We’re busy doing family-Christmas-get-togethers!

Hopefully you’re enjoying your holiday weekend and an extra day or 2 off….

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We’re busy doing family-Christmas-get-togethers!

Hopefully you’re enjoying your holiday weekend and an extra day or 2 off….

]]> http://thosecrazyschuberts.com/2011/12/happy-holidays.html/feed 1 http://thosecrazyschuberts.com/2011/12/andrew-schubert-recording-engineer.html http://thosecrazyschuberts.com/2011/12/andrew-schubert-recording-engineer.html#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:17:17 +0000 Amy http://thosecrazyschuberts.com/?p=18526 I think I’ve mentioned this before…. But Andrew doesn’t sleep as much as normal people.

My default with no alarm is about 8.5 hours each night. Andrew’s is 5 or 6 hours each night.

Needless to say, he spends a lot of time awake, alone, watching movies in the living room.

But in the [...]]]> I think I’ve mentioned this before…. But Andrew doesn’t sleep as much as normal people.

My default with no alarm is about 8.5 hours each night. Andrew’s is 5 or 6 hours each night.

Needless to say, he spends a lot of time awake, alone, watching movies in the living room.

But in the last few weeks, Andrew has been using his sleepless nights to work! Like a crazy person!

He’ll work his ‘day job’ from about noon til about 10p, and then once everyone leaves completely reset one of the rooms to set up for his personal clients….. They arrive at about midnight, record til 5a or so. Then he has to RE-reset the room back.

He’ll come home and sleep for about 4 hours, then go do the same thing again!

But he loves it …. And I love that he’s such a hard worker…Always so proud of him.

A few weeks ago, he started a little bit earlier on a Friday night so I stopped by after work to get some photos of him in action ….

Luckily for me, Jenae loves to go down to the studio to help him. Which means I get to stay home and sleep, and he has assistance so he’s not there even longer!

recording a musical saw!

View the whole gallery here: Recording Charlyne and Miles

P.S. For those of you paying attention, that is Charlyne Yi – actress, artist and musician. You might recognize her from House MD or Paper Heart or Knocked Up.

I am thankful for ….

(Happy 6th anniversary to my favorite person EVER!)

He spent a bit of time Saturday trying to come up with a last minute costume – buying white thrift store women’s jeans that were about 3 sizes too big and an Elvira-type wig. Yes, really.

His plan was to be Andrew W.K. [...]]]> Saturday night Andrew went to a costume-concert … Whatever that is.

He spent a bit of time Saturday trying to come up with a last minute costume – buying white thrift store women’s jeans that were about 3 sizes too big and an Elvira-type wig. Yes, really.

His plan was to be Andrew W.K. and wear all white … but that wig was just not going to work.

But luckily for Andrew he has a wife who can make a fake tacky belt buckle in about 5 minutes …. So instead, he went as Zak Bagans.

Of Ghost Adventures fame.

So instead of all white, Andrew went with all-black, an awful hair-style and tacky rings/belt buckle/watch

Zak Bagans has a very distinctive way of dressing…. but he’s not really famous enough for most people at the concert to know who Andrew was dressing as….

But it was still super fun

Hair all messily combed forward and sticking straight out front

Big cross tattoo that can be clearly seen under the edge of his t-shirt

In full costume…. with Jenae as Indiana Jones

Andrew’s got his aluminum foil bling as well as his video camera prop (and a name tag, just in case)

Not bad for put together about half an hour before he had to leave, huh?

(compare to Zak in the middle: )

What were YOU for Halloween?

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Kissing you is like kissing a rainbow!

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Time is hard!

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(While reading book [...]]]> Ok, honestly, Andrew is the funniest person in my life …. Here are some real gems that came out of his mouth in the last few months….

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Kissing you is like kissing a rainbow!

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Time is hard!

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(While reading book 4 of Stephen King’s Gunslinger series)

Andrew: Sometimes I have to cover up the bottom of the page I’m reading with my hand

Amy: (blank stare)

Andrew: Well … you know…. If I know something exciting or big is coming up my eyes have a tendency to dart down and read ahead! So I literally have to cover up that part of the page with my hand or a bookmark or something!

 I think you can tell from this photo why watching Ghost Adventures is such a guilty pleasure – instead of a perfectly acceptable TV show to like

Of course, I’m kidding – you shouldn’t judge a show (or the people on it) by their appearance. … But that doesn’t make [...]]]>

 I think you can tell from this photo why watching Ghost Adventures is such a guilty pleasure – instead of a perfectly acceptable TV show to like

Of course, I’m kidding – you shouldn’t judge a show (or the people on it) by their appearance. … But that doesn’t make this show any less of a guilty pleasure.

I mean, honestly, any reality TV show should be considered a guilty pleasure…. but a ghost hunting one most of all.

Last year, during Scary October, Andrew and I went looking for a scary-ish TV show to watch (for those times when we wanted to see something scary, but didn’t have time for a full movie). Based on the box art for this show, we thought ‘No way’ …. that lead guy looks like the kind of person I want to punch in the face….. But then, of course, we got sucked in.

I’m telling you, Ghost Adventures is SUCH a fun show to watch! Pure entertainment – especially during Scary October!

The basic idea is … these 3 guys (and only the 3 guys pictured above) get locked into a ‘haunted’ location over night. They spend the whole night in pitch black (literally only able to see where they are walking by looking through the screen of their video cameras that have night vision), with a bunch of various recording devices to hopefully record evidence of ghosts, etc.

But then on top of that they – especially Zak (foremost in the photo above) – try to provoke whatever spirits are there into reacting, talking, throwing something etc. Of course, in every episode the guys very specifically say that they only try to rile up the spirits who are known to have attacked people in the past. They actually try to be pretty sweet to the poor little victim ghosts…..

Whatever that means….

And, really, I believe that THEY believe in the ghosts that they are hunting…. And that’s what makes it most fun. So easy to suspend my own disbelief.

They are not skeptics by any means (although they all claim that they were before they started ghost hunting). One of the guys (Aaron, on the right in the photo above) claims that ghosts or demons came home with him after a ‘lock-down’ and led to the dissolution of his marriage. The other 2 of the guys claim to have been (mildly) possessed during some ‘lock-downs’ … .

Crazy and fascinating and historical all wrapped up. And y’all know how I love history…

So, we’ve watched the first 4 seasons of Ghost Adventures on Netflix. Season 5 has not yet been released and Season 6 is on the air now.

…. but this time of year (Scary October!) is when I MOST want to freak myself out, suspend my disbelief and watch shows that include evidence of ghosts. I actually went on to iTunes to check out how much it would cost to just download the episodes.

I’m telling you. GUILTY PLEASURE.

Some highlights of the last few seasons if you are interested …

This second highlight video starts with a clip from Edinburgh Vaults where Andrew and I visited when we were in Scotland a month or 2 ago… oooooohhh spoooooky!!

PLUS:

Since the guys travel all over the world for the show, they get to visit all kinds of places. They record vlogs of where they are and what they’re doing (when not shooting the show) … . There’s a whole YouTube channel of the Ghost Adventures crew vlogs

Like this one (at Gettysburg):

related: Any idea how I can get my own Travel Channel TV show? Seems like the channel to work for if you want to travel …

also: I kind of want to build a Team Schubert vlog channel… but I don’t think I can get Andrew to agree.

Have you ever seen Ghost Adventures? Or do you have a different reality show that is a guilty pleasure?

 (in no particular order)

This fall I will be maintaining a little mini-scrapbook to help us remember the details of the season.

Autumn is so special to Andrew and me – we fell in love 10 years ago this fall … We got married 6 years ago this fall… We have [...]]]>

This fall I will be maintaining a little mini-scrapbook to help us remember the details of the season.

Autumn is so special to Andrew and me – we fell in love 10 years ago this fall … We got married 6 years ago this fall… We have so many fun traditions and special plans for every fall.

It’s just the best!

If you would like to see a little bit more of how this was put together, please visit Lemon and Raspberry. Also, future book updates will be posted there (not here)…..

But since Autumn is such a Team-Schubert THING I thought you all would like a little peek

Um. Yep, that’s it.

The weather here in SoCal is only BARELY cooling off, so I only feel like it’s been really fall for the last week or so….

Never fear – lots of pages and stories to add!