J & I went to DC for the weekend to celebrate our first wedding anniversary. Got a bitchin' deal at the Grand Hyatt via Priceline. They practically give away DC hotels on the weekend.  Got there late, though, because the cat chose the moment we were leaving to vanish without a trace & we couldn't leave in good conscience until we knew she was ( Read more... )

My friend Susie (of the Very Hot Wedding Shower) had her eye operated on yesterday, to try to correct her lazy eye/double vision issue. So last night I went to stay with her to make sure she didn't have any terrifying complications overnight, like her eye exploding or something. I was glad to do it, but life got decidedly more complicated than it ( Read more... )

since all the cool kids are doin' it...

Friday night I finished The Amber Spyglass and cried for about an hour after, because I'm a big dork. Three days later, just writing this sentence makes me teary all over again. That said, it was totally worth reading. This interview with Philip Pullman I'd stumbled across really contributed to the levels on ( Read more... )

Playa Del Fuego was so very wonderfully exactly what I needed!

No homework was done, but there was lots of chatting and laughing and singing and freakishness and food and watching my costumes on other people and learning to make chainmail (EEEEP! what a lovely new obsession!) and BACON! This was my 7th PDF, but only the second one in which I felt ( Read more... )

My Dearest's birthday was Saturday, so we went down to Cape May for the weekend.  We stayed in a 4th floor ocean view room in a 115 year old inn across the street from the beach.  The elevator was put in in 1900 & had the little gate & required a person to take us up (so we mostly opted for the stairs rather than have him paged).  We ate pizza, I ( Read more... )