Why I love D.C.!

So, I know this is long awaited, the summary of my fun-filled weekend.

1. Aunt Diane.

(See look, you made number 1 on the list!) Going to visit Aunt Diane is all about getting "mommy-ed" up, its very entertaining (to the point of being ludicrious when she brings you a blanket while you are watching t.v. on the couch) and a nice feeling.

I also ate more and better than I had in a month. My friends went over to her house (her beautiful new townhouse), and we were content with ordering in or whatever. When Aunt Diane offered to cook, I was thinking something simple (probably grilled). Instead we had hummus and grape leaves for appetizers, an incredible salad (who would have thought to put dried cranberries, pistachios, grapes and goat cheese in a salad, but it was delicious!), and salmon in yougart sauce. (Which made the twins admit they actually do like salmon). Yum! The only other food weirdness was my mom sent Aunt Di a list of foods with iron in it, because she heard I was slightly anemic. To all you concerned mommies out there, I am taking a daily viteman. It has 100% of my daily iron. A doctor is montoring me. Don't be concerned!

2. My friends are there.

I visited Melissa and Sharon (commonly referred to as the twins), they are doing great. They have a beautiful condo about ten minutes away from my Aunt Diane's with a killer balcony. It made me long to be able to buy a condo here in Houston, but, alas, that is not in our culture. Maayan and her boyfriend Fred drove in from Pittsburgh. We like Fred. He is nice and funny and smart and cute and he has opinions, yet he is not at all obnoxious and clingy - making me very happy for Maayan. And I met Heather and her boyfriend Henry. Heather was Heather and Henry was Heather's boyfriend. Just what you'd expect. Its nice to see that nothing has changed there. I even saw Eric Schwartz, long lost elementary school friend. I was worried that I wouldn't recognize him, but I did, and he seems very happy. Hopefully we'll be able to keep in closer touch for the future. All of us (minus Heather) had a great lunch at a tapas bar and exchanged gossip.

3. Tourist stuff

I actually had time to be a tourist. I saw the Space Station IMAX (which I would highly recommend to anyone). I went to the Air & Space Musuem (more importantly I went shopping at their gift store). I went to the National Botanic Garden (yes, that's how its spelled and pronounced). I went to see Man of Le Manche (the musical about Don Quxiote (sp?) which I highly recommend)

4. Because I want to live there.

Ok, so I've decided now that I really want to live in D.C. for a little while. Its such an awesome city. I could picture myself living there.

Really long, awful morning

So, Apache contracted some sort of stomach virus from the kennel this weekend, which would probably explain why she was so low energy last night. I discovered this at 1 a.m. when she started whimpering. I figured this was her being weird (as usual) after being away in a kennel, so I just crated her up to stop her from pacing and tunneling under my bed. As it turns out she was whimpering because she needed to go out. Badly. Instead, she went in her crate. Lovely. GROSS!

Anyway, she started crying about every hour on the hour and tunneling under my bed (I can only assume she does this because she can hold it in easier like that), so I took her out, repeatedly, and everytime she went, I didn't know she had that much room in her digestive system. I'm worried about her being in her crate all day, I didn't feed her this morning though, so hopefully she'll be ok.

So, around 5 a.m. walk time, I couldn't get back to sleep, so I did my morning jog. I was all proud of myself, because at that rate I cold be at work by 7 a.m. No such luck. The tire on my rental car was flat. I had noticed it low before (or, let me say, Matt noticed it low before) and had added air. It must have been a slow leak.

So now

So in a feet only I could accomplish I have not one, but TWO cars in the shop. It seems that I actually have the last rental car in the greater Clear Lake Area. I waited until 8 a.m. when Enterprise opened and took the car back to them, and asked for a new one. They didn't have one, neither did the three other Enterprise's and two National's they called. Finally we settled on them driving me to work, getting the car fixed, and dropping it off. This worked out well, but made me fairly late, rather than early, and required me to take a trek across site (breaking in one of the new pairs of shoes I got this weekend!).

And its only 9 a.m. What a day.