Go away James Blunt

While we were in hawaii leslie and i would be driving around trying our hardest to find a radio station with partially decent music. We found one mostly listenable station at 99.5 where every half hour they'd give the news update entitled "Maui Nowi". It made us chuckle every time.

This was the only station it seemed on the entire island that didnt play local music or JC music...or even local JC music.

What this station did play between decent songs was endless amounts of Daughtry and lincoln park.

This is what i picture every time i hear that f'ing daughtry song:

No joke. Those guys did karaoke to it EVERY night in new orleans.

Anyway at one point leslie pointed out that these guys play lincoln park "like its thier job" to which i responded....um, they are dj's it IS thier job.

Early on in the trip we thought we were safe when this "retro" song came on the radio. It was terrible but we made it through. honestly we were happy to hear a change of pace, plus we figured we'd never hear it again. Well the next time we got in the car we heard it again. Thats weird. So i pulled out my trusty cell phone and ran the music ID program which is when we found out the terrible news...this was James Blunt singing 1973. TERRIBLE SONG. It seems that every time we got in the car they played it. It is played in Maui nearly as much as hey delilah is played in DC (which i've heard a record 4 times in one hour)

Anyway, i hope to never hear another james blunt song again.

The NBA is STALKING me

The other day Eric and I were planning our upcoming trip to New Orleans. He briefly considered trying to go to a hornets game while we were down there and noticed something creepy.

http://www.nba.com/hornets/schedule/

go to that page. does any team name show up yellow? Eric lives in philly and all the sixers games showed up yellow.

I clicked on the link and noticed that all the washington games show up yellow. Ok maybe it gets our location from our IP address and makes our area yellow...right?...WRONG.

I continued scrolling down and BOSTON was also yellow. the NBA not only knows where I live, but also what team I root for. CREEPY!

let me know if that page does anything for you.

P.S. THE OFFICE STARTS TONIGHT

Wickedly Delicious

So I am a sucker for branding, packaging, marketing...whatever. Every time m&m's re packages their stuff i have to buy it (and yes, i still have my un opened star wars m&m's)

Anyway I was at whole foods this week and found yogurt I had to have. The company is "Rachel's" and the slogan is "Wickedly Delicious"....yeah, that just about sums it up.

The flavors of this yogurt are weird though. Most were too weird to even buy, but I got the two most normal ones. Vanilla-Chai and Peach-Green Tea with Ginseng. I am about to try the peach this morning. I tried Vanilla earlier in the week and boy did it make me wired. talk about a way to start off the day. This one is supposed to be calming so we'll see!

Beltway Plaza

One of the worst "malls" i've ever been to has to be the Beltway Plaza. I almost wouldnt even consider it a mall, but I guess it is.

With the exception of Luvin' Time all the stores are pretty trashy.

(ok so there are one or two normal stores there like fye and radioshack). Overall The only reason I ever go there is to go to the target that is attached, or to go to 3 brothers. Today I was driving past to get to Chipolte (even though its not thursday) and I noticed the sign that i've passed a million times bragging about the stores inside. They call out 4 or 5 stores by name then add "over 100 other shops".....REALLY? is there space for 100 shops in there? No chance there are that many. Maybe i'll pick up a directory some times

Foo-esday

Its almost quitting time on monday and all I can think about is how when I wake up tomorrow morning there will be a new Foo Fighters CD waiting for me on itunes. I pre ordered it already too.

way excited.

I already have already downloaded the pretender like over a month ago and have been patiently awaiting the rest of the cd.

Seriously though, how can you not love them?

Monday morning randomness

Family guy season premier this week was awesome, total knock off of star wars, scene for scene. I suggest you try and download it and watch it. I think my favorite was when Chris (luke) is looking at the two suns and the music is playing in the background and all of a sudden he goes "ladies and gentlemen, John Williams and the london symphony orchestra" and the screen pans left to show the orchestra. Then when the home gets attacked and the aunt and uncle are no more, he is more concerned about john williams b/c that meant we'd have to continue the episode with only danny elfman doing the music.

Also I pretty much rock at fantasy football. I'm 2-1 (the one was a tough loss, which involved me flying before the games so i couldnt change something that should have been changed). Anyway the first week i was the best in the league, and for this week i'm the second best. My co workers were saying i'd suck cuse i'm the girl in the league, but i'm showing them!

also my parents left, but not without taking me to citronelle first. thats prob the best dinner i've had in dc. mmmmm.

call me a safe bet, i'm betting i'm not

sometimes there are weird coincidences in my life. like this week i've mainly been listening to Brand New. A band that i like but hadnt listened to in a couple months, then yesterday I met mike at potbelly's in college park for lunch and there is a dude there playing guitar---only brand new songs...so then i get back in my car and want to hear more and i'm listening to the line "is this how a toy feels when its batteries run dry"...and just as it plays that line my ipod runs out of batteries. FREAKY.

Also last night was fun, my parents and sister are in town so they took me, peter, julie, and jordan to the melting pot! thats seriously one of the best restaurants ever. how can you go wrong with melted cheese and chocolate. seriously.

Today while i'm at work my family is on a segway tour, so if you are in dc and see some people on a segway that look like me feel free to say hi :)