Weenie Pumpkins

Our pumpkins
Originally uploaded by Izzy Grocer.

Today Megan and I are going to enter a pumpkin carving contest. The problem with this contest is that we have to travel for almost 1 hour to get there via public transportation and neither of us feel like shlepping around a huge and beautiful pumpkin to carve. So, we're just going to carve some tiny little sugar pumpkins. I think this will greatly affect our chances for actually winning the contest, but such is life. After all, we are in NYC where things are considerably smaller than the rest of America because there's just no room. I think that should be a judging factor.

* Creativity
* Technique
* Economy
* Expression

We'll see what happens. I'm definitely going to use my leatherman which should give me an advantage.

Wedding Fun!

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Originally uploaded by Izzy Grocer.

This is us at our brother Richard's wedding. We love weddings. We love to dress up because we like to feel sexy. Sexy.

Off/Back

Wow. What to say...

First I have to thank my wonderful husband Theo for his unyielding support, bravery and encouragement over the past few months. Pre, during and post-move he has been a real trooper and I couldn't have done any of it without him. Secondly, you can all thank him (or not) because he is making this blog possible. Man you gotta love the guy.

Enough.


From reading the title you may have many ideas as to what Off/Back is, it can be construed so many ways. If you choose to read on you will find two senarios in particular I'm thinking about:

1a. We went OFF to New York in late July and now we are returning BACK to Seattle for my one and only brother Richard's wedding taking place this Sunday. We are very excited about this event, though probably not as much as my brother and soon to be sister-in-law, because it's been two years in coming. It's hard to believe that there are only three days left after such a wait. We are very happy and thrilled that we can be part of it!

1b. We are OFF to Seattle. We fly out of JFK at 6:10pm tomorrow afternoon and land in Seattle at 9:35pm on American Airlines flight 269. We will be coming BACK to New York from SeaTac on American Airlines flight 268 leaving at 9:20am, with a 5:35pm landing at JFK .

2. Off/Back can also be referring to my absence in the format of communication to most of you. When we moved I basically went OFF my rocker, going hog-wild trying to settle into life in the Big Apple (which no one calls it by the way, though I have seen it referred to as Gotham). After the first month of craziness, which Theo has been so diligent in keeping you all up dated on, I started school which proved to help give me more of a foundation. Now that I have been in school for a month, AND LOVING IT, I feel like my feet are pretty stable and I am starting to resurface and reestablish contact, I'm BACK.


My honey beckons me to cease typing and come read to him. I have been reading him The Miraculous Journey of Edward Toulane for the last two nights, tonight will make three. It's at an exciting part now, I must go.

This IS now.

I bought a new vintage bike on Saturday. It's supposedly a 1978 but after some further research on-line, I found out that it was actually made in 1980. In any event, it's a 1980 Schwinn Continental and it's in great shape. It looks like it has been sitting in a garage since 1981. I love it. It's very pretty and it's got a nice spring seat. It weighs more than I do, but that's okay because it is really really flat here in New York, plus I need the extra work-out.