weekend recap

hello, all! i hope everyone's Fourths were lovely? good long weekend? yes? i've been slackerific on the blog, because first it was the end of quarter here (remember a few quarters back? i upgraded this time!) and then after working until midnight on monday the 30th, i did a lot of slacking to compensate on the 1st and 2nd, and then our company gave us both the 3rd AND the 4th off. so, what have i been up to, you ask?

*on tuesday, muffin rented a harley fat boy, picked me up at work halfway through the day, and we drove back down to skyline drive in shenandoah national park. remember the brief bear sighting during our failed camping attempt last weekend? HAHAAAA. try more bears, closer up, and this time with LEGS UNCOVERED BY METAL, available for the chomping.

it was ridiculously gorgeous again, though. full set is here for anyone interested.

*on thursday, seeing as i didn't have to go to work, i went to the pool. like, all day. and DID NOT GET BURNED. congratulatory emails and/or flowers sent to my house are both appreciated and completely appropriate.

*then! thursday night! i saw wanted, which is FANTASTIC. if you like action movies, you'll like this. the plot is a little.. um.. how shall we say... weak? silly? ridiculous? but it DOES NOT MATTER, just ignore the talking and watch in glee as everyone is SUPER AWESOME ALL THE TIME.

*on friday, after some rock banding at muffin's house, we headed to a house party downtown, where we could watch the fireworks on the national mall from the roof. beer was consumed. fireworks were enjoyed.

*saturday was supposed to be tubing (again with the shenandoah!) but my girlfriend and i decided to bail since the weather called for scattered thunderstorms all day, and we actually know of someone who was struck by lightning while tubing on this river last summer. instead, we metroed into town for dinner, talking the whole time about how we were too old to binge drink, and it wasn't even fun any more, because the hangovers were so bad these days, and now we drank much more in moderation, blah blah blah. we started off with dinner and a bottle of wine at les halles, meandered over to michel richard's central for a few glasses of sparkling wine (winner of the 2008 beard award, incidentally! ...although we didn't actually eat anything there) before meeting up with some friends at russia house for vodkas.

*so yeah, sunday was definitely spent moaning in agony on the couch, trying to recover from a ridiculously bad hangover. AM SMRT.

to sum up: the past week has been lovely and relaxing, and i am NOT HAPPY about having to deal with a full 5-day work week now. lame.

at least i know that my reward this weekend will be meeting up with my chicago bloggers :-)