missing stairs February 1st, 2012
I think there are some stairs missing here. That’s a problem… Hopefully the mailman is just tall enough to reach the mail slot.
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blue sky day January 30th, 2012
I took this photo this past Saturday morning while we were wandering around NoMa. We went on a little stroll (Bowser included) over to CVS to get some black-and-white film for the Pentax and I shot off half a roll before realizing the light meter wasn’t moving much and it probably needs a new battery. Sooo, might be some bad pics in there, we’ll see when I get it developed. I ordered a new battery on Amazon today. They only came in packs of 10, so I guess I am set for… EVER. If anyone needs a 1.5V silver oxide battery, hit me up. I have spares.
I also ordered some printer paper, regular envelopes, bubbly wrap envelopes, and green looseleaf tea (had to put it over $25 for the FREE SUPER-SAVER SHIPPING). Whoever is reviewing my order is going to think I’m the lamest person in the world.
Back to the photo though… looking up at the clouds and the glass, pretty hypnotizing if you stared at it long enough, especially since they were moving kinda fast. As mom would say “COOL CLOUD DAY!!!!”
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DC Roller Girls January 29th, 2012
Yesterday afternoon we attended our first DC Roller Girls match at the DC Armory over by RFK. The tickets were a Christmas gift from Val and Ty, and though we’d heard about the league before and seen pictures from the games, we still had no idea what to expect. We were really surprised by the masses of people getting off the metro and filing into the ticket lines. It draws a pretty large crowd.
The court is an oval ring centered between the bleacher stands. There were lots of awesome costumes, like the man dressed as a pickle throwing candy to the crowd, and the DC Cherry Bomb. All on roller skates, too. The names of the players were things like “Helen Killah,” “Nasty Pelosi,” and “Ivana Tripabitch.” There was also a bake sale table on the way in. How had we not been to this before?!
Luckily the guy sitting in front of us overheard our confused conversation and was nice enough to explain the rules of the game to us. That definitely helped. So we drank our PBR Tallboys from the front row, did some spectacular people watching, and enjoyed the game! Highly recommended event for any DC peeps that haven’t yet been.
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ahhh weekends. January 22nd, 2012
We had a nice, relaxing weekend. On Friday night, it snowed and sleeted here a tiny bit – just enough to make us want to stay in and cozy-up inside. We made shrimp linguine and enjoyed some red wine for dinner, and had a chocolate eclair for dessert. We spent some time thumbing through a signed copy of a Shepard Fairey book that Matt got that day from a co-worker, commenting on his incredible artwork and stencils and picking the pieces we’d hang on our walls. 
Afterwards, we watched some Parks and Recreation, the best show ever. I love Netflix.
On Saturday morning, we took Bowser to the vet for his annual check-up. All was good. He barely even squirmed for his two shots. We spent the rest of the morning debating back and forth how to proceed with the office “renovation.” We’re having a hard time deciding what to do with the floors, which were covered in paint splashes, scratches, and holes when we tore up the carpet. Paint the original wood white? Add a brand new floor overtop? We had a guy come out to look at it, and suggested that we don’t try to sand it down, so that option was out.
We decided to take a trip to our favorite place in the world, Community Forklift, to see if we could find enough reclaimed wood flooring to lay overtop what is there now. Most of what we found were smaller amount of scraps, not enough to cover the approximately 8′ x 12′ room. So after that, we were back to the painting idea, which, yes, I am in LOVE with, but I still have my skepticisms about getting it to turn out right. Many of the tutorials we’ve read online make it seem slightly harder than it seems. Here are some of my inspirations.
This is the greatness that is Community Forklift.
What you might find there.
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We decided to take a break from thinking about the floor, and drove over to National Harbor to visit the Peep store, which has been high on my list of things to do forever now. It was everything I imagined and more. Pure marshmellow heaven. I bought some green duck Peeps and some orange rabbit Peeps since I have never even seen those colors before. I was thinking about purchasing some Peep art, but the prices were kinda high, and I think I would just want to eat them all off the wall.
now THIS is a great door handle
look at all that Peep goodness
Peep wall
Peep art
Peep, and The Awakening.
I miss when The Awakening statue was on Hains Point. I’m still kind of sad that it was relocated to National Harbor, and wish that it had stayed in DC. Yesterday it was all roped off, so you couldn’t even get up close to it. Bummer.
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Today we went to Home Depot, and bought all the painting supplies we needed to do the floor. I just finished up with the first steps – gave it a good sanding, first with 150 grit then with 220 grit, and then gave it a good soapy water mopping. Going to let it air out overnight, give it one more mopping tomorrow to get the rest of the dust up, and then onto the primer. Before and after pics to come soon!
Hope everyone had a great weekend! Everyone except for Ravens nation…
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hey, your sign fell off January 19th, 2012
I wonder what sort of sign fell off this red brick wall. I hope it wasn’t anything important.
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lines January 18th, 2012
I took this picture yesterday afternoon when I was on my to pick up some things at the grocery. It was close to 60 degrees outside and the sky was all blue and shiny and it felt oddly like spring. It was so warm that I had to take off my scarf and jacket on the walk back home.
And then today — today, I didn’t get out of bed today until about 5 pm…. Feeling pretty poo-ey since late yesterday afternoon after I got home. Energy zapped, fever, headache, blah. I had a really restless sleep last night too, and all sorts of crazy dreams to go with it. The kind of dreams where people you haven’t thought about in FOREVER just show up out of nowhere and hang out with you at a concert.
Anyways, Bowser kept me company in bed all day. We did a little reading (still working my way through the Steve Jobs biography) and then we watched The Red Violin on Netflix — pretty good movie, but the thing that sucks about watching movies alone is when you have so many questions and things to discuss after it’s over. Oh well.
Hopefully tomorrow I will be feeling back to norm.
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feels like… January January 6th, 2012
We took down all the Christmas decorations, but the boxes are still sitting out everywhere. Our tree is still up, and though it has been de-ornamented… I just feel bad throwing it out on the curb when it’s still so pretty and makes the house smell all pine-y. I guess we’ll leave it up a little longer. It’s hard to put the holidays away, sometimes.
Other than those loose ends, I’m feeling energized about the new year. Work is super busy, and we’ve started tearing apart the office to make a new, improved work space for me. The carpet has been pulled out, and we’re working on fixing the wood floors, which were covered in splashed paint. It’s a mess now. But, after the floor is done, we’re talking about designing some built-in shelves along one wall. I will share some pics of it soon.
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air and spacy December 27th, 2011
The Friday before Christmas, we were both off of work without a single thing to do. This is the first time I can remember this happening in forever. We decided to bum around the city, so we rode our bikes over and got some coffee at Port City by Eastern Market. It’s amazing to sit and drink a cup of joe without any sort of schedule or place to be. Then we rode over to the Air and Space Museum since neither of us had been there in probably the last 20 years, since middle school field trips or possibly earlier. We took the free hour-long tour, where Wayne told us all about the space race, various moon missions, Sputnik, and how rockets work. We also learned that Orville and Wilbur Wright were initially bicycle-makers that evertually got into the whole flying thing. Never knew that. Then we watched Hubble 3D in the IMAX theater. Highly recommend! It was one of those films that brings tears to your eyes in some places just over the sheer accomplishments that humans are capable of achieving. And the imagery is stunning. And you get to wear sweet red 3d glasses.
Afterwards, we went for sushi in Chinatown, walked through the holiday market, and then visted Cowgirl Creamery, where we purchased some delicious pepper-encrusted cheese and salty-crackers.
I seriously love being in the city, especially around the holiday. I don’t know what it is. You can just feel anticipation, excitement, and warmth in everyone walking around.
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catching up on December… December 27th, 2011
Woweeezowweee, I can’t believe that the new year is almost here, and I only managed to post twice before now in the month of December. We are still alive! We’ve been crazy busy, but in a good way. Finishing up the semester always feels like it rolls right into the holidays without much time for a breather, and with family visits, home projects, and all the rest in between, this last month has really flown by with lots of happy times. Matt and I each put two more grad classes behind us and are now a 1.5 years (Matt) and 1 year (me) away from our Masters Degrees. Woo hoo! Will life go back to normal after that?
In early Decemeber, David and Kristy flew home from Alaska to visit until Christmas Eve. We got to see them a bunch of times, and Kristy even came up to Delaware for the day with us ladies for the annual Christmas tea. A few nights before Christmas, we had the whole family over for dinner. We exchanged gifts, ate sweet-potato-chicken chili for dinner, and played Bananagrams (best game ever). Oh, and we all ate lots of cookies and drank chocolate falvored wine. Kristy and I came up with the idea that maybe we should line the rims of our wine glasses with Nutella. Kind of like the same idea as a salt rim for a margarita. Though we didn’t actually execute our plan, I still think we were onto something brilliant that night.
cookies, fudge, and bananagrams!
our stockings
please note the awesome tuxedo shirt that Kristy is wearing while playing Quordy so quickly that her fingers are blurry.
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best use of an air conditioner as Christmas decoration December 14th, 2011
Well this is just awesome. If we had a window AC unit, I would copy this idea in a second.