Sunday, January 3, 2010

New Year 2010

Наша ёлка.My favorite and biggest family holiday of the year is behind us, yet again. Year after year, decade after decade.

Папа и Мама.This time Lina, for the first time ever was not celebrating it with us. She greeted the new year with Lenny and his family.

Папа и тётя Лиля.Before the New Year we ate a god knows how many course dinner — my mom can never help herself and cook a little. Talked about the last year and the last decade1. The last decade probably had the largest number of changes that affected my life the most — meeting my wife being the biggest of them all.

Даня и Алёна.It was a good year, a good decade and I really hope our family can enjoy many more.

  1. Yes, I know that the actual decade is not yet over, but for the sake of turning over 2 digits, it is. []
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Saturday, January 10, 2009

Мысли Вслух

New books, including the one written by Daniel's dad.Хочется пару слов написать о жизни, да всё как-то руки не доходят. Попробую исправить ситуацию.

A few hours before meeting New Year 2009.Новый 2009 Год, как уже писал Даня, мы встретили дома у его родителей. Было хорошо, по-семейному, много подарков замечательных получила, но как ни странно настроение было какое-то неновогоднее. Это не значит, что оно было плохим или грустным — напротив, очень даже замечательным, но не праздничым. Может, старею, может, дело в отстутсвии снега, а может просто год на год не приходится? Read more…
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Friday, January 2, 2009

New Year Gifts

Shiseido Zen perfume. My gift to Alena for New Year.The New Year celebration flew by in an instance, as everything else seems to do. First thing we know we’re eating dinner and then hour by hour goes by and it’s time to count down the last ten seconds of the year.

Casio Pathfinder PAW1500T-7V. Alena's gift to me on New Year.At midnight exactly we pop the bottle of champaign open, shoot some firecrackers and poppers and then toast the new year. After a small desert my favorite parts starts — gift giving and receiving. We had a mountain of gifts under our Christmas tree.

Casio Baby G Sweet Poison BG2000BC-1 watch for Alena.We all got a lot of stuff. Alena got a perfume that she wanted — Shiseido Zen and a pair of sports wrist watches for mountain climbing and such. I got Casio Pathfinder 1500, the one with titanium bracelet. The watch has a lot of functions — compass, altimeter, barometer, temperature sensor beside other things.

Our full collection — Voyager, DS9 and TNG.My parents and Lina got us a whole bunch of Star Trek seasons of Voyager and The Next Generations. Now we a full set of each.

Some colorful pottery from my aunt.Linka also got us some towels with custom embroidered names. And my aunt got as some very colorful serving dishes. Good holiday with a lot of fun New Year is. My favorite. Too bad it is over so quickly.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Happy New Year 2009

Happy New Year 2009!To our family & friends.

We spent a part of our weekend trying to come up with a card for New Year to congratulate all of you with an incoming 2009. We want to wish you, first of all, great health as with good health we can achieve anything else we set our mind to. And after that we wish you to reach or get closer to reaching your dreams in the new year. Have a happy New Year!

P.S. We hope you like our photo card — we took the photo ourselves.
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Saturday, December 20, 2008

The Hunt For The Watch

Casio watch box.This year it was decided that I was going to get a certain Casio watch for New Year as a present from Alena. Since she claims she doesn’t really understand much about watches the choice was left to me. After days and days of research and deliberations I set my mind on one particular model.

We soon discovered that the model is nowhere to be found online except for one store. Alena placed an order, but to our disappointment got an email within an hour saying that there was a mistake on the site and they didn’t not have the watch in stock. I should mention that the list price for this item is $400, but a lot of online places have it for $299, when they do have it in stock that is. Read more…
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Thursday, March 20, 2008

New Year Video

I finished editing the footage from our New Year 2008 celebration. I figured I’d post it here. I’m sure it’s going to be boring for most of our visitors, but I just want to give the link to my parents. )
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Monday, December 24, 2007

Getting Ready

Christmas TreeA little bit more then a week is left in the year 2007. We’re making ourselves a holiday. We put up Christmas lights all over our living room a week ago and put up all kinds of New Year stuff around our apartment.

Yesterday we went out and bought a Christmas Tree for $50. Since this is our first New Year in our new home we wanted to get a real one. As always it really adds to the spirit of holidays with its look and especially smell.

Today we had a nice evening with friends. Lenchik, Alex and Maruks came over. We ate a small dinner and sat and talked for hours. For tomorrow Alena is cooking a Christmas dinner. We should remember to take some pictures.
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Saturday, December 8, 2007

Happy Year

New Year in the HallwayThis year is almost over and New Year decorations are starting to appear all over the city. I think I’m ready to start getting into the holiday mood as well.

The year 2007 was a great year for us, as the one before. Many things happened, but probably the most important achievement of the year is the acquisition of our own apartment and the fact that our parents have finally took the same step. Yesterday they closed the deal on their own apartment in the same building as ours. A couple of weeks of minor fixes and we’re all hoping that they’ll be celebrating the New Year in their new home.

The lobby of our building is already full of decorations and it always fills me in with a kind of a warm feeling every time I come home. This is one of the main things that we need for complete happiness I think. The warms of the home. And luckily I have plenty of that.
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Новогоднее ШампанскоеВот и прошел праздник. Как-то немного грустно.

Мама, папа и ЛинаНовогоднюю ночь мы встретили у Даниных родителей. Хорошо так посидели, по-семейному. Папа на прошлой неделе купил ёлочку, мама и Линка наготовили кучу салатов (если я не ошибаюсь, примерно по 2 салатика на душу населения), фунчозу, мясо с картошкой и блинчики с клубникой. По русскому ТВ показывали Новогодние передачи, ну а в 12 ночи мы переключили канал и смотрели на известный шар в Times Squire.

Новогодние Свинки2006 год был очень хорошим и знаменательным в моей жизни. Некоторые события подошли к долгожданному финалу, а некоторые наконец-то начались! Свадьба, учёба, встреча в Одессе с моей семьёй… Я очень надеюсь, что год Свиньи принесет нам много радости и запомнится не менее, чем прошедший год Собаки.

Даня и АлёнаМы остались ночевать у родителей. Так славно и спокойно спать на диване в зале! ) Данька проснулся аж в начале 4го дня. Всю Новогоднюю ночь шел дождь…

Данюша подарил мне мультфильм “12 месяцев”. Мы с Людой часто его смотрели, уплетая за обе щёки салат “Оливье”, именно 1-го января! Вчера посмотрели его вместе с Маруками, которые зашли к нам в гости.
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