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I am happy to report that there is a new star in the Gertsacov Circus! Aaron Kyle Gertsacov was born at 7:08 pm on Tuesday 9/2/08 Tuesday’s child, full of grace And here’s the OTHER famous things that happened on Sept. 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2 Most notably, it’s a German national Holiday! Sedantag! He was (as Shakespeare…

People ask us these questions (usually in this order) Do you know what you are having?Have you selected names?What are they?Why won’t you tell me the names? (and then they generally proceed to suggest their own names (sometimes, literally, their own name) After that, the next question is– will you circumcise if it’s a boy?…

Thursday was a harrowing day for me– less so for Stephanie, so the answer is no, we did not have a wanted visitor arrive on Thursday. She is still pregnant (at least as of Saturday morning) Instead this is a story of how we had an unwanted visitor. This is a long story, so get…

Bacon Krispy Kreme burger Originally uploaded by satanslaundromat A friend of mine posted about these– and apparently Google had them recently in their NY cafeteria. (I found this photograph on Flickr) It’s got everything that a person could want — except for the death by fat-cell asphyxiation. Still it sounds delicious…. My brother works at…

Found a hilarious blog about when professionally designed cakes go wrong http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/ Here are some selected images of pregnancy and baby cakes that are bad bad bad. In case you were thinking of ordering us a cake or something (which I don’t suggest you do– we both are not huge cake lovers, and when we…

That’s the signature call of our backyard Hide and Seek, meaning– the game is over, no more hiding, come on out. (It’s also a movie featuring Katherine Hepburn, lovingly featured on the right.) It’s also what S has been yelling out at her stomach for the last few days. Or to put it in a…

Yesterday there was a Tornado warning in Yonkers. That’s the same day that S’s family flies into NY for the weekend (for a show, and to hang out with their very pregnant daughter one last time before she gives birth to the kicking giraffe who has been eating up all of the real estate in…

So dark in fact that the streetlights went on. Which wouldn’t be a problem normally, except that it’s 11:30 am. In the summer. The satellite is having problems too. CNN is in nad out. I think we are in for a hell of a storm.

Our house has begun to be invaded by all manners of boxes, mostly from Graco, that contain a number of apparently VERY IMPORTANT items that we MUST HAVE NOW. Door Jumper, anyone? [Edited by Stephanie: Full disclosure that Graco is a client; I’m already a fan of the brand but I’m sure we will totally…

Truthfully, I’ve done most of my best work by being shameless. It’s when I get shameful that I have to worry! Anyway, it’s probably the last flea circus gig before the baby is born (unless something happens in the next week!) so come check it out if you can! Hope to see you there! Click…

As many of you might know, I’m not a big fan of musicals in general, but I just want to say how fabulous Dr. Horrible is. It’s a project by Joss Whedon (of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly) and I’m a big fan of two out of the three. Dr. Horrible is just a great low-tech…

I don’t know about you, but we are pretty much over in the foodie camp. We like to talk about food. We like to cook food. And sadly we like to eat food. And yes, we watch TOP CHEF. So with Stephanie’s upcoming birthday, we wanted to do something very special–especially as this was perhaps…

So for the last week or so, we’ve been smelling an ugly smell in our kitchen– it smelled alternatively like fish or ammonia. We searched everywhere, but couldn’t seem to find it. We sprayed Oust, we made herbal teas, we brewed coffee, we ate smelly cheeses, we kept the window open, we sacrificed a goat…

Isn’t that the name of a song? Or a movie? It also happens to be the name of our honeymoon, a quick 4 1/2 day trip to the City of Light. We left on Monday evening after the wedding, and let me tell you, I’ve never been so unprepared for an overseas trip. I usually…

You would think that mowing our lawn would be an easy maneuver. After all, we don’t have very much of it, it’s relatively compact, and how damned hard can mowing the lawn be, anyway? Well, to paraphrase my grandmother, “a landscaper, you’re not.” I spent a good hour doing lawn stuff this morning– mowing the…