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DC Roller Girls

waz — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:02:37 +0000

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.

life lately

waz — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:18:50 +0000

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.

Caption Contest

waz — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:34:18 +0000

give it your best go.

CrAZy hOUsE!

waz — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:11:42 +0000

Well someone in the Shaw area decided to paint the side of their row-house all crazy-like. hehe! Not sure it’s what I would have gone with if I owned an end house and therefore a large, blank canvas at my disposal, but I do appreciate the “whimsicality” of it. Reminds me of Dr. Seuss in a way.

dolla dolla bill

waz — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:54:49 +0000

We did our dues last night and squared up with Uncle Sam (and it’s not even April yet!!) Filing taxes online is admittedly 10 times easier than doing all the paperwork, which we had to do last year as first time filers in the District. I ended up owing a few bucks again this year, but not enough to complain about, and Matt got a sweet return. So, who’s done theirs and who is waiting until the 14th? You only have two more weeks!

(And no, that’s not a stack of bills we keep under the mattress, it’s a photo of the money we raised after last summer’s triathlon fundraiser…)