I Haven't Played Tag Since Elementary

I've tried to avoid this for a long time, but I figure if I get it over now I will never have to do it again. Nobody even think about "tagging me" again.

Four jobs I've had:
1. North Pointe Theatre (I ran the movies)
2. JoAnne's Fabric (I didn't measure fabric with the other 80 year old women, I cleaned and stocked the place so that my mom could get 10% off all her purchases)
3. RISE (I worked with people with disabilities)
4. Orbit Medical (Worked with O2, CPAPs & wheelchairs. If you need help with any of those things, I'm your guy)

Four places I've lived:
1. Haines, OR
2. Bahia, Brazil
3. Ogden, UT
4. New York City (Staten Island), NY

Four movies that I love:
1. Remember The Titans
2. Napoleon Dynamite
3. Patriot & Braveheart (the EDITED version Katie...they're so similar I consider them one movie)
4. Zoolander (sorry again Katie...)

Four favorite foods:
1. Cafe Rio barbacoa pork salad
2. Latin American (how general can I be?)
3. Anything Katie cooks
4. Ham & cheese sandwich with Doritos

Four weird things about me:
1. I can walk on the knuckles of my feet (I have calices on them cause that's how I kneel)
2. I have a photogenic memory (according to Katie)
3. I never clean the bathroom. Katie says that I do it wrong. Darn...
4. I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of my grandpa. It is as follows: The more you study, the more you learn, the more you learn the more you know, the more you know the more you forget, the more you forget the less you know, the less you know the dumber you are, so why study???

My four favorite TV shows:
1. The Office
2. Anything on the History channel
3. Anything on the Discovery channel
4. Biggest Loser (only because Katie NEVER misses an episode, and she baits me into watching it by scratching my back)

Four places I'd love to go:
1. Europe
2. Brazil
3. New Zealand
4. Utah

People I tag: Aaron, Blake, Eric, Sean, Rustin, Matt, Norm, Matt (Kevin), Josh, Robert, Derek, Brandon, Zach, Brandon, Noah, Chris, Ben & anyone else that doesn't really want to be tagged...

Ticker-Tape Insanity

Like most of New York City, I played hookie from school in order to attend the Super-Bowl-Champion-Giants-Ticker-Tape-Parade event. And what a crazy party it was! There were over a million people there, all packed into the Canyon of Heroes from Battery Park to City Hall. I went with my buddy from school, Rustin Oscar Reidhead. We got there about 30 min before the parade started, and were only about 15-20 rows of people back from the street. Right as the parade started I noticed that we were probably ahead of 20-25 rows of people. It was pure madness, and we were in the midst of hundreds of thousands of rabid Giants fans. Let me just share a couple stories and pictures.



Right before the parade started, a guy in one of the buildings, probably 20 floors up, stuck a sign out his window saying "Go Pats!" Given that true New Yorkers HATE Boston and everything about them, they didn't take too well to the sign. Before I knew it, thousands and thousands of people began yelling at the guy. New Yorkers are also very good at coordinating their anger, and in unison they chanted a three letter word followed by "hole". This chant went on for a good 2 or 3 minutes, until the guy turned the sign around, and on the back it said "just kidding!" What a sense of humor...



Soon after a guy came around selling championship t-shirts. Rustin thought it would be cool buy one, but after checking his wallet he realized he had no cash. Being a good friend I offered to lend him some, to which he replied rather uncomfortably loudly "naw, I'd never wear the stupid thing anyway!" I was sure that his comment was about to start a riot, and that my family would read about me in the paper the following day. Thanks Rustin, for the very uncomfortable few minutes there!

All-in-all it was a pretty good time. I got to see the team, the trophy, people climbing on signs, streetlights, buildings, cars; people throwing things from 50 stories including toilet paper, ticker-tape, papertowels, shredded (and unshredded) confidential documents, newspapers, and entire reams of paper. I got to be in a mosh-pit where I dished out, and received, my fair share of elbows (most of my elbows went towards some 12 year old punks "looking for their mom's" at the front of the crowd).

I was also strategically positioned behind a dude with a portable TV, for those special moments that come over the airwaves that you just can't get in person. So yeah, I'm pretty much awesome.

Cheeeeeeeeeeeese!

My dad was kind to us and took family pictures for us over Christmas break. I forgot to have him take pictures of just Josh, though, so we went to JC Penney when we got back to New York. Talk about running up the price! We didn't want to be in the pictures with Josh because we would have been charged a sitting fee, but the photographer nonchalantly told us to....So we did, thinking that we just wouldn't choose those pictures. Well, we were charged a fee anyway, and our pictures (though really cute) were definitely overpriced. I don't think we're allowed to put them on the internet, but we'll see once I go pick them up. Never again I tell you, will we go to JC Penney...

Smackalicious

This is something that Josh started doing a few weeks ago. We couldn't resist sharing.

Tis the season

For the past month Josh has been teething. These are his first teeth (the two on the bottom), and they have taken so long to come in! He's been snotty-nosed, tired, cranky, sick, and down right unhappy a lot of the time. Ryan and I told ourselves that once his teeth poked through he'd be alright, but now I think he might have the flu....his eyes have been really really gunky, he's got a croupy cough, and he's thrown up twice (big time stuff) during the week.

Anyway, I would feel really bad for us if Josh were the only baby to ever be sick, but most of our friends have had it this bad or worse with their kids. I guess teething and sick-bugs are the babies' right of passage, huh? All I know is that I've definitely underestimated my mother's patience, ability to function on lack of sleep, and love. Thanks mom!