Here they are! All of my pics from the first half of January 2008!
Tuesday, January 1st
I'm not sure how you kicked off your 2008, but we kicked off our 2008 with a whole shit-ton of delicious Thai food for breakfast! Awwww, yeah! After get our spread set up... tags:meredith
food
...it was MOVIE TIME! Check out the two movies Mer picked out from Blockbuster! Hahah. tags:dvd
movie
This is a photo of a new year getting off to a pretty good start. tags:food
stuytown apt
tv
Wednesday, January 2nd
On January 2nd, a couple more gifts I'd gotten for Meredith showed up in the mail! (Because it's rare that I ever order any gifts early enough to have them actually show up on time!) The first gift was a... tags:meredith
gift
...DREMEL! And the second gift was... tags:meredith
dremel
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...a 20lb bag of raw soap to make scented hand soaps out of! tags:meredith
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soap
Yes, believe it or not, these were both gifts that Meredith actually wanted! tags:meredith
dremel
preggo
Friday, January 4th
On Friday night we went out with Lisa and Pauly and had drinks at Odessa. (By the way, Pauly was leaning on his hand in this picture and trying to look "leisurely." He's most definitely NOT mocking Asians - I swear!) tags:lisa
pauly
odessa
Sunday, January 6th
On Sunday night a bunch of people came over for Family Night! We tried out a DVD-based movie trivia game called Scene It. tags:jenny penny
josh adcock
Verdict = Eh. tags:sarah
And then we played some CatchPhrase. And then... tags:matt
meredith
sarah
catchphrase
...we ordered Thai food (yes!) and watched Season 1 of the original, British version of The Office for the thousandth time. tags:jeet
food
Monday, January 7th
On Monday evening, I left my camera in the apartment and Meredith borrowed it to document the gingerbread house party she had with her friends Mandy and Rosie. tags:mandy o
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Working on the roof. tags:mandy o
gingerbread
Rosie has a big tongue. Oh, and icing on her forehead. Nice! tags:rosie
gingerbread
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NOM NOM NOM. tags:meredith
gingerbread
Mandy and Rosie showing off the finished product. tags:mandy o
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gingerbread
Rosie and Meredith. tags:meredith
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Mandy tested a the Butterscotch sauce (!!!) out on a piece of iced gingerbread... tags:mandy o
...before deciding to drink it STRAIGHT FROM THE BOTTLE! tags:mandy o
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FRONDZ! tags:mandy o
meredith
hug
Even Ratso got in on the action and got to enjoy a GUMDROP. tags:meredith
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Hahaha. Awwww. Look how happy she is. tags:ratso
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Later that night, I went upstairs at Pianos for some...
...karaoke! tags:karaoke
Shandi was there hosting the night. tags:shandi
bubble
I sat down next to her and took this picture and when we looked at it we realized that Shandi is basically the girl-version of me. tags:me
shandi
We even have nose-bumps in the same place! tags:me
shandi
The first two pics we took were entirely too normal looking so we decided to go the ugly face route. Here's our first team effort. tags:me
shandi
ugly face
Take two. Getting better. tags:me
shandi
ugly face
Yahtzee! Third time's clearly the charm. tags:me
shandi
ugly face
I'm totally drawing a blank on this guy's name (Patrick? Daniel? Shit, I'm terrible), but he's super funny and he usually picks booty-shaking hip hop songs that are En Espanol. tags:karaoke
And every time without fail, his jam brings ladies to the stage. tags:karaoke
Sometimes two of them! Epic. tags:karaoke
Shandi showing off the fat, twenty-dollar tip she got! (Wait, I just realized that makes this a photo of Shandi licking the tip! Ha!) tags:shandi
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Friday, January 11th
Late Friday night I walked down to Hanger Bar to catch the exciting tail end of the Stolen Transmission party! Karen was on the decks tearing it up! tags:karen
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Solid crowd. tags:crowd
hanger bar
Catrinel was there and I immediately shared with her the bag of vapor I'd brought from home! tags:catrinel
vapor
Hahahah. tags:karen
vapor
Vaaaaaaaaa-poooooooooor! tags:karen
me
hanger bar
yell
Look at this little one we caught peeking around into the DJ booth! We set out to hit the dance floor and make friends! tags:jeet
cute
I fired off at the hip and caught Joe making this awesome face. tags:joe
I forget her name, but TitSqueezer here is one of Gurj's friends who was in town visiting. tags:jeet
tit squeeze
We made friends. tags:me
drunk
Same goes for this girl. I no longer have any recollection of who she is, but apparently, we bonded enough that night that I apparently felt comfortable sniffing her hair for this photo (while double-fisting a PBR and Johnny combo, no less). tags:me
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Rob Stevenson was there! I hadn't seen him out on town late-night style in years. Here's me showing my excitement. tags:me
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best
I SMOOSH YOUR EYE WITH A KISS! (PS - Look how jealous that Creeper in the background is!) tags:me
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Around 3am, things started getting rowdy with public makeout on the dancefloor! Hahah. tags:jeet
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Here's Gurj and I being really subtle about getting a photo of us in front of the couple. Smoooooth. tags:jeet
me
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"Play your cards right, yeah, and in a couple years time, you'll find yourself here...in the HOT SEAT." Here's me giving Gurj our very favoritest moment from The Office EVAAAAR! tags:me
best
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hanger bar
Closing time. Gather up your jackets, and move it to the exits - I hope you have found a friend.
Closing time. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. tags:karen
sweater
Saturday, January 12th
This is my friend, Sylvie! We met on the national interweb while she was living in Paris. Sylvie moved to New York and we graduated from cyber-friends to real friends!
After only being in NYC for a couple months, Sylvie decided to move back to Paris but wanted to make sure she got to see all the places in NYC that she hadn't gotten a chance to see before she left! So on Sunday, I met up with Sylvie and two of her friends to check out Coney Island! tags:sylvie
nathans
First stop: The original Nathan's! tags:coney island
nathans
This is what vegetarians eat at Nathan's. tags:food
nathans
Sylvie and Tim (the Captain!) both working really hard to pull off "sexy" faces while chowing down. tags:sylvie
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Speaking of chowing down, check out the huge scoreboard on the side of the Nathan's building that simultaneously counts down the days to the next Hot Dog Eating Contest as well as shows the current male and female records. (66 and 39, respectively!) tags:billboard
coney island
nathans
Check out the past records - not sure what happened that made competitive eating get so much more intense after the late nineties! It's crazy that the new male eating record more than TRIPLES all the records in the 90s!
After Nathan's we hit the boardwalk so that I could show off some of the other famous Coney Island institutions... tags:nathans
...like SHOOT THE FREAK! Hahaha. When the weather is nicer, this charming little alley is manned by a guy in a mask and other protective gear and he runs around this alley hiding behind garbage and other debris while the good citizens of the boardwalk pay money for the privilege of shooting him with a paint ball gun at close range! tags:best
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Sylvie fell in love. tags:sylvie
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In loooooooooooooooove! tags:sylvie
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Around 4:30, we made our way down onto the beach to watch the amazing winter sunset. Here's Shane, Sylvie and Tim. I love these pics so much! tags:shane
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Skipping down to the jetty. tags:beach
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The sunset was awesome. tags:beach
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Climbing up on top of the (very slippery!) jetty. tags:beach
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The Cap't salutes. tags:tim
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After we'd finished climbing around on the rocks, I suggested a jumping photo! Right after I'd taken this one, a guy walking by on the beach saw what we were doing and offered to man the camera so that I could be in the shot to! tags:shane
sylvie
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I showed him my camera and explained how you have to time it to compensate for the slight shutter delay, and this is what he shot on his very first attempt! Well done, sir! tags:best
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The pier. tags:coney island
sunset
Here's the end of the pier and the Coney Island Parachute Jump. tags:coney island
sunset
These girls were cute tourists from, er, somewhere in Asia and Tim The Cap'n sauntered over and offered to take a picture of them in the sunset with their camera. After he did that, he suggested that I take a photo of the three of them with my camera. If it had been a scene in Swingers, it most definitely would have been described as "Money." (He even managed a disco point and a Blue Steel.) tags:tim
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Hahaha. tags:me
tim
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Farewell, O' Lovely Coney Island! I hope she was everything you'd dreamt she was, Sylvie! tags:coney island
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