this last weekend went from blah to rock real quick…the only thing we had planned was the basset bash and windell’s bd on saturday. but not much else. so we ended up doing so much with the nice weather, it was a refreshing weekend!
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friday huan came over, we went to stop&shop and got our food on…
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marinated some steaks with oyster sauce and mushroom.

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a little bok choy, corn, and mushroom on the side…i’m SLOWLY  learning to



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while the meat was cooking…

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i mashed up some guac, left it a little more chunky than normal…SO GOOD!


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huan chopped up about $40 worth of fresh fruit, mixed in some rum, and in the chill it goes

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choices choices…

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dinner’s ready!

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followed by some dessert!


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saturday we woke up early to get ready for the basset bash, followed by my sis’ last minute decision to go to new york so we ate some breakfast and went on our way

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we got to anna’s and she already had the pumpkin coffee and pumkin bread ready! we didn’t take pics, but let me tell you…it was good =)
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we got to the basset bash and saw all these dogs running standing around and playing fetch doing nothing. it was sad since there were a few that looked liked serena, but kingston kept the tradition alive by not talking to any other dogs, except a lab that showed up…he’s so racist against his own kind









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from there we dropped off kingston and rolled to nyc for some grub. suprisingly we never took pics of moving cars so i practiced some panning on the way…




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the rotas roll so hard it shook the street and blurred the shot

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started to get a little better

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and on to new york! the grub street festival was far from a real festival, more of a closed off section in a park.


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mmmm…street food

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and we even met up with some friends! obviously we were more excited than some


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the food was good, but we ended up leaving to go eat elsewhere…but not before picking up some kelvin slushy haha

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we went to vincent’s on mott st…a classic italian spot in the diminishing little italy. looking at these makes me HUNGRY!




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some street pics…







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and to close the night out it was party time for windell!




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yes…that is windell on an M&M, aka W&W (get it? ehh? ehhh??)

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sunday was a super-productive day. michele went dress shopping (…jesus) and i met up with george who put a new fresh CARB-APPROVED cat on betty. inspection here i come!



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i also took pics of the wheels since they are FADING. yes, original, legitimately bought, brand new RAYS GRAM LIGHTS WHEELS have faded within 2 years…let’s see where this goes when i reach out…


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when i got home i cleaned up the deck and took our garden down for the winter…i must say it was a very good harvest this year between the cucumbers and a crazy amount of jalepeno peppers. we’re gonna get some spices to grow indoors.


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jets football! finished off my bachelor’s afternoon by cookin’ up some chicken, mixing some bacardi and mountain dew, killing the guac from friday, and painting some old frames to hang in the kitchen…ahhh, life.




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the last thing we did was cut up our pumpkin…each of us wanted to do a different design so we cut up both sides haha







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i went with creepy ass pedo-tore!

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…the end.

’twas fun…started out with the usual twitchiness, ended with some nice tandeming. really cannot wait for knuckles and fixed turbos…

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thanks to michele’s aunt who took out her old nikon gear for us, we’ve now got some new tools to play with! more on that later. here’s some vacation food pics…it was actually alot of fun learning manual focus on the spot, good thing the food models weren’t getting impatient =)

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…still working on getting our pics a little brighter, lighting is tough!

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and finally……

so much for not driving this year. i’ll be there sunday…

moving along…

love it

day 1…while there’s drifting =(((((

More here http://www.flickr.com/photos/14472223@N04/sets/72157611372260594/

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so we’ve been busy the last couple weeks…decided to move into adulthood and made our first home purchase along with some other interesting things…thanks to everyone for the help getting it cleaned up and painted.
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as much as we loved the fuax curtain wallpaper trim, it just wasn’t working.



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yea, it’s that pink…even the ceiling.


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they updated the stove and fridge which was nice


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our bedroom was a light tan, almost grey…we changed it to ‘almond’ which goes with the shades already there. score!

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our bed for a few nights……i swear, her face always looks the same like it’s just rotated into position hahhahaha

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wan’s going to make us a mantle…i’m liking his ideas so far too.

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and the backyard…

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housewarming gift from kelvin, aka ass, aka bro-in-law…real funny

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first rice cooker i’ve ever had (another gift lol)

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i liked this pic…the chinese place near us never had a bean curd szechuan style request before so they hooked it up with a quart full of tofu!

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we found this in front of some guy’s house and grabbed it for free. more updates on it after the weekend…

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we got tons of stuff from my sis, michele’s fam, and friends…like this ikea coffee table, just a little wood glue and it’s g2g!
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that’s all for now! i wanted to post a pic-a-day to help with the camera experience, so this’ll be an introduction =)
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oh and one more thing =D
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now back to work since george is coming next!

been doing a ton of reading on kitchen knives…so we’re both able to do work, we’re gonna start with an 8″ chef’s knife and a santoku to start. then we’ll get a paring and a decent set of steak knives for the table later. now to the research.

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global, wüsthof, and shun (kershaw) lead the pack…

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might get the Wusthof Trident Grand Prix II, it’s forged and reasonably priced. like any other commodity, prices set the bar for perfection…

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still haven’t decided on which santoku to get, but for the gangster in you, the shun kaji:

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