No, I'm not starting the middle school rhyme.
I always hate the first time back to running. Once I get started and into my groove, I'm good. I can run and push myself and its awesome. But it's that first time back to running, it sucks.
Today was that first time back. After work, when it was like a bazillion degrees, I just did it. Put all the excuses aside. And I just ran. I hate the feeling of knowing I can do better, but not being able to. It was tough, but I'm glad that first, shitty, terrible, no good, very bad run is out of my system.
Now I just need to keep it up so that there is no longer a "first run."
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
No Wedding Planning Weekend
Well, we didn't plan on taking a break from wedding planning. It just kind of happened.
Friday night after dinner, Ben and I headed down to Restaurant Row and popped into a bar to listen to some live music. Very chill and low-key but fun nevertheless. We came home, threw on a movie and went to bed.
Saturday, we wake up, and notice that the carpet in front of our couch is wet. Long story short, our air conditional drain was clogged, and the water overflowed out of the air conditioner and was creating puddles under our carpet. We called building maintenance, who ripped up our carpet and put fans everywhere. While things dry out, we went and did some domestic things. At night, Val and Justin came over for some cocktails and well wishes.
Sunday, I slept till (how embarrassing) noon. At noon Ben finally got me out of Bed so we could help Val and Justin move out of their apartment. After packing up the trailer, Ben and I drove back to shower. On our way into our apartment Ben suggested we take the doors off the Jeep. It was a beautiful day, so I said why not.
We showered and hopped back into the car to go to Rustico's with Val and Justin. About two minutes after we get into the car, it begins to downpour. I'm not talking about a bit of rain here. I'm talking monsoon. And we have no windows. Or doors.
Well I walked into Rustico's looking like a wet dog. I went to the bathroom and literally held my skirt under the automatic hand dryer in hopes that it would dry it a bit. No dice. I sat there and ate my fantastic Rustico's pizza soaking wet.
Friday night after dinner, Ben and I headed down to Restaurant Row and popped into a bar to listen to some live music. Very chill and low-key but fun nevertheless. We came home, threw on a movie and went to bed.
Saturday, we wake up, and notice that the carpet in front of our couch is wet. Long story short, our air conditional drain was clogged, and the water overflowed out of the air conditioner and was creating puddles under our carpet. We called building maintenance, who ripped up our carpet and put fans everywhere. While things dry out, we went and did some domestic things. At night, Val and Justin came over for some cocktails and well wishes.
Sunday, I slept till (how embarrassing) noon. At noon Ben finally got me out of Bed so we could help Val and Justin move out of their apartment. After packing up the trailer, Ben and I drove back to shower. On our way into our apartment Ben suggested we take the doors off the Jeep. It was a beautiful day, so I said why not.
We showered and hopped back into the car to go to Rustico's with Val and Justin. About two minutes after we get into the car, it begins to downpour. I'm not talking about a bit of rain here. I'm talking monsoon. And we have no windows. Or doors.
Well I walked into Rustico's looking like a wet dog. I went to the bathroom and literally held my skirt under the automatic hand dryer in hopes that it would dry it a bit. No dice. I sat there and ate my fantastic Rustico's pizza soaking wet.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Weekend Wedding Planning Success
What a weekend.
Friday after work Benjamin and I made dinner and watched Pirate Radio. It was a pretty good movie. I mean, I stayed awake so that means something.
Saturday, we woke up fairly early and got right to wedding planning.
Saturday night we went to Rustico's, our go-to restaurant out here in NoVa, with a friend of Ben's from work. Every time we have gone for the past 3 years, Ben's ordered the duck confit pizza. Guess what's no longer on the menu? We substituted it with a bbq pork pizza, but it just wasn't the same. I hope they bring it back, or I see less Rustico's trips in our future.
Today, Ben got up early to play golf while I did some more wedding planning. The wedding invite list has been finalized my friends. This is probably the most difficult decision I've had to make with the wedding. I would love everyone and their mother to be there, but alas that is not practical or realistic.
Not going to lie. I got really excited typing "Mr. and Mrs. Robert Potert" and "Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mayotte" - since both Jess and Lindsay will be sporting hot new last names by the time my wedding comes around. (Spoiler alert: Jess and Lindsay both made the wedding invite list.)
This evening was capped off with a FANTASTIC fresh mozza, pesto, and chicken baked thingamajigger (not gonna lie - it was awesome) and a trip to the Dairy Godmother.
Now i'm blogging and enjoying a nice glass of rose. Ben's playing a video game on the PS3. Next up: wedding invites and finish the wedding website.
YAY for wedding progress1
Friday after work Benjamin and I made dinner and watched Pirate Radio. It was a pretty good movie. I mean, I stayed awake so that means something.
Saturday, we woke up fairly early and got right to wedding planning.
- Save the dates: finalized (sorta. may be an issue with the resolution of the photo we want).
- Photog list: narrowed from waaay to many to like 7. Good news is 5 of them aren't booked.
Saturday night we went to Rustico's, our go-to restaurant out here in NoVa, with a friend of Ben's from work. Every time we have gone for the past 3 years, Ben's ordered the duck confit pizza. Guess what's no longer on the menu? We substituted it with a bbq pork pizza, but it just wasn't the same. I hope they bring it back, or I see less Rustico's trips in our future.
Today, Ben got up early to play golf while I did some more wedding planning. The wedding invite list has been finalized my friends. This is probably the most difficult decision I've had to make with the wedding. I would love everyone and their mother to be there, but alas that is not practical or realistic.
Not going to lie. I got really excited typing "Mr. and Mrs. Robert Potert" and "Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mayotte" - since both Jess and Lindsay will be sporting hot new last names by the time my wedding comes around. (Spoiler alert: Jess and Lindsay both made the wedding invite list.)
This evening was capped off with a FANTASTIC fresh mozza, pesto, and chicken baked thingamajigger (not gonna lie - it was awesome) and a trip to the Dairy Godmother.
Now i'm blogging and enjoying a nice glass of rose. Ben's playing a video game on the PS3. Next up: wedding invites and finish the wedding website.
YAY for wedding progress1
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
I've been bad
It's been a crazy couple of weeks. Work has been super busy, and on top of that:
- The weekend of June 26 I headed home for Angie's engagement party. It was great to see a lot of people I haven't seen in a while and spend some quality time with Angie and her fiance.
- For July 4th, Ben and I traveled up to NYC for Angelique's birthday. We got to see Stan and Kristin which made us very happy :-). Ange's birthday celebration was at a Russian restaurant in Brighton Beach. The food was awesome, the alcohol was plentiful, and there was even an awesome show. We had a blast. And Benjamin ate a lot of Pinkberry.
What a great photo
- This past weekend my parents were in town. They haven't seen our apartment since we moved in (they saw it once empty 2 weeks before we moved in). We hung around a lot and went to the Nat's game Saturday night.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
BABY!
I'm super excited right now. AJ is currently in the hospital and baby Renaud is on its way! AJ and Joe are going to be a FABULOUS parents!
Yay for Momma AJ and baby Renaud!
Yay for Momma AJ and baby Renaud!
Monday, May 31, 2010
Happy Memorial Day Weekend!
Summer is officially here. Ok, so it may not be the summer I'm used to. I realized today that this is probably the first memorial day I won't be on a beach. Every year I've been home for Memorial Day. But alas, I'm here in D.C.
To celebrate, Ben and I have done...well a whole lot of nothing.
OK, maybe not nothing.
Yesterday we went to Top Golf with Val and Justin. Top Golf is this high-tech driving range that has big targets around the course. The balls have a microchip with your name on it, so when your ball enters a target, the computer system keeps score. It's a lot of fun.
After Top Golf we went to home depot. oh my gosh I can't believe we aren't done painting our apartment. We've been here for 4+ months! When we first painted the bedroom blue, we decided we wanted the trim blue too. Now that we've painted it green, we decided the white trim would look better. So now we have to paint it back to white. So we've bought the paint - we just need to paint it.
The rest of the weekend, we have been bit of foodies. Last night we made homemade pizza - whole wheat dough, mozzarella, turkey bacon, chicken, pineapple and bbq sauce. It was heavy, but very good. I've also prepped to make a great, patriotic dessert for tomorrow's bbq at Robin's - one giant sugar cookies with cream cheese frosting and fruit. We're putting raspberries, blackberries and blueberries on it. Maybe I'll upload a picture once its done.
We also had lots of wedding chat, and made some progress on caterers. Nothing major to report.
I hope everyone is having a fantastic, relaxing Memorial Day weekend!
To celebrate, Ben and I have done...well a whole lot of nothing.
OK, maybe not nothing.
Yesterday we went to Top Golf with Val and Justin. Top Golf is this high-tech driving range that has big targets around the course. The balls have a microchip with your name on it, so when your ball enters a target, the computer system keeps score. It's a lot of fun.
After Top Golf we went to home depot. oh my gosh I can't believe we aren't done painting our apartment. We've been here for 4+ months! When we first painted the bedroom blue, we decided we wanted the trim blue too. Now that we've painted it green, we decided the white trim would look better. So now we have to paint it back to white. So we've bought the paint - we just need to paint it.
The rest of the weekend, we have been bit of foodies. Last night we made homemade pizza - whole wheat dough, mozzarella, turkey bacon, chicken, pineapple and bbq sauce. It was heavy, but very good. I've also prepped to make a great, patriotic dessert for tomorrow's bbq at Robin's - one giant sugar cookies with cream cheese frosting and fruit. We're putting raspberries, blackberries and blueberries on it. Maybe I'll upload a picture once its done.
We also had lots of wedding chat, and made some progress on caterers. Nothing major to report.
I hope everyone is having a fantastic, relaxing Memorial Day weekend!
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Since most of you reading this already know it, it’s probably redundant for me to tell you that I LOVE pictures. They only cover all of the walls in every apartment/dorm room I’ve lived in. And now they cover my cube as well.
When planning a wedding, you have to decide what is important to you. Some people go all out on flowers. Others on food. Well I’ve decided pictures are going to be a priority for me.
I’ve heard from many a brides that your wedding day travels so quickly, that you often remember it based on the pictures. So I am thigh deep in information about photographers.
I know I like more of a “photojournalistic” style than traditional wedding. Sure, there will be the posed shots of the families and everything, but I really like fun and creative pictures. Cool color lays and/or framing can take a standard picture from nice to WOW – THAT’S COOL!
I know I like more of a “photojournalistic” style than traditional wedding. Sure, there will be the posed shots of the families and everything, but I really like fun and creative pictures. Cool color lays and/or framing can take a standard picture from nice to WOW – THAT’S COOL!
I’ve decided the big things for me are:
- I want the photographer to be there pretty much all day. I love the photos of the bride getting ready with her bridesmaids. And getting dressed. And doing her makeup. And having her necklace put on her.
- Digital negatives and copyright – I want it. Being such a picture person, I want to be able to put the pictures on my computer. And print/order copies of them whenever I want. Getting tired of that framed photo of the reception, oh look, here is another one to replace it. Then I can also make the picture books how I want them. damn type-A personality :-)
Things I’m not so sure about.
- Do you really need two photographers? Do they really get two different stories from the wedding, or do you just end up with a lot of dupe photos?
- Packages that come with photobooks/large framed pictures. Do they really end up saving you money to buy the package? Or are you better off getting things done separately?
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