Celebrity Sightings

Now that Wife has been feeling better (well, at least she feels better most of the time), we have been able to get out of the apartment to enjoy the city. As we walk around outside our apartment, we are beginning to see celebrities again.

On Friday night, as I was walking home from work, there were the typical annoying tourists blocking the sidewalks as they took pictures. I was pretty oblivious to it all since I was rushing home with my cell phone pressed against my ear while trying to balance work folders and our late night take-out dinner. As I tried to duck to get out of some tourist's photo, I realized that there were several people taking pictures of the same thing. I turned to see what I walked into the middle of - there, standing less than two feet from me, was Neil Patrick Harris. I stopped to gawk for a moment as strangers were walking up to shake his hand and take his picture. I could tell he was a little annoyed that he couldn't leave his Broadway show in peace; however, he was polite and respectful to all of his fans. He seemed like a nice guy. I was a little surprised that he is a smaller guy than thought from seeing him on television. Wife actually met him years ago (before I ever met Wife) when she was a teenage fan.

Yesterday morning, as Wife and I were preparing to enjoy our lazy Saturday morning (we stopped and got bagels and coffee and took it to a small park along the Hudson River), we ran into Constantine (the guy from American Idol who is now starring in the Broadway show Rock of Ages - which was, coincidentally, the show that Neil Patrick Harris was walking out of the night before). It was actually kind of funny, because I instantly recognized him, but it took Wife a minute. She looked at him. He looked her. She looked at him again, knowing she recognized him from somewhere. He smiled at her. She smiled back. She turned to me and said, "I think I work with him...I know him, but I can't place him." I replied, "Isn't that Constantine?" Her eyes lit up, "It is! Hang on, I need to go ask him to do a high kick." Yeah, I'm sure he never hears that.

If you don't get that joke, watch the video below.

Quick Baby Update and Legal Research Quote

Baby News:

The doctor called Wife today to share that after analyzing the sonogram images, Baby Girl looks "perfect."


Quote of the Day:

"I urge you, if only for frolic and detour, to look into the rates charged by Lexis and Westlaw. They are nothing short of breathtaking: the cost of few hours in the ALLFEDS database is not much different than the cost of renting a private jet for the same block of time."

We're Having a Girl!!!! (and other pregnancy ramblings)

Yes, I know, it has been a while since we posted on the blog. In the last month, probably fifty things have happened which I have thought would be worth blogging about, but...well...we're busy people. Here are some bullet point baby-related thoughts.

* The doctor has confirmed that we're having a baby girl.

* Wife's first response to the news of a baby girl, "So, I guess you go need to buy a gun?" That's not a bad idea, but I don't want a gun.

* I never realized sonograms are so powerful. I knew we would be able to say, "Oh, look, the head." I was shocked when the technician said such things as, "Here are her two kidneys. This is the left ventricle of the heart. Here are the different portions of the brain. Here are are her hands - let's count the fingers. Here are the eyes, nose and mouth."

* Wife cried during the sonogram. They were tears of happiness (I asked).

* Wife has been craving Chinese food recently, which is absolutely awesome since I'm always up for Chinese. We've enjoyed several meals from Chinatown this past month. Our local Chinese hot-spot is very glad to see that we still exist.

* Baby Girl is definitely an active little kid. The technician laughed at the nonstop waiving, kicking and wiggling. Wife has been telling me she feels the movement for a couple weeks now.

* In NYC, all fast food restaurants are required to post the basic nutritional information for everything on their menu. Through this, we've learned that McDonald's ice cream cones only have 150 calories. Wife has a new favorite food. Most of her meals are very healthy, so I think a couple ice cream cones a week are good for her (she eats a lot of oatmeal and cereal for breakfast, hard boiled egg whites for her morning snack, soup and steamed veggies for lunch, and a lot of variety for dinner).

* I suddenly have no absolutely idea how we even survived the NBA playoffs without having HDTV. Just thought I'd throw that comment in.

* Last week, we realized that working a few blocks from each other can be very nice. I don't generally leave the office for lunch, but meeting up for a quick bite is something we'll probably start doing on a regular basis.

* It's about time for us to start thinking of names for a baby girl. Don't even bother asking about it.

* Now that we know what flavor this kid will be, suddenly shopping feels more appropriate. I don't know if its because we know what colors we should buy or because the sonogram made this experience more real.