A little before 1am, our bellies full of pizza bagels and our hearts filled with free-drink cheer, we bid Matt farewell! (We thought we were going to see him at the after party, but he's ex girlfriend had some drama and he didn't end up coming. Boo!)
Later, we enjoyed the windy afternoon admiring the view our affords of the East River. Here's Meredith showing off the two "dinosaur sew-on patches" she'd recently purchased.
...and Meredith was taking bottles she'd saved, cutting them in half, sanding their rough edges smooth and turning them into drinking glasses for our apartment. Hahahaha. LOVE.
On Sunday afternoon I came home from running around to find Meredith sitting at the kitchen table wearing sunglasses indoors and filing glass cups with a DREMEL?
...tiny stuff camel I'd brought back as a gift for Meredith for being so cool and understanding about me taking a trip to Egypt by myself for two weeks out of the blue! Thanks, for being such an awesome girlfriend, Mer!
Around 11:45pm, we were informed that Dave & Buster's would be closing soon, so we rushed into the TICKET REDEMPTION store to pick out some incredible prizes.
Jeff hooked us up with Toy Fair badges (with other people's names on them - so we had to pretend that we were TOY BUYERS!!!) and set out with us to explore all the booths! We got to visit the Cranium pavilion! This is pretty much the closest Meredith's ever come to a religious pilgrimage.
I had Monday off of work! My buddy Jeff Scott was in town from Colorado to attend the toy convention at the Javits Center and invited us to come up and check it out.
Hahah. Mandy tries to help liberate Meredith and Gurj from their shackles! (PS - I love the shitty look the girl in the background is giving them. Hahahah).
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...
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...
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...
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.
Five people on a love seat! Awwww. After I took this photo, I put my camera down somewhere and then couldn't find it! I looked and looked, but it totally had disappeared! A couple of minutes later, I returned from getting another drink in the kitchen and it turned up. I turned the camera on...
With this crowd and a couple of drinks it was only a matter of time before someone remarked about KT and/or Meredith's ridiculous bubble-butts and so they naturally went side to side to show them off. KA-POW!
Later that night we went out to celebrate Lawrence's Birthday! Happy Bday, my tuxedoed friend! (This is the only photo I have from the night for some terrible reason. The pics from
his last birthday party are EPIC!)
