if nothing else, just click the merkin link

well.. ahem. so, it's been a week, has it? huh. someone should really talk to management about how spotty the service is here. someone's clearly falling down on the job.

it's just that i've been so BUSY! what with the working, and the playing, and the.. well, ok, pretty much it's just been the playing. well, that and the sleeping to recover from the playing. except during the week, when the problem is i'm unable to sleep in and recover, which leads to rambly(-ier) and more incoherent(-ier) blogging than normal, with no discernable point. sort of like right now. or every previous entry. ok, so maybe that last one is a poor example. basically, what i'm trying to say is that i'm a freaking MARTYR because i've been trying to save you from crappy posts like this one. you see? i neglect the blog for YOU. out of LOVE.

(slash laziness.)

anyway! there are so many things i've been meaning to write about, like how the 30 day exercise challenge went (hint: HAHAHAHAaaa), solidifying my plans for eastern europe, and most recently, getting to finally meet kim and her husband! she was in DC last week and we managed to line up our schedules enough for a quick lemonade at bourbon coffee so i could talk their ears off. (kim: err, sorry i was so chatterific. and late. and sweaty.)

(also: sorry i'm about to steal your photo, as due to the laziness issue i have not downloaded the one from my camera yet.)

me & kim! i am working my "sicilian sweaty" look here.

kim is ADORABLE. so cheery and sweet! maybe i should look into veganism so i can be adorable like that...?

meeting up with kim kicked off a very full weekend: i left her and steven and headed to logan circle for dinner with a good friend; brought the friend to meet up with The Boy I'm Dating Who Has Officially Found This Website, Oh My Crap and some of his friends at chi cha lounge; headed to 18th street for a while, then ended the evening with my first foray to ben's chili bowl. verdict: the chili is SPICEH. and the chili cheese dogs are amazing.

saturday started with a greasy brunch at bob & edith's (if you live anywhere near arlington and have never ended a night and/or started the next day here: you probably should. it's as traditional a greasy-spoon diner as you'll find outside of nj - and i would know), continued on to a double-surprise-birthday-party, headed to dinner at founding farmers (yum!!), and then ended at the ballroom, where i helpfully introduced my compatriots to the wonder of merkins. not, uh, PERSONALLY introduced them, to be clear. just introduced the term into their vocabularies.

(you should definitely click that link, by the way. everyone should know about merkins.)

sunday saw brunch at tallulah with another lovely friend, some highly important shopping for an upcoming legwarmers concert (woo!), and then watching the giants beat the cowboys. in the cowboys' inaugural game in the new cowboys stadium. heheheheh. heh. it was sweet.

wow. for someone who claims to not have a lot of time, this is an awfully long and wordy post. i did start it at like 10am, and it's now.. oh. um, after 5? ouch. ok, we're done here.

ps: merkin.