Today marks our 13th anniversary as a couple! Yay! Want to read about that first date and how we met? Check out the About Us section.
7Feb08
It’s a P-town Vacation
I’m looking forward to August. Yup… It’s true. I’m looking forward to what is typically the hottest month of the year. But with good reason this year, we’ve got our vacation plans set and it’s off to Provincetown, Massachusetts for us.
Not only have we read a couple novels that take place there, but our friend A.J. has gone a couple of times and talked up what a great time it was. This year, we’re going too.
We’re going in the busiest time of the year there, Carnival Week, so there will be lots to do. All sorts of celebrities show up to perform, there is a parade… but there’s also the quieter side of the city to enjoy too with the ocean, the beaches and the galleries to check out.
We’re staying at a great looking inn, The Red Inn (also at A.J.’s recommendation). Both of these pictures are from the inn. I love this deck shot and can see spending some time just lounging, appreciating the water and the breeze.
We’re both psyched about this. We didn’t vacation last year because work was too crazy for me to get enough time away. So this year we knew we had to do something to get away together. It will be our first time since our trip to Montreal for the 1st World Outgames in 2006.
As the trip gets closer and we get a sense of the things we’ll be doing there, I’m sure we’ll post more about that. In the meantime, it’s comforting to know we’re actually getting away for a bit this year.
28May07
Shopping…
We made a quick excursion over to Century 21 this afternoon to pick up a couple things, and who did we see while we were there? Queer Eye‘s Carson Kressley was in the men’s underwear section. You would’ve thought he would have joined the many others who’d escaped the city for the holiday weekend, but it looks like he decided to check out the Century 21 sales instead!
28Apr07
Superheroes R Us
Will found a cool website that allows you to create your own superhero, so of course we both had to give it a go. Here is the composite picture of what we created
You can go to heromachine.com to create one for yourself.
9Apr07
Superqueeroes: The Results
If you recall, back at the end of January, Jeff wrote that we were both trying to get into a new anthology called Superqueeroes. Today we both got the results of our efforts.
Will got in! His story, “Partners,” was accepted for publication. Yay!
Jeff didn’t make the cut. He got a great email from the editor saying that she had held on to the story and wanted to use it, but was hitting the word count limit for the book. It’s possible that if things change, “Mindgames” might squeak its way in. The positive feedback was great to get, so if it doesn’t make it Jeff will shop it around.
Superqueeroes is due out later this year. We’ll let you know when it becomes available!
9Dec06
Happy Holidays!
Posted by Jeff and Will in Hockey, Life in General | Tagged 1st World Outgames, Cool Cinema Trash, gay rights, NaNoWriMo
It’s hard to believe (and cliched to say) that 2006 has zipped by so fast. To already be writing Christmas letters, addressing holiday cards and doing all the shopping just seems odd. At least it has finally gotten cold, although perhaps a little too cold for it just being December. Yesterday morning it was 18 and with the wind chill it was only 2.
This year was a very busy year for us. In February, Jeff was down in Alabama for a week helping his mom move into a new house. It was his first time back there in 10 years since for the years we’ve lived in New York, his mom has preferred to come visit here. His mom bought a very nice garden house on the opposite side of Tuscaloosa from where she was living. Not only was it a good time helping with the move (Jeff is an odd person who actually likes the packing and unpacking) and seeing his mom, but Jeff caught up with some friends he hadn’t seen in a decade or more. The biggest issue around that trip is that while he was there, a huge snowstorm hit the city and he missed it — and to taunt him it snowed for about 30 seconds in Tuscaloosa while multiple inches were falling here.
Spring brought Will’s parents to town, as well as a day visit from his sister and her husband. Will took them around the city for the sites (including up to the Cloisters); they saw a few Broadway shows, went to Madame Tussaund’s Wax Museum and spent most of a day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (it was the first time we’d been there as well). It was a good week. It was the first time Will had seen his parents in about year, the last time being when we went up to Boston last year for a wedding. During the trip, Will’s father also brought him a gorgeous handmade letter opener that his dad had been working on for a few months.
Summer was busy for Jeff on the hockey front. The NYCGHA board was invited to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s LGBT BBQ reception, which was quite an honor. Jeff actually got a photo op with the Mayor and got to enjoy the party at Gracie Mansion. At the end of July, we travelled to Montreal where Jeff played with the Wizards in the 1st World Outgames. The Outgames trip was amazing, not only was it our first trip outside the country, but it was the first time Jeff had travelled outside NYC to play hockey too. He had been training hard hoping he could get on a team to make the trip and he was thrilled at the beginning of the year with the Wizards captain asked him to join the team for the games. The Wizards lost in the semi-finals, but we still played 6 games in 5 days, and Jeff did score in one of the games. Montreal was a great city too and we enjoyed checking out the city as we made our way around the different sports venues. All-in-all it was an amazing week.
We stayed busy into the fall too. Will kept cranking on Cool Cinema Trash all year long. The website turned three right around Thanksgiving and in that time he’s written more than 50 reviews. We did take another trip outside the city, going up into the Hudson Valley and checking out Kykuit, the Rockefeller Estate. It was a beautiful fall day, perfect for the three hour tour of the house, the art collection and the gardens. It was all quite beautiful.
In November, we both took on the challenge of National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to produce the first draft of a novel, at least 50,000 words, within the month of November. To do that, you basically have to ensure that you write at least 1,667 words per day. It was a frantic month, Jeff gave up going to the gym for most of the month so he could get his words done before work. By the end of the month, Jeff had competed the challenge with just over 52,000 words. Will fell a little short, but had a good time giving it a go nonetheless. We think we will both do it again next year. We are also going to take our first drafts and turn them into second drafts.
A pretty good year all around, right?
We hope all of our friends and family (and website readers) had a great year too… and of course have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
