Jay and I finally got a pumpkin tonight for Halloween, which technically began 30 minutes ago. We both need to come up with ideas for a costume by tomorrow night. I had bought a costume for Halloween 2007 that I never wore and was going to wear it, but I lost it in the move despite trying to NOT lose it. Ah, let’s face it. I’ll probably end up going as myself or going as a Padres fan lol.
Here’s some pics from our pumpkin carving fun!
Zoe’s not sure what this strange new human ritual is all about:
“Oh, what’s this? Something new and dangling to play with?”
“What’s this funny smelling thing and why is it in my home?”
Almost done:
I love pumpkin seeds & will attempt to make these edible tomorrow.
Okay back to working on the post for YuBlog.org with the pictures we took from our meeting with DAN AYKROYD today! He’s touring to promote his vodka, Crystal Head Vodka, which is really good (trust me, I’m feeling it a little bit as I type this and I only had one shot of it about 45 minutes ago). It’s also shaped like the crystal skull from the legend of the 13 Crystal Skulls (re: Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull or to be more precise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_skull) so that’s cool.
I personally took this as a sign that I was forgiven for my horrible accidental killing of the skink (lizard) on Sunday afternoon. If you haven’t heard the story already, here goes again: Basically, I accidentally scared a lizard into jumping off a bridge into oncoming traffic where he was prompty hit by a car and died. I lightly cried at the chain of events I had caused. It did not help that someone kept going, “Poor little creature. I bet he was just trying to get home to his lizard wife and little lizard kids, returning from a hunting trip to bring them food on the table and you had to scare him into his death…”
Okay, lots to do today. Step away from the computer and the Battlestar Galactica. Go be productive.
Blind Item: Which C-list female podcaster had a bit of a ‘Sharon Stone’ moment last night when the short Aerie-brand pajama shorts she was wearing showed off a little bit too much? She was hanging out with her A-list podcaster boyfriend and two other male friends and was wondering why one friend kept playing games on his phone without looking at her and the other friend kept pacing around while talking, finally settling down in the kitchen! It wasn’t until her boyfriend whispered to her that perhaps sitting Indian-style in short shorts on a bar stool was not the best thing to do when there was company. Luckily, she was wearing underwear, but her boyfriend swears that “it was that bad.” Holy embarrassment.
So this weekend was Jay’s Birthday Weekend. He turned 24 on Friday, March 27. Side note: Sunday the 29th was my sister Christie’s 20th birthday. I don’t think she reads this but if she is, Happy Birthday!!!
Anyways, I after scouting out many local restaurants for us to try, I decided to just do the biggest deal of them all: attempt to cook dinner myself. I’m a really impatient person when it comes to cooking, so I’ve never really tried to cook before other than my Valentines’ Day 2008 trip to NC to surprise Jay and cook pasta. That doesn’t really count though because my mom helped me prepare most of it before I left & all I had to do was the pasta part, which even I can do. So I decided to start small and I made us bacon cheeseburgers:
Yeah, it may not look super fancy, but whatever; it tasted good if I do say so myself. I even went all out and baked a funfetti cake, too. Holler.
Hell yeah the candles spell out “24″. Cause I’m that creative. Jay’s sister Heather came to hang out for a little while when we did birthday cake, which was fun. Since it was pouring outside on Friday, we decided to go see the movie, “I Love You Man”. My verdict? I really liked it and I laughed at least every few minutes. Maybe it wasn’t the best movie from that whole “Apatow Gang” but in all fairness, it’s going to be really hard to beat “40-Year-Old Virgin” and “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” (my personal favorites).
On Saturday, we went out to dinner with Jay’s family at an awesome Italian restaurant in Raleigh. Afterwards, we went up to the mall because Jay wanted to buy new sunglasses with some of his birthday money. I got carded upon entering the mall by myself (I went in to use the bathroom while Jay parked). Turns out, if you’re under 18, you’re not allowed to be in the mall unaccompanied by an adult past 5pm. No one asked Jay to see his ID. Ha, and I’m the older one in the relationship. After the new Oakleys were acquired, we hit Sam’s Club to buy “real Mexican” Coca Cola. The night was finished out by an exciting viewing of “Mary Poppins,” which was choosen by the birthday boy.
Sunday we hit up the flea market because it was finally not raining. In fact, it was gorgeous outside. Two hotdogs each later, we went back home to do work - Jay on the “Lost Podcast” and me on my nuDia.tv show that I was going to re-film (the first time wasn’t very good, to be honest) while Jay & Jack recorded the podcast for Monday. After a delicious dinner cooked by Jay’s mom, I headed over to Clif’s studio to film. Jay & I took one car over to his parents’ house, so I waited around while Jay & Jack filmed their “Lost Vidcast” for this week (”Missing Jack”) and while Jack filmed his “Jack’s Rants” segment:
Aww, look at Clif hard at work! Okay, it’s a day of the week that ends with “y” the job search continues in 5…4…3…2…1…
To Those Who Post Spam Listings on the Raleigh (or any city’s) Craigslist,
I hope you get caught & end up in prison where they sodomize you so badly that you realize that that’s exactly what you’re doing to those who optimistically apply for jobs day in and day out, as though it were our full time job. I hope you someday experience the exact same level of aggravation and false hope that you cause upon innocent job seekers and society in general.
So as previously noted, on Saturday night, Jay & I had a belated Birth-entines’ Day celebration. I thought we were going to Outback the entire time and before I left NY, may or may not have had a slight hissy fit over going there (give me a break, it was a really bad first 19 days of February). Apparently, that was never the plan but it was more fun to let me be pissy about it and watch my reaction when I found out where we were really going. Colleen = FAIL. JJ = FTW. But honestly, I was just happy to finally be here and get to go do anything with Jay at that point, so anywhere we went, I would have been happy
But anyways, we went to Kankii, a hibachi restaurant - and everyone who knows me at all knows how much I would marry hibachi if it were socially acceptable to marry a food style. The chef at our table that night was hilarious. He placed a match in the appetizer shrimp they give you and had everyone at our table sing, “Happy Birthday” to me. Then he had the younger kids at our table have a little competition in which they tried to catch balls of white rice in their mouths. The second best part of the night was when the two elder couples sitting next to us told me that I didn’t look 25, but rather looked 21. I don’t really care if they were just being polite; I was excited.
After dinner, Jay took me to the Build-a-Bear store as a surprise. This may sound kinda silly or immature, two 20-somethings dressing up and naming a stuffed animal, but I had never done it before. When we had walked by the store back in September, I had insisted on just going in to look because I had never been in one, build a bear or had someone be all cutsy to build one for me. Sooo that’s what we did I (naturally) got a dog and dressed it up in a little suit. I’m not telling you his name because then I’ll just be completely mocked. Afterwards, we watched “Ghost Town” with Ricky Gervais and it was really good. Two thumbs!
All in all, a wonderful Birth-entines’ Day. And since “Slumdog Millionaire” won the Oscar for Best Picture last night, I’ll leave you with a farewell “Jai Ho” of your very own:
It took me 10 hours to drive here on Thursday, but I finally made it to Raleigh! I spent Thurs night and all day Friday straight chillin’ with Sara at her & TJ’s kick ass townhouse (she had her wisdom teeth removed Friday morning so I drove her). But I finally got to see Jay last night woot.
I had a fun Birth-entine’s Day celebration tonight with Jay :) He told me we were going to the Outback but instead he surprised me with hibachi! And there’s your tease to my next post, as now we’re going to go rent a movie. I did this like 30 seconds before we left, hurrah!
