Woo-Hoo 6 day Weekend!

Well, at least it will be for me. I'm doing a repeat of a trip I did last year at this time (now, I miss deleting my old blog, I could have linked to my post with my panic state of camping). I'm getting pretty seasoned now at these rustic camping / National Park vacations with my nature boy. At first, I had absolutely no clue what to pack and I was the only person in the moutain lodge with Louie V lugguage! I'm learning.

Y'all heading to the beach - good freakin luck! I was out there last weekend and traffic sucked and it was full of drunken fools. Maybe I'm getting old or it's just the fact I'm not single anymore, but, that's not too fun at all. Well, until you catch up and become a drunken fool. If you can't beat em, join em.

Anyway, happy holiday! Any fun plans on your part?

All things must come to an end

Police week ends tomorrow - THANK GOD ! Yesterday I was hit on by a guy with a T-shirt that read, "God made Cops so firemen would have heros". arrrrgghh..

My days of partying with these guys and my holster-sniffing friend (and ex-coblogger) are long gone and so is my patience with bagpipes playing outside my window until 1:30 in the morning. Almost as classic as seeing them parade drunkingly down Mass Ave. in front of Union Station at midnight last night, while taking up 2 and a half lanes when they wobbled in front of my car. Guess they followed me home for a late night seranade. No thanks. This could actually be the most dangerous week in D.C. - I have seen more drunks with guns in the past few days than I have all year in Souteast.

Someone seriously needs to bid on this on ebay. My friends and I stay at this resort every time I go to Aruba and this is a ridiculous deal ! It's killing me I can't get away next week. arggg. Have fun for me.

Eggs and Ham

The craziest thing just happened... my car was just egged as I was driving up 15th street in Columbia Heights. I thought a brick was going through my windshield. Egged - seriously, who does this anymore?

I quickly pulled over to figure out what the hell just happened and I look up and see some kids hanging over the roof of the building I just passed.

And then, a not so crazy, but quite expected thing happened, MPD did nothing... I look over and see a cop in his car about 10 feet away. I walked over and told him what just occurred. He looked up at the building, said, "huh, I should check that out." I then went back to my car, got some windex from my trunk and cleaned off the car. This took about 5 minutes to get it all off. Good old MPD was still just sitting in his car when I pulled off. Seriously, why did I even waste my breath and tell him what happened, when will I learn?

It's not the kind of thing I would have ever reported to the police, but, you know, he was right there! I thought maybe, he may at least give me a shout to the kids to knock it off. But, I guess in D.C. it's fine to throw things at cars. Although, in V.A. if it went in the moving car it would be a "missile" like that McDonald's cup incident. Good to know.

I say, Dance with the one who brung ya'

As the Yankees crawled themselves up from last place in their division they now make a desperate attempt to buy themselves into the playoffs yet again. awesome. Yesterday Roger Clemens signs a prorated $28 million deal with the Yankees, spurning the Red Sox and Astros. I still remember when he was a BoSox, what is he now, 40?

Anyway, not just because this has to do with the Yankees, and really, what do I care, I'm a Cubs fan, but, I am seriously disillusioned with baseball at the moment. It's so hard to have allegiance to any team when you have to spend more time trying to figure out who is on the roster this week and does a team have enough money to by a championship.

If I were on that Miss America stage and I was asked, "If you could do anything to make the world a better place, what would it be?"

My reply would be simply, "End mid-season trading and acquisitions forever".

(end of rant)

Trifecta of Fun

Gold Cup, Derby and Cinco de Mayo ~ oh, my!

I honestly believe Church Hill Downs is one of the most romantic places on earth. When I first went there about 10 years ago I thought I was stepping onto a piece of heaven. When I was little, I'm sure it was more about the horses and now that is coupled with my penchant for gambling. But, I still love me some Derby Day! I should be there hanging with the Queen.

Mint Julep Recipe

• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups water
• Sprigs of fresh mint
• Crushed ice
• Kentucky Whisky
• Silver Julep Cups

Make a simple syrup by boiling sugar and water together for five minutes. Cool and place in a covered container with six or eight sprigs of fresh mint, then refrigerate overnight. Make one julep at a time by filling a julep cup with crushed ice, adding one tablespoon mint syrup and two ounces of Kentucky Whisky. Stir rapidly with a spoon to frost the outside of the cup. Garnish with a sprig of fresh mint. yummy!

You Can Always Buy a Date Tonight @ Babes for Boobs

Tonight at Whitlow's on Wilsen... the always fun for a cause, Bachelor / Bachelorette auction. Support Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, details and Bios of potential dates on THEIR SITE.

XXXecutive Decision - the porn MUST go

Its been many months now since the boy moved in and we still have freeking boxes everywhere. I've lived alone for years, had too much stuff already and not ready at all for crap quota to double with a new person here.

While creatively finding places to put all of his stuff I find not 1, not two, but, 3 boxes of porn, good God!? His response, with a chuckle was, hmm, it's almost like I wasn't in a fulfilling relationship before I met you. I still can't believe his ex let him take up this much room at their old place with random magazine, books, and DVDs.

Hey, I'm no angel. I like most people have some box of something they would rather not have people see. And, more so because I was embarrassed, I threw out my "secret box" of fun when he moved in. I still appreciate Velvet offering to hold on to them for me in case I changed my mind. ;-) Well, time for his to go to. I just dumped the boxes down the trash chute... maybe the maintenance men in the building will find the treasure I chucked, but, it's not staying here.

If he looks for them and asks what happened to them, I like my response will be... aren't cha feeling fullfilled now?