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The Padre and Shira's Wedding

2006-09-09T12:42:00.000-07:00

Last Sunday Steve and I went to The Padre and Shira's wedding. It was so much fun and got me really excited for our wedding. It was at a beautiful castle in Westchester, NY. Here are some pictures and at the end there is a little surprise.....

Gino taking pictures

Diana and Georgia

The Padre's sister

The Padre and his parents

The Padre waits for Shira

The Ceremony (it was hard to get a good picture)

the castle...... isn't it beautiful

Steve walking to the river

By the river

Gino and Sophia

The happy couple dancing

Gino took a video of Steve and I dancing. I just learned how to put videos on my blog.

Happy Birthday Steve

2006-09-04T09:44:00.000-07:00

On Saturday Steve turned the big THREE ZERO. To celebrate we went out for an amazing dinner at a cute new restaurant in Williamsburg called Dressler . Then we headed into the city and met up with Henry and Lala at a hookah bar in the east village. We ended up back in Williamsburg at a friends party. It was a fun night. Here are some pictures.

Steve in the shirt I bought him for his birthday

The Dressler

MMMMMM birthday cake

At the Hookah Bar...... it's apple flavored tobacco

and that's me

Lala's sexy face

we are so hot

Henry is not amused with our silliness

Kevin

Jason and Kevin

Jocelyn, Steve and Jill at the party in Williamsburg

Jocelyn

It's my turn to roast

2006-08-28T06:51:00.000-07:00

On Saturday night my good friend, The Padre, had his bachelor party. He is the person who introduced me to Steve. Instead of having the typical party, he decided to have a roast. Unfortunately this was an all boys event, so I was not invited. Steve, on the other hand, had been preparing for the roast for weeks. I heard that Steve was freakin hilarious. Anyway, since I didn't get a chance to roast The Padre on Saturday night and I heard a couple of shots were taken at me, here is my small attempt at roasting my good buddy. It's all in good fun.

The Padre was a great roommate. He was very cost
conscious. He kept the water bill very low by showering
once a week.

The Padre - you have a future selling Fruit Loops as
Toucan Sam's replacement.

The Padre - let me give you a fashion tip - TRY a little.

The Padre, I wish you and Shira a very happy, healthy, and a wonderful life together. I can't wait for the wedding this weekend.

Here are some pictures that Steve took of the roast.

The Padre in his chair

Steve roasting The Padre

The Padre strikes back

My Makeover

2006-08-25T07:12:00.000-07:00

Last week my niece gave me a makeover. Check out my new look.

I said yes!

2006-08-23T06:05:00.000-07:00

Steve proposed on Saturday at the Boston Commons near the swan boats. That's where his parents got engaged. After screaming no way and jumping up and down, I said yes. I was totally surprised! Apparently my whole family knew for two weeks that Steve was going to propose, but they didn't know when or where. This is the first secret that they were actually able to keep. We haven't planned any details yet, I'm just enjoying the sparkle of my amazingly beautiful ring.

Now on to the cheezy pictures. We took them last night at our favorite restaurant, Enid's, conveniently located two blocks from our apartment.

Lazy Blogger

2006-08-14T08:48:00.000-07:00

I've been a lazy blogger. I haven't updated in forever. I've been busy hanging out with my sister and her kids in the jerz. No excuses, I just haven't felt like updating. Steve and I had a house warming party on Sat. night. It was a great time. The party lasted until about 12:30. Some people may say that it was lame because it ended early. I say that the party was a success..... people ate all my food, drank a lot of booze and most of all I got to go to sleep when I was tired. That's what I call a good time. I'm such a hard core partier. Anyway, I'd post some pics, but I forgot to take them. Until next time........
-Gail

Closet Status

2006-08-08T05:58:00.000-07:00

My closet crisis is OVER!!! Steve finally fixed my closet thanks to Jill's expert advise. This is our third attempt at building my closet and now it's indestructible.......I hope.

My broken closet

Steve hard at work

The finished masterpiece. Thanks Steve and Jill!

RANSOM!!!

2006-08-05T07:19:00.000-07:00

Gail is off today, Steve has been issued the following notice:

RANSOM!!
Kommandante Kreepy has the following notice. Due to severe intoxication following a Mets game, the following items were "acquired" by my brave freedom fighters: Very expensive Marc Jacobs shoes and a crappy backpack. If you ever want to see them again send me a six-pack of Presidente and a pack of Big Red chewing gum. Whaahahahahahhaha! -

Chillin' with my Girls

2006-08-04T07:21:00.000-07:00

On Monday night I found out that my friend Darcelona is visiting her boy in south jersery. So my girl Dani and I made plans to drive down on tuesday after her auditions. I drove to pick up Dani and I had a freakin flat tire. After freaking out a little we found a place to fix the flat and then headed on a 3 hour drive at 2pm. We made it there by 5 and spent a few hours with Darcelona and headed back to the city. Now that's friendship! Darecelona is visiting from New Mexico where she raises alpacas on a ranch. She's the coolest chick ever. My girls and I go way back to my days at jewish sleep away camp. All I can say is that all my camp girls (there are more of us) rock my world! Here are some pictures.

That's Dani..........we were at some dude's pool

Darcelona and Marky Mark

I LOVE MY GIRLS!!!!!

Here come the hat pictures

Sleep-over Party

2006-08-01T06:11:00.000-07:00

My niece came to our casa de brooklyn for a visit on Saturday and spent the night. We had a really fun time. Here are some pictures.....

We walked to the park

We put on nail polish (even steve got pink toe nails)

We cooked dinner

We vegged out on the couch and watched a movie

We did a lot of arts and crafts

Closet Crisis

2006-07-27T09:43:00.000-07:00

HELP! My closet just fell apart. How did it happen? How do we fix it? Why did we try to install it ourselves? Will I ever have a place to hang up my clothes? I hope the closet fairy comes to fix it!
Check out what my closet currently looks like.......

Kids Kids and more Kids

2006-07-24T08:11:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I went to the jerz to see my many many nephews and neices. My sister and her 3 kids arrived last week from Israel for a month long visit. My brother and his four offspring also came over to visit. I have to say that my family knows how to produce cute kids. Here are some pictures of the kiddy crew.

Team Israel - my sister's kids

Team Brooklyn - my brother's kids

some more .........

and that's my big sis with her youngest team member

Check out my twin......... (I'm the one in the 70's style izod dress)

Flashback to Sunday

2006-07-20T10:21:00.000-07:00

I don't have any excuses, I've been bad about updating my blog. So lets travel back a back in time to Sunday.......I know it's hard to think back to 4 days ago, but do your best. After coming back from the "great" outdoors, Steve and I had a chance to appreciate the great city we live in and we decided to take in the sights by foot (on the hottest freakin day in the world). We walked across the Williamsburg bridge to the lower east side then we headed to SoHo. Next we headed to a friend's new store, Barometer, on Walker St. The store is really cool. It has vintage collectables and jewelry designed and inspired by these items. That was the last stop on our walking tour.

Here are some pictures.........

Walking over the Williamsburg Bridge

I love street shopping in SoHo

Barometer

Camping.........sort of

2006-07-17T07:04:00.000-07:00

I really intended on spending the whole weekend camping. I even went to my parents house to get my camping gear that I haven't used in 6 years. The adventure began on friday evening when Lala, Henry, Zoe, Nathan, Steve and I headed to Harriman state park. We arrived at the trail just as it was getting dark. We had to hike to the camping spot in the dark. With a heavy backpack on my back, while walking up hill in the dark, I was not the most pleasant person to be around. Finally we made it and set up camp.....Long story short, the next morning was hot as hell and princess Gail had enough of camping. So steve and I headed back to the car, went out for brunch and ended up in our apartment with central air. I can officially say, my camping days are OVER!!! I like air conditioning, taking showers and sleeping in a bed.

P.S. Steve is the best boyfriend ever because he agreed to leave even though he would have enjoyed staying all weekend. He wanted me to be happy. As he put it......"If Gail is unhappy, then I have to hear about it." (I don't think I'm that bad, I'm just honest.)
Here are some pictures......

the camp site

the ultimate camper - Steve

the happy campers - Lala and Henry

Zoe and Nathan - the other happy campers

the sweaty camper - Gail

Shuki

Jimmy

the view

Breaking the news to Lala and Zoe - I must say fairwell

bye bye Lala

I'm outta here

ohhhhhh - coffee

camping makes me tired......lets go back to brooklyn

1970's style bbq

2006-07-10T10:24:00.000-07:00

Steve's back from Maine - Yippie!!! The grill master is back in action and he grilled up a storm, yesterday, at the skybar on Jocelyn and Jill's roof. Luckily, I brought my polariod to take some 70 style pictures, although there are some hints that it's 2006. Here are the pictures....

The Skybar

Steve the grill master

the grill

Jocelyn

Jill

Tim

the view

Bowling Anyone?

2006-07-08T12:49:00.000-07:00

Last night I met up with Monique and Lelaina at Bowlmor Lanes. I caught the tail end of their game, but Monique let me knock some of her pins down. Then we went to dinner and some French restaurant on St. Marx street. I don't remember the name of it, but the food was really really yummy. Check out my bowling pictures........

Monique and Lelaina discussing bowling techniques

Lelaina

Monique

look at me bowl.....not to bad.

July 4th

2006-07-06T18:48:00.000-07:00

To celebrate the 4th of July, I went to watch the fireworks with a group of Israeli friends. I feel so patriotic. Here are some pictures that Sara took.

Zoe, Gail, and Lala

One, two, three.......jump

Zoe, Sara, Gail, and Lala

Aunt Gail for the 7th time

2006-07-02T13:47:00.000-07:00

It's true, I have 2 neices and 5 nephews. My sister has 3 kids and, as of yesterday, my brother has 4 kids. My sister-in-law gave birth to a 7 lbs 14 oz baby boy. I went to visit them in the hospital today.

How cute is this baby!

Gail and the proud big sister and brothers

Playing with my Polariod

2006-06-30T09:48:00.000-07:00

I was playing around with my polariod trying to see how it works. Here are some pictures I took of my apartment. Some are dark and blurry.......it's an old camera.

that's my blog on the computer

blurry kitchen

Bye Bye Steve

2006-06-29T09:10:00.000-07:00

In honor of Steve's 10 day trip to Maine, here's a picture of him from back in the day when he called Maine his home. Isn't he cute!

little steve

Just for fun, here I am in nursery school......

little gail chillin in jersery

2006-06-26T08:28:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Steve and I headed to DUMBO in between rain storms to check out some stores and see the sights. Steve led me to the most amazing chocolate shop called Jacques Torres. MMMMMMMMMM it was heaven on a stick! Then we went to Jocelyn's for a bbq. While everyone was grilling and hanging out at the skybar (on the roof), I helped out by vegging on the couch and watching TV. I'm here to help! Here are some pictures.......

DUMBO - Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass

look at Steve's shirt - for some reason he thinks he's Puerto Rican

Ohhhhh chocolate......I feel giddy

Hanging out with Jocelyn in my natural habitat....on the couch

2006-06-25T06:39:00.000-07:00

Gino, Sophia, Steve and I went out last night to eat the best burgers ever at Dumont Burger and then we headed back to our place to hang out and drink some wine. I don't have any pictures of the burgers, but here are some of the wine..........

Sophia

Sophia and me

Gino and Steve

Brain Food

2006-06-24T09:43:00.000-07:00

This morning Steve cooked me breakfast to get my mind working at an optimal level so I can finish my papers. I'm such a lucky girl.

Chef Steve hard at work

Breakfast is served (FYI it's TURKEY bacon)

Procrastination and Polariods

2006-06-23T10:56:00.000-07:00

It's my summer vacation and I'm not working. I know what you all are thinking, teacher's are so lucky because they get the summers off. Well for a certain teacher who is in grad school and did not do her course work during the semester, so she has to write 4 papers by June 30th, life doesn't feel so lucky. If only I could get my work done, but my ADD pulls me in every direction and my procrastination tactics are at an all time high. I mean I started this blog to avoid writing papers.

In an effort to avoid my school work I have been thinking of different projects to do this summer. I like doing crafty artsy things. I was looking around my apartment the other day and I found some old polariod land cameras I got a while ago. They are really fun and use the old peel off film. So, I ordered some film from B & H and it arrived today. I'm so excited to start taking some polariods. But first, I need to write those damn papers.

This is one of my Polariod cameras

Maxin' Relaxin' on our new Couchy

2006-06-22T18:24:00.000-07:00

My life is complete........our new couch was just delivered. Now I have no reason to ever leave my pad.