Mom is going to be here in two days and my house and room are a mess and I feel like I have no time to clean them.

We have to get out to Chantilly to meet with Dan's family for Thanksgiving; the obvious solution is to rent a car, but they're about 200% more expensive this week than they were when Dan and I were renting 'em for other stuff not too ( Read more... )

When CNN called it, Dan and I put on our coats and went outside, figuring we'd hoot and holler in the streets of DC for a little bit, and then come in and watch Senate results.

I got calls from all over while we were walking around the block, including stentoriansista and kestrel127, who were also coming outside. We decided to meet on 14th Street, and then go to 16th, ( Read more... )

Talk about an entitled bunch of whiners.

"I tried to tell Kaitlyn, 'We’ll get the Hollister jeans at a thrift store,' Mrs. Postle recalled. 'She got angry and said: "That’s gross! Other people wore them ( Read more... )

I have such healthful things in my kitchen right now, thanks to Libby. I am eating a breakfast of plain yogurt sweetened with some strawberry jam. Mm. I feel very Martha Stewarty.

Yesterday was the DC Ministry of Bicycling's first group ride. Theme: black tie. On bicycles. You can imagine the awesomeness. Actually, you don't have to imagine ( Read more... )

So, Meigh's leaving our little house collective and we are looking for a new roommate. Someone we'll happily get along with for one year, after which we can reevaluate the situation, right ( Read more... )

So it looks like I got too preoccupied to post anything substantial for a while again. Whoops ( Read more... )

"It's okay, my parents will be there to hold down the hetero." -Meigh, on how this weekend isn't my lesbian intervention ( Read more... )

Me: You could just get on birth control on a cycle opposite mine.
Meigh: I'm on birth control -- the birth control of dykeitude.

Happy birthday, stentoriansista!

Meigh: entertaining the world since 1982.

"But I don't NEED cake." -Meigh, rubbing belly
"But you're pleasantly panda-shaped!" -Christina