Friday, Friday, Gotta Get Down on Friday

This is what my Friday night looked like:

Summer time outfit: CHECK! Plus this is the first year in FOREVER (10+  years) that I have worn shorts!

We drove around for 40min. trying to find parking for Celebrate Fairfax, where Third Eye Blind was playing. But the whole county of Fairfax also decided to show up...so no parking...and no show. What
to do next?

First Stop Dairy Queen! When it's warm outside I craaaave ice-cream. So I had myself a Oreo Brownie Earthquake, soo delicious!

Next Stop: BOOOOOOWWWWWLLIINNNNGGGGGG

OH my..Look at that score! It's the highest I have ever gotten( mine is the 139).I just may join the professionals next year!

Second game, not as great of a score..but still broke a 100! But from frame 6 to 9 Dave and I were exactly 10 pts from each other each frame and then we tied!

After a rousing 2 games of bowling we headed home and made ourselves a little drinky drink.

Then we settled down and watched a little Dexter. I snuggled up in my Weezer snuggie!

How was your Friday night? What did you do? Did you get down like Rebecca Black?

now THAT is how to start a weekend

So we checked off the biggest item on our to do list for Australia....

WE GOT OUR ONE WAY TICKETS TO DOWN UNDER!

Tickets are expensive...but hey, that is what you pay when you are traveling across the world!

It was a great way to start our weekend! This weekend we will be going to see Third Eye Blind, M.Ward, Bright Eyes, and then heading to the Capital Pride Festival! Don't worry I will keep you posted on how everything goes!

What are your plans this weekend?

Red, White, and No Blue

The photos are of the Chesapeake Ship that is stationed at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland. The Chesapeake guarded the harbor from  the British waaaaaaaay back in the day! Whenever we go to the Inner Harbor I always find myself taking tons of pictures of this boat in particular..I think I am in love. It's the contrast of the colors and how each time I see it I am able to view different things that stand out and catch my eye.  

What are some things that catch your eye over and over again?

30 before 30 list

30 is just around the corner...well 3 years around the corner! But you know as well as I do that time flies and it doesn't stop for no one. I am a huge list maker, I need that reminder of what I want to accomplish, and then crossing something off my list makes me smile SOOOOO big. So in any list lovers fashion, I have made a list of 30 things I want to do before I turn 30 on May 25, 2014 (hopefully the world doesn't end in 2012!).  The list is in no particular order...just when they popped into my head.

1. Run a Marathon
2. Take a Surfing Lesson(s)
3. Get to my healthy weight....and stay there
4. Do an Urban Experience Race
5. Hike in Yellowstone National Park
6. Own a bulldog and name them Winston
7. Explore Northern Minnesota
8. Jump out of a plane
9. Join a Book Club
10. Take my nieces to a concert
11. Volunteer at least once a month for a minimum of 12 months
12. Publish at least one professional article
13. Plan two surprise weekend getaways
14. Pay off all school loans
15. Kiss Dave in 10 different states
16. Take  photography class
17. Go on a vacation with just the girls!
18. Email friends weekly for a whole year
19. Get caught up on all my scrapbooking
20. Read all the books I own
21. Make a bakery item from scratch
22. Go vegetarian for one month
23. Get two stores to sell my photos/cards
24. Get a grown up couch!
25. No unnecessary shopping for six months straight
26. Send snail mail once a week for a whole year (bills don't count)
27. Have a slumber party with all my nieces and nephews
28. Go to the spa
29. Learn how to change a tire
30. Eat a Juicy Lucy!

What are some things you want to do within the next three years?

Birthday Recap!

EEEKKKKKKKK...I'm not the best updater in the world!  I also am not good at calling people, getting laundry done, cleaning up, and pretty much doing anything that I truly need to get done.  {I actually have work work I need to do before an a.m. meeting...and STILL have not done it..its almost 11p.m....aarrrgghh} It seems that lately I just like to sit, read, hang with Dave and forget that the rest of the world exists outside our little apartment. We move in one month, have traveling trips coming up, work, and hey we leave the country for 6 months in only 1 1/2 months....we probably should get things done..but nope...i just sit and pretend nothing is going on. I know this will kick me in the butt shortly, probably tomorrow, but I still can't get myself to care to much!

ANNYYYYY ways, I had a birthday!  I have officially entered my late twenties..oh my..I'm almost 30 (in 3 years!).  Dave doesn't let me forget it, he thinks he finally has some ammo on me since I make fun of him for being 30 and old! Here are some pictures of the day we spent together celebrating my entering adulthood and getting to spend another year on this wonderful, crazy place we call Earth.  I slept in, Dave made me pancakes, I watched the latest 16 and pregnant (it's filmed where I lived for 6 years), watched glee, went thrifting in Leesburg, took a random trip to West Virginia, took a nap, ate delicious Mexican food, and ate ice cream cake. It was all in all a pretty pretty good day!

Birthday Outfit

Thrifting in Leesburg

ALL the thrifty goodness purchases! I have a weakness for 80s romance novel colors and old books

MN goodness in West Virginia

Birthday Cake Ice Cream - my WV bday treat

Who doesn't love birthday naps?

Favorite Mexican Restaurant in NOVA: Tolteca

My Birthday Bomb. Throughout the day I got to reach in and pick out a present.

Birthday Bomb Gifts: 2 bath sets, Chelsea Handler, Benjamin Button, Trilogy Set of Girl with Dragon Tattoo, Kings Speech, Schindler's List.

It's F'ing Weezer

Yesterday Dave and I went to DC 101 Chili Cookoff (all proceeds go to Kidney Foundation..yay!) at RFK Stadium. They had a chili cookoff where Dave got to try lots and lots of amazing chili..soo I hear! We started the day listening to Middle Class Rut (please go check them out...they will be HUGE!) and then headed off to taste the free chili samples and get away from the band Paper Tongues (eewww). After Paper Tongues we danced to Neon Trees, took shade with Panic! At the Disco, and then tried to rock out to Papa Roach and Seether (surprisingly not as bad as one would expect). 

THEN  it was time for what we waited all day for...WEEZER! Oh my! I have waited years to see these guys...and the wait paid off! It was A-mazing...they sounded better than their studio recordings (is that even possible!?!?!)! Even the moshing circle ( I slapped one of them in the forehead), crowd surfers, and stupid idots couldn't ruin the experience. After one of them kicked me in the head and I slapped or pinched them for being rude, I went right back to singing along and dancing. It has been a few years since I have been in the crowd this far.....but I had to..it was F'ing WEEZER. It was SOOOO worth it...I would do it over and over again. 

It totally beat the weekend we had planned in Williamsburg. But Williamsburg will always be there...but Weezer you have to get them when you can! Hopefully this won't be my only Weezer concert..but if it is I would be okay with it...because it was truly amazing!  

Peace

I have finally discovered, or should I say realize where I find my inner peace. I came to this realization this past Mothers Day. I took a trip to Target, and seeing all the mothers with their families celebrating and happy, made me feel sad and angry. It sucks not having my mom around....and days that celebrate moms...make it harder. So instead of taking my bad attitude out on Dave and I decided I need to run away..thus I went for a run at the Manassas Battlefield. When jogging/ taking breaks to cry...I began to feel better. Being in the open, with nothing but woods and fields, is exactly what I need to feel at peace with everything. Nature is where I am able to enjoy the beauty of our world, escape the crazy, hetic world, and just be.

How/where do you find your inner peace?