Well it has been about two weeks now.. and I still can’t decide which is worse… trying to find a job.. or now having one… but I am still thankful that my job is not like the wife’s job… last Friday I met up with her to have dinner at her boss’ house up in Westchester… which was sort of surreal.. but sorta nice.. her boss looks like Clint Eastwood if he always smiled, they really were like the Cleavers.. even with the well adjusted and well behaved teenaged daughter…but after we left Westchester.. she and her partner had to go to the printers… at 11:30pm…on a Friday night… and came home at 6am.. slept until 8am.. then went back… came home that night around 9pm.. slept for 8 hours or so.. then left again on Sunday morning.. and I didn’t see her again until Tuesday morning at 2am…well I stopped by the printers after I got out of work.. and it was like the land of the living dead…greasy hair.. a little BO in the air… and just looks of a room of people running on fumes… including my poor wife… she is taking it in stride though and I think I get more worked up over her hours than she does… so she lost the whole weekend and I spent Saturday hanging with the parents since they were in town to do their taxes, they hung out with me during the day and I made them watch An Inconvenient Truth….they def perked up when the graphic of Shanghai being flooded came on…Sunday went to go see the babies and to drop off the nephew’s sweet kicks ( I got him another pair this week) …Tuesday the wife got to finally sleep and catch her breath.. we went to go see the babies again that night.. then back to usual… she came home last night around midnight and today.. it is about 10pm and no word on when she’ll get home… my job is going OK I guess.. the environment is pretty low key… and the work is… well work… but it could be a lot worse, have been spending the past week and change just getting all of my passwords and accounts set up with IT… and I just elected my contributions for my 401K… oy…

and the addiction rages on..

The Jordan 3 inspired Dunks… damn, the elephant skin…. these ain’t never getting worn

Adventure Pack Dunks… green and orange… suede… yowza

Suede Dunks… brown with a little bit of purple….

Nike Air Zoom Dunkestos.. hybrid of Dunks and Prestos… super comfortable and I think they worn by Dr Greg House on last weeks episode

Blue Gray and Orange Dunks… spotted these at Reed Space a while ago and finally got them… the gray on the quarter is checkered… nice

my goodness the Yankees suck ass….

Well Monday is my official first day at the new gig, dropped off my last bit of paperwork on Friday… I have to report to the midtown office for the first day cuz I need to meet a couple of people there I think.. but as far as I know of.. I will be heading down to 60 Wall every day…during the span of the last 6 years.. I have worked at 1 Wall St… 110 Wall St… and now 60 Wall St…. weird… it’s been four plus years since I have worked downtown… and of course now that I am going to be working downtown again.. the wife’s office is in midtown…wound up going to an interview up in Purchase, NY this Wednesday just to make sure I covered all my bases and because I was bored of sitting at home all week.. they made me an offer the same day and seemed pretty eager to get me, which was a nice ego stroke after looking for a job for two months… but in the end the amount that it would have taken to get me to commute up to Westchester everyday in my head was too much for them to justify… but at least I got out of the house for a few hours that day….

the big news from last week is that the new baby nephew has arrived!!!… the little man tipped the scales at 8lbs plus last Friday.. and we got to spend Saturday on the night shift as back up to watch over the neice… as far as I can tell the little dude is made out of muscle… he was flopping around like a shark in my arms moving / thrashing his head and neck everywhere.. and he was just 1 day old at this point!!..I remember when the neice was just back from the hospital.. she would just sleep, drool and spit up….took her days to be able to move her head on her own….the little man less than 24 hours… the big question now is how the little niece is going to deal with this new invader to her domain…it should be interesting….I have already went out and got him a pair of baby Air Jordans… so sweet…and got him a boy size pair of Nike Dunk Lows with the year of the pig embroidered on the heel…super sweet

the rents are due in later on this week, they are going to a college reunion in Taiwan… then they are coming into NY to file their taxes, think they are going to be around for two weeks or so and are staying in Queens with old friends, alas no room at the inn at our apt….. I just did our taxes this week since my old employer took their sweet ass time sending me my W-2… but the good news is we are getting a nice chunk of change back from the gub-ment…we’ll prob spend it all on dresses/shoes/handbags for the wife and sneakers/toys for me, but ideally we can tuck a few bucks away into the savings account which has been getting lonelier and lonelier this past year….I am going through the same spending frenzy the wife went through before she went back to work.. think I will most likely be following her lead and spending like a crazy person as I try to justify to myself why I am back in an office, wearing shoes and a belt…. instead of hauling a 40lb pack around strange countries in shorts and trail runners..man.. it was a glorious year….

Today is the first nice Saturday we have had in some time in NY… there is a street fair outside and I just inhaled a sausage with peppers and onions on a hero for lunch.. but the Mrs is nearing a closing and had to make her way to the office today… I thought about going to Dunkxchange NYC… which is pretty much a comic book show.. but for sneakers.. the idea of being stuck in a room with a bunch of  hipsters and 15 year old B&T kids with their moms wasn’t doing it for me… I’ll stick to getting my shoes the new fashioned way… on my laptop and away from the riff raff…

now that the year of wandering the earth is over and done with.. next project… new digs… not sure yet if we are going to keep looking for an apt in the UWS.. or gulp.. maybe a house in Jersey….stay tuned

yeah.. there are more sneakers

Ohhh.. NB 574 Japan Edition

Air Max 90 Premium.. silver, black and purple…I managed to cop them for 40 bucks cheaper than retail…nice

Nike Insurgent Premium Redwood Editions… small air window in the back of the heel…yikes

Nike Legend… not super exclusive or pricey.. just a solid everyday shoe that I won’t be afraid to wear

Asics Onitsuka Tiger Limber Ups, so lightweight, comfortable, and cheap….

Baby Jordans!!!… I have never had a pair of AJ’s.. but the little man will be breaking necks with these

 a pair of sneakers not for me… these Boys size 6 are for the newborn nephew… these are Asia exclusives.. Year of the Pig Dunks…. so sweet.. when the little man is old enough to rock these.. he is going to be uber retro…

The Mrs and I had the chance to spend the entire weekend at the bro in laws place waiting on the pregnant lady to pop… but more importantly we got to lounge with the super cool neice all weekend… she is def the coolest person I know and is pretty darn cute to boot… we all ventured out of doors on Saturday to take advantage of the weather and walked down to Time Warner to have lunch at Whole Foods.. then we made our way for a little shopping to get our retail fix.. the wife scored a new bag, new sweater and a new pair of shoes.. me on the other hand.. copped a pair of AF1′s… my first.. well except for my pair of fake-o’s.. speaking of which.. I sported my fake o Pigeon Dunks and went shopping in them.. and lo and behold.. two people walked up to me and commented about my kicks.. first was a sales guy at Tip Top shoes… “Pigeons?.. those are tight”…middle age white guy, not some punk hipster skater .. ok weird… then at the wife’s shoe store a girl just walked up to me while I was sitting there waiting for the wife and said ” you are really brave to wear those out… they look mint and crispy.. if you are wearing those.. clearly you understand shoe shopping..”… I really didn’t have the heart to tell her that they cost me 40 bucks and were made in some knock off factory in China.. when real ones fetch 2,500 bones at Flight Club… but the girl used to work at Nike ID Lab.. so she is in the biz, she asked me if I had ever been and I told her I am going there for my b day in June….. needless to say.. I don’t think I will ever be able to wear the Pigeons again, can’t take the attention with knock off kicks… sad, cuz they are super comfortable…but for now.. scope the newest kicks…

Tan suede with university blue….XXV editions….

Two more pairs (Old School Bo Jackson trainers from way back in the 90′s) on the way from pickyourshoes.com.. can’t wait.. they should be arriving the same day as my offer letter… schweet….

ohh….Air Trainer One with the baby blue accent…

ahhh….the Air Trainer One SB Bamboo edition….don’t know if I will ever wear these..

shoes here.. now just waiting on the offer letter….

and now it’s really over…. no more contracting by the hour… now playtime is really over… a job that I have to take seriously… but at least now I can waste my money on sneakers and not feel guilty…