Saturday, March 31, 2007

Kites Are Cool.

Last night, we met Steve and Laura down at the obviously classy US Bowl for some awesome cosmic bowling action. Now there's something we haven't done since like 1993. It was weird - neither of us are great bowlers, but we were good last night! Adam got a turkey and even I broke 100! Maybe bowling proficiency is directly related to height. Can you believe it costs $75 for 4 people to play 3 games?! We were shocked - I guess it really HAS been a long time...but, they DID play Millennium Hip Hop Party and a little boy named Tobias DID teach Laura how to do the worm on the icky bowling alley carpet, so I guess it was worth it.

This morning (lunchtime), we met Kerry, Shaun (finally), and Baby Fi in the hood for some muffins and house hunting chatter. Which reminds me - I need to post some pics of Fiona from about a month ago. Check back for those - I know a few people are dying to see a pic.

And then we were off to the
kite festival on the National Mall, which is part of the National Cherry Blossom Festival. Teddy was the darling of the capital of America. Seriously, we lost count of how many people asked about his breed and/or wanted to pet him. Lots of people (and little kids) came running over to us - and the ones that didn't approach us could be heard talking about him or dogs, in general. He's such a ham in public!

Here's Ted in front of the Washington Monument - where we sat to watch the kite Hot Tricks competition and the Rokkaku Challenge. The Rokkaku thing was really cool - the kites battle each other and try to saw each other's strings apart to take them down. Sounds mean, but definitely fun to watch.


















Only regret about the weekend so far: We have to miss Dave Ravikoff's party tonight:(

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Message to W?

Saw this sign in the parking lot at Dulles airport and it made me laugh:

You've gotta wonder whether or not they realize the potentially smug nature of this message - or if this kind of language has been so assimilated into our culture that they don't even see the humor.

MeerMeer v. Bluth Family

Let's check in on our brackets:

Adam's Pick:
Bluth Family Reunion
Sandy's Picks: iheartmeermeer

Is anyone's bracket still alive?

Saturday, March 24, 2007

57.

Happy birthday, Gymee.


The Left Coast.

Totally forgot to post pics of our trip to San Fran, where we hung out with Favorite Judith and met Lyle [Lyle Crocodile] for the first time ever. For your viewing enjoyment:





















Sunday, March 18, 2007

It's Schmichael's Day.

Happy birthday, Mike!

Friday, March 16, 2007

Will you be my friend?

I joined GoodReads.com, which lets you catalogue and review books you've read. You can also check out what your friends are reading and read their reviews, etc. Join and add me as a friend!

Hilarious.

So "Big Anand," for whom Little Anand was named, received a really funny e-mail about Sanjaya from a guy he's never met named Arunesh Arunesh. Here is the e-mail for your reading pleasure:

From: Arunesh Arunesh <
arunesh007@hotmail.com>
Date: Mar 15, 2007 5:14 PM
Subject: Keep Sanjaya in! Support our next American Idol!
To:
greekheroes@hotmail.com

Hello Friends,

Vote for Sanjaya Malakar
Vote for Sanjaya Malakar
Vote for Sanjaya Malakar

Vote for Sanjaya and make India proud.
Watch him on American Idol!
(FOX 5 Channel) Tuesday 8pm EST/7pmCentral & Wednesday 9 Eastern Time /8pm Central time on FOX 5 Channel.

Note: Please pass this to as many friends as possible.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

12 for 12.

I'm 12 for 12 in my NCAA tourney bracket. Booyah. Here are our brackets:

Sandy's Picks:
iheartmeermeer
Adam's Picks: Bluth Family Reunion

I shoulda' bet money!

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Max's Mazel.

We spent last weekend in New York to celebrate little cousin Max's Bar Mitzvah! Here are some of the very few pics I took:

Ad & Judith before The Blue Man Group.........Ad & me at the big soiree










David, Josh & the Bar Mitzvah Boy..............Jon's birthday cake











The Zissman kids, Grammy, Josh & Max.........Adam & the Man of Honor










Welcome to manhood, Max........................The real Judith Zissman











Aunt Deb & Grammy White .......................Silly Dan












Tired Josh & Sandy................................Shira & Tony sittin in a tree...







Go Shirley Go.

Little Anand lives to die another day! Woo hoo!

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Little Anand.

Adam is making fun of me because I love Sunjaya Malakar. I get that his hair was absolutely ridiculous tonight - and, coupled with his earrings (yes, one in each ear), he was giving off a sort of Shirley Temple / Little Orphan Annie / Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie vibe. Problem is, he reminds me of a tiny version of my friend, Anand - so I'm in love. He's not THAT bad!!! He's just shy and sings softly!!! There is something so gentle and sweet about him AND his voice, dammit. I love him. Sorry. I hope to earn back your respect someday.

Shirley Temple

I wish I could find a pic of Tom Wilkinson as Roy
Applewood wearing earrings in that movie Normal.