And on with the Birthday Countdown

Since my birthday is on Friday, as you can guess I'm getting pretty excited.

With birthdays comes a lot of secrecy. This week at work we moved Chipotle Thursday to a Wednesday and my office mate refused a ride with me to carpool there. I was feeling like maybe everyone thought i was a bad driver or something. But as it turns out my office mate was buying me surprise birthday cheesecake!!

Its kinda funny that leading up to birthday events usually makes the birthday person feel left out.

The best birthday card i've ever gotten was from Julie and Jess at Summer Camp. It reads "to a gouda friend" with a picture of a gouda wheel of cheese, then you open it "in fact there's no one grater" with a picture of a cheese grater. Jess had bought it (which julie made very clear to not take credit for the cheesy joke), then Jess secretly gave it to Julie for her to sign. This whole time, not knowing what was going on, I was starting to get very angry that my two closest friends at camp no longer wanted to hang out with me. As it turns out they were just trying to surprise me with the card. Dont i feel like a jerk.

In my old age i've learned that if anyone suddenly acts like they dont want to be around you, or is suddenly secretive around your birthday week or so dont fuss about it, and just wait for your birthday surprise :)

A new day, a new blog

While I will continue to update this page at the same rate I do now, I have also started a side blog about all the arts and crafts that I do. Take a look!

http://www.astitchintimesavesaline.blogspot.com/

A very Busy Weekend

On Sat Peter and I took a tour of the white house. It was very brief, but still cool. It would be so much fun to live there. My favorite room was the green room, and I really want the chairs they have in there.

Sat night we went to watch DC united beat the Colorado Rapids. I've been to many soccer games before, but it was peter's first professional one. It was a lot of fun

On Sunday we went with Joe and Kate to Great falls for a picnic and a mini hike. It was beautiful! We even climbed down the gorge to water level (which was super low) and was amazed at how clean the Potomac was! I was the most amazed at the signs that had previous high water levels. They were up above the banks by like 10 feet!!! Crazy. I'd like to go some time after a rain or snow thaw and see the waters rushing. Also it happened to be free park weekend so as we left there was a line of cars waiting to go in maybe 50 cars long. I'm not kidding!

Happy Landing on the Moon Day

40 years ago today we landed on the moon and life has never been the same since.

I am writing this post from bed, and will be heading to the newseum to go see buzz aldrin and others speak :) should be fun!

Also, the other big news is that we are in birthday week!! Cant wait till friday!!

Tomorrow i'll post about the weekend

Where Were Going We Dont Need Roads

Ok I dont usually post on the weekend, but peter left for work, the pool doesnt open for an hour, and I'm awake.

Up until last night I had never seen back to the future. It was just one of those movies that I missed, but wasn't really in a rush to see. I felt that there comes a point where a movie could no longer stand the test of time and if i saw it at this point i'd hate it, kinda like indiana jones. I didnt hate that movie i just didnt like it very much, but i acknowledge that if i had seen it when it came out i probably would have liked it.

This summer Rosslyn is showing outdoor movies every friday to the theme I love the 80's. Last night as you could guess happened to be Back to the future. We met up with Laura and Matt, sat down with our blankets and wine, and the movie began.

I think its safe to say I was the ONLY one there who had never seen it because people kept clapping and cheering at parts. I myself was totally enthralled. I mean i knew he'd make it back to the future because there are more movies in the series, but i didnt know how many tries it would take, or if they'd send him elsewhere first, etc. It was awesome. I am now going to rent the other movies and invite people over to watch :) Let me know if you are interested.

The Pink Sprinkles

My friend Laurie is doing the Susan G Komen 3 day walk, and every member of her team has to raise 2300 dollars. In order to do so they have created a silent auction (featuring one of my quilts). Check it out and see if there is anything you want to order!

http://www.onepinksprinkle.blogspot.com/

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Of course we saw the movie yesterday. I have a perfect track record of seeing all the HP movies on opening day, and have two more to go!!!

The movie was really good. The cinematography (i think thats what you'd call it) was really good and fun to watch, the acting has gotten much better, and it was funny. They did however focus way too much on awkward teen romance. When Harry Potter was written teens read it, but the movie crowd now has so many of those grown up teens like myself who dont need to watch quite so much of that.

The movie also doesnt have a whole lot going on like the other movies, but I knew that going into it that the point of this book was mainly to set things up for the last book.

Anyway, its worthwhile to go watch it but not amazing