my gratitude goes out to twilight and fellow cyclist bikeonback for their MS150 sponsorships! :) i've now officially surpassed my fundraising goal! :D one more day of rest before the big ride on saturday. 30% chance of rain on sunday though... hmm... :p

speaking of rain. today i hop and skipped from my desk to leave from work and was greeted with a violent ( Read more... )

for all of you responded to my last post and gave a donation for the ms150 ride, THANK YOU! i felt slightly overwhelmed with everyone's generosity! :O it made my day to come back after a weekend and see all the sponsorships. i went to sleep that night wiggling my toes happily, feeling a bit more trusting of the inherent goodness still lying abouts ( Read more... )

yesterday was a very bad day. it involved the end to a 3 month long battle culminating in injustice and a large sum of money forlornly leaving my bank account. but that was yesterday. today was a good day, a very good day!

today was pickle day, and according to the powers that be at whole foods, this meant they were giving away free insulated ( Read more... )

my mind still refuses to acknowledge how fast time is passing. i mean, when did it suddenly become fall?? and i swear janicu visited me not too long ago, but it's actually been a whole month! :O well i promised my parents that i would update more often, so here goes... :p

i'm a sentimental fool when it comes to many things, and nothing brings up ( Read more... )

i swear, i know soooo many ppl who have their birthday on or around my birthday. :p grunters finally got to celebrate a bday in dc after 6 years of griping that his day of aging was always spent alone. some new faces at the table and some old, including the formerly estranged vandy friends marg and ryan of yesteryear. ahh yes, it has been too long ( Read more... )

wes keeps bugging me to post pics of my birthday dinner, so here goes. :p

we decided to finally try indique in cleveland park, one of the restaurants that had languished perpetually on our to-try list. i wasn't really expecting much, it was just one of those things that kept itching me at the side to try ( Read more... )

this past weekend seems ages ago. damn, as soon as i catch up on my postings, i manage to fall behind again. :p wes and i finally had a breather this time. grunters was busy packing in north carolina, and singe only showed up briefly on sunday after spending most of the weekend at his timeshare in new jersey, which left wes and i to go back to our ( Read more... )

i met wes' high school friend jon about 1.5 years ago. it was right after wes and i had met, and oo ahhh jon had finally met someone around the same time. we both introduced our newly minted sig others to each other over a brunch in georgetown, all the while wes chittering from the side that the two had met on jdate. well fast forward to the ( Read more... )

two weekends ago, i planned an aggressive schedule which i surprisingly survived with ease. the goal? go to nations to see the crystal method spin, a late night past 2am endeavor, then wake up the following morning at 6am to run 5k for the komen national race for the cure event. grunters had even more crap in mind after that, but luckily his ( Read more... )

i can't remember what i did last year for memorial day weekend, so i wonder just how much of this year's version will stay in my aging brain cells. :p good thing there's alwaysl lj to count on!

did i mention my short term memory has taken a hit lately?? yeah... big BIG hit.

nothing was planned for memorial day. in fact so little was planned, ( Read more... )