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D.C. Monday
01Aug
We Done Moved.
Monday, August 1, 2005 at 09:28PM
That’s right, we live in our nation’s capital now. When you walk to the end of our street you can see the Capitol looming as big as day, and that is weird, but also cool.
We have been here for exactly one week and three days, and so far, all is well. It helps that we have been on vacation in our new city, so we’ve had time to explore (read: eat at all the many restaurants that are within five blocks of our house). We have eaten Cuban food, Belgian food, French food, Thai food, Italian food, Irish food, and had a number of Big Gulps from the Seven-Eleven around the corner. (Also, Slurpees. For $1.29 you can get a giant cherry Slurpee that comes with a free iTunes song, which means that you have just gotten 32 oz. of Slurpee for $.30. I think that less than a cent an ounce is a good deal.)
We like our house and we like our neighborhood even more. We have already met all of our neighbors and attended fun neighborhood functions! I went to a dinner party with my neighborhood sisters on Wednesday night and stayed for five hours. A five hour dinner party is clearly a success. It was such a success that we all made plans to get together again this past Sunday (more on that in a minute).
This week is Restaurant Week in D.C., which means that you can get a three-course meal at a good restaurant for $20 at lunch and $30 at dinner. We had lunch at Ceiba today and will have dinner at D.C. Coast on Sunday.
We have seen lots of old friends in town (but not all yet — soon though!) and had brunch and walked the dogs. Fiona is extremely popular. Little Sammy has had a rough time of it lately but we have a great vet already who is going to make him better and hopefully help us to fatten him up. There is a dog bakery around the corner that sells dog treats that I promise you would want to eat if you saw them.
I have also been to a gay cowboy bar with Caroline — we have plans to go back there this weekend.
But the one thing that I have done that made me want to re-enter the blogging world (when even Gary Busey on Celebrity Fit Club and Shooter Jennings and Harry Potter could not conquer my laziness) —on Sunday afternoon, with three of my new neighbors, I went and saw Hustle and Flow. People, let me tell you that you do not know how good a movie about a pimp and three hos could be until you see this movie. Seriously. I laughed, I cried, I clapped, and I bobbed in my seat a little while they were rapping (which was probably amusing to the people sitting behind me).
Jake says hi but he can’t be bothered to blog because he is glued to Entourage. He loves Johnny Drama a great deal.
I miss y’all, South Carolina peeps. Come visit!
We have been here for exactly one week and three days, and so far, all is well. It helps that we have been on vacation in our new city, so we’ve had time to explore (read: eat at all the many restaurants that are within five blocks of our house). We have eaten Cuban food, Belgian food, French food, Thai food, Italian food, Irish food, and had a number of Big Gulps from the Seven-Eleven around the corner. (Also, Slurpees. For $1.29 you can get a giant cherry Slurpee that comes with a free iTunes song, which means that you have just gotten 32 oz. of Slurpee for $.30. I think that less than a cent an ounce is a good deal.)
We like our house and we like our neighborhood even more. We have already met all of our neighbors and attended fun neighborhood functions! I went to a dinner party with my neighborhood sisters on Wednesday night and stayed for five hours. A five hour dinner party is clearly a success. It was such a success that we all made plans to get together again this past Sunday (more on that in a minute).
This week is Restaurant Week in D.C., which means that you can get a three-course meal at a good restaurant for $20 at lunch and $30 at dinner. We had lunch at Ceiba today and will have dinner at D.C. Coast on Sunday.
We have seen lots of old friends in town (but not all yet — soon though!) and had brunch and walked the dogs. Fiona is extremely popular. Little Sammy has had a rough time of it lately but we have a great vet already who is going to make him better and hopefully help us to fatten him up. There is a dog bakery around the corner that sells dog treats that I promise you would want to eat if you saw them.
I have also been to a gay cowboy bar with Caroline — we have plans to go back there this weekend.
But the one thing that I have done that made me want to re-enter the blogging world (when even Gary Busey on Celebrity Fit Club and Shooter Jennings and Harry Potter could not conquer my laziness) —on Sunday afternoon, with three of my new neighbors, I went and saw Hustle and Flow. People, let me tell you that you do not know how good a movie about a pimp and three hos could be until you see this movie. Seriously. I laughed, I cried, I clapped, and I bobbed in my seat a little while they were rapping (which was probably amusing to the people sitting behind me).
Jake says hi but he can’t be bothered to blog because he is glued to Entourage. He loves Johnny Drama a great deal.
I miss y’all, South Carolina peeps. Come visit!
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