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Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Aaron and I have been working on something that I'm really excited about. We have started a new blog together! AaronSaysJennySays is a blog where we will simultaneously post about recipes, restaurants, music, movies, products and eventually home improvement projects.
We write each of our posts without seeing what the other wrote. We don't always agree but the funny thing is there is usually something the same - we both used the phrase "Chop Chop Fire Fire" in our Sunrise Grill review and described the album Relator as "toe-tapping".
So AaronSaysJennySays is a work in progress but we have few posts over there already like what Aaron thinks about our new electric fireplace and what I think about our new electric fireplace.
As if it's not enough that I have a theme for each Christmas, Aaron and I have started mini-themes for our gifts for each other. This year he wrapped my gifts with a penguin theme.
Couldn't be cuter.
My theme for his gift wrap was "You got a deer - it's a Christmas miracle".
Yesterday was Aaron's birthday. The Anchor Bar from Buffalo, (the home of Buffalo wings!) opened a branch in Rochester and a birthday celebration seemed like a good time to try it out.
They are pretty tasty, but the best part is if it's your birthday you wear a giant chicken wing hat and they sing to you. I just wish I had remembered my camera. The phone pics just aren't cutting this momentous occasion.
Today was Aaron's birthday so I made him a Domo birthday cake. I had been planning this for awhile. When I saw JustJenn made Domo cupcakes I was happy to see that Domo does indeed translate well to baked goods.
This evening Aaron picked me up from the airport when I arrived from Michigan and drove straight to Frontier Field for a baseball game where the new WeROC campaign was going to be promoted.
We ROC is a campaign to build a bigger sense of pride in the Greater Rochester area. I like the taglines in their campaign like...
If You're Trash Talkin' Rochester, You Better Be Ordering a Garbage Plate
Those Who Say Wine Country Only Exists in California Can Put a Cork In It
When Nature Gets Feisty, We Measure It With a Ruler, Not a Richter Scale
890,000 Patents and Almost as Many Festivals
While we were there Aaron posed with the Red Wings mascot. I thought it was a nice picture when I took it... then I got it home, downloaded it and noticed the little kid peer over the mascots head. He looks like he thinks Aaron should get his sticky paws off HIS mascot!
When I first started blogging, Aaron started a blog too. His blog eventually became rather neglected... much to my dismay. He just didn't show an interest in blogging.
He says he has a renewed interest in blogging because he has found his topic... getting his Smart Car. He now has a blog called smartcar a (the a=aaron). I am as excited about his new blog as I am about his new Smart Car on it's way!
I watched the St. Patrick's Day parade downtown today with Tina and Lauren (who is quite the flag waver). Even my friend Tom showed up with his kids in the chilly afternoon. We were there to see this...
Another
year has passed and so I have added another year to our New Years
Day tradition. I took a picture of each of us in front of my
grandma's fridge after lunch.
Apparently,
Oscar and Stewie did not get the memo regarding wearing their glasses
this year.
I love going to holiday
parties. Last weekend was Aaron's office holiday party. Funny story. We
were told we won in a drawing and our prize was over on the tv table.
The table that holds the grand prize flat screen tv that is.
Turns out our prize was a
giant wooden animatrontic toy soldier. Not the big flat screen tv.
*sigh*
The toy soldier is almost as big as me and when I am
home alone I see it out of the corner of my eye and it scares the wits
out of me. Must go. I think Aaron is going to sell it on eBay.
Does this look weird to you? A few weeks ago I came home from work to find
this scene in my living room, all three of them perched on the couch... Oscar and
Stewie staring straight ahead... Aaron seemingly oblivious. It just
seems odd. I am convinced that I have a strange cat, a strange dog...
and most likely though not apparent in this photo, a strange husband.
Today was Aaron's birthday and we went to the Naples
Grape Festival. The best thing I found there was candy apple
with a GRAPE candy coating. They called them grapples. Not to be
confused the the grapples
I have written about here before.
By the way... if you put a singing sparkling candle on
someone's birthday cake, be sure you don't have other candles on the
cake that the singing sparking candle may pop open and be melted by.
Heh heh.
Today we met up with Shruti who was here for a conference. We toured the USS Constitution. Old Ironsides is actually where Aaron is working these two weeks for Naval Reserves duty. Apparently he is getting his picture taken a lot.
Kodak Gallery Scan Van came to our office building this week! The Scan Van is equipped with high speed Kodak scanners that can scan pictures in seconds. It is amazing how fast they work. I had two hundred pictures scanned in ten minutes, and that is with stopping to tape small pictures to a larger piece of paper, wiping off the scanner after my dusty pictures went through and color correcting a few pictures. After they are scanned they are uploaded to the Kodak Gallery.
If you have shoeboxes full of pictures, the Scan Van is the answer to your prayers.
I had a lot of fun looking though my albums and pulling out pictures (no shoeboxes for my pictures) Here are pictures of myself and Aaron as babies. We were both pretty tubby, but I think I win the best hair prize.
Me in my natural element... behind a birthday cake. Aaron grinning away as usual.
I had a few of my parents and family. This is my dad when he was a little boy and a group shot of my mom with her mom and her siblings.
Here one of my parents when they were dating... heh heh and one of my mother with her sisters on the day she left Korea to come to America.
I am so glad I have these images digitized now. I only wish I had more pictures that are at my parents house to take to the Scan Van. You can see more of the pictures I had scanned in my Gallery.
I'm not sure where the Scan Van will be next but when I hear where it will be going I will post it here.
