Two Months Later...

Yeah, I'm back. I actually forgot I had a blog for a while there. These are the things that happen when you work too much. And if anyone ever visits here again - you'll get a few pics from the last couple weeks to hopefully make up for it. I swear...I'll try harder. I will. I should first explain that over President's Day weekend we headed up to NYC to enjoy some time without the dog, away from the state of Virginia, just bummin around. Of course, when I travel I have a knack for taking no more than like, 5 photos the entire time, as I did this time around, but here they are. Let me say - don't do a weekend getaway in NYC in the winter. Just a dumb idea. However, it resulted in a very justifiable reason to keep ducking into bars to warm up with drinks...about every 2 blocks or so.

Pic 1: This is where the Money is made!



Pic 2: Me mowing the infamous Corned Beef at the infamous Carnegie Deli. Damn, now I want one right now.



Pic 3: That Statue - so tiny!



Pic 4: Not NYC - a picture of the end of our road (the GW Parkway) all covered in snow and pretty last weekend



That is about it. Not bad, eh? Today I'm heading out to do some outlet shopping in Leesburg - where there is both a Burberry and Kate Spade outlet. You can bet I'll be spending too much today. I think that's what money is for though.

A photo extravaganza

Well not really but I got some fun photos that someone may appreciate (though, I may have lost most of my readers due to my extend absence). Oh well. I like them, so I will post them. Screw y'all.

First, some old stuff:

1. Christmas tree @ Capitol with the Capitol dome in the background



2. Cooper in his sweet Old Navy parka



3. My younger sis doing what she does best...texting



And now, a few new ones. This afternoon it was quite nice out so we took Cooper to a park right down the street:

4. Coop and Daddy



5. Coop and Mommy



6. Coop meeting a pony!!!

New Years Eve Pix

Just a handful of photos will show you what happened on New Year's Eve...we got friggin drunk. That's what happens when you arrive at an all-you-can-drink event with only 3 hours left to drink...

1. Made dinner at the house, to include wine...and more wine...so soon after we arrived at our destination, we were a little rowdy



2. As were our friends, Brian and Amanda



3. Cappy & Cokes + shots = idiot



4. Shots in plastic champagne glasses? Yep. Build tower.

2008, what what

Well, today is day uno of 2008 and I've spent most of it in bed due to the fact that I had about 12 too many cappy & cokes last night as well as the harshest shots of washington apple I've ever drank. Didn't stop me from having about 3 or 4 of them though, oh no siree bob. So instead of getting work done today like I was supposed to do and avoid having my ass reamed out tomorrow at work, I laid in bed, read gossip websites, and then we watched Ratatouille on blu-ray. Man, awesome quality and a very cute movie. Those blu-ray discs are expensive though! Yikes! Worth it though.

Anyhoo...I've got a number of pics to post from the holidays back in Ohio as well as from last night (those ones are def. amusing) but I'll do that tomorrow. I'm finally starting to do work...at 10pm...so I figure I better get back to it since I wake up for work at 6:20 am.

Happy 08 to all, and to all, a good night!

New camera, new photos!

So, I got a new digital camera for xmas from muh Scotty and I thought I would start off "v2" of my blog with some fabulous photos! Well they're kinda lame but enjoy them and shut the hell up.

Our tree:


Cooper eating presents:


More to come. We're heading to DC tonight to hopefully take in the lights of the Capitol tree so I'll be supplying more pics. Yeah boi!

There goes that idea...

So we've got a number of HOV lanes around here and of course, since I'm lone commuter to work, I never get the benefit of driving in them. I've always wondered if people put dummys in their car to use the lanes. Guess so. Guess I won't be trying it either unless I feel like getting a hefty ticket. I bet you anything people around here do this and don't get caught.

From article: "In the passenger seat was the pale head of a mannequin stuffed in a sweatshirt and wearing a hat. The usually white, Styrofoam head had been painted beige to give it a more lifelike appearance. On the head was a baseball hat tilted toward the driver."

Da Hillz

Here's a pretty funny parody of Justin Bobby and Audrina on the Hills done by James Franco and Mila Kunis. Perfect. Since we all know the show is like, totally fake.

Gotta admit they did pretty good with that one hahahhaha.

We didn't start the fire...oh yeah, we did.

Got the fireplace going! Weeeeeee, right now I'm sitting on the couch next to the roaring fire watching some Dirty Sexy Money. What a good way to spend a Wednesday evening. I also am happy to report that my first attempt at making Enchiladas was successful. Geez. What a day.

This Sunday is our "Dog, Wine, and Cheese" party, and if you are a reader of my blog you are invited. I found out that there are children that will be attending the party, which I'm not very happy about considering I don't like children, but oh well. I'm sure all the wine I plan on drinking will help that. I pray its warm enough out for people to be outside...

Oh yes, Scotty bought us a Christmas tree today! It's not real, which will be a hard adjustment for me because I've never had a fake tree, but it comes with lights already on it which will save me a rising blood pressure from getting the lights just right on the tree. Gotta save that for outside. Now I've got the dilemma of what color ornaments to buy...it's always something.

This is a stupid post. Really I just felt bad because I slacked again on posting. I'm hoping to actually take photos though of the party and post them, so that should entertain everyone for a while :-)

Wee! Dogs, wine and cheese...we are crazy.

My ego is bigger than...you know...my IKEA couch.

So, today I'm really not into writing like, an actual paragraph of interesting information. That assumes, however, that what I normally write is a paragraph of interesting information which therefore means that I'm pretty egotistical.

Anyhoo.

Today at work I told a girl on my team, "I am not the decider on that project". She walked away and I realized I just made a Dubya comment. Then, I threw up in my mouth a little.

Speaking of work, isn’t it sad, the jokes that occur at work that are so lame, that no one else outside your office would find funny, but you find completely hilarious? Today, for example, some of us were chatting and bullshitting about a project we're working on when one coworker joked: “Will mitigate risks for food!” Yeah it’s really not funny. But, if you were in my office, you’d be LOLing profusely like we were at that gem. It's also funny when someone tries to make the joke even FUNNIER, but don't realize that they can't and the moment has already passed. Like when someone else said, "Yeah hahahha will trade milestone decisions for food!" Then its like, moment of uncomfortable silence and the obligatory fake laughs, and then someone says, "Anyhow...". Yeah, thats always funny.

Isn't it funny how I never talk about work much anymore on my blog. I'm sure everyone remembers when I had my job in Georgetown where I would literally blog all day and talk about how many games of solitaire I won. Man. I haven't played solitaire since I left that place. I feel like because I work for the government I really shouldn't blog about it...you know me, Model Citizen and all. Since I took the day off tomorrow, maybe I'll check out good ol' solitaire again and see if I've got any mad skillz left. Cause I was really gettin good there for a while. Whoops, there's that big ego again.

Hilarious, cause everyone knows its Scott with the big ego, not me!

(Just checking to see if he's actually reading my blog posts or just ignoring those nifty RSS feeds...)

Statement about his ego tho still stands.