugh undies wonder woman

brian battjer
Meredith's gift to me was...   tags:me gift

brian battjer
...CatchPhrase! (Part of our constant attempts to find a new fun game to replace Cranium now that we're all pretty much burnt out on it).   tags:me catchphrase gift

meredith silverman
And lastly, the big mystery box...   tags:meredith gift

meredith silverman
...ROCKBAND!   tags:meredith gift rockband

meredith silverman
When my brother was in town, we went to the store and he bought it the day it came out! So it was something we knew we both wanted. Score!   tags:meredith gift rockband


Unpacking the box!   tags:rockband


Guitar assemblage.   tags:rockband


After a couple hours of playing Rockband, we decided to continue to our refusal to acknowledge conventional adulthood by making giant blueberry pancakes for lunch.    tags:breakfast food pancakes

meredith silverman
Meredith didn't even bother to use utensils! Woooooo!   tags:meredith food pancakes


But we more than made up for our youthful indiscretions with a mature and sensible dinner!   tags:food

brian battjer, meredith silverman
Merry Present Day from two apartment-quarantined sickos!   tags:me meredith sick


Friday, December 28th

Even a couple days later I was still recovering from my couch. Most of my days were spent in bed reading and intermittently getting awesomely high as fuck on prescription cough medicine! Woooooo!   tags:book


When I was feeling well enough to be out of bed, I made sure to put in some quality time with the vermin. They're actually kind of cute, right?   tags:cute rats


Like it's pretty adorable how when you come over to the cage they all rush over and smash themselves against the bars so that they can say hi (ok, and for the off chance that you might be holding a delicious treat).   tags:rats


CAN HAZ TREETZ? (Check out the one down at the bottom trying to get the treat-jump on everyone else by mashing her snout through the bars!)   tags:cute rats


The only other thing of note that happened was Meredith and I took a cab back from somewhere and our cab driver's name was Diallo Amadou! (Any chance any Fulbe people read this? Is that a really common name or is this pretty rare?)   tags:taxi


Saturday, December 29th

On Saturday, Meredith continued on her journey into CRAFTLAND! Back then she was doing a column for Pop Serious called She's Crafty and whenever I'd download the photos from my camera, there'd always be a bunch of pics of crafts on there.

   tags:bedazzled keys


She also started getting seriously busy with a Bedazzler. Bedazzled shoes AND socks.   tags:bedazzled shoes


Dedazzled Jeans.   tags:bedazzled jeans


Bedazzled bra strap!   tags:bedazzled bra


Even some Bedazzled thongs! Sisqo approves! (In Meredith's defense, I think the Bedazzled panties were for the column as I never saw her wear them. Unless of course, she Bedazzled them to prance around in for someone other than me!)   tags:bedazzled panties


Monday, December 31st

By the last day of December I was finally feeling better. Spent most of the day learning to play Rockband drums and getting ready for a chill NYE party at Siege and KT's    tags:drums rockband

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