HRC Dinner revisited

Hey peeps. HRC posted all the speeches on YouTube. They can be found on the HRC Media Channel. Here's my favorite one with Michael Urie and Rebecca Romijn from Ugly Betty.

no wire hangers

For October, it was Timmy's movie night and he selected, "Mommy Dearest." It went over well as several had never seen it. Some had only seen spoofs of it in gay video bars. Here's a spoof on the movie highlighting the best parts! Enjoy. Time for bed.

Happy Birthday Julia!

We had a fantastic dinner with Cat's parents and a bunch of friends (10 total) at Al Crostino last night. After a long work day we are swinging by to wish Julia a happy birthday then it will be off to bed. I'm very tired! I have now successfully made it NINE days with no smoking! I'm gonna beat this!

Blue Ribbon Christmas!

It's time to go to Duffy's and start entering the contest for a Blue Ribbon Christmas!

Seriously

TAINT THIS

I want to kick your puppy and feed rice to your bird.

Hot

yup huh

Sunshine Day

Yes....wrong

Peep Hole

If there was a peep hole, these beeotches would be watching Mr. Craig's wide stance.

Fun times

...so a quick drink at Alero turned into a pitcher each plus more. A few hundred dollars later we are now at WOnderland scaryokie. Even though my company doesn't recognize it, I'm taking Columbus day as a holiday....since I'm from there and all.

Seven days!

This, my friends, is the happy face of a man who has not had a single cigarette in seven days! I thought
I'd never make it to 8 PM to celebrate this achievement.

HRC

I don't know what time it is in your world, but I just pulled myself up out the bed. It was a rough one last night! Had a great time at the National HRC Dinner and snagged a couple pics with famous peoples...successful celebrity stalking! Nancy Pelosi was my favorite speaker (no pun intended,) but it was also fairly memorable to see Rebecca Romijn, Michael Urie, Tim Gunn, and Matthew Broderick (no SJP) in person. Broderick is looking old these days...guess we're all aging a bit. Here are my favorite pics with Judy Shepherd and Sheryl Swoopes

Columbia Heights Day!

Iris was one of the organizers for this year's Columbia Heights Day. After some cocktails to celebrate our successful completion of AIDS Walk at Solly's, we walked to Columbia Heights for the festival. Truthfully only a few of us walked the festival booths while the rest enjoyed beverages at Wonderland. I had to walk the festival to curb my desire to smoke.

Michael and Catrina made an appearance with her parents and Mayor Fenty stopped by. The group was excited to have him stand in for the above photo, but I followed him into the festival with the intention of listening to his quick public address and hoping for a photo op. As you can see below, this was a successful endeavor.

It's time to dust off the tux and get ready for the National HRC Dinner. More pictures are available on my facebook page. Have you opened a facebook account yet? Just do it!

AIDS Walk 2007

Team Chimney Fall had a great showing. Even those less likely to be out of bed at such an early hour successfully met us at the Metro at 8:30 AM. Those of us who ran had a great time! I finished the 5K (3.2 miles) in 30:02 - this is not a fantastic time, but good for me! Many of our group also chose to walk it.

It's a big day!

I will start this morning with a quick 5K run with a bunch of my friends for AIDS Walk Washington 2007. Our group raised over $5,000 and we are very proud of this achievement. Some people will commence cocktailing when it is over.

Part two will be Columbia Heights Day from 11 - 6 PM. This will be a quick stop and perhaps lunch so we can prepare for the grand finale!

The day will end at the National HRC Dinner! We will be attending with a group of two diva tables! Click the link and check out all the potential celebrity encounters this event will create! Rumor has it some other fairly large names will be in attendance!

When all is said and done it will be time to sleep! Time and battery willing, I'll do some mobile blogging throughout the day with updates!

Day 5 complete

Check it out! I'm officially 5 days and 1+ hour smoke free! No headaches or shaking today and I weaned myself from the rubber band! I also went to the gym every day this week. Since August 30th, I've lost 10 pounds, gotten back into my skinny jeans, and am making progress at converting some of this fat to muscle! Somehow if I talk about it here, I'll feel the pressure to maintain!

Time for bed. Tomorrow is a big big day inside the district!

Mansion Update!

There is now stone on the outside, final trim on the inside, and even a garage door! Steve and Lisa are now talking weeks instead of months to move in day!

A DC peeps to OH trip is tentatively in the works for mid January! MLK weekend perhaps? Thank God I'll have many opportunities to see it before then. I can't wait!

Sucky Day

I tried to be all pleasant in my last post, but really I'm frustrated beyond belief. Today was a miserable work day. I wasn't going to talk about it, but my gd TV just blew up. Smoke and all. I can't smoke, but my TV can? What is wrong with this picture?

I'm trying to find the owners manual. I have one for every kitchen appliance, toothbrush, camera, and powertool, but apparently the TV manual is not filed where it belongs.

I'm just going to bed.

Day 4 Complete

I blogged about the new food Pupatella cart a few days ago….Washington Post writes about it today. I had their Pizza Margherita for lunch while sitting by the fountain. It was a beautiful day and the pizza magnificent. Of course tonight, the humidity piled on. I was surprised how unpleasant it was when I left work at eight.

I've successfully made it through four full days of non-smoking! One day at a time.

Be My Friend

Friends,

It is time to sign up for facebook. According to an article at washingtonpost.com, "The company says that the fastest growing group of users at Facebook, which started as a service for college kids, is people over 35."

So...since many of my 20 somethings friends already belong, and many of my 30-40 somethings friends are signing up, I decided it was time to join a social networking group. Now, I am lonely as I have few facebook friends. Sign up and invite me to be your friend! You'll like it. I promise. It only takes a few minutes to get started so click the image or the link above and go for it! Everybody's doing it.

SMOKING UPDATE: I survived 4 hours at Solly's with a controlled amount of beer (not liquor) and had no cigarettes. It was painful. Time to leave for work! I'm half way through day 4!