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Adding to "the everyone else is having a baby category," I am happy to announce the addition of Isabel Marie de la Huelga to the world. And although her name is large, Isabel is not. Coming in at around 6 lbs, 8 oz. the little thing (and her mother) are healthy and doing fine. Congratulations, Jessica and Enrique! Beth and I couldn't be happier for you.
Update: In case you skip out on the comments, Jessica and Enrique are sharing pictures of their new lord and master here.
In exchange for missing out on Jim's birthday, Beth I and I got to hang out with Kevin Menzie on Sunday night. Kevin was in town for a photo shoot (I'll let him explain that to you) and seeing as I was looking down the barrel of a busy week at the office, it was probably my one chance to see him.
We took Kevin to Mama Mexico for a little mariachi and margaritas (we got plenty of both) and we were lucky enough to expand our little class reunion with the recently wed Adam Kaufman and his wife Paula.
Adam was one of those college friends for whom, every now and then you think, "Gee, Kaufman was a good guy. I wonder what ever happened to him?" Kevin had managed to stay close with Adam while I had unfortunately lost touch. Then one day last year, I bumped in to him (and scared the hell out of him) rushing through a movie theater men's room before seeing Syriana. He had just moved to New York with his girlfriend (guess who that was) and although we talked about hanging out, we never did quite follow through. Flash forward a year later, and it takes a visit from Kevin to finally get us together. I hope we can hang out again with Adam and Paula again before Kevin comes back.
This last weekend was supposed to the big 65th birthday party for Jim Honen (Beth's uncle). Intended as a surprise by his wife Sue, the gathering in Ogunquit, Maine had been planned for months in advance with guests coming from as far away as California. The only thing that wasn't planned for was Winter's one last hurrah in the form of a classic cold-weather Nor'easter. With our clothes laid out on the bed waiting to be packed, we checked and rechecked the weather maps trying to anticipate the drive from New York. After much soul searching (and after Don Manning's flight was cancelled and Betty was rear-ended on the road outside Boston), we decided to cancel the drive. It was a disappointing choice to make, but we feel it was the safer one.
Happy birthday, Jim. Sorry we didn't make it. We'll make it up to you once the snow melts.
Along with our good friends Dan and Matt, Beth and I attended the wedding celebration of Kim (seen singing to your left) and Rich Marin this past Saturday. Both wonderful people and certainly deserving of each other (I'm talking about Kim and Rich here), we were happy to share in their big celebration.
And if that wasn't enough, we had a visit from Johnica Wyrranza (also know as Monica Carranza and John Wyman) from Chicago. In town for a social event of their own, we got them all to ourselves on Sunday night and took them out to Paradou, our favorite French restaurant. We pretty much had the place to ourselves so, after a loud and obnoxious evening, we made certain that Monica and John got thoroughly drunk before they staggered back to their hotel along the cobble-stoned streets of the meat packing district. Good times... good times.
There. Now that I've gotten your attention with that most hated of Scrappy-Do references, I can get to the real scoop. After reluctantly giving up their boxer Lilly back in September, our good friends Dan and Matt have decided to have a second go-round at puppy-fatherhood with the adoption of Dexter. Only a couple of weeks old, Dexter is a puggle — a relatively new hybrid of beagles and pugs that has an adorably wrinkly face and hang-dog eyes and, was recently featured in a New York Times article on designer breeds. It is their hope that by raising Dexter themselves and in the presence of their first dog Sam, that they will be able to avoid any personality issues between the dogs in the future. Good luck guys, and hide your shoes.
This weekend past, we fled the barren and wintry north to pay my mother a visit in sunny South Florida. Mom's been snowbirding her way down to Naples for three years now and Beth and I are currently following an every-other-year visitation plan. It's a relaxing change of pace for us — chatting with my mom, walking through the mangrove forests and along the beaches of Naples in between sessions of stuffing ourselves with rich food. Granted if mom wasn't there, Naples wouldn't be our scene — it's a little too opulent for our tastes. But then again, we didn't go there for the scene. The important thing is that mom enjoys hereself down there we got to see her enjoyment first hand. It was a good visit.
There was a time in my life when I was a huge Simpson’s fan and I would regale/annoy all those around me with my profound knowledge of the show and all character dialog therein. I'm not exactly sure when it began but, at some point in my personal fandom I decided it was a brilliant idea to collect all five family members in the medium of Pez dispenser. Over time I managed to build my collection, though the one dispenser that proved a rarity was the one that should have been the easiest to find — Bart. Eventually, my interest in the show faded, but I never felt a sense of closure where my Pez collection was concerned. I had pretty much given up on ever seeing the family completed when, just the other day, I happened to pass by a vacant and soon-to-be-cleaned office at work. There, nestled in the garbage and still in its original wrapper was Bart! The only dispenser I needed and there it sat discarded. Now, the family is at long last complete. I can die a happy man.
...or so Andrew and Amanda claimed it was going to be. Instead, they decided to play it safe and disappoint the espionage world by naming their new son Jacob Samuel Glasgow. Born at 9:13AM Eastern Standard Time this morning, little Jake came in at 8lbs, 2.5 oz. Healthy but exhausted, mother and son (oh yeah, and dad too) are doing fine.
Congratulations Andrew and Amanda!
