Wedding Recap Video

Hi guys,

Maka and I got the DVD of our wedding which includes an 8 minute recap + around 2 hours of edited video from the ceremony and reception.

I ripped the 8 minute recap to a low quality mpeg format which still put the file at 81.9MB. It's huge. Does anyone have a place I can upload the video so you can all watch it? It's really nice.

Hope all is well with everyone and things are warming up in your parts of the world. Here it is still freezing! We can't wait for spring to come. Maka and I have lots of plans for outdoors. We're going to install a new walkway from the driveway to our front door. We are also planning to plant a bunch of trees, we are hoping to rent a trunk and drive down to Virginia to visit Tamuna/Sveta and gang, and pick up the trees there since they are so much cheaper there. We are also thinking of hiring some of our equadorian buddies to make a nice stone wall for us with the stones from the old farmers wall at the bottom of our property. Would be really nice. What is everyone's plans for this spring? Any trips? During the first week of March I'll be going to San Antonio, Texas. I think from the 5th to the 10th. My department is hosting an all hands meeting there so it should be lots of fun hanging out and meeting about 100 co-workers. The weather there is really nice too. Last time I checked it was between 70 and 80! About twice as warm as it is here in Connecticut :-)

Oh by the way, Tamuna has some great news. I'll let her post it herself for all to see :-)

See ya.

Abdominal Snowman?

Hey guys.. anyone use this blog anymore?? :-)

Yesterday Maka apparently saw the "abdominal" snowman sleeping in the woods behind our house!! LOL It actually turned out to be a really big dead deer. Not sure how it died. Possibly it was wounded by a hunter and ran through the woods until it collapsed on our property about 50 feet away from the back of our house.

This morning we had a bit of a suprise. There was a big gray animal eating away at the deer. We assumed it was a cayote since they have similar shape and color and there are a lot of them around this area. Taking a closer look with our binoculars revealed that it actually wasn't a cayote. This creature had a cat face! From looking around at information on google, I think the animal is a bobcat, although it seems to be really big for a bobcat. Overall it's about the size of an adult German shepard dog, actually a fat German shepard. This cat was really fat.

Looking back into the woods some more, I now see what appears to be either a hawk or an eagle eating away at the deer. Too bad the cat left, I'm sure there would have been a good fight. Hopefully during the next few days the animals finish off the deer, cause it will really smell bad if there is a lot of flesh on it left to rot - yuck. Here is a picture I found online of a bobcat. He was standing there just like this one staring at me and maka when we were looking at him with the binoculars. He probably heard us bump into the sliding glass door. Maka also mentioned that she thought she saw a baby cat with him.. but I didn't see it.

Some more pictures

Hi guys,

Here are some more pictures I wanted to post earlier... enjoy

Maka working on the Christmas tree in her cool new ho ho ho jammies















Several hours later...



















Maka and her mom at the tree lighting ceremony in Newtown. All of downtown was packed with people, with luminaria lining all the streets (Luminaria are small transparent bags with candles inside - http://kasei.us/archives/2004/12/07/luminaria.jpg)














Big crustacian we found crawling around behind the house one day ;-) - made a yummy dinner














Christmas Eve at Rockafeller Center in NYC!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Hi Guys,

Hope you had a wonderful christmas and new year. I hope to see some more pictures on here from your holidays - especially Malta, since I've never been there for Christmas :-)

Maka and I spent last weekend in New York. Here's some pics we took at a Spain/Mexican restaurant. We drank lots of sangria and margaritas, yum.










We didn't get a lot of pictures outside because it was raining most of the day Saturday, and was FREEZING cold on Sunday. On our way to MoMA (Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art) from lunch at time square, we had to make 3 or 4 stops at different starbucks to warm up :-)

I'll post some more pictures later from our christmas and new years.

Ciao

A White Thanksgiving

Hey guys, as promised, here are some pics from our Thanksgiving day. The biggest suprise of the day came first thing in the morning - waking up to what felt like picture-perfect traditional New England white Christmas.

Happy Thanksgiving

Howdy boys and girls,

Only one day left till thanksgiving. Sveta and Tamuna should be leaving their house in just a few minutes to head up to Connecticut to spend the holiday with us. We are pretty excited.

Last night we went to do a little shopping to get ready for the big turkey dinner. We went to the HomeGoods store (www.homegoods.com) first which has all kinds of cool kitchen stuff and seasonal decorating items. Since we have a pretty big turkey this year (19 lbs), we decided to pick up a new 18 inch roasting pan. We also got a really nice knife set and a new blender. Afterwards we went over to Bed Bath and Beyond and picked up a new tablecloth for our dining room. The tablecloth is a golden color, so it goes well with our furnature and the martini olive colored paint. What else did we buy... oh yes, we found some really neat pine cones that are cinnamon scented, so our house smells like cinnamon all over :-)

Maka just left for work about 30 minutes ago, so I'm just getting ready to go do some food shopping. It's pretty cold outside today. In fact, this morning there was some snow coming down, but not enough to accumulate on the ground. I hear we are supposed to get some more snow tomorrow on Thanksgiving day.

Is anyone else doing anything for Thanksgiving this year (yes, I know it's an American Holiday). The reason I ask is because Maka had some visitors from Denmark stay with us for a few days back in Sept, and they said they do the whole Thanksgiving thing at their place (turkey, stuffing, pumpkin pie, etc.). Christmas is right around the corner as well. Anyone have any special plans? Yonathan/Cynth - what's everyone doing in Malta this year? You guys all get together with the family?

Ok well I better get back to putting together my shopping list.

Oh yes, before I forget... check out this page when you have some free time. It's called The Onion and they have some really funny articles. www.theonion.com

Hello :)

Hi boys and dolls :-) I miss you all. Thank you for your kind wishes.
My job title is International Assignment Consultant. I am going to be helping relocate client's employees from one place to another, internationally. I am really excited.
I may start on Nov 21st. Will know more details once I get the actual offer paper. Right now I got offer over the phone.
I am now in Charlottesviile. Drove yesterday to pick up my mother. It's so much warmer here compared to Connecticut. I just realized how much I have missed Virginia. Jonathan, Cynthia, next time you come we can do a tour de America ;-)
what else is new? Not much. Just that I miss all of you and hope to see you sometime soon.
love,
Maka

I GOT IT....

I got it! I got it!
I got the JOB ;-P