The kids found that I was quite the pushover today.  ahem.

On the otherhand, tried some great roast beef there, a variety of cheeses, and some puffs filled with frozen eggnog.

And, speaking of eggnog, I just had my first cup of eggnog from South Mountain Creamery, and whoo boy, is that stuff good.  (And probably consisting of about 10,000 calories ( Read more... )

Molly and I did a little shopping today, since her birthday is coming up in a week and she wanted a dress for her party. (*rolling of eyes on my part ( Read more... )

Unfortunately, I also managed to find a bunch of butthole drivers today. First there was the guy at the mall, who wanted my parking space, but was so far up my ass to get it that there was no way I was going to bother even trying to get out until he backed the hell up. I kept looking back and waving to him to back up, and he kept trying to wave ( Read more... )

Last night, after dinner at Lebanese Taverna, getting Reil and Jacob haircuts, and browsing around the new (and very awesome toy store in Congressional Plaza), we went up to Tower Records to see what we could find in the last two days of their close out sale. They had signs up that pretty much everything was 90% off, but as we browsed, they ( Read more... )

I'm just putting in a plug for some friends of my sister in law. She threw a jewelry party tonight, where a bunch of us came to buy gorgeous bracelets, earrings and necklaces that the friends made. I ended up buying about 5 pairs of earrings, and would have bought more if I had more available cash ( Read more... )

I sent this email just now to the owner of a yarn store in town. I'm usually a bit more thick skinned about stuff like this, but obviously was pretty upset, since I went out to my car and cried for a few minutes afterwards. (pms ( Read more... )

You know, after searching for information on the web, and looking for books on the internet, I'm finding a dearth of information about knitting on circular looms. Yeah, there's patterns galore for simple hats and scarves, but not much on anything more complicated ( Read more... )

There was crazy traffic in Rockville this morning. Apparently there was a hit and run that shut down Gude Drive, sending all traffic heading into Rockville on different routes. EVERYTHING was crowded. The trip to Molly's school, which normally takes me 10-15 minutes took about 35 this morning, getting us there slightly late instead of very early ( Read more... )

G Street is having their President's Day sale this weekend, so I took advantage of that today (like I took advantage of Hancock's sale on Friday.) Not only were their zippers marked down, but some of their discontinued styles had already been marked down 50%, and were 25% off of that. So, 37 cents for zippers? Yeah, that'll work for me. I think ( Read more... )

I ate at a Cracker Barrel for the first (and hopefully last) time today ( Read more... )