In case you haven't gotten me anything yet

1. CIA (culinary institute) bootcamp (and subsequent time off work)
2. All expense paid and subsequent reservations to El Bulli
3. A new pen
4. Handcrafted, hand tooled, leather portfolio, not black.
5. Limo to take me to the city for a nice shave (art of shaving perhaps)
6. Unlimited bar/food tab at Catherine Lombardi or Nicholas
7. To see the movie "The Wrestler" at home, and not travel to NYC to see it
8. A day at the shooting range shooting different guns, I've never shot a gun, would be neat.
9. Left side of my living room furnished
10. Shelves for my kitchen wine rack area...made from 100+yr old wood
11. A nice fresh Kobe steak prepared
12. Socks/underwear/white alfani v-necks,
13. A comfortable (but not expensive)bathrobe so I can spill stuff on and not feel bad about it and pretend to be The Big Lebowski
14. Someone to torrent the entire Velvet Underground library for me and put it on my phone.
15. nice (hand crafted, tooled) leather "wallet" flip up type case for my iPhone, the perfect, slim, design...probably the most impossible gift on this list.
16. The mis-matched color of my rear passenger side door "repair" ...re-repaired
17. my basement organized with some racks/shelves
18. basement painted (ceiling AND floor too)
19. Nikkor Zoom Super Wide Angle AF 17-55mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor Autofocus Lens for Digital Cameras or Tokina Zoom Super Wide Angle 16-50mm f/2.8 AT-X 165 PRO DX Autofocus Lens for Nikon Digital
20. A stunt driving, drag racing, or rally racing class or just a day that I can drive a car like an asshole on a closed course.
21. Someone to paint my garage (walls and floor)
22. An attorney or someone else to have power of attorney so I will never have to go to the DMV ever again. for anything. at all. ever.
23. A nice new watch

24. Job security.

25. A job to keep me from going stir crazy one or two nights a week...restaurant, bar, something.
26. Oil change for my car
27. Kitchen-aide pro 600 mixer
28. NICE pressure cooker
29. old seasoned cast iron. not the new lodge shit


I'll think of some more later...

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We also made a time-lapse video of us putting up the tree (with some antics thrown in!) It's just as long as the song...so might be boring for you, but at least it's a great christmas song!


Christmas Extravaganza 2008 from Robert Timko on Vimeo.

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Laurie gettin' ready

First stop, the GRINCH!




Orchestra seats, front and center!


Stage. The show was GREAT. I've seen the Rockettes, about 10x and I can say that the Grinch was absolutely better!!


Merry News Corp. Xmas


Balls!


Kobe and Surf and Turf lunch!


THE tree









GREAT day in the city, weather was perfect, timing was perfect, show was perfect, lunch was MORE than perfect!

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