Things I dont understand

I dont get why When you hire people to clean your apt, you end up cleaning intensely BEFORE they come. My cleaning people cannot do the dishes!

First, In their write up they are supposed to do the dishes by hand (which they dont do) and i've figured out why...they cannot for the life of them figure out how to use a dish washer. They stuff EVERYTHING in at once and dont rinse anything off so when i get home i have to unload half, and put them through again. This leaves me doing dishes before they get here.

Also they use the wrong chemicals on all the furniture, so things i care about (like my new table) i have to fully cover and put signs on to stay away.

I have a few other complaints here and there, but I guess i should be happy b/c they do the things i dont do like wash my floors, vaccuum the carpets, and wash the toilet.

Thats my rant. Its my love hate relationship with my cleaning ladies, and all cleaning ladies of the past and the future.

Busy Weekend

I had quite a busy weekend including 4 birthday celebrations and 1 going away thing.

I particularly enjoyed finally getting to try Russia house....and will probably never go back again. Don't get me wrong, it was tons of fun, its just that the evening quickly deteriorated after we left, and i think Russia house's drinks were to blame. My favorite was when mike and peter went to go get themselves another round of drinks, and they both come back with blueberry vodka. Well it amused me. Also, I tried sparkling red wine, i didn't even know that existed! it was pretty good though even though i don't drink red wine usually. I also enjoyed my sputnik martini :) Of course I'd order that.

Also, Diana and I saw house bunny on demand (clearly peter went out while we did this). The movie wasn't quite what I expected. I guess it never occurred to me that because Adam Sandler produced the movie it wouldn't be a chick flick. It was kinda an amusing movie, but I would have much preferred a girly comedy more than this. During most of the movie Diana and i were looking at each other like wtf is going on. oh well.

Basketball in DC

Last night, thanks to Lem, Peter and I had a wonderful night at the wizards/bobcats game. We had great seats and it surprisingly turned out to be an exciting game.

The first half didnt look so good. The bobcats were up by 20 pts. The most amazing part was that the cheerleaders who were standing in front of us made more noise with their pom poms than the entire rest of the crowd! you should never have been able to hear the little tinsle over a nba team's crowd. Also we were sitting right in front of one of the cheer leader's dad and she freakishly kept staring up our way.

At one point they had one of the players pre recorded on the jumbotron trying to help advertise season tickets. The player basically thanked the fans for helping them through hard games and being there even when things got really bad etc etc etc acknowledging that they are a terrible team this year. it was kinda sad. Also the season isnt over, maybe they should wait like 7 more games to say it was a bad season even if nothing is going to change.

Printers

at my new office they dont really have a communal printer, instead people just have their own in their office. Which means i havent been able to print since I got here. And since they are going to move everyone on the project to a new space soon once the mission before us goes up, they havent bothered to get us any printer.

Weird? yes

So today someone found a really old printer that they are lending to us till the move. I just installed it, and i was very amused to find out its the same model I got as a bat mitzvah gift when I was 13 years old. man this thing is old.

Weekend full of basketball

Sat night we had a few people over to watch the games. Lots of fun and sports food is the best as i've said many times before :)

Sunday we continued to watch more basketball and while one A-10 team got their ass kicked, another fought for it and stayed in. Goooooooo musketeers. Shhh let me have this one, its rare A-10 teams get this far. I spent so many hours of my life at the smith center that its fun seeing these teams go at least a little far. It would be a million times better if it were GW, but still.

We also saw I love you man...which if you didn't go see this weekend I highly recommend it. Its hilarious. I will go see any movie paul rudd or jason segal are in really, but both together? awesome. And Jason played a totally different character than he normally does and it was hilarious. Yet another movie i'm probably going to buy when it comes out on dvd. I dont want to ruin it or raise people's hopes too much so I wont say any more. But feel free to email me if you want to chat about it.

Happy Spring!

Hopefully this weekend it will start to feel like spring too :) I cannot wait till we get to eat dinner on our balcony overlooking people swimming, and maybe going for a dip myself. only a couple more months.

Leslie once blogged in her heyday (although she's gearing up again) about how her work was similar and equally amusing to the show the office if looked at right. Some days i feel the same way. Today is certainly one of them.

Safety week is coming up in early april, and they've posted GIANT posters with the week long schedule of events. I didnt think much of this till kevin, while waiting in the hall for some girl to walk by, actually took the time to read the sign. There it was.

April 7th....FORKLIFT RODEO. Clearly we are going to this. I'll let you know how it goes.

Sideways

We watched sideways last night. Costco was selling it for 4 bucks, so why not? I had heard good things, plus peter liked it.

We watched it.

It wasn't a total waste of time, and had one amusing part (on the golf course), but other than that i was bored and found it overly predictable. It fit the story formula they taught me in 2nd grade when we had to write short stories.

I don't know, I've never heard anything bad about it so maybe i'm special