BUBBLES!!

Graden meets hardwood floors :)

St. Pat's Throwbacks

Unless you've spent a good amount of time in Savannah, you're probably unfamiliar with the insane popularity of the city's St. Patrick's Day parade. Long story short, it's huge! About a half a million people come every year in their finest green duds to celebrate with a four hour parade.

Given the extent of the celebration, we thought it only right to dive right in to the craziness and sport some St. Pat's costumes ourselves. 5 Green afros, a pack of iron-on transfers, 2 boxes of kelly green fabric dye and 10 knee-high, green-striped socks later and the St. Pat's Throwbacks were born:





more pics to come.

How to fry a jalapeno turkey

I may be a lobster, but I can at least tell you how to fry a jalapeno turkey. Thanks to Matt's uncle Michael Espinoza we were able to try out this awesome recipe, so big thanks to him!!


Step 1: Spend about 30 minutes assembling the cooking set Jeremy bought you for your birthday last year.


Step 2: Sport an evil grin, while packing the turkey with delicious pickled jalapenos.


Step 3: 2 cans later, it cant hold anymore!

Step 4: Find a friend to help you sew it up like a football, while you inject jalapeno juice into it. Yikes!

Step 5: Sewn, stuffed and hogtied turkey, reporting for duty SIR!!

Step 6: Slowly lower the turkey into 350 degree oil.

Step 7: Watch as the oil frys the turkey. Awww yeah.

Step 8: Stand around and have some beers, or like Ken....stand on one leg for about 55 mins.


Step 9: Golden, delicious turkey, ready to be cut up and consumed.

Step 10: ENJOY!!!!



If I wasnt a vegetarian...and a lobster I would have loved to have enjoyed this delicious turkey. Maybe next time they'll have a spare tank sitting around so I can at least have a few beers without suffocating. Until next time, this is chef Buster saying "I PIIIIIIIIIIIINCH!!"

CD Reco!

Ok peeps. I'm not sure if anyone can relate to this, but lately I've been in a complete music slump. I've had the hardest time forming a close bond with an album or even an artist for that matter and have found myself constantly shuffling through my music in anguish!
But then a miracle happened. I stumbled upon Kate Nash and her new CD "Made of Bricks". She's a super cute Brit and her music is catchy and alot of fun. I pretty much keep her CD on repeat on my Ipod & Itunes and I don't plan on switching to shuffle anytime soon! Check her stuff out!

Love is in the air!

Well, the month of February has managed to pass us by but yet love still lingers in the air. All weekend I have seen quite the assortment of "love tags" strewn across the city. Everywhere I went I saw things on lamp posts, buildings and sidewalks. Some cute, some perverse - but nonetheless...sweet nothings!

Here are two of the "love tags" that happened to catch my eye as I was sashaying by them. One is kinda dirty and the other super sweet.

The first one I saw when I was coming back from grabbing a coffee at Cafe' Cafe' in Soho. It was on a lamp post outside of Green Street deli.






The second one was in the East Village on 11th between 1st and 2nd. I glanced over and saw this super sweet quote scribbled across a metal garage door. The image is a bit blurry (it was taken on my cell phone while Maddie tugged on her leash) but i'm sure you'll be able to decipher what it says (hint: "We can walk and hold hands") Cute!







Hugs and kisses from the city! XOXO

DVR update!

Ok, it has been WAY too long since i've posted anything on the blog - but I swear I am going to get better!

I'm sure that everyone has been scratching their noggens wondering..."what is Katie doing all day if she's not posting random things on this blog?". Well, the answer to your query is...watching Free Radio on VH1! Oh yah! I'm not sure if anyone has caught this show but it is HILarious and completely fabtastic! I swear. It is one of the funniest new improv shows on TV and I will be beyond devastated when it is eventually pulled. For now, I am proud to say that it is the newest addition to my DVR list and anyone that enjoys a solid half hour of improvised comedy should do the same.

Check it out

Tank Update

We've recently welcomed a new addition to the tank family at 101 W. Perry St. While picking up a new filter at PetSmart, we couldn't resist a new fish purchase...especially because of the sale signs ;) We chose a little catfish from one of the many tanks. The PetSmart employee scooped him out of the tank and went to transfer him to a bag when—oh no!—the little guy was upside-down at the bottom of the cup!

He had gone belly-up before we even got him home...or so we thought. Turns out this species has a very distinct defense mechanism—they knock themselves out! ha ha. The little catfish was fine, but they gave us another one just in case. When Matt attempted to put our new fish, who by that time had adopted the name "Olav Meowski," into the tank, the little bugger knocked himself out in Matt's hand:



Olav finally came-to and started exploring the tank & avoiding the claws of Buster. A tank-check a few minutes later revealed he had once again fashioned himself unconscious:



In other tank news, Buster has developed into quite the interior decorator. His latest renovation included rearranging the tank plants...especially interesting is the one he placed inside the cup:

echo echo one niner hotel bravo hoofer

So the company I work for had the opportunity to do this sweeeeeet project, which involves filming in a helicopter, motion tracking and matching using 3dsMax and After Effects goodness. Here are some pictures from my trip!

The bad ass helicopter we flew in.

Complete with a state of the art CineFlex Gen3 HD system.

READY FOR TAKE OFF!!

I was being serious I swear!

Gray Mitchell doing some preliminary tests on the controls.

Buddy Knotts; owner and opperator of Helivision (http://www.helivision.com/) He is a phenominial pilot!!


Following flight paths to get the shots we need.

He landed that sucker right on that trailer. I dont think I could park my car in a space like that. I was impressed!


Refueling, Buddy Knotts and the the Fueler on duty at a local airport.

After the shoot, had to walk over and have a convo with Gordon and Jimmy Johnson about their performance at last weeks Daytona 500.
:-P

Reasons to Smile

I think we should all take a minute and reflect on how cute the two G's are...Gavin and Graden. How can you not smile when you look at these two?

from the pages of Lisa's travel journal...

Hola mi agimos!

We're on day 23 of Lisa's Costa Rican adventure and she was finally able to upload some pictures...well, more like a few hundred, ha ha. I picked a few out to give you a glimpse into what she's been up to so far. If you want to go through all the pics, I'll include the links to her galleries at the bottom.

Before she left, Lisa chopped off 11 inches of her gorgeous locks to donate to Locks of Love. For a girl with thick hair about to embark on a humidity-filled, 5 month stint in paradise...that's quite a sacrifice. Here's a pic of her with the short do:

The first few weeks of her trip, Lisa stayed with David, a friend of hers who is a Costa Rican native. He gave her a tour of the whole country, introduced her to some friends, took her to the beach and brought her to her first Costa Rican festival.

With David & his friends at the festival:




Quoting Lisa, "the red head is my friend sammy. she's from england...she's volunteering at an orphanage and staying with David's friend Ivan...she's awesome"


Chillin at the beach & learning how to surf with the boys....looks like a tough life :) She says she's gone surfing a few times, but its intimidating because the waves are so huge. She's buying a board soon though, so it can't be that discouraging!





Site-seeing

Volcano Irazu and the drive:



Another quote: "The big white church is in Cartago. Its a place where there is a statue of Mary. It showed up hundreds of years ago on a rock. A little girl brought it home and the next day it was back on the rock. then a priest locked it in the tabernacle and it still showed up on the rock the next day. the pics of the glass things with charms in them. .. People come from all over and do some walk on their knees and ask for healing at tsome magic fountain that water just started coming out. Then after they are healed they come back and give a charm of remeberance that is whatever was healed. hope you understood that. its really beautiful."






"the old church that is falling apart is by that lake...where all the guys brought me jet skiing and we saw the volcano smoking and the cascada. I wish i brought my camera that day."



"The pictures of the monkeys are from my porch. the gazebo looking thing is our main classroom. The pool and houses are all on campus."





Sounds like she's doing well. She's getting alot of Spanish practice and loving everything about her new "home." I think one of us may have to fly down there for her graduation just to make sure she comes back! ha ha

The rest of her photos are up on snapfish.com here and here.