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Things that happened on my run today

2008-03-04T01:16:21Z

1. I got surrounded by Mormons while waiting for the crosswalk
2. I got surrounded by cops, in their cars, on the horse path
3. I got passed by a man on a unicycle

This is not multiple choice, all these really happened to me today.

Restaurant Reviews

2008-02-12T02:11:44Z

Looks like I haven't been updating my blog since... well... Christmas. Anyway, here's two new reviews I posted on yelp today:

Blue Duck Tavern
Atmosphere: A
Bar: B+ (small, but very friendly with a good selection)
Service: A
Food: A

Synopsis: I highly recommend this restaurant and will definitely go back. I just re-read the menu and it looks like some things change with the seasons, so I'm excited to try whatever they think up next. (Full review here)

Wildfire
Atmosphere: B+
Bar: B+
Service: F
Food: C-

Synopsis: Overall, I was very disappointed with the service and food quality. Perhaps the food would have come out better if we all got steak (since it's a steakhouse afterall), but while in the bar I saw a ton of seafood flying out to diners, which is why many of us tried it. The server could have stopped by to tell us the kitchen was backed up, but instead we rarely saw him, except while he was massaging another server while she was folding napkins. The restaurant has separate folks for busing tables, filling water, serving, etc. I'm unsure then, why our water glasses were never refilled without asking and what kept our server so busy that we never saw him. I'm pretty sure there won't be a next time for me to find out. (Full review here)

Christmas Tree!

2007-12-10T00:56:43Z

This year I couldn't decide between a fake tree and a real tree. On one hand cutting down a tree every year is not very environmentally friendly, however the trees are renewable and definitely replanted at the tree farm they came from. And really, if we don't buy one of those trees that was cut what do they do with them? So, we decided to get a live tree for another year! Here it is in all its decorated glory! We settled on a Frasier fir and we carted it home on top of jason's bmw. That was awesome, but unfortunately we (I) forgot to take a picture, so you'll have to take our word for it.

snow story

2007-12-06T01:43:50Z

I know everyone has their own story about the snow today, so here's mine. Jason and I left home at 7:30 to go to the office because I had a 10am meeting. We heard about the multiple accidents on the toll road and that it was a parking lot, so we jumped on the back roads. That was not a good decision. We drove for 1 hour and 15 minutes before turning around. We had only made it 5 miles from home. It was difficult to turn around, because as each minute passes, you sort of think that maybe that will be the minute that the traffic clears up, but it didn't... minute after minute. Anyway, we turned around and it took us about a half hour to get home, so that we could sit on the couch and work. Working at home sure beats sitting in a parking lot. Of course, we still had to go into the office around noon and work until the traffic piled back up after 5, but it was a million times better than the morning.

Here's a pic I took at 10:30 to send to my co-workers who didn't believe it was snowing since I work down in Pentagon City.

Half Marathon duds from Nike

2007-12-06T01:20:37Z

I got my cool technical, cotton-feeling t-shirt and keychain designed by tiffany's today. Very cool! Next year's half marathon is already scheduled for next October, so get ready and you can get cool stuff too!

you look like a girl from Abercrombie & Fitch

2007-11-27T16:21:59Z

Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, was my first experience working retail. My sister recently got promoted to manager and didn't have enough help for the busy holiday shopping day, so we went in to give her a helping hand. Here I am at 6am getting ready for the day!

this is an outrage!

2007-11-16T02:54:10Z

WTOP has an article about how officials seized 2,400 bottles of Jack Daniels late last month. Apparently, Tennessee law requires the whiskey to be destroyed if it can't be legally sold in the state. The article says that some of the bottles are almost 100 years old! They can't throw it away! The article says, "Punish the person, not the whiskey!"

spinning pet peeve

2007-11-08T13:37:05Z

While my foot is healing (after running sunday and monday with lots of pain, i decided i need to give my foot some serious time off) I've been spinning and riding the (yawn) elliptical. It's ok, but i like running because the scenery changes. Anyway, spinning is good but really hard and i hate it when the instructor says 5 more seconds, then we continue for 45 seconds. This morning the instructor was all about sprints and he kept doing that. Maybe that explains why his class was not even 1/4 full.

Mom's birthday

2007-11-06T01:13:36Z

We had a bunch of the family over for lunch Saturday. Jason put 3 chickens on the rotisserie and a slab of ribs in the oven. We made some coleslaw, salad, pasta salad and I finished it off with a big homemade cheesecake. Here's jason cutting the chickens after pulling them off the grill. The rest of the photos are on flickr..

Dwayne is special

2007-11-06T01:09:34Z

I got a note to allow a group to add one of my photos of dwayne to it. The group is "Special Men: who cook for you". Here's the photo: (I think I'll submit the next one of Jason too)

The day after

2007-10-22T14:35:53Z

So i'm still feeling good today. After sleeping like a log last night, i woke up to find that my legs feel pretty good. Here's the problem though, my right foot feels like it is broken. I can't really put too much pressure on it, so i'm hobbling around my new office. I'll take it easy this week and see if it feels better for the goblin gallop this weekend!

ps i am blogging this from my totally cool iphone

Restaurant Review: Sweet Ginger

2007-10-21T20:01:25Z

For the full review, read my yelp review.

Atmosphere: B+ (it's a little "cozy")
Bar: NA (we went for lunch)
Service: A
Food: A

Overall, Sweet Ginger was a really nice place for sushi. Usually in Tysons we go to Konami, but I'm not a big fan, so we were very happy to find this new place. We'll definitely go back.

Restaurant Review: Hook

2007-10-21T19:37:23Z

For the full review, go to my review on yelp.

Atmosphere: C (jason and lisa both straddled legs of a ROUND table)
Bar: C (slow, but good european beer selection and good wine selection)
Service: B (our server was really nice, but food came out of the kitchen all wrong)
Food: C+

For a seafood restaurant, their only non-seafood entree (the grass fed black angus steak) was the best. Most dishes are served with risotto of some sort, appetizers, entrees, and even desserts feature risotto. Overall, the experience was not overly pleasant. I probably wouldn't go back, but from reading the other reviews, it sounds like our experience was out of place.

Big Week

2007-10-21T19:02:18Z

So, a few things happened this week, the highlights are that I started a new job on Monday and I ran a half marathon today! So, now that I'm sitting on the couch trying not to move my legs too much, I thought I'd catch up on a few blogs.

My job is going well so far. I'll be starting with the customer tomorrow, so we'll see how it is when I start doing work!

The half marathon went pretty well. If you haven't heard me talk about it, check out more info at the Nike site. I ran almost the entire thing, which was more than I was intending. I ran 6 miles to my folk's house, my dad jumped out of the house and joined me for the remainder. He wanted a decent workout, so we ran the next 4 together pretty well, then I started losing some steam. I walked up a couple of hills, but finished the thing out running (albeit slowly!).

After I thought it would be great to get some breakfast at Rio Grande, one of my favorite sunday brunch destinations. Unfortunately, my body had some different ideas. My legs were getting stiff, which was to be expected, but I also got really nauseous. So, I ended up just laying down on the floor and hoping for the best. Jason went over to Potomac River Running and asked them if there was a special remedy to give me to make me not sick. They gave him some Endurox R4.

He came home with an individual pack of this stuff and some huevos mexicanos. After drinking that mix, (oh yeah, and paying homage to the porcelain throne) I suddenly felt better and started getting some energy back. I ate a little breakfast and am now able to sit up, move around, and blog to you.

So, after finishing, I felt pretty good. Then when I got so nauseous, I was thinking I would never run that far again. Now, after the magic pink mix, I'm thinking I could probably run that far again as long as that mix is close by for when I finish.

Adventures in Canning

2007-09-17T16:03:10Z

As fall is quickly approaching, I thought it was necessary to harvest a bunch of my serrano peppers from the garden and preserve them for the winter. I wanted to pickle some of them so that I can use them in my superbowl chili and other exciting winter dishes. I bought some glass jars from wegmans and was pretty set to jar the peppers when jason said, "hey, don't you have to boil the jars or something?" Ha. Well, it's a good thing he said something because I didn't know about any of that stuff. His mom always makes jellies and other jarred goodies, so he had a little inkling that i was forgetting some things. We called her up and she recommended this book:

We bought the book and it is great. Not only did I learn how to jar my peppers safely, but I also learned better methods for drying my herbs and freezing some of the peppers for different uses. So, now I have canned hot peppers, frozen some peppers, frozen some garden fresh salsa, and am looking forward to drying my herbs this week!