I finally got around to snapping a few pictures of the new place...

 9935 SW McDonald St., Tigard, OR: 3 bedrooms, 2 bath, 1400 sq ft, .35 acres

welcome to nyc, jeff and jen!

i want a kitty and a puppy, and i want them to be like this:

The other day I was looking through my cookbook trying to find something to make. I wasn’t headed in a particular direction - just trying to get inspired. I stumbled across a recipe for a New York cheese cake. The recipe was a tad intimidating, but I was feeling brave and decided to take on the challenge.

Now one thing you should note is that Corey hates cheese cake, which leaves me with the question: Who am I going to make this cheese cake for? I can’t have my culinary feat go unnoticed.   I decided to find some guests. First off I call the Griggs, and like last weekend they had plans. No problem, I call the Schwoebels, they too have plans. I would have called the Chapmans but as most of you know they are in New York, and have New York Cheese Cake readily available to them, so they would probably have declined. My only other option was the Konrads, but they were moving.   

So I have come to a few conclusions.

#1 either no one likes cheese cake except me.

#2 Corey and I will need to stop being so lame and actually make plans with more than a                                                      24 hour notice.

#3 or no one really likes us and they are just trying to be polite.

for the cool kids!

this weekend we had the pleasure of going to marlborough, mass, as well as boston, mass. it was a decent trip. we saw beautiful fall trees, extreme road rage (a car in front of us stopped in the middle of the freeway so the driver could get out and shake his fist at the car behind him, etc), and got more of a flavor of the northeast. we didn't take many pictures, but here are a few.

the city: 

cool angle on building: 

portrait: 

jump: 

For the most part I think I’m a pretty relaxed person. I have known for a while, however, that in spite of my relaxedness I have an amazingly small reservoir of patience. Further, when that reservoir is depleted, it takes a very, very long time for it to refill. This week my patience reservoir has been siphoned completely dry. Basically, I’m a ticking time bomb of fury.

Here’s why:

1- Hwy 217

2- Fantasy Football

3- Architects

4- Low Urinals

5- Home prices

6- E-bay

7- Dump Trucks

8- Fruit Flies

Continue on if you care why these things made my list.

so last week we had some sweet weather here in Columbus.... rain, wind, hail, tornadoes... all sorts of stuff. Here's a sample of what was bouncing off our cars, leaving nice little dents with each impact, taken by the trusty camera phone.

the cat must be from new york.



yeah, i can't do this... at all. i have 3 broken cubes and one broken dream to prove it.



my leg does that sometimes too, and boy does it piss me off!



most days i feel like i need one of these puppies.

you know you've been using the computer too much when you start thinking you can hit command + z (otherwise known as the "undo" function) in your everyday life. like when you tie your jacket's belt into a bow, decide its not good and re-tie it... but then you realize the first bow was better and you automatically think about hitting command + z.

anyway, that's how my day is going.

yesterday we successfully moved to a new sublet! we'll be here through the end of november. so if any of you are coming to visit before then, this is what you have to look forward to. its actually quite lovely. several windows, a view of southern manhattan (and the blue sky!), a bed... you get the drift.

living room/kitchen:

bedroom/office:

bathroom:

view from the bedroom/office windows:

looking down from the fire escape (we live by a cemetery):

neal checking his fantasy football:

five out of five agree... this apartment is going to be neat-o: