Pomegranite Mojitos

Are phenomenal.

Sorry for my absence...

Thank you, lone commenter William Cole, for wondering about my presence. Fawk, work has kicked my ass this week. 10 hour days of non-stop, no time for lunch, working my ass off. Honestly, it feels nice to be productive after 2 months of doing SHIT and rotting my brain cells at "Trendy Georgetown Company XYZ". Still...whoooo boy. Then 4 hours of deep cleaning the house last night for Kevin's visit this weekend really was not the mid-week activity I needed. I really needed NO mid-week activity but oh well. Tomorrow I head to a meeting at the Pentagon and hopefully my ass is leaving work at 3:30. Why? Cause I deserve to, dammit.

Oh yes, here are 2 photos from mine and Scott's Sunday afternoon drinking excursion to Adams Morgan (a neighborhood in DC since none of my readers live here...or near here...). Here we are sitting outside at this bar called Tom Tom, which was filled with college peoples having a flip cup tournament:



Luckily, we saw Gordon and Shirley down there just cruisin along in the street, peckin at rocks like they normally do:



I know, we lead the ultimate exciting life. Scott did buy me a really cool (expensive) pair of purple Tsubos (some type of trendy Jap shoes or something) so that also was a highlight of my weekend. The Mini events were not... I won't bore you with those cause I really don't want to relive it.

On the deck for the weekend: who the fawk knows. I think Linsey and I are going to venture to Katherine's birthday party, gotta love the birthday parties. I plan on having some FUN, having some good DRINKS, hanging with Kev, hopefully avoiding as many tourists as possible...yeah, not a bad deal.

I'll of course post a photo or whatnot if something exciting happens...such as seeing Gordon and Shirley again! Love those two!

Yep. Been a long week.

Who gives a shit?

Honestly. For this to be posted as one of the Yahoo top stories. WHO GIVES A SHIT.

Sigh...Friday

Thank god.

Work is getting insane...I had to cancel lunch with Ryan today :-(. But you people know how I am, I love the stress. I get to go to the Pentagon next week so hey that's pretty cool. Other than that...I'm sitting here at my house with the windows open, listening to the faint rumble of thunder from the oncoming storm, and drinking a glass of wine.

Friday evenings just don't get any better than that :-)

Oh, tomorrow I am going to a Mini Cooper event that involves all you can eat (FREE) wings and pizza. There's beer too. Like, helloooo, someone must have known I was coming! Shit!!! Looks like I might have a good weekend!

FYI to all Banana Republic fans: The spring sale started yesterday, hurry up and go! I'm planning on hitting up a few of them in the area to see what I can find. Their clothes are so great for work---only when they're like 40% off, of course.

Note: William Cole, where are you? You've been quiet lately. As has Bip Bip.

Anyone else got sweet plans?

Playing politics

I've been surprisingly apolitical on this blog considering I live only a few miles from the District...however, the firestorm surrounding the U.S. Attorney firings has really peaked my interest. What especially peaked my interest is this article, actually written by one of the fired attorneys. If you didn't think twice about the whole debacle before...I dunno, as to why he actually thanked President Bush at the end is beyond me, HOWEVER, what this shows is that this article isn't some left-wing nutso such as myself spewing opinions--it's straight from the mouth of a Republican. An unjustly fired Republican at that.

Sigh...

Good luck to Amber tomorrow in her job interview, I know she wants it and I think she'll do a great job :-). Good luck to myself surviving the political and bureaucratic firestorm at my own job (I guess that's what I get for working @ one of the big government agencies, eh?). Which reminds me...

A guy I work with used to work in some pretty high level areas with some pretty important people in a very well known building in Washington, D.C. Three interesting things he filled me in on today: Bill Clinton was pretty cool, laid back. Harriet Miers (WH Counsel) is umm...how do I say it...biotchy? Scooter Libby was cool, quite nice. And Rove? Apparently he's a dirty joke teller, and a damn funny guy.

Only one that shocked me was Rove...but then again...frickin Republicans.

Hungry fella?

For some reason today I was thinking about cheeseburgers. Typically I never eat cheeseburgers, but you know when something sounds so good to you, you just can't stop thinking about it (ok well maybe that is just my fat ass and not yours...). Anyhoo, I was poking around various blogs today and I came across an article titled "The 20 Hamburgers You Must Eat Before You Die". I'll link it here for your reading pleasure. This guy must have REALLY wanted to write about burgers, since he writes that he 23,750 miles, consumed more than 150,000 calories, and ate 163 burgers in 93 different eating establishments. Crazy, absolutely. He does bitch about condiments in there which I don't necessarily agree with...but at any rate, here's the article. Unfortunately, none of the burger places are around here...but now I got a stop on my list next time I venture to Philly or NYC. Now you tell me that you don't want a big ol' burger after reading this!!!! I bet you do! (Go here
and then click on the pdf link in the third line of the article. Tasty treats!)

Recovering...

Whelp, yesterday was a doozy. I drank for about 12 hours straight, which I now realize I just shouldn't be doing anymore. I feel like absolute hell today. Even my grocery store trip wasn't enjoyable--so you KNOW I must not feel good. We hit about...6 bars I think? Hell if I know. Overall, it was a very fun and very expensive day. Here are a few photos (please take note of my obnoxious wearing of flair):

See! Check out that flair!



For some reason I just really felt like drinking Blue Hawaiians



You can't tell really but right here I'm rocking out to Livin' on a Prayer:



12 hours and 6 bars later...here we are...

Blogger slacker.

Yes...I can't believe it either that I haven't posted since Monday. Things have just been really really crazy. Started my new job, and I have to say I am SO SO much happier at this new job than I was at my old one. I mean it really is a world of difference. So even though some of you may have enjoyed my relentless complaining about my job, I have to say--that might be over!

In other news, I finally hopped on my new elliptical today. Even though I could only stand about 30 minutes, I felt good that I actually did something. Just gotta keep it going...I'm also going to try to cook & eat a good bit healthier. Yeah good thing yesterday I cooked steaks and homemade mashed potatoes. Oops. Well starting today, then. Next up on my list is trying out the low-fat/cal caesar dressing recipe I have, as well as making homemade salsa.

Also fun, Kevinnnnn is coming to visit our humble abode at the end of March, so that means I should probably start cleaning like now. I don't want the rest of the world seeing how Scott and I REALLY live. I put on a pretty good show though, I gotta admit. I'm tired just thinking about it...

This post sucks. So, moving on.

Questions for all of you:
1. Is anyone interested in going to any of these places for a weekend: Atlantic City or Boston...or any other cool weekend-type place?
2. Is anyone in the DC area doing anything fun for St. Pat's day?
3. Does anyone still read my blog? :-(

Back to reality. But, let's talk about Vegas instead.

Whelp, I started my new job today after 3 hours of sleep and a day full of airports and airplanes yesterday. Needless to say I am WIPED OUT. However, the Vegas memories (ahem $1200 ahem) are still fresh in my mind as are the ummm 4 or so pictures we took so I'll see what I can come up with here for my loyal readers:

Tiny Tiny wheels @ HOOTERS hotel & casino. Yep, we really went there.


Le Casino!! Enough said.


Def. don't go to a buffet wasted. Not a sweet idea.


We are the whitest people EVER!


HELLO, pink margarita!!


And finally, the view from the top of Mandalay Bay @ the exclusive Foundation Room (if you look in the top left of the photo, you can see part of the Mandalay Bay sign in lights). This was the PERFECT way to end the weekend...$100 of wine and rich people!

I WON $1200 IN VEGAS!!

Hey I can't believe it either. And I won it on video keno, of all fucking games. I just kinda started fiddling around with the machine and pressing numbers and then...ding ding ding!!

Yep, it was a good day.

More Vegas posts to come!

Do YOU have imaginary friends?

So, some writers at Entertainment Weekly have come up with their list of 14 TV characters they would most want to have as friends. I gotta say, they made a couple excellent pics...though some I definetely think are stupid (ok seriously, I'm sick of hearing about Gilmore Girls already). Here's their list, my top 3 are highlighted first. What are YOUR top 3, and do you think any are missing? Linky to photo gallery

1. Brian Griffin (the wise ass dog) from Family Guy
2. Nancy Botwin (the weed selling mom) from Weeds
3. Lloyd (the gay assistant) from Entourage
4. Lorelai Gilmore (whoever the hell she is) from Gilmore Girls
5. Felicity Porter (college girl who loves Noel..no Ben...no, Noel...no, Ben) from Felicity
6. Jack Donaghy (um Alec Baldwin?) from 30 Rock *please recognize I can only watch so much TV in a week, I don't watch 30 Rock
7. Robin (?) from How I Met Your Mother (honestly do people watch that show?)
8. Janet Wood from Three's Company
9. Dan Rydell from Sports Night
10. Miranda Hobbes from Sex and the City
11. Jerri Blank, Strangers with Candy
12. Lane Kim, Gilmore Girls (yep, enough with that seriously)
13. Kelso from That 70's Show (Demi Moore's young hubby)
14. Rachel Green from Friends

My reasons: Brian Griffin is one of the most well written comedic characters currently on tv and he's a damn animated dog. Nancy Botwin is cool cause she doesn't give a shit--she's just selling weed to keep living in Agrestic (it's the Bestic!). And Felicity...ummm she slept with Ben. Hello.

Opinions?

I quit my job today!

Enough said.

Let's celebrate!

A frickin great weekend. No, I'm serious.

Aside from the woman at Target who pissed herself, there were other things going on this weekend as well. Some were crazy, some were funny, some were just things. Here’s a basic rundown of the juicy tidbits:
·Lauriol Plaza with OU friends. How many pitchers of margaritas did we go through? 7?
·Georgetown beats UConn—but more importantly—we were able to drink at the game! (which equates to $45 worth of hot dogs and beer)
·Hooters Chinatown: Honestly, we had to go just because it was a Hooters in the middle of Chinatown. Bad move. Sat for 15 minutes without getting beer. Our waitress assured us “I’ll be wite wiff youuu”, but alas, she was not. I’ll probably burn for that very un-PC comment.
·A lovely walk through DC enjoying the weather, and watching ice skating in the Sculpture Garden. Poked some fun at the guy ice skating with a Blazer and full bookbag on. Laughed at the people that fell in the melting ice puddle.
·Searching for the parking garage but instead found a sweet ass cigar bar that looked like the inside of a ski lodge. Parked our butts here for a couple hours. Strong drinks.
·Found the car, headed back to a bar on our home turf, and had a nice VERY fat man give us the rest of his table’s pizza. Score, free dinner! None of them surely needed any more food…for a couple years.
·Sunday morning: get up and drive into DC for brunch in Dupont.
·Definitely toured a few areas I didn’t intend to go to, such as the Iraqi embassy, but neat nonetheless.
·Arrive and start drinking Mimosas.
·I get ripped on for showing up with a hickey on my neck. How high schoolish of me.
·I leave and head to Pentagon City mall without getting lost (um ok I kinda found it by accident) and buy myself a new pair of shoes.
·End my day with a trip to Target and see pee lady.

That’s about it. Definitely a good, eventful, fun, but expensive weekend. Oh, and…3 DAYS TILL VEGAS!!

You CANNOT tell me that this is now socially acceptable.

The scene: Target @ Potomac Yard
Time: approximately 4:00 on Sunday
What happened: As I was walking through the women's clothing section looking at a skirt, a woman cuts me off with her cart and keeps on going without an "excuse me". Ok, so I think nothing of it because that's typical here. But I look at her and I notice something odd--she has very visably pissed her pants. Not just like "oops I laughed too hard and a little drop came out" or something. Nope, she emptied her bladder in her pants. In her very tight light grey sweatpants. So I'm like uh maybe she's trying to get to the bathroom. Nope, she just keeps on shopping like she doesn't have wet pants!!! Amazing! I mean this was noticeable not only from the front, but majorly from the back. Majorly. I just stared in disgust...like what the hell? Who can shop when you just pissed yourself?

WTF IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?

COMET, it makes your mouth turn greeeen

This post has nothing to do with Comet, mouths, or vomit. For some reason that just randomly popped into my head. That probably isn't a good thing, right? Moving on...
I don’t have much to complain about today. I know, isn’t that shocking? I’m looking forward to margaritas tonight with friends, the Georgetown-UConn basketball game on Saturday, and DC brunch outing on Sunday. Plus, I'm going to Vegas on Wednesday! I know, it doesn't get much better than that.

I was going to post a YouTube “MDoodle Video Selection of Le Week” today, however I did not have time to review some selections that were sent to me (sorry Damien) due to pizza and beers in Old Town last night. I will take care of this tomorrow though and make my post. You all are welcome to submit your favorite YouTube videos to see if they will win my approval for posting. My official criterion is that it has to make me laugh so hard that I cry. There you go, a little weekend challenge for everyone.

I smell something weird. It’s been bothering me for the past like hour. I know it’s not me, I swear. Um actually I just discovered it’s the pasta sitting on my desk. I’m an idiot.

I’ll leave you all with these profound words to ponder on your Friday at the office:

As Kermit the Frog once said, “Time’s fun when you’re having flies.”

I am so awesome. My awesomeness is awesome.

The last few days have been CRAZY. Crazy like that bum on the street corner who talks to himself. I was doing my same ol’ routine: interviewing for jobs, applying, interviewing, and applying (generally getting nowhere fast) when I got a call from a sizeable defense contractor to interview. Fricking finally, I thought, since I had been trying to get into this place (ok into any of the top 10 defense contractors) for months. I had a phone interview yesterday afternoon that was probably the most intimidating thing I’ve ever experienced over the phone in my life. 3 “old white guys” firing a really random assortment of questions for about 45 minutes straight. Much more intimidating than most in person interviews I’ve been on. Needless to say, I was dripping sweat. Luckily I was working from home at that time. So, the end of the conversation rolls around—and oddly, so does a job offer that had to be accepted by the end of that day.

What? Eh? Hrmmmmmmm?

I was speechless, which is rare for me. Hey I’m all about quick turnaround but ummm I get an offer at 1 and I’m supposed to accept/reject by that evening? These people must be crazy.

This is like a really random post I have no idea where I’m going with this. So basically I tentatively accepted the offer until I have an official offer letter in my hands. My paperwork gets sent in today, and if all reference checks can get done and a drug test I should have that official offer in a few days. Then…I quit my job, I do a dance, get really drunk, and fly off to Vegas and clear out my bank account. Thank god I’d be starting this new job on the 12th. So, I pretty much think I have a new job.

Yep, you are right, you DO owe me a drink! How generous of you!