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Monday, June 18, 2007

Rihanna in the house

it has come to this...and it keeps going. Why are Tim and Rita dancing on the coffee table?

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Energizer

yes we are still going, but have made it to Sollys so we are real close to home and about to end the night.

Happy Birthday Judd

We're at the Box of Clowns for Judd's birthday.

Rita Jean and I were having an after brunch cocktail at JRs. Jym fell out and Virgie came back over the river. We went for a smoke and saw a salon so we popped in for a quick pedi. Didn't tell Tim, but he's with VB so he'll be fine. My pigs were due.

Brunch Bunch

We are troopers...made it to brunch. Yes we had bloodies to take the edge off. Several. I wanted a casual dining shot but Jym/Tim wanted to pose. Fairies.

Happy Father's Day

I woke up to three text messages telling me Happy Father's Day. None of them from my daughter. This is weird. I am not that figure.

And Tempwhatthefeckever Hall. Moderation? Restraint? None of that is promoted there. False advertising, but what an amazing place.

Vergie talking Long Distance

...across the river.

That's how we rolllllllll

We quickly went back to our hood so we could comfortably fall into our beds. VB and Jenny from the block are trying to brew up a Sunday funday.

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Happy Birthday Young Kevin

Is he still Young Kevin if he is 22? He clearly wasn't expecting this camera in his face. Temperance Hall is amazing. Why haven't we been here before? We kidnapped Violet, Adam, and Carmen from the last party and all the regular peeps are here too! Good times.

Spring Valley CC

Group pic before the Adam leaves the family. Upper NW will never be the same.

Bye Bye Adam and Carmen

So this is the CC going away party for Adam at the Playbill Cafe. We will miss Adam and his wife Carmen as they are moving to Boston. Little does he know that Carmen and I have scheduled play dates since she'll be here a little longer than he will. Let me clarify; she has a new Vespa and we're going for fun Vespa road trips! Nothing dirty.

Dream Weaver

I went back to Erwyn at Bodysmith last week and twice this week. It has been great! I've been going to bed super early and getting up super early. Today I was at work at 6:30 AM. Yes, I know it is Saturday. The infamous "Breakfast Club" to help our low producers started at 7 AM. The side benefit of this clean fit living is the return of my dreams. While they haven't all been positive, they are dreams nonetheless and I love them. I need to write them down when they occur so I don't forget, but here's a summary of what I remember.

Tuesday: I was in a plane crash on a flight out of Pittsburgh, PA. We crashed as a result of some bizarre force that sucked everything into an alternate world. At the time I could remember everyone who crashed with me, but for the life of me I can't right now. Essentially we were in a hazy swampy place crawling out of the wreckage into an old school barn that was floating in pieces. A rescue helicopter with my friends onboard came to get us and we couldn't warn them about this black hole in the sky and it crashed them with us too. I don't remember anyone dying, but it was bizarre.

Wednesday: Stayed up late for movie night and don't remember. We watched, "Shortbus," and I do love the sad Jamie. His experiences seem very real to me.

Thursday: Dreamt about dogs. This is probably related to a horrible book I started reading that day which I thought was going to be good. It turns out it was a memoir of someone's dog...couldn't get into it.

Friday: Last night I dreamt about my brothers. We were in some sort of competition. As I went in and out of the dream, we were placing in different orders. Essentially we were trying to prove to Lisa who was the best and who was worthless. I can't remember the context of the competition, but I remember ridiculous turmoil from the madness.

I'm sure none of these will recur tonight because we are celebrating Adam's going away party at the Playbill Cafe this evening and Young Kevin's 22nd birthday at Temperence hall tonight. Having steered clear of the sumptuous adult beverages all week, I will be a cheap date and I'm sure sleep like a baby (or maybe more like a dead person.) Hopefully one of these dreams will come back and I can expand upon it. If not, I hope I keep dreaming because it makes me contemplate life and I feel like I'm getting more money's worth out of my day. Otherwise, sleeping time is wasted time.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Construction - Digging Begins

Mom and Lisa stand in the basement! Looks like a huge hole.

Monday, June 11, 2007

Al Crostino rocks

We blew

Hoot This

My last drink at Hooters. Who'd a thunk it. Enroute to my party that started at 8. I'm late. I am in a taxi. I forgot my shopping bags. I hope my friends have them.

Trumped

VB thinks the plants need more substantial plant food. She provided. A good friend.

Watering

How does your garden grow?

This is good

Just a shot in the city. Do you know what town this is in?

getting less clever

so it is backwards. damn

Sisley

here's your sign. yes. more clothes. real cute.

Sustanance

Time for a bit of Greek food. Where is Jay now?

It's a cafe

Can u guess? Your clue is Dupont. They have $3.95 martinis for happy hour so we are stopping.

Not Bunch

Bought a new birthday shirt. For those of u in the competition, guess the street for a point.

This one is hard

This round is worth 2 points. I didn't even know that Sue Ellen had such a thing here.

Moving

If you keep moving you make a harder target for god to hit. Where am I now?

Where's Jay?

i swore i wasn't going to do this, but it is my birthday!

Happy Birthday to me

I am really glad I scheduled today off work! Happy Birthday to me. I just got up and am going for some lunch as soon as I shower. Ended up going to Axis, Solly's, and Be Bar last night after the Fox. I also bought half a new birthday outfit at the Universal Queer. Powershopping. I have no idea how much those damn shorts cost, but Anna bought me the flip flops. Super comfy.

Sunday, June 10, 2007

All My Chirrens

So Anna (my birthday amigo,) Michael, and Catrina showed up. We had a nice time and just moved to Halo. M/C went home to pack for the pending move. Perfectly acceptable get out of jail free card. We hear some drunky friends are at the Box of Clowns. That may be the dext nestination.

Bloody Fantastic

I walked the festival with Timmy (he rallied) and now I'm having a bloody at Merkado. Friends are allegedly rallying and if I'm lucky and loved the pre-bday Sunday Funday will begin before long. My boss confirmed by vacation day request so I will be able to sleep in on my birthday! Timmy snapped this pic of my first sip.

Sunday Funday Birthday Style

The day has arrived. Today is my daughter's 13th Birthday. She is now officially a teenager; she will always be my baby girl. It frightens me to death. Her party yesterday was an absolute success and the entire day was one of those rarely perfect days that we experience in life. I got up early, finished the food shopping, picked up the perfect cake, finished the decorating, and then spent a few hours with Whitney shopping and hanging out. When we arrived, she saw the cars and asked, "...well what is this a family reunion?" to which I replied, "No silly, it is your surprise birthday party that you thought we were having." The look of surprise, satisfaction, and amazement on her face was purely priceless. It showed me that while she may have been on to us, she wasn't absolutely sure and it hit her head on when it actually happened. Definately a success.

For the sake of my personal history, here are the attendees; Whitney, Grandma T, Jason, Richard, Dalia, Steve, Lisa, Keith, Lovina, Starla, Mykala, Mykenzie, Fabran, Janet, David, Betty, Ryan, Kelley, Brady, Esther, Christopher, Ervin, Cameron, and Moose Dog.

The day's activities included the traditional cookout and birthay party things. We also spent a great deal of time outside as the weather was beautiful. The quad runners had their share of use with everyone taking several rides. I even herded (sp?) the cattle in for dad on one with Starla on the back. The most unexpected moment occurred when Aunt Lovina and Mom sped up the drive on Keith's quad runner and bolted off into the field to look at Steve and Lisa's home. It is fully staked out now and the digging is supposed to start on Monday! They are very excited.

The day ended with a personal best return to DC. I made it from Whitney's house in 5:45. This is 20 minutes faster than my previous record of 6:05. There were no cops, perfect clear weather, little construction, and the traffic was so light I thought I was the only car for most of the ride. It is so nice to drive at night instead of during the madness of the day and all the summer vacation crazies going across the world.

Timmy clearly had fun too. I won't go into details, but I collected him from a friend's livingroom floor, covered in puke, and barely recognizing his own name when I got home. No judging...it was allegedly a great party, Pride Holiday Parade, festival, and bar night. They didn't make an appearance at Anna's party crawl which truly surprised me.

I should say I won't judge unless he is incapacitated for the day and unable to participate in today's Sunday Funday to celebrate my birthday. I sent an email to my boss and requested tomorrow off. I didn't originally think I'd need it, but I am tired. Tired and very thirsty.

Saturday, June 09, 2007

Happy Birthday Grandma

It is grandma's birthday tomorrow too. We bought her a European Variagated Dogwood and are planting it in the front yard!

Surprise Party

I can't believe my baby will be 13 tomorrow. This makes me very old. We are all set up for the guests to arrive at Grandma & Grandpa's farm. I am going to get Whit and will bring her back after the people are here. Surprise!

Friday, June 08, 2007

Fire!

I safely arrived around 11:15 and am visiting with Mom. Steve & Lisa built a fire in their soon to be livingroom and I am going down to join them! Lisa just sent me this pic to entice me to hurry.

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Bodysmith

I haven't been very faithful to the gym. It is too easy to blow it off and sleep in so I've decided to cancel Vida even though I love it there. They cancelled most of the morning classes that I like anyway so I'd be on my own with working out which becomes very boring. I'm going back to my trusty Erwyn at Bodysmith. I have to start by taking cancellations until I can get my own "spot" again, but it is a better option as I won't skip appointments if it costs me money in cancellation fees if I don't show.

6:15 is early though and I have to get up at least an hour before to eat because I remember how sick I get after an hour long work out with no food to give me energy. Oddly enough I'm looking forward to it and was glad to get up so early this AM. I was so worried about being late that I barely slept, waking up several times throughout the night. I think I'm still catching up from the weekend.

Today is Tara and Lisa's birthdays. It is crazy how many people have June birthdays. Sunday was Dana's, Casey's is tomorrow, and Angie/Brian's are both on Thursday. Several others follow after that. Time to pick some clothes and start thinking about the gym!

Sunday, June 03, 2007

No Passport?

This is Judd quickly making a drink before we go fetch Virgie from the airport to grab her forgotten passport. She's gonna miss he flight if we don't hurry.

Denied

do the math

Happy Birthday TB

Many of the peeps doing an early bar crawl for TB's bd (june 5) ... currently at Stoney's in Dupont. She's leaving us on vacation and we are celebrating early. Four of us joined late after watching Young Kevin's amazing play at CUA. He's in there somewhere.
Sorry for the bad lighting.

Saturday, June 02, 2007

Sofa ready for VB

What can I say? Preparedness is half the battle. Tonight is her pre-bd bar crawl and we got Virgie Bridges covered for after hours. Yes, that's the 1.75 Liter bottle. Just sayin'

Friday, June 01, 2007

U St

lotsa cops...how it goes. the cute military jake and stephen rolled out

Thursday, May 31, 2007

DVD Sorting Facility

Guess whose house this is! The only peeps I know that have to sort their gagillion DVDs in moving boxes by alphabet! Pack on friends.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Promotion

Yeah! The promotion I was 'promised' last year by my old boss finally was submitted by my new boss. I am officially a Senior Manager now! While it is retroactive to yesterday, it will not be announced until this Friday to my staff. Not bad for two and a half years work! It is silly how a simple title change can make one feel. I think we might have to go out for 25 cent wings tonight at Stetsons! (splurge!)