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…
life lately
December 7th, 2011
Things got all busy all of a sudden! Work, school wrapping up for the semester, parties… Holiday rush. Here are some recent photos I haven’t had time to post until now.
Went shopping in Old Ellicott City with the family.
Christmas-y window displays!
We went and got our first real live Christmas tree this year. If you remember this event as a special sort of warm, fuzzy family moment, where you spend an hour wandering around a tree farm with a red wagon, and then Dad bravely cuts down the perfect tree after 45 minutes of looking–maybe there is a better one up ahead! — … well, picture the opposite. It was 9pm on Sunday evening, and I demanded that we go get a tree then, because our crazy schedules were not really free again until it was practically Christmas anyways… so, we headed to the tropical plant place on New York Ave. Picking out the perfect tree consisted of a toothless guy and his cat hustling us along through some dark rows of trees leaning in piles, and us taking the first and cheapest tree we saw that had branches. While the guy and his cat tied the tree to the top of our car, Matt paid for the tree and an extra $3 for a fresh cut on the bottom. It all happened in approximately 12 minutes. Not exactly magical. BUT! Our tree is now home, lit, decorated, and it’s perfect!
…experience complete with giant blow-up Santa.
and, Bowser. Hanging out in bed on a rainy day… BUM.
sittin’ on the dock
November 2nd, 2011
This past Sunday evening, we had dinner and drinks with my family at the Jetty Dock Bar in Grasonville, MD — just over the Bay Bridge. I had to share this photo — because look how beautiful the sunset was!! We listened to all the oldies by my dad’s friends’ band while the sun went down, just until it got too cold to stay outside any longer. I love live music. Ahhh, goodbye summer…
normalcy
September 13th, 2011
pedestrian walkway bridge at the Rockville Metro.
Normalcy… Does anyone else seem like this has been missing in the past few weeks? I feel like the end of summer was a whirlwind of crazy – a major earthquake, followed by Hurricane Irene, then classes started, August was over justlikethat, another week of non-stop rain and flooding, the 10th anniversary of 9/11… It just seems to me like there haven’t been any normal weeks gone by of late. I guess that’s life. The slow, lazy days of summer are coming to an end, and there is cooler weather in the forecast for the end of this week. woohoo! Oh happy fall days, hurry up!
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.
brackets… BRACKETS!
March 15th, 2010
marchmadnessmarchmadnessmarchmadnessMARCHMADDDNESSS!!!! ohhh finally! it’s the best time of year! Time to call your bookies, fill out your brackets, and start dreaming about how you will spend your millions when you pick a perfect 64 teams. oh yes, it could happen. There are, and someone check my math, apparently nine quintillion (or 9,223,372,036,854,775,808) possibilities for picking your teams. If you do like the ladies and wives usually do, go for your favorite colors or mascots or the team with that dreamy point-guard, and you will probably win big. Or, like most of the men I know, you have heavily scrutinized the entire season, even subscribing to ESPNU, scoured every sports blog, and even gave it the time to think overnight before you submit your choices. But somehow you still picked your Alma Mater to win it all, even though they are only a 12 seed, and you’re going to be disappointed when someone by the screen name of “IHeartTacos” or something else crazy wins the pot instead of you. That’s why they call it madness! So, who are you taking to win it all this year?? here’s my advice – don’t just default to last year’s champs… sorry Tar Heels! bah-ha!
…somebody missed the swimming memo
August 24th, 2009
Yesterday I completed the 2009 Iron Girl Sprint Triathlon in Columbia, MD along with my college friends, Sass and Slutsky. It was a momentous occasion for all who made it out of the swim part in Centennial Lake, but also especially for Sass, who didn’t end up with a bloody knee this year jumping into the water, and for Slutsky “Aww man I forgot my goggles” finishing her first ever Triathlon! woohoo!
It was definitely the hilliest bike I’ve ever done in a race, but those downhills through beautiful Howard County made for the best parts of the ride. And finishing with a familiar run around the lake, a trail I’ve done many times before in my life, was comforting and made it easier to pace myself. Overall a great race!
Let’s goooooooo Maryland!
March 19th, 2009
Ahhh March Madness. Sweet, sweet March Madness. For many people, from now until April 6th marks the pinnacle of their entire sports-related year, or even just their entire year. Hopefully you have all your brackets filled out, because it’s almost game time, baby. I’ve entered three different pools this year, so my chances are looking good.
The Maryland Terrapins take on #7 seed California in Kansas City at 2:55 pm ET. And so I’m posting some Testudo today for good luck, not that we’ll need it. It’s like looking at the picture of our beloved mascot is the equivalent of giving his nose a good luck rub.
Annnnnd levels of productivity and concentration at work begin to plummet… GO!
faces, part2
February 10th, 2009
Awhile ago I wrote about seeing unintentional faces in everyday places. So this is part two of the posting. This one is a little different because it’s more or less created by the cropping of the photo, but I still see someone looking at me with bright eyes, a long rusty nose, and pursed lips. And in case you were wondering… this was taken in the warm-up room for the University of Maryland boxing team.
snOwMG!!
January 27th, 2009
White stuff, OMG! This is the view of the street from my window at work. (Glorious Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland). It’s been snowing steadily all morning. We are supposed to get 2-3 inches today followed by freezing rain overnight. Good thing I brought my Yak Trax thingies to work with me. Though speaking of work, I wish I could sled on out of here and enjoy a snow day like a little kid, hot chocolate and grilled cheese and snow cream, etc…
