Friends, meet www.polyvore.com. An web-based look book of sorts. I wonder how I have not found this before now.
Here is my first creation, what I wish I were wearing today instead of the frump I currently am sporting. It would help if I actually owned any of these pieces, which I don’t.
Categories: Fun Stuff · Girly Things
Tagged: want
…and what an awesome start.
Last night, I was sent home from Georgia with a nice birthday song right there at US Airways Gate 43. How cool to get an escort to the gate (especially these days – hello, no lip gloss or mascara!) and then have your escorts sing you a quiet, little “Happy Birthday” ditty? Very cool in my book, makes me all blushy.
Today, R took me out for a super fab (and super long) birthday lunch at The Mansion on O Street. Add spinach ravioli, decadent scallops and potatoes, salt and pepper shrimp, cherry cobbler, apple crisp and many, many fabulous hats and other eccentricities and this is what you get…
…good start! Can’t wait for the finish!!
So, I am off to Hotlanta for the weekend, should be a busy, fun-filled trip. I’ve never been, but I am at the complete mercy of the people I’ll be with, so don’t bother offering up ideas for places to check out (speaking of mercy, does anyone have a suggestion for a killer white wine? I drink red so I got nothin’). But, I am totally ok with this arrangement of having no say. Seems this little banana likes being told where to go and when to get there…who knew?
While I am away, Buggie, DCSportsChick and Fred the Chanuck will be attending the Nats v. Mets game without me. Instead our contest winner, Contestant #1 (or C#1), will take my place. He brought the snark, which weighed heavily in this close contest. When told of his good fortune and asked if he was still available to attend the game he replied “Yes I can still attend… I wouldn’t have entered if I couldn’t have made it to the game!”. C#1, now things come up. Your girlfriend/hook up/sister may have become your baby mama for all we know! You could have been visiting from Egypt, skipping classes and bam! Arrested! But we did ask for the smart ass, and people it looks like we got what we asked for. Let’s hope for good times.
I’ll leave you with a little candy to tide you over until next week. Pictures from last weekend. No wonder it was so hot…
The lovliness that is Jen, now with Internet visability! We be some freckly bitches.
Me and T#1 squishing her sister, T#2
Buggie, Harms, me and some big cheese. We have purty teeth.
T#1 and Clussy (with Buggie in the back) try to out cheese us.
What’s a weekend without fun with farm animals…
…or funny faces for that matter?
p.s.
eeeeeeeep! I almost totally forgot! I am attempting to squeeze in my 18-miler, scheduled for Saturday, tomorrow. By myself. 18 miles of solitude. No one around. Well, there will be people–other vacationing or non-working types. But not people running with me, at my pace, keeping me company, and pushing me to go on. Ack! Ok, I am not attempting. I am doing. I am doing an 18 mile run tomorrow. Sigh. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Categories: Fun Stuff · Marathon training · Travel
PRIZE: Ok, so there is no cash. But there IS an evening with Buggie, DCSportsChick and her hubby, Fred the Chanuck at the newly re-opened RFK watching our very own Washington Nationals take on the New York Mets, Saturday, August 12.
WHY: Alas, I will be in Atlanta. So I am auctioning off my seat. Let me tell you, these are three of the best people in this town to go to a ballgame with—you don’t want to miss it. Plus, we’re talking killer seats. No nosebleeds here.
HOW TO WIN: Submit the contest entry form, Why I am Worthy of a Free Baseball Ticket.
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Why I am Worthy of a Free Baseball Ticket
(and also the company of three of the coolest people in DC)
Points will be awarded for snarkiness and/or hotness.
Cut and paste these questions along with your answers and send to the email address below.
Name:
Are you hot or otherwise damned fine looking?
(Please attach a picture so our judges can tell if you are lying)
Do you like David Wright?
Do you like Ryan Church*?
Are you prepared to fight to the death over one or both of these athletes?
Do you know what a balk is?
What was the last baseball game you attended?
Will you buy Buggie a beer or an icee to keep her cool in the hot August sun?
Please detail your tailgaiting prowess:
Send your entry to:
imbabybanana(at)gmail(dot)com
And don’t forget your picture!
Your judges:
From left to right: Marci, Buggie, DCSportsChick, and Fred the Chanuck
*Buggie says that people who enjoy the vision that is Ryan Church will be disqualified, so chose your answer wisely.
I got to say it was a good day.
I had the longest run I’ve ever done in my life this Saturday. 16 miles. And it was good. I cannot even convey how fired up I am about this. I was a little bit scared going into this run and I must admit I’ve had doubts about this whole marathon crap, but after Saturday’s run I have to admit I feel pretty good about the whole thing. I mean, if I can do 16 miles with relative ease, I can hit 26.2 by October, right? You all are going to shit when I post my mileage for July. I mean hot damn, I’ve put more miles on my shoes this month than I have my car (which is strangely my litmus test for whether or not I am running a lot) and there is still a week left! Baby Buddha is on his way out.
So I get done with my run and I am gulping Gatorade and stretching like a mad woman because, you see, I have to hurry up. A certain group of hotness is already on their way to RFK for Nats/Cubs tailgating fun. And I hate missing out, even if it’s just 10 minutes. I mean, what if someone does something funny in those 10 minutes and I miss it? So I get my shit together in time for an hour’s worth of tailgating. And it was worth it. We’re talking Italian Store goodies and beer courtesy of DCSportsChick and the Chanuck. There were Paint-The-Town-Red Jell-o shooters ala Miss M. I must say, that beer & pizza make excellent post-run recovery foods. We get to our, fabulous, behind-homeplate corporate seats (thanks Buggie!) and I am immediately conflicted. Ramirez hits a home run right off the bat. I am excited. Goooo Cubbies! But I am sad, I heart Livan (who hit a double and was batted in with a Soriano triple – how cool is it that our pitcher is batting .270?). He is my favorite Nat for those very reasons. But peer pressure gets me and I convert to a slightly conflicted Nationals fan for the rest of the game. Even when I am texting updates to Cubs Fan, my messages were sent with a favorable DC spin. Not hard considering the Cubs showed their usual level of sucktitude. So I’m easy and succumb to pressure! Get over it. Nats win 7-3.
It’s so hard to say goodbye, but I’ve got to. There is more hotness to be had. There are plans for Buggie and I to meet up with certain Dupont loveliness at…
…a country bar in bfe Alexandria. (I mean, Bug and I both live in VA and WE got lost!)
To say I was apprehensive is an understatement. I do not know country. I do not like country. But I knew I would have fun. How could I not with those two chicks? What I did not expect was the level of fun to be had. Off the charts people. I lasted until 2:30 in the morning (after the run! After game time beer! After the sun and humidity! And after the non-nap!). The bar staff had to literally push us out of the building because we would not leave. I may or may not have learned to two-step. Kinda. I say kinda, because apparently Velvet was much better than I was and may have made my two-step look like the funky chicken. So I may have brought the funk to the country dance floor instead. When in doubt, stick with what you know. And I know how to shake my ass. There is not enough ass shaking in country dancing–although Buggie was able to combine the two quite nicely.
Twahts rule!
And I am tired.
Woo.
Categories: Fun Stuff · Marathon training · Running
Mappy asked for more photos…so here you go!
Fun with parachute men!
Categories: Fun Stuff
WHAT? Friday’s Blogger Happy Hour
WHO? Meg, Me, I-66, Heather B. and (in front) Buggie
WHAT? Tagging the Nats’ home plate after Sunday’s game
WHO? Me
WHAT? On the infield at RFK
WHO? Me (with Cubs Fan)
swoon
*So would that make this post worth 3,038 words?
Categories: Fun Stuff
…Pearl Jam is tonight! That’s right bitches. God bless Buggie and government relations. Curse me for not downloading their new album though. I am going to be unable to sing along to 3/4 of the concert. No worries. It’s Eddie, you can barely understand him half the time anyway. Hoping to hear at least of few of the following: Garden, Better Man, Daughter, Black, Fade Away, Jeremy, Alive, Release Me, Rearview Mirror, Off He Goes, Evenflow, Once. If I can get a good smattering of those I’ll be super happy. Super super super happy if they do Better Man and Black (for Bug because it’s her favorite).
Categories: Fun Stuff
and steal hats everyday (apparently, I have an affliction)…
I give you recent events before
and after
It seems that this is not a new thing for me, witness Exhibit B from earlier this year:
Before
And after
At least I am learning to keep the hat owner in the next picture of me wearing the stolen goods, that’s something right?
Categories: Fun Stuff
That porn shoulda been MINE! How did fate not work out there? It will forever be a mystery to me.
But these girls? Buggie, Chase, Crazy Girl City, DistrictSiren, The Dutchess, Heather B., Kris,
Larissa, RoarSavage, and Velvet in Dupont are not a mystery. Just totally amazing! I had so much fun last night. Big thanks to Roar and Nic for arranging our evening out last night. Dinner and swirl margaritas at Lauriol Plaza were super. And, please, all of you baby-faced guys under 5′9″ take the pretty, young girl that is hitting on you seriously. She digs that you look young, she digs that you are short. Get over it and flirt back already.
Walking over to Chaos to try and win some prizes, we lost a couple of our party-goers. But I hope they know that I only make fun and insult their alcoholism because I want to spend more time with them, not expedite their departure or cause myself to be delinked 
I am glad we were able to entertain ourselves for the 945 hours it took before the Bingo started (passing french fries and what not). In fact, I think it was a blessing that it started late. It gave us more time to get tipsy and be silly, so that when the real fun started and the cameras came out, we…uh…weren’t (at all) shy about having a good time in front of our new friends.
Velvet and Crazy Girl both have recaps of the evening as well, also sans pictures. Some debauchery just needs to stay amongst the debaucherous.
Categories: Fun Stuff
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