FIREWORKS July 3rd, 2011
We are all sorts of ready for tomorrow! I can’t wait to try the colored sparklers I bought.
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hello holiday weekend July 1st, 2011
The 4th is almost here! Bring on the family, BBQ, redwhiteandblue, and fireworks. woohoo! This morning I put flags out in the front yard, cleaned out the wheelie cooler, and got out the red velvet cupcake mix. I still need to find my stars and stripes headband if this is going to be an official celebration, but the preparations are in the works.
What are your plans?
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sixty April 19th, 2011
SOMEONE I know is turning 60 today! Happy Birthday, Mom. Here are some interesting facts for you about the number:
From Wikipedia…
60 (sixty) is the natural number following 59 and preceding 61. Being three times twenty, 60 is called “three score” in some older literature.
Sixty is a composite number with divisors 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, and 60, making it also a highly composite number. Because 60 is the sum of its unitary divisors (excluding itself), it is a unitary perfect number, and it is also an excessive number with an abundance of 48. Being ten times a perfect number, 60 is a semiperfect number.
Sixty is the smallest number divisible by the numbers 1 to 6. (There is no smaller number divisible by the numbers 1 to 5). 60 is the smallest number with exactly 12 divisors.
Sixty is the sum of a pair of twin primes (29 + 31), as well as the sum of four consecutive primes (11 + 13 + 17 + 19). It is adjacent to two prime numbers (59,61). It is also the smallest number which is the sum of two odd primes in 6 ways.
The icosidodecahedron has 60 edges, all equivalent.
Because 60 is divisible by the sum of its digits in base 10, it is a Harshad number.
The atomic number of Neodymium is 60, and Cobalt-60 (60Co) is a radioactive isotope of cobalt.
The electrical utility frequency in western Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, the United States, and several other countries in the Americas is 60 Hz.
The Babylonians used base 60.
There are 60 seconds in a minute, and 60 minutes in an hour
Sixty is:
* In time, the number of seconds in a minute, and the number of minutes in an hour.
* The number of feet in the standard measurement tool to evaluate an automotive launch on a dragstrip. It’s the time that it took to travel the first 60 feet (18 m) of the track.
* The number of miles per hour an automobile accelerates to from rest (0-60) as one of the standard measurements of performance
* The total number of years in a Sexagenary cycle
* 60 Minutes, a CBS investigative television show
* A common speed limit, in miles per hour, for freeways in many U.S. states
* In years of marriage, the diamond wedding anniversary
* The maximum number of marbles (game pieces) in Chinese checkers
* The code for international direct dial calls to Malaysia
* The highest obtainable level on World of Warcraft (not including World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade)
* Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was a TV show on NBC (2006-07)
* The age for senior citizen in some cultures
* Number in Earth years between “Great Conjunctions” of Jupiter and Saturn
* In darts, 60 (treble-twenty) is the highest score which can be achieved with a single dart.
* New York Yankees Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in 1927
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l o v e February 14th, 2011
Happy Heart Day, everyone! Hope you are spending it doing something you love, with someone you love, or both. Today’s L O V E photo is brought to you from Baltimore, MD and the Visionary Art Museum – it’s the building we were married in, and this Polaroid was actually one of our table place markers. I love how the expired film (thank you, eBay) is all messed up. In fact, it was so old that it started leaking photo goo on me after it popped out of the camera.
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Goodbye 10, Hello 11 December 31st, 2010
It’s been a helluva good year for us!
In January, Matt created a 14th and U Street panorama collage.
In February, we were SNOWpocalypsed!!
In March, we got our VASA Ride on with WABA and the Swedish Embassy.
April was good for yoga on the National Mall.
Married in May! at the Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore.
In June it was World Cup madness.
In July, we made yet another meat flag to celebrate the 4th.
August was somewhat slow, and hot, but we did take a bike trip down to the southwest waterfront.
In September, we waxed poetic.
In October, we went home hunting, and frequented many places around H Street NE, including Sova, where we decided to put an offer on a place while sitting on the back patio and enjoying some coffee.
November found us dressed in Tweed.
In December, we became homeowners!
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gummies December 28th, 2010
I decided to get all Martha Stewart last week (like literally Martha Stewart, here’s the recipe), and make some Christmas treats not involving cookies or chocolates, just to mix it up a bit. Everyone knows I love gummy candy, so I figured this recipe would be perfect and it sounded easy to boot. I used 4 lemons, 3 oranges, and a grapefruit; next time I think I’ll see how a lime is. The results were pretty and yummy, though some of the orange candies tasted a little too much like bitter rind for my taste-buds, but some of my recipients actually liked that. Next time, I’d cut the peels a little closer to avoid some of the bitterness. Also, these could easily dipped in chocolate for anyone who just couldn’t go without.
The containers were made from flat paper boxes that I bought at Paper Source, and I added my own ribbon and a custom tag. They were labeled as wedding favor boxes in the store, but they took about 5 minutes each to put together and require really nimble fingers, so I pity the bride that bought 200 of these to make. Hopefully she had a lot of crafty bridesmaids to help. Anyways, you could put the gummy candies into anything you want to serve them – boxes, plastic baggies, or a larger cookie tin.
What did you make for the holidays?
Fresh Citrus Fruits
Some Peels in the Pot
Covered in Sugar-Water Syrup
After Boiling/Soaking for an Hour in the Syrup
Drying Candies
Rolled in Sugar
My Label!
Candy Box Put Together
Filled With Gummies
Ta-Da!
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O Christmas Tree December 21st, 2010
Last night we took my cousin Katie down to the Ellipse to see the National Christmas Tree. We met up on the metro, which Katie handled like an old pro, and then scurried down from Farragut North, past the White House, to see the beautiful tree. It may be cheesy, but it puts me in the holiday spirit every single year.
Lucky for us, our timing was perfect. As we circled to check out the ornaments on the 50-states little trees, a bagpipe-playing Santa came out of the elves workshop right in front of us, piping some Christmas tunes and ho-ho-ho-ing. It was pretty legit as far as holiday displays and music go.
We were freezing at that point, so it was time for some dinner — Katie’s favorite: Chipotle. What a great and totally festive way for us to spend the evening 5 nights before Christmas and almost the winter solstice.
On a side note, the lights on the tree are MUCH improved from what I remember in past years. AND the train display was running it’s path around the base of the tree. AND it wasn’t so crowded that you couldn’t get up to the front to bask in the yule log warmth.
Iowa’s tree! You’ll have to take my word for it. The camera-phone doesn’t deal well with the varying light levels… MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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t-giving November 28th, 2010
Happy Thanksgiving! We hope your holiday was as happy and relaxing as ours. We spent time with both of our families, first in Maryland and then in Delaware, and then enjoyed a potluck-style dinner with our friends from college. Turkey and all the trimmings three days in a row… not complaining! My culinary exploits this year included a rhubarb-strawberry pie, cranberry-walnut-mandarin orange sauce, and a “gourmet” (according to the website recipe) mac-and-chee recipe that included cornbread and green apples. nom!
We have an awful lot to be thankful for this year… Thankful to be married, to be healthy, partially through grad school, with jobs, our first house in 2 more weeks (!!!!), and close to our families… As my first thanksgiving ever (after 27 years) without my siblings around, it was definitely a reminder of how nice it is to have them around at the holidays. Not the rest of the year, though, they can just stay out there at the ends of the earth in Alaska and Australia, but just for the holidays, it’s gotta to be one big happy family.
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veterans day November 11th, 2010
Thank you, veterans!
It’s kinda hard to watch this with a dry eye, but it’s a good reminder of the sacrifices that families make, too.
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HAPPY HALLOWEEEEEEN October 31st, 2010
The pumpkin entries have been coming in, and we’ve picked our winner!! Cyborg Pumpkin from the Future, above. Congrats to Johnny Utah for his winning entry and excellent usage of scrap metal and screws. This pumpkin is just plain awesome! John will receive an 8×10 print of his choice for his winning jack-o-lantern creation.
Below are the rest of the awesome entries. Thanks to everyone who sent in pics!!
Jen and JJ of E. Gittings St, Baltimore, MD.
Kevin and Lindsay at hello, Bianco, with their entry “Killer Pumpkin.” Note the creepy, knife-wielding lurker in the background. eeeek
And, last year’s winner’s, Pam and Rick:
Happy Halloween!