parents' visit

this weekend my parents (and alex of course) made the trip out to DC, and we had such a good time. friday night, we ate out at DC Coast for restaurant week, and i had some delicious crab cakes. saturday, we explored the american and natural history museums (alex and my dad tolerated both the first ladies exhibit and the hope diamond/jewelery collection haha). then, we went out for pizzas at piolas down the street, and played trivial pursuit with chris, katie, maggie, and kayla. the boys beat the girls twice :( but i think everyone would agree they had the easier box of questions...

sunday we relaxed around the apartment in the morning, alex had to leave to head back to the burg, and my parents and i went to target to find some new apartment decor...you should all come over and see, i think you'll be impressed :) i'll post a picture here soon...

hope you all had great weekends, and got a chance to relax!

flower meanings

for those of us that enjoy getting flowers (me included), you might be interested to know that the flowers you give or receive have very specific meanings. i had no idea you could say so much with flowers, but apparently they are a language all their own. also, who knew it was called a "spray" of flower? i didn't, and i think that's weird. anyways, you can read about flowers and their meanings here.

is this true??

for those of you not in the DC area, this probably won't mean anything, but i was checking my google reader today and found this...is this true?? is ray's the steaks really gone from our little strip mall?? i'm in the burg for the weekend so i can't go check, but i'm going to be sad if i didn't take advantage of the convenient location in time!

the most ridiculous woman ever

yesterday at a team lunch, we met a woman that works for our parent company. i learned more intimate (and inappropriate) things about her life than i would ever EVER want to know. the list below is a fact sheet compiled from emails from my coworkers that circulated following this lunch. enjoy :)

1. She is a professional singer and wins karaoke contests.
2. She sings at weddings and funerals and has been singing since she was 3, so obviously she never needed voice lessons (totally would be one of THOSE people on American Idol).
3. She drives a trailblazer.
4. She has a serve case of road rage and in fact carries a gun in her car (yes a real one).
5. She doesn't need to carry a baseball bat to challenge someone for a parking spot because she's a blackbelt in something...but she does carry a gun.
6. She is very competitive and won some kind of Hollywood squares contest and totted it as being "one of the most amazing things that has happened in her life."
7. She and her husband throw great parties.
8. Her husband is in the Army Reserves.
9. They have Rock Band, a pool table, and a movie screen in their basement.
10. Her husband makes the strongest shots ever.
11. If people get too drunk, they have 6 beds that they can sleep in.
12. They also have 7 bathrooms for when people start throwing up.
13. Last time, everyone ended up in the hot tub...naked.
14. She could see how big everyone was.
15. The next morning she told them about how big they are and how she understood where their nicknames came from.
16. Her 4 year old daughter sleeps through it all.
17. She doesn't know what my husband does for a living and doesn't care; she just cares that they get to meet Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and have famous people come over to their house.

and somehow this got her invited to the rest of team lunches. i'm sure there will be more awesome factoids to come...

awesome distraction!

if you're bored and looking for something to do at work (or otherwise), here is any AWESOME site you should check out with all of kinds of "brain training" games...kristy and i have been playing all afternoon. it's incredible. what's your BPI (brain performance index)??

warning labels

last week, a guy in my office came in a picked up the can of compressed air we use to clean the keyboards on our computers. he looked at the warning label and it was so riduclous, he read it aloud. here is what it says: "WARNING: Do not deliberately concentrate and/or inhale this product. You could instantly die, suffer brain damage, or other dangerous and permanent health effects," (emphasis added). who said working in an office wasn't hazardous??

weekend update

sorry for being a blogging slacker this past week! to make up for my delay, here is a general blog about my weekend activities. alex came into town on friday, which was awesome of course. we laid low friday night, ate cal tort, and watched "problem child" with chris, katie, and kayla.

saturday was gorgeous (as i'm sure you noticed), so we took leonidas on a really long walk down to teddy roosevelt island, walked all over the island, saw the kennedy center and lincoln memorial (from a distance), and just enjoyed people watching. the puppy was so tired when we started coming home that we carried him for part of the way, haha.

sunday was also super warm, so we cleaned off the porch and chairs and ate breakfast outside. alex had to write a paper and i was studying for a certification exam during the afternoon/evening, and then after he left (sad face), i washed my car and gave leonidas a much-needed haircut.

that about covers it, i hope you all got to enjoy the lovely weather and spend some time outside!