I'm SO over January

February has many things to look forward to, including:
4 days in San Diego (work trip, but hell for 4 hours a day and I'll still be in California in a really nice fucking hotel with in-room spa treatments)
2.5 days in New Orleans (me and Scotty, catching some Mardi Gras parades and drinking ourselves stoopid and staying at the fucking W hotel)
Amber's visit @ the end of the month

I like to say "fucking hotel" a lot.

I believe all of these fun things will offset the hell that work will be for the month of February, but I figure hey, at least its a short month. How bad can it be?

Anyone interested in traveling in March? Weekend trip perhaps?

Craigslist post of the day

I was in absolute tears when I read this. Hysterical.

Hi, I am interested in joining a cult. Does anyone know of any good cults in the DC area? I don't mind weird ideologies but would like to stay away from extreme rituals.

Thanks.

Thank god, Inauguration is over. And, some other random shite.

I just want people to get the hell outta here, for the roads to be open like normal, and for it to not take me 40 minutes to get to work.

Finally, we are achieving normalcy again. Its wonderful.

Work is odd. We now have a ton of things in limbo, sitting on the desks of folks who have up and left their politically appointed jobs for industry and awaiting new appointees who will likely trash our work and have us start over. such is life in the revolving door of the government.

I just made the most delicious roast chicken. I'm telling you, invest in some Barefoot Contessa cookbooks. That woman rocks it.

Saw Revolutionary Road. DiCaprio was robbed of an Oscar nod. Amazing performances all around.

Finally my raise kicked in, so what did I do? Pay bills you ask? Nope, went on kate spade and got myself a pair of shoes and a clutch. They were on sale, so shut it, but I really should have paid off my Macy's card...or Banana card...or cell phone bill...erm...oops.

Over the weekend inaugural madness took over, and I found myself holding the door open for Adrian Grenier at Indeblu in DC. A couple $15 glass of wine later and suddenly I had Jamie persuading me that we needed to have bottle service and get our table roped off. Do you know how much that costs? A shitload. I suppose that consuming inordinate amounts of vodka, champagne, Voss water, a grilled cheese, and returning home at 5 am realizing we aren't going to make the Inauguration on the mall is worth it. Sounds like one of those MasterCard commercials, no? Cept all that cost money. A hell of a lot of it.

On that note, I am realizing I have a serious spending problem and should probably like, try to stop that.

Oh well. Off to eat some homemade fro-yo.

Family Friendly TV

Scene:

Wednesday night. 7pm. Wheel of Fortune.

Scott: "Hmm...what IS that?"
Mel: "Something...Stanley..."
Scott: "Yeah! Clit Stanley!"
Mel: "Um...no, its Flat Stanley."

Adventures in Cooking

Here's what I've made in the past 2 days:

First: Open-faced huevos rancheros with homemade guacamole
Verdict: Overall delicious, except for the fact that I accidentally used double the amount of onion in the guac than I needed, so it ended up in the trash.
Sidenote: I take bad food photos. Must improve skillz.



Second: Brown Sugar Organic Banana Ice Cream
Verdict: Friggin muy delicioso
Sidenote: Next time I may try adding walnuts and chunks of chocolate. Oh man. Ohhhhhhh man.



Third: Chocolate Chip Ice Cream (Scotty's request)
Verdict: In progress, but will obviously be delicious as I have mad IcE cReAm SkIlLz




May attempt a thing or 2 tomorrow...not ice cream or fro yo (thank GOD you say), mostly because I ran out of whole milk and half and half and yogurt. Me likey to cook! Unfortunate thing is that I now have huge tubs of fro yo and ice cream sitting around and I want to eat it. Bad bad bad. Anyone want to come over for an ice cream party? MMMMM!

A couple of photos

I put some of these on Facebook, but not all, so here's a hodgepodge of random pics...

Uno part 1: NYE


Uno part 2: NYE again

Dos: Making my first batch of vanilla chocolate chip frozen yogurt in my new Cuisinart

Thrice: Mr. Coops opening his favorite treat on Xmas: Woofles

I'm gettin hitched!

Yes folks, its official. Don't know where or when, but whooeee boy, we're gonna git er done. Look forward to me bitching about planning this thing in the near future.