On Silly Bandz

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me: Personally, I don't see the draw... so I guess I'm officially old now
young, hip cousin: yess, loserrr. they're just fun like pogs or beanie babies but cheaper... recession fads
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Me & Adam with Masaharu Morimoto

Me & Adam with Masaharu Morimoto

Dad with Morimoto

Dad with Morimoto

Cousin Suzette with Duff Goldman

Cousin Suzette with Duff Goldman

Me & Adam with Rocco Dispirito

Me & Adam with Rocco Dispirito

Apparently, being an AmEx card holder has its perks.

We got to get our photos taken with some celeb chefs while at the South Beach Wine & Food Fest.

Morimoto was pretty quiet, probably because his English is limited, but Rocco was very nice and made sure to shake everyone’s hand and at least say hello even though we were being pushed through the process like we were on an assembly line.

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TMT Date Taken: 1993ishAge: roughly 11Notes: Yes, I’m naked, but my old cat Mayday is doing a good job of covering up the skeeter bites. There are just so many awesome things about this photo: The look on my face. The corded phone! The fact that whoever was on the other line was so important I didn’t even get dressed after my shower to answer the call. Mayday was a raging bitch, so any picture where she’s being held, let alone kissed (by an equally naked, but modestly toweled Daniela) is a treasure to behold.

TMT

Date Taken: 1993ish
Age: roughly 11
Notes: Yes, I’m naked, but my old cat Mayday is doing a good job of covering up the skeeter bites. There are just so many awesome things about this photo:

  • The look on my face.
  • The corded phone!
  • The fact that whoever was on the other line was so important I didn’t even get dressed after my shower to answer the call.
  • Mayday was a raging bitch, so any picture where she’s being held, let alone kissed (by an equally naked, but modestly toweled Daniela) is a treasure to behold.
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TMT Nobody said Time Machine Tuesday has to be about you. Maybe you were looking through old family photos and found a gem. Date taken: best guess? early 1970s.Notes: The man who sired me and my sister is on the left. Stop staring at my dad’s nipple.

TMT

Nobody said Time Machine Tuesday has to be about you. Maybe you were looking through old family photos and found a gem.

Date taken: best guess? early 1970s.
Notes: The man who sired me and my sister is on the left. Stop staring at my dad’s nipple.

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TMT - Christmas edition Date taken: December 25, 1985Age: 3Notes: This was my little sis’s first Christmas (she was just over one month old at this point), and thus my last big score before I had to start with the whole “sharing” thing. And what a score it was: Alphie II, Glo Worm, Talk ‘N Play, a Care Bear book, a Hello Kitty lunchbox and various other “growing up 80s” paraphernalia.Not pictured: sister.

TMT - Christmas edition

Date taken: December 25, 1985
Age: 3
Notes: This was my little sis’s first Christmas (she was just over one month old at this point), and thus my last big score before I had to start with the whole “sharing” thing. And what a score it was: Alphie II, Glo Worm, Talk ‘N Play, a Care Bear book, a Hello Kitty lunchbox and various other “growing up 80s” paraphernalia.
Not pictured: sister.

Muscle Memory

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I moved to Orlando with my bare essentials in 2002. During the intervening seven years, my parents have begged me to get my crap out of their garage.

This past weekend, they went through all the stuff in the garage, threw out a bunch of things. Among them: an original NES (I know), an ancient Compaq computer, and my sister’s old stuffed animals. Then they separated the stuff that should be kept. Luckily, my stuff made the cut in the form my foot locker and two boxes.

I totally don’t remember doing this, but this is so something that Yesteryear!Marcela—the bitch who lacked forethought—would do: there is a combination lock on the foot locker. I imagine it’s the same lock I had all throughout high school, so I think I remember the combination.

Having said that, does anybody know where I can get a sweet deal on a pair of bolt cutters on Black Friday?

Merriest Christmas Ever

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Adam’s brother Ryan has been living—untethered to the digital world—in North Carolina for the past eight years.

Over the years, we’ve only been able to visit him a couple of times. We once drove up with my father-in-law for an over-night camping trip. We drove up, hiked up a mountain, set up camp, slept, woke up, broke down the camp, and drove back. That was in 2007, shortly after our wedding (which he was unable to attend). Adam’s dad joked that it was our honeymoon. And I guess if you go by the loosest definition of the word: A holiday or trip taken by a newly married couple, then yes; it was technically our honeymoon.

Last year, the three of us drove up to Adam’s grandma’s place in Georgia to celebrate Christmas. Afterward, we continued our drive north to visit Ryan in North Carolina. We mostly hung around Bryson City and talked about how he should come visit us in Orlando sometime.

Through the years, communication between the two brothers has been very limited. Ryan lives in a remote area of Bryson City, so the postman is not very dependable, and he only recently got his hands on a cell phone. Adam and I always said it would be so much easier to keep in touch with him if he had a computer. So, for Christmas this year, we’re giving him a brand new Dell laptop. We bought it last week and Adam has been setting it up. He already posed the question on his twitter/facebook, but I figured I’d ask it here to get a wider sampling:

What would you install/bookmark for someone who hasn’t had a computer/been online in 8 years?

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I got bored last night, so I started going through my old videos. Here are a few clips I took in Costa Rica in 2007.

The resort we stayed at had a huge pool with a small island of trees in the middle. I guess at some point, this iguana made it’s way through the chlorinated pool and set up shop on the island.