The trick to good service at Indian Restaurants

Is to go without any boys :) You may recall that a while back I blogged about how we have so many indian restaurants in the neighborhood, but all with incredibly sucky service. Well, last night after getting our nails done, Diana and I went to Tandoori Nights. We had great service. Once We ordered pader khadai the guy goes "well thats ok, but get this masala dish, its the better dish". We were a bit skeptical, but ultimately decided to try it, and he was right it was delicious. I've never had friendlier and faster service at this particular restaurant. Just for comparison last time it took like 40 min between ordering and getting food and the table next to us in that time sat down ate and paid! wtf. Anyway now i know, take out with peter, sit down with lady friends :)

Outdoor Kinda Weekend

This weekend Kristin (a friend from highschool) was in town looking for apartments. We took a super long walk so she could see almost every neighborhood. We started in georgetown, walked up through dupont to kalorama, up to adams morgan, back down to U street, then over to logan circle and then almost to foggy bottom. Thats probably up there with the longest walks i've taken in DC, and certainly the longest in super hot weather!

Sunday peter and I went out to germantown to go blueberry picking! We now have 9 lbs of blueberries! I am going to make so many pies!

Stupid Truck

OK every morning on my way into work there is one turn that aggravates me. There are 2 left turn lanes that are super long, usually it takes about 2-3 light cycles to get through. Every day one or two jerkmobiles go up to the front and cut everyone off (although i rarely let them infront of me, other nicer people on the road let them in). Today it was so much worse. A giant truck pulled that move. The kind of truck that needs both lanes to make the sharp turn anyway. I was so angry that I took a picture with the intention of calling the "how am i driving" line. I've deicded not to call, but i'll post the picture anyway so you can get an idea for how much of an asshole this driver is.

Futurama!

Did anyone else watch last night?

Yes that's right, after a series of direct to home movies ending with a cliffhanger where this season picked up, its back! Thanks Comedy Central! It was pretty good too! We'll see how the rest of the season goes to see if its fully back, but from the 2 episodes last night its a good start :)

Also as much as I'm enjoying the world cup, its seriously interfering with my sleep :( I'm so tired! I didnt even watch any of the games last night. meh :(

Disney Hates Giving Things For Free

So a few months back we bought Toy Story and Toy Story 2 on Blu Ray. Both came with a card that said "One Free Ticket To Toy Story 3!!!". So we did what any pixar loving people would do, and saved those codes in an obvious location in our apt. Finally when it came time to use it we actually still had it and one hour before the show thought to redeem them. We went to the indicated website, and joined the disney club (of course they were going to require that). What happened next was the incredible, we had to jump through hoops for the next THIRTY minutes trying to figure out which page leads to the next and which new codes to use etc. It was RIDICULOUS. They couldnt have made it any more difficult. Finally we went down to the printer and printed out the tickets only to see "good for $8.50 worth of tickets"....WHAT DECADE DID DISNEY THINK THIS WAS? Even if we had seen TS3 on a normal screen we would have had to pay a combined additional 5 dollars since the base ticket now a days is 11 bucks. On top of that we decided to see it in 3D (not even imax 3D) and had to pay a combined additional 12 dollars!!!! Thats an entire extra ticket for a normal movie! I dont know who i'm more annoyed at, disney for being so cheap, or the theaters for charging such outrageous prices!!!!

Toy Story 3

Clearly I've already seen this movie. It was awesome. However, clearly I did not like it as much as the rest of the adults in the theater. Something would happen that referenced another movie or something and the adults would laugh as hard as they could, some even literally slapping their knees. It is unclear to me if they actually thought it was that funny, or if they wanted everyone else to know that they got the joke. I mean I was amused, but those particular parts weren't laugh out loud funny.

The end of the movie (without trying to spoil anything) was super sentimental, and I did my best not to cry. I kept telling myself, its just a movie and you cannot cry for a toy (those of you thinking its a spoiler, its not what you think). Anyway I highly recommend this movie!

Also, We did see it in 3D which is by no means necessary.

What a JAG pary

This weekend Leslie briefly flew through town and stayed just long enough for a little fun and a lot of pool time.

Sat night we decided to have a fiesta with us three, the farmers, and evan le gwinn. We made tamales and sangria (lots of sangria) and went down to the patio by the pool to eat. Not too long after we got there, we could see inside the party room to see that some amazon girls in cowboy hats and some michael bolton look alikes were having a party inside with lots of food and a keg. We stayed outside and were thinking eventually thier party would grow in size, but it plateaued pretty early. By 11 thier rental of the party room was over, and to noone's surprise most of the keg must have remained...so what did they do? They brought it out to the idiots sitting outside in 200 degree weather. They filled up our now empty sangria pitcher, and even hung out for a bit. They hung out long enough for us to find out they were all Jag's...literally.

US soccer game! Love the world cup

Getting Ready

For the new Starcraft to come out. Some people (probably the ones who have played before) are concerned with things like making sure your computer is up to speed for such high tech gaming. Others, like myself are more concerned with what name to use for war mode or battlenet or whatever. I've come up with something awesome if i do say so myself:

Princess Ray Ray Twinkle Toes McGillicuddy

I'm open to other suggestions though

I'm jumping on the hating vuvuzela bandwagon

I thought it was neat, and spirited, and fun. That is until I watched hour after hour after hour of the world cup. Last night was the final straw when we watched 2 tivoed games back to back. Finally halfway through the brazil korea game I had to leave the room (and go to bed) before my head exploded. Seriously guys, if you played it just during exciting parts it would mean so much more. There is NO need to constantly be playing it for 90 minutes straight! I'm surprised more fans dont pass out from vuvuzela exhaustion! I'm seriously considering wiring my tv sound through my laptop so that I can filter out the horns.

Why is the weekend so short?!

We went to cape cod for the weekend, and it was a very short trip. I am back at work today, and am so sore. Probably because in the 2 days I was there I went to the driving range twice, and went on two beach walks.

I wish that I could have spent more time there b/c it was overcast or rainy the whole time so I didnt get to do important things like lie down on the beach and get a tan, and go play mini golf. I guess that means I have to go back :)

Almost the weekend!

Last night was Bunko night! I could finally make it too which was cool. Its a once a month girls night/ gambling adventure which is basically just an excuse to hang out with friends. Everyone puts in 10 bucks, and the money is split between the person who wins the most games, and the person who loses the most games. Guess who lost the most??? Thats right, I was the biggest loser of the night!

on another note...only 4 hours till I begin my trip to Cape Cod for the weekend! cant wait!

Ladies Night

I went to see Sex And the City 2 with the ladies last night. I prepared myself for a terrible movie a little too well. I had set my expectations so low that I actually enjoyed watching. I mean dont get me wrong, it was terrible. However, I found myself laughing (at) the movie many times. One of the most amusing parts was the gentleman behind us. He was clearly dragged by his lady friend...although he seemed to know what was up with satc2. He added the "oh no she didnt" or loud gasp at inappropriate kisses, which helped with all the corny-ness of the movie.

The movie itself was poorly written, pretty offensive, and not that well acted. That being said, I recommend rounding up your girls and seeing the movie after a HH and good dinner.

Not what you want to come into first thing in the morning

Weekend Fun

Sorry I didnt blog yesterday, I know you were eagerly awaiting my blog post, but blogger was down :( I tried!

Sat (super bright and early) Team B.O.O.B. Raced again in the Race For The Cure. It was a smaller team than past years, but I think we all had a great time.

Sat night Julie and I went to Tallulah for some wine and cheese and dinner. It was great as usual. I cant wait to try the more casual but connected Eat Bar! We got beet ravioli which looked like human organs, but tasted much better.

Sunday was a relaxing pool day even though it was cloudy.

Anyway it was a low key and relaxing weekend (finally)! I wish it were still the weekend.

Valentines Day (in June)

So I watched the movie valentines day last night (while peter was out at hh of course). I was expecting a cute chick flick that was all sorts of sappy, but man was I wrong. It was an entertaining movie, so there was that. One thing that surprised me back when the trailers were out was how star studded the cast was. I figured it had to be awesome since so many people agreed to be in it. I was wrong. Also another surprise was that Ashton Kutcher was the best character in the movie! He was sweet and adorable and nice and not playing someone who gets laughs for being dumb.

Anyway, it was weird and I dont quite know what to make of it.

Great Weekend

I had a terrific weekend with the Gwinn-Mann-Criss-Holsteins.

For starters any weekend is off to a good start when you are playing rockband. I just cant wait for Robbie to get the beatles and green day rockbands too. I usually wimp out of singing but, maybe it was the special wine jessica made, or maybe it was just how comfortable I felt with good friends, but I actually sang....FOUR songs. crazy! What I learned is that I know every word of Eve6's inside out and Lit's My own worst enemy (actually who are we kidding, I know every word to every eve6 song), and it turns out that Dashboard Confessional and Social Distortion are much harder to sing than you'd imagine! I mean I made it through those songs, but it was rough.

Sunday started off a little rough. But once we made it to the eastern shore things were going well. The whole day was a blast, but one moment stands out as the clear funniest part which was clearly when Robbie tried to create a fireball out of the citronella candle, but failed miserably. If i try and tell this story, there is no way I could do it justice especially since what made it so hilarious was the immediate reactions from Levi and Bill. Although I think we can consider the citronella candle fireball myth BUSTED!

Lastly, last night i surprised peter with Super Mario Galxy 2, which is just as much fun as the first one was! Cant wait to play more tonight ;)