Author: Reagan
The temperature dropped almost 20 degrees. It’s only 90s now instead of 105, 106, 107…we’ve been getting glorious rain again, soft breezes and cooler mornings. I ran 7 miles this morning and it was only 75 degrees! I was like “look at you 75 degrees! I want to smother you and romp around with you until my hair is messy!”. I hope your kids left the room for that one. If you’re like “Reags, you’re so weird! Just stop!”, keep in mind that Things could have been worse! I could have said ****** *****.
I’m proving with this picture below (that Jake took) that it is indeed cool enough for a jacket. I mean, it probably isn’t, I think I was pushing it, but it is just so nice to leave the house in something other than your nudes.
This jacket was 17 dollars at Gap. Jake and I are currently arguing that I should have “checked with him” before buying it, but I say that 17 dollars is so free that it would have been a waste and insult to both of our lives to bother with such a “check”. Whose with me? I have an idea, let’s yell! WHOSE WITH ME??
Author: Reagan
let’s start with a little back story. as long as i can remember (sometimes as far as before i could walk!) i have loved mermaids. mildly obsessed is putting it very mildly. that is kind of embarrassing to admit, however, it’s true. when i was really small i would put rubber bands around my ankles and take such long baths that my family thought i had run away. my parents had to replace the floor in my bathroom because i had spent so many hours splashing with my mer-fin. and that, my friends, is a true story. do you think that is weird? i’m sure it is, but just remember that i was homeschooled and that probably clears a lot of things up (homeschooled kids tend to be a little weird).
SOOO, fast forward to when Reagan is in her twenties and sees a poster in the subway for a coney island mermaid parade. I stopped completely in my tracks. I knew I had to do it. so i scoped it out for a few years, had some fun on the spectator side of the boardwalk and quietly planned my attack. 2010 is the year of the attack.
the theme was “housewife mermaids”. i was event coordinator with lots of help from aubrey. I decided we needed pearls, aprons and cookies. we spent several hours on a few different days making our fins. it was a lot of work, fun and glitter taking over my apartment (it turns out glitter is very hard to vaccuum.). but worth it if you’re wondering. (after this night below jake exclaimed “i’m girl party’d out”. can’t really blame him there.)
here we are walking into the subway. getting lots of stares. a few kids screamed excitedly “MOMMY!!! MERMAIDS!!!”. we saw the missionaries and waved. they didn’t recognize us so i was all “it’s me, sister breinholt!”. then they covered their innocent eyeballs.
i have never had more fun waiting for the train. isn’t our butler great? he carried the plate of cookies and we handed them out to the judges and a few kids.
i made the cookie dough and aubrey took complete control over cutting them out/decorating them. i don’t think i’ve ever seen cuter sugar cookies. except for maybe from martha…that b****.
we were the weird people on the train until about 14th street. people were taking our picture like crazy though.
i did everyone’s hair beforehand. i wish i could have spent a little more time on each mermaid, but i just didn’t have the time. i think the pearls and red lipstick did the trick though. plus my friends are so pretty.
notice the sign behind us is Mermaid Ave!! cool right? the mermaid parade was like christmas for Reagan Breinholt. except that christmas has religious purpose and less pasties. hopefully no pasties….
the crowd gave me and andrea nicknames. people called me “marilyn” and they called andrea “glasses”. ps, if you want to know what it feels like to be famous and get your picture taken thousands of times in one day, you should do the mermaid parade. i know that sounds silly/conceited, but it’s true. my friends and i took thousands of pictures with kids, families, as a group and by ourselves posing and hamming our mer-brains out. my cheeks were hurting by the end of the day. i liked it. i love the camera. it’s magical. ps someone from the new york post took my picture and then asked me the full spelling of my first and last name. i’ll be veeerrry surprised if it makes the paper, but how cool, right?
when we arrived to coney island we started noticing how really amazing a few costumes were. i was feeling like ours werent as exciting as we thought they’d be, but people loooooved us. i guess that is what happens when you have such pretty friends? partly because we were such hams for the cameras. posing and fluffing our hair, curtseying and blowing kisses. they went nuts for our butler and the cookies he was holding, and my old friend “glasses” was getting all kinds of remarks like “i love a woman in glasses”. we had a total ball.
I am definitely going to do the mermaid parade again. but only if it’s with this great group again (and maybe round up a few enthusiastic add ons?). coney island is far away and it was really a lot of work, but so so so fun. one of my funnest/most faviest days ever.
ps when i say other people had amazing costumes, i meant things like this…..
btw i try to be a graceful, gentle, classy 26 year old, but swearing and potty jokes are funny. to me. and i can’t stop myself from laughing at them. that explains the bleeped out s*** on my blob. sorry. i try to change, but i can’t. so i’m embracing myself for who i am. are we good?
All photos taken by Jake
Author: Jake
So, break out the coasters.
Author: Jake
Nothing new or novel here. I’m sure that everyone has heard this song at least 1000 times. But, hey– it is summer. “Doin Time” is such a classic mellow warm-weather song. I couldn’t think of anything more fitting for tonight. Press play.
[Phot0: Not sure who to credit. But I like it]
Author: Jake
The image above is actually from a post that I wrote exactly one year ago. Oddly enough, the convicts have spawned again, and there is a very similar scene going on in the tank, this week. I kept the mating pair separated for about a year, which worked pretty well, until the other tank cracked (could have been really bad). When that happened, the male, and all of the adolescents went back into the big tank. Tina is feeling pretty crowded these days.
Enough about the fish. The firm is closing early today (which actually means something to me, these days). Besides remembering the brave souls who gave their lives to defend out freedom, the only specific plans that we have this weekend are to run/ride bikes, and take Reagan to see the Deitch Gallery before it closes. I’m also doing some product shots for Shaun White’s new line for Target. I have the samples already. It is some pretty cool stuff. It should be a fun project. Other than that, I’m hoping that it will just be a lot of lounging, mixed in with Piper visits, and watching the BP Cam, as much as possible. Hahahaha.
If you have a minute, take a peek at this very kind article that was written today about Reagan.
I hope that everyone else has an awesome holiday weekend.
Author: Jake
Sunday morning, we were up at the crack of dawn, for a bike ride. It was such amazing weather. We just pretty much stuck the to the usual and headed down the Hudson River path going south. Early in the morning, we pretty much had the park to ourselves. It was really quite amazing. As we approached mid-town, it was a bit of a zoo. There were two cruise ships at the docks, that appeared to be preparing to depart. So there was a ton of traffic coming in and out of the terminals.
As we were passing the Circle Line piers, we heard a loud crunch/crash, directly behind us. I hit my brakes and turned around just in time to see a dudes bike come flying out from underneath the cab that he had just been hit by. I dropped my bike and ran over. He was able to roll out from under the cab, which I took as a good sign, especially given the fact that he wasn’t wearing a helmet. Reagan was on the phone with 911, as some police officers showed up. It was a pretty nerve racking experience. It was pretty scary, but luckily it wasn’t worse.
After the incident, we continued downtown, and had brunch at the North Cove Marina, before lounging a bit at the Battery Park City Promenade, and heading back up town.
After the bike ride, we headed up to visit Piper. She was in a foul mood again, Sunday, until I let her watch some ukulele videos on my phone. For whatever reason, that was all she needed. After watching one or two, she was all smiles and party-time.
We tried her out in the chair again, too. Since she was in a better mood, it seemed like she sort of liked it. Although, she still clearly preferred Reagan’s lap, understandably hehe.
Later Sunday evening, we had the really fun opportunity of visiting our friends, and their brand new baby, at the hospital. Their little guy is super cute. He was in a pretty mellow mood, too, considering the fact that we interrupted his lunch, when we arrived. Reagan enjoyed holding the little guy, and I enjoyed watching.
I didn’t mean to post so much this morning. But I woke up early to move the car, and run (which I intentionally park on a Monday side, last night, so that I would have to get up), and it is pouring outside. So, the running part, didn’t really workout for me, this morning.
Author: Jake
I saw this board on Format, today. So sick. It has all of the essentials, like sprayed on grip tape (old school Nash-style) and a built in bottle opener. Here is the Format description:
Santa Cruz introduces the ‘Land Shark’ Cruzer, which will surely revolutionize the age-old beer run tradition; full-equipped with a bottle opener on the bottom of the board, the Land Shark is just the kind of ride you’ll want for trips to the corner store before grabbing brews with their buddies this summer. The first board from this new range is the Rasta and it measures 8.8×27.5-inches and features 65mm Santa Cruz Road Rider wheels and spray-on, clear grip on the deck. The Santa Cruz Land Shark Cruzer is currently available for purchase here…
Man, I am so ready for warm weather.
Author: Jake
Well, this weekend I was finally able to justify the masses of camping and climbing gear that I dragged with me when I moved to New York from the Rockies. It is a good thing, too, because Reagan has threatened, on a few occasions to toss it all out. Friday night we went camping with a bunch of our good friends near Bear Mountain. I couldn’t believe how close it was to the city. The camping arrangements were NY, style. It was basically like a campground subdivision, full of various camping lots. It was a great time, though. We all had tin-foil dinners on Friday night, and stayed up late chatting around the fire.
Saturday morning, we went climbing at some routes along the train tracks, on the West Point Academy property. It was one of the hottest days of the summer, so far. I was incredibly rusty, with my climbing abilities, but I still had a blast.
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Author: Jake
Reagan and I were able to take a little road trip down south, this weekend to Virginia Beach. Some of our friends have access to a great beach house down there and invited us to tag along. For the most part, the weather was awesome. It was mid 80’s for the entire time. Sunday was a little overcast, at times, but still pleasant beach weather.
It was really cool to drive across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge/Tunnel. I saw a thing about how they built it on Modern Marvels, one time and had been curious about it ever since. I also loved watching all of the ship traffic come in and out of the bay, while we were there. We even saw an aircraft carrier on its way out to sea.
On the way home, we stopped for dinner in Delaware. When I came outside afterwards, there was a group of guys with motorcycles, in the parking lot, by our car. One of the guys had done his whole bike up in red carpet. Hahahaha. It was awesome. I snapped a couple of shots (below) and chatted it up with the riders for a few minute while I was waiting for Reagan to come out.
We had a really great time down there and were glad to become a little better acquainted with some of our friends and their families. More photos can be seen here.
