In the movie Pineapple Express, check out the scenes in Saul’s apartment when he’s standing in front of the door to his bedroom. There is a toy village splayed out on the bed which includes a tee-pee, like he was in there five minutes ago playing cowboys and Indians. I was hoping to find a picture online to post, but instead I found the blog of someone who dressed as Saul for Halloween. I’m so doing that next year. Two points of random awesomeness! God, I love James Franco.
working in schools is awesome because of the time off. i get every holiday, summer, and just random days off… it’s great! but it sucks to come back. today is my first day back since 12/23 and it’s kicking my asssss. it feels like i either didn’t have enough time off or had too much because getting back to the swing of things is pretty rough. thank god for paperwork! i don’t know how the teachers are handling this.
but for me, coming back and feeling like crap is exactly what i need to kick-start my self-employment machine. 2010 will be my hustle year, and i’m very excited about it… and i want it so bad that nothing will stop me.
Looking down Denver's 16th St. Mall, New Year's Eve 2009. Photo courtesy of denverpost.com
So, I pretty much had the best New Year’s Eve ever this year! How about you guys?
Lil Big Johnny John John and I decided to spend the night in downtown Denver. The were two fireworks displays (one at 9 pm, one at midnight) on the 16th St. Mall and hanging out with a lot of Denver on the street seemed like the perfect way to spend the holiday. We stayed at a really nice hotel (The Westin) and made reservations at an amazing French retsaurant (BistroVendôme). The fireworks, hotel, and restaurant were all within four blocks of each other, so we thought we’d check into the hotel early, “watch tv,” go to dinner, see the midnight fireworks show, then head back to the room to “drink tiny bottles of mini bar liquor.”
Dinner was tres bon! LBJJJ and I had mussels, a potato and leak amuse-bouche, quiche with a tossed spinach salad, squab with chicken sausage and cabbage, and a red wine poached pear stuffed with a gorgonzola cheese sauce. It was four courses all together and each of them were paired with a wonderful wine.
I made the dinner reservation for 10:30 in the hopes that we could have a nice, leisurely dinner then mosey/amble/saunter down to the fireworks. We got to the restaurant early, but we had to wait for 15 or 20 minutes before a table in the main room opened up, but I so didn’t care. The night had been going so well up until then and I was trapped in a glowing bubble of perfect night bliss.
We spent the dawn of the new decade (it’s weird to say that, bye 2000’s!) with funny hats and champagne in the restaurant, but again, didn’t care. No amount of fireworks or crowds could have overshadowed the romantic night we were having.
Actually, we did see fireworks that night. They shot them off the building right across the street from our hotel room and we watched the whole show from the window while we were “watching tv.” C’est Magnifique!
After dinner, we went to a nearby bar for a few vodka drinks before the short walk back to the hotel. There were more good times, but I’m going to wrap it up here. This is a family blog, y’all…use your imagination.
So yeah, Best.New Year’s.ever. It wasn’t what we’d initially planned, but it turned out to be an extremely memorable, romantic holiday.
In other news, John and I both changed our dating site profiles to “seeing someone” and told Facebook we’re “In a Relationship” with each other. So, I guess we’re like, official and stuff. Squeeeeeeeeee!!!
