Overheard in 52w14 #21

Me: Annie, you're so small.Annie: Wanna see my muffin top?

Fiesta, Island style

This past Tuesday, we had some folks over to celebrate the last season premiere of Lost. Since we're experts at Lost parties now, and familiar with all the offerings of The Island, we even had an epic feast.
Jeff found the Dharma Beer to be quite tasty.

Alex took a break from explaining time travel to everyone for an awkward group photo. Jerry Juice was amazed.
And Buster practiced looking like Annie in case he needs to take over her body in the future.

this little piggy didnt get any roast beef

Dear This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef,

I was so excited when I read that the Artichoke boys were opening a restaurant entirely dedicated to roast beef. I found out you opened two days ago and that you have a roast beef, au jous, and cheese whiz sandwich. I came to see you as soon as I could. I even went outside in 16 degree (feels like 9) weather. Why on earth were you closed on a sunday at 1pm??????? You just opened three days ago! Lucky for you, I'm willing to give you another chance. I plan on coming to see you again one night this week. Please don't let me down this time.

Thanks,
Alexis

Shut the Front Door v.2

best meeting ever.

i just placed an order for 14 shack burgers, 8 fries, 3 cheese fries, 5 sides of shack sauce, 5 sides of pickles, 1 pint of salted caramel frozen custard, one pint of chocolate frozen custard, and 4 black and white milk shakes.

Snow Tubing 101

I forgot to tell you about the time we went snow tubing. Lex had an awesome time.

Shut the Front Door v.1

last. lost (premiere). ever.

What: best/last ever lost premiere party, a bit like the last one we had.
When: 2.2.10
Where: the new 52w14
Who: those of you who know us well enough to contact us for an invite (yes, im pretending people who don't know us read this blog)

Buster's long lost brother.

YoGA at the MoMA

jessica dared me to break the whale skeleton statue while headstanding, but i couldn't reach.

more

The (very) Long Awaited Return of the Mundo

Remember Billy--AKA Mr. Mundo? well he's one of our favorite blogger friends. Sadly he took a long break to go on lots of rides at six flags (<----SixFlags Mike took over for SixFlags Billy) and eat millions of spicy chicken sandwiches at wendys. but lucky for us, he's finally decided to return to the sphere. Check out his new blog. There'll be lots more to come from him, so be prepared.

cheeseburgers...made out of cake and brownies...

the inspiration:my hamburger helpers:the final product:thanks for the recipe, samir.

the mysterious disapearance of gumby

jenn went to colorado, so i was in charge of buster at the office today. he was hard to keep track of becusae theres literally a queue for whose desk he gets to be at next. around 4 30ish, i finally got to have him on my desk. I realized his gumby toy was missing and i could tell he wanted it because w/ out it he was stuck playing w/ this guy...
i sent an email to the whole office to see if anyone knew what happened to gumby. finally, the mystery disapearance was solved. "I may know where it is, but its gonna cost you.."

Excuses, Excuses

Remember that time I tried to be a vegetarian again for a month? But then Mags tricked me and I forgot in the first week. Well, that's kind of how my promise to Lex I'd step back on the blogging train is going...
Buster and I have been so busy at our other job we just haven't had enough time to be interesting. However, we hope to take a ride on the Information Superhighway with ya'll in the near future. Until then, additional photo/video footage of Buster are available upon request.

Jenn's Dream Wallet #25

I know that you're all obviously aware of how jenn feels about tye die, but what you don't know about is her almost equal love for duct tape. Our friend Annie came over the other night and whipped this baby out.Jenn would really appreciate it if one of our readers expressed their love for this blog by making one for her. you can purchase the duct tape here and learn how to make it here. thanks.

my fame continues

Just so you know, i signed a waiver to be on the city last night. and you thought my 15 minutes were up....

52w14 <3 Groupons 4eva

Elana told me about this thing called groupons a little bit ago. and since then its seriously been true love. the way it works is every morning you get an email w/ the deal of the day. then you can say if you want it or not, and if a certain amount of people decide they want it, then you get it. jenn and i looooooooooove groupons. we've already purchased a super cheap massage ($45 for a $125 one) and an AMAZING day trip that you will learn about in due time. basically the guys who started its goal was to give ideas about really awesome things to do in your city and help you do them for cheap. they also have the funniest copy to describe each groupon. like jessica ghersi funny.

now, if you refer someone and they buy a groupon, then you get 10 groupon bucks. so sign up and buy one so we can get some! then we'll have all these fun things to do and we'll blog more...this is jenns referral link and this is my referral link. according to jenn, im already a groupon millionare (i have 30 groupon referral bucks) so whatever. take your pick of who you want to take the referal from...ENJOY!!! and thank you elana!

taylor swift jimmy johns

now that the internets is my job, i know how to use it way better. so i decided to take a closer look at 52. it turns out that someone actually typed "taylor swift jimmy johns" into google, and ended up on 52w14. one day i will meet that person and find my true soul mate. until then, Alli got real excited and tested it out (now 2 people have used that search term...)

what do you think the chances are that taylor will type that in?

lex diamonds

we still dont have heat or hot water in our apt...and Incase you're not in new york or anywhere else in the northeast i guess, i woke up and found A LOT of snow outside my window. last winter was the first winter i admitted that SOMETIMES i think snow can be pretty and fun. so whatever i guess that still stands.

but it wore off and now im over it. 7 days til miami. luckily i woke up to this beauty in my inbox (subject: killah blizzahd) to help cheer me up.

thank youuuuu, nicholas.

Workin' for the Holidays

Last night was the office holiday party. Tonight is Lex's recovery.
(This is a true story)

yayayayya!

we've made the big move from apt 4awesome to apt 4fuckinawesome. leroy is not helping us unpack.

he's learned from the best

just like mr winkle, leroy did his best impression of the plane we flew on yesterday.

we're moving.

after 5 amazing years here, the time has come to pack up 52 and move out (tear). many of you have been expressing concern about the fate of this dear blog. if you could please focus your eyes to the top of the site, you will see that 52w14 is "more than an apartment, it's a lifestyle." we will always have a little piece of 52w14 inside us which means the blog will come with us to our new home. im not going to divulge the new address because this blog has made us way too famous and we dont want stalkers. see you in the new house!

#1 Grandma

Remember when Maruchy was into drunk dialing me, well now she's taken her amazing prose to the email lines.

For years now I've been telling my parents how I wanted a dog, but Mama & Papa were always very vocal that they thought it was a bad idea. Then, Hektor had a kid (1 of his 14) and all of a sudden the Moms was all about it. Except, I wasn't allowed to name him Baby Robot because she cannot pronounce "robot."

Anyway, Baby Buster (seen above) is coming home to meet the family for Christmas. I've been sending some emails around about my plans to bring him to sunny Miami & at some point my Dad sent some email about "flying with the dog"...Mom responded with the following:

"stop calling baby buster THE DOG, he has a name and whether you like it or not he is now part of our family. I am forwarding this to Jenn. We love you and understand your feelings but its done and he at least now has a name I can pronounce and I do not like you calling him THE DOG!!! Practice his name is buster"

Overheard in 52w14 #21

"Did I leave my braces out here?"

-Alex De Chung

yes, its normal that you can't stop watching.

click here..SERIOUSLY..click here.
(thanks, tobye)

*UPDATE* After i showed jessica, this is what she did.

Nerdo made us this beautiful image

(incase you couldnt tell, thats baby buster in the photo)

I suppose now i can move back home

they are seriously opening a shake shack in miami. ive dreamed about this moment for years, but never actually thought it would happen. check out the details here.

Baby Buster

This is Buster/Baby Robot. I love him very much. He is the newest addition to the 52w14 family.

Buster can't come home to the big apple just yet, he is still a baby who needs to hang out with his mom & dad (Hektor). I just look at his picture all day waiting for our reunion. You can now look at it too. You're welcome.

a very strange/cold way to watch football.

this is what we look like at normal dolphins games.this is what we look like at dolphins games in new jersey.thank god they sold landshark beer, so we at least felt slightly at home.

brrrrrrrrrrr.
thanks for the tickets, brother.
go dolphins.

obviously im posting this.

Happy Halloween!

I hope ye be havin' a fun weekend. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Love, Captain Leroy Hook.

ps: please dont ever make me wear this stupid outfit ever again.

You tell him, joy and andrew!!!

watch the clip here.

i slipped on a banana peel this morning.

it was in real life, not in a cartoon. i know that jessica did an experiment to see if they really are slippery, but you cant really understand it until you're leaving your apt in the morning and out of nowhere you slip and fall into the wall. obviously you assume its dog poo, but then you look down and realize that you jsut had a real life cartoon moment.

its gonna be an interesting day.

the balick kids (dr. alli and andrew) are flying out to ny on nov 1 for the dolphins jets game. this will be all of our first times going to a professional sports game when its not sweltering hot outside. i think ill be fine with the cold, but alli and andrew, coming from miami and la, both bust out long underwear if it goes below 70. (im seriously not exaggerating). i saw that the forecast was 60 degrees with "brilliant sunshine" so i got real excited and showed them. andrew was dead serious when he responded... "woah woah...HIGH is 60!? im scerd.."
its gonna be a long, cold game for the balick siblings.

Jenn's Dream Big Apple Landmark #24

Updated: THEY TIE DYED THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING (a for effort)

Caayute.

shattered dreams.

for the last three years, lindsay and i have been trying to make it up to buffalo for their annual chicken wing festival in hopes of entering (and winning) the miss chicken wing pageant. two years ago we missed it becuase i was in miami. this year we couldnt go becuase lindsay was in a wedding. next summer we are going, no questions asked. her mom was even trying to plan lindsays wedding for that same weekend, but lindsay said she had more important things to do.now that september 4-5 is marked in lindays outlook (that means its official), i started doing my research on what we need to do to prepare for the miss buffalo wing pageant. i found the details here and discovered some incredibly unfortunate news.

Contestants must be single and never married, not pregnant and between the ages of 17 and 23.

not only is silly lindsay going off and getting married a month before, BUT we are old folks who arent allowed to enter!! can you beleive it??? does anyone know how to get us ny state 23 year old fake id's??? regardless, were still going. we have 11 months and 16 days to figure out how to be a non married, non pregnant, 23 year old, chicken wing loving new yorker.

there should be a leroy in every borough.

today we volunteered with nyc cares, and painted this awesome mural on an elementary school in bk. jenn painted leroy and he will now forever be honored at PS 59 K William Floyd School. After taking the beautiful photo seen above, jenns back immediately looked like this. (cool scrunchie)

Let the Wild Rumpus Start

As you might know, 52w14 is no stranger to the mighty crown. As you might have somehow heard, Where the Wild Things Are comes out today.

Due to our incredible fame, we were invited** to an early screening on Wednesday night. Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers, Karen O, Cathrine Keener, Max Records, and John Hodgmen (and his iphone) all graced us with their presence. Then they gave us Max crowns.
(you might notice the nose picker in the back is crownless, just saying...)
The movie & the soundtrack are really really neat. You should partake in the fun.

**Working definition of "invited" in this post means we donated to 826nyc, a non profit (founded by Eggers) dedicated to supporting students with their creative & expository writing skills. There's a few around the country so consider paying your dues to childhood and helping some kids get creative.

i'm cleansing again.

this time i thought id ad a little extra torture to the deal. i got a beautiful cheeseburger manicure so everyday i wake up and look at my finger, and remember that i CANNOT eat a cheeseburger til a week from friday. its gonna be a looooong 12 days.

i did lots of fun things last night.

then i woke up and discovered this today. how on earth did i get undressed last night?

it was a real good birthday.

i rocked my new furry zebra blanket pants and went to the shake shack. thanks for everything, everyone.

mirror images

so ever since iphone added picture messaging on friday, alli and i have been really into texting eachother photos of whatever we're doing. (i spent the weekend in indiana. it made for very exciting parts of my day). now that im back, its rainy and i got in bed with leroy and put on the dolphins game and sent alli this photo.then she responded with this photo.weird, huh?

butts everywhere.

doesn't it look like radcliffe's pooing into leroys ear and leroy's barfing out poo?

my parents just tried jimmy johns for the first time.

"i cant take my mouth off this jimmy johns"-abbey kaplan (that's my dad. he has a girl name)

today's breakfast

how come nobody told me how fun office life is?

1st best nights of my life.

ok...so long story short, i got picked to be in taylor swifts vma performance. i know i know..dream come true. anyways, i got to bring a friend (thank god because some talyor swift fans can be quite irritating). so about 3 weeks ago jayne and i filmed the first half of it on an nyc subway car til like 4am. we were dancing so close to her that she smacked me in the face with her hair. then, at the end, we hugged and i told her i loved her and it turns out she loves me too! today we got to go to the awards to film the 2nd half of her performance cuz that part was live. obviously we began the night by posing on the red carpet like any vma star would.right before we were about to go on..the producer came down with the look of death on her face. she told us that taylor won best female video, but in the middle of her speech, vagina-face-kanye came up on the stage and said that beyonce deserved the award more than her. taylor came down to us in tears. but since shes the amazing fantastic girl that she is, she sucked it up and rocked it. and now...here is the long awaited "world blog premeire" of my mtv debut!!!!

New Music - More Music Videos

at the end, super awesome beyonce won best video and let taylor come on and have the spotlight and let her give her acceptance speech. kanye made taylor the star of the show. suck on that ass face!

LexTV

In case you've somehow the past 50 posts Alexis has done about her favorite singer, Lex will actually be live in Taylor Swift's performance tonight at the VMAs. She's been there all day, yet was kind enough to take the time away from her rehearsals to send me an update:

Leroy and I are eagerly awaiting her big debut.

Jenn's Dream Bestie #23

This morning I woke up to this glorious email from Mags
Even though he doesn't know how to spell my name, his message proves he understands my pov:

"Jens dream... Road?

Gypsy merchant opportunity?

Place ever?"

what did YOU get leroy for his birthday?

first off, at midnight, my mom sent him this HILARIOUS ecard (make sure you have your sound up). then, not only did i get to bring him to work on his birthday, but my new office/jenns office (oh yes, we work together now) got him this amazing birthday cake and a pig ear.if he wasnt full enough from that, his aunt jayne, knowing how much he loves to eat poo, got him this sweet new toy that freaks me out every time i see it on my brand new white comforter.unfortunately, his party got rained out, but it will be rescheduled and he will be able to enjoy his poochini at a later date.

Overheard in 52w14 #20

Alexis while checking next week's DVR schedule:

"OH MY GOD...REGIS AND KELLY on OPRAH!!"

leroy will only turn 4 once.

join us.

dan humphrey saved my life.

today was my first day of work and lucky for me it was blood drive day! unfortunately, after giving blood i went to the gym and learned the unfortunate lesson that working out after giving blood is not a good idea. even though i was getting all dizzy i refused to quit. then, all of the sudden, my knight in shining armor walked in. gossip girls own dan humphrey was right in front of my face. i quickly came to the conclusion that it would be way too embaressing to puke all over the eliptical in front of him, so i made the responsible decision to get off and go home and eat a cheeseburger.

today this is my favorite song

it's probably yours now too, right?

we are going to bed with stomach aches.

goodnight.

2nd best night of my life.

ive seen some pretty serious concerts in my life. ive seen crosby stills nash and young, phish (8 billion times), britney spears, neil diamond, mc hammer, boyz II men. ok ill stop now but the list goes on and on. my point is, last night taylor swift was the absolute BESTTTTTTTT ever of all time. lindsay and i will never be the same.taylor was so fuking cute and grateful to be performing at madison square garden. she said, "ive been waiting my whole life to say this. whats up madison square garden!!" and shed like stop all the time and just take it in and listen to the crowd and she literally had tears in her eyes. shes just the absolute most awesome cutest person ever.
you'll find out about the 1st best night of my life in due time...

$$$$$

jaynes running a race to help cure breast cancer. give her all your money. go here and type in jayne miranda.

Jenn's Dream "Me in 30 years" #22

Thanks to one of my all time favorite blog[ger]s, Jeff (aka Cold Splinters) for this inspirational photo:

*Updated: While i was busy sharing this beautiful imagery with you readers, this happened...
(my dream arrow added for emphasis)

#1 most effective way to block the sun.

temperatures in nyc FINALLY got into the 90s today(yay). lucky for jayne, she wore this lovely tiny hat she picked up in bolivia in order to keep the bright sun out of her eyes.

stick to the original.

i really don't know what to think about t-pains remix(?) of the miami dolphins fight song. im pretty positive i hate it. i like the version ms. kadison taught me in kindergarten way better.

you can listen here if you want, but don't say i didn't warn you.

Ocean Puppies

Lex and I went to go see The Cove today. Lex bawled during at least half of the movie. However, I didn't even make fun of her because it was totally tearworthy. Not only are dolphins incredibley intelligent & awesome, they also love belly rubs--just like Leroy.
You guys should check out the movie. And save the whales.

reason #894975 that summer is better than winter.

a taylor swift dance off

i accidentally promised my extra taylor ticket to 4 different people, so i did what any normal person would do. i turned to my favorite rom-com, fever pitch, for inspiration. 4 poeple (jayne, jenn, lindsay, and caity) have been chosen to participate in the first ever, "A Taylor Swift Dance Off" presented by part of 52w14. If they choose to enter (which which obviously they will), they will be competing to pay me $85.

the dance off will consist of different rounds such as, freeze dance, tie dance, freestyle dance, etc(suggestions welcome). i will supply the alcohol. to be fair, they will be judged not on skill, but rather on effort and creativity. obviously the choice of music will be all taylor all the time. if you'd like to be a judge and/or just come to cheer them on/laugh at them, email me for details. good luck to all the contestants.

Vail, Colorado

Home of the worlds most beautiful pedicure

finally!!!!!!

from now on, my face permanently looks like this:do you wanna know why? it's because i finally scored myself a pair of these bad boys!!! after months and months of begging and pleading to anyone who'd listen, i finally got me some tickets to FINALLY see taylor swift at madison square garden!!! and i didn't pay $687 like they're charging on stubhub.com, i paid face valueeeeeee. the countdown to august 27 officially begins now!

jimmy johns a la chicago

my absolute most favorite lindsay was in chicago this weekend and basically missed her flight in order to bring me back a sub from jimmy johns. luckily there were crazy storms in ny and her flight got delayed, so she made it onto the plane (with subs in hand).i tried to photograph the delicious tuna sub, but it disapeared too quickly.

wtf.

this morning i walked into yoga and there was a 9 foot tall furry purple monster standing there.it left before class started and nobody ever spoke of it again.

giant yellow plastic bracelet.

last night we gotta go to this diesel party and see passion pit and clipse w/ kanye and cobra starship without blair (sad face) and the roots with lykke li (the dopest).i woke up this morning with this beautiful bracelet on. dare me to never take it off?

one time, in 7th grade i went to a no doubt concert with my friend lauren. we had the SICKEST seats and we got these amazing pink plastic bracelets that said, "you are now entering the moshing area." i kept mine on for 6 months until it turned white and they made me take it off for softball.

...i dont think im gonna do that this time though.

jenn!!!!!

why the fuck did you just throw my brand new underwear in my dinner???!!!!!**she seriously just did that.

Mad Men, starring 52w14

I MadMen-ized us. doesnt it look EXACTLY like us? (NOTTTT! ...haha thats fun to say). the only one that looks slightly realistic is leroy.
now listen up, just because i turned us into mad men, doesnt mean im all caught up. i still have to watch all of season 2 minus the first episode so dont ruin anything for me.