We went to watch the Gold Cup horse races this weekend in Virginia. But let’s be honest, it was just an excuse to dress up and wear our favorite hats and drink Arnold Palmers in a field in the sunshine.

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After me, Bowser is the next best basketball player in this family!

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Hope everyone is having a great weekend! <3

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I don’t about the rest of ya’ll, but it’s Monday and I could go for a nap in the middle of the floor.

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Yeah, don’t worry, that title is what it’s supposed to say. I can’t believe I am admitting this in a public forum, but we have fleas. It’s pretty gross and majorly inconvenient, but we got ‘em. A week ago I woke up with little bites all over my ankles, and then sure enough we found a few crawling on Moesha’s back. I started scouring the internet for stories, treatments, causes, concerns and my paranoia suddenly knew no bounds. The more I read, the more I decided that we should just sell our house and move far, far away from this infestation. Option 2 was to burn the place to the ground and start over. Ughh.

Luckily, Matt (the sane half) got me to calm down and we’ve since taken a more realistic course of action. Moesha (poor girl) has been relegated to the backyard. Matt has been combing her consistently with a flea brush and drowning her fleas in soapy water, and we’ve given her the equivalent of kitty frontline to help kill them. She seems to be getting better everyday, even if she is majorly disgruntled to be stuck outside. We also went to Home Depot and bought out the flea fogger section. They are little gas bombs you set off all over the house. You have to vacate for 2-3 hours while they activate and spray all your wordly goods with pesticides, then come home and open all the windows. Needless to say, I wasn’t thrilled about the idea of this, but it seems like they are the real deal. Meantime, I’ve been washing every piece of fabric in the house and vacuuming like a mad woman. Multiple times on all accounts. It’s a huge pain in the ass, this flea problem.

The upside of all of this is 1)when we’re through the house will probably be cleaner than it ever has and 2)we’ve rediscovered the meaning of date night! On our first flea fogger night, we went out to Gravelly Point with Bowser and a picnic (read: drive-up meal from Checkers) and watched the planes come in for 3 hours while we waited for the first dose to work. It’s actually pretty nice to be relegated out of the house on a weeknight when we’d both normally be glued to our computers doing schoolwork. This past Monday, we did another round of foggers, and took a picnic to Stanton Park to wait it out. Bowser met a friendly pup named Cash, and we had some cheese and crackers and veggies while they played in the grass. Then we walked over to the Capitol and enjoyed the view of the dome at night. I guess it could be worse. Like bedbugs or roaches or something.

We have one more set of foggers to do in another week if necessary, but I’m thinking that the flea problem is well on it’s way to being gone. We shall see… In the meantime, I’ll try to understand if you never want to come over to our house again.

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what a little booger

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Slow news week here, I suppose. Here’s a random shmorgasborg of pics. I’m not looking up the correct spelling of shmorgasborg, because if that’s not it then I don’t want to know.

PIE. strawberry. self explanatory. I thought I almost burnt the house down with this one. When gooey strawberry sugar ooze comes boiling out of the pie and hits the base of your oven, it burns. A LOT. Enough to fill up the kitchen with smoke and panic, send Bowser into hysteria over the smoke detector going off, and me to the nearby stack of records to use one as a giant fan to waft the smoke away from the incessant beeping. Then opening all the windows of the house so the neighborhood can hear the commotion. And in the meantime Bowser takes to biting and fighting the aforementioned record that I put down momentarily, because he thinks it’s the source of the beeping. Which has still not stopped. I should not be allowed to bake alone. The pie was good though.

   

On Tuesday the pet whisperer (Dad) visited. Here he is entertaining Bowser and Moe. Mom came, too. We met Jill and Joe (Jill’s friend visiting from CA and her travel companion from Australia) down at the fish market for dinner. We bought quite a haul of seafood and it was a veritable buffet of steamed shrimp, shrimp tacos, crab legs, corn, hush puppies, and fried fish sammies. We sat down by the water and enjoyed the feast, along with the lovely mild weather we’ve been having lately.

   

Monday of this week was rainy, and this bum was curled up all day in a blanket while the rest of us were working…

   

Had to go out and take some site photos this week for a client, which is a pretty nice job perk. Quite a view from this particular roof deck… I’d take it.

   

OUTDOOR Table!!! Score!! I didn’t take this photo, and nor was I even there, but I thought I’d share anyways. Jill and Joe at Thai Crossing!!! So awesome.

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Oh hey what’s up giraffe. We walk past this awesome lady all the time, she’s in a yard at someone’s home around 7th and G NE. The house is also fabulously painted in bright Easter egg colors, so I really like these people even though I’ve never met them.

It’s been a great weekend. We went to see a live musical performance of Ty’s guitar teacher with Val and Ty on Friday night (shoutout Columbia, Maryland YEAH!), and now we are expecting huge things out of Ty. On Saturday, we went for a run around the Arboretum, picked up delicious Italian food dinner makings at Litteri’s, and ate burritos from Chinito’s. I love our little neighborhood. Then, we celebrated Jayluf’s turning 30 years old with drinks and dancing at the Rock and Roll Hotel. Today, we spent the morning wandering around Eastern Market with Bowser, and the reality that we are both still in school set in, and we sat inside trying to do schoolwork instead of being outside to enjoy the 60 degree weather. I did, however, reset half the clocks in the house, but not the other half, so I’ll never know what time it actually is now. Thanks, DST.

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Today we went for a walk in the woods with Ty, Val, and Tiki dog. Bowser enjoyed running way ahead of everyone and not listening to us say “COME.” His punishment was a few seconds of sitting up on this tree stump in timeout. It was pretty mild for a January day. We saw lots of holly trees and 3 deers.

   

   

   

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Yesterday afternoon I went on a wedding decor mission for my friend Tammy, who is now living in Texas. It involved the zoo and postcards — two absolutely great things — so of course I said yes, I would love to help. When her and her fiance were last out in DC, it was one of the places they visited, and so they wanted to incorprorate it into their wedding place cards. While I was over there, I strolled around to visit some zebras and also checked on the progress of the new elephant house. It is supposed to be done sometime in 2013, and I cannot wait since the elephants are pretty much my favorite.

hey zebra! (he is tiny, you might have to squint)
   

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