Field Trip

In January, Carrie and I went to DC one Friday and visited the Freer and Sackler galleries. There was SNOW on the GROUND AND it was CLOUDY ... so basically all of DC was immobilized for the day..We took the metro into DC and had a nice time looking around the museum. There were more security guards there than people. They were all standing around talking, joking with each other. We saw a lot of neat Asian art. We some paintings by Whistler. I asked if they had Whistler's mother there. The security guard said IDK about his mother...but his mistress is right in there....There is also a whole peacock room that he designed there. The gift shop had a sale on and I got some chopsticks, a magical fortune telling fish and some little Asian men sitting and reading..but not magnet...they had none. Still a good day though.

CLC reunion 2011

VLJ and I went to my HS reunion for 2011 in January..If you are wondering why I call him VLJ it is because well HE IS EVIL LIKE VOLDEMORT...he was just like Tom Riddle before BUT NO! he if FULL BLOWN Voldemort NOW...and the L is for LITTLE because he ACTS like a little boy and the J for his name which I can't name because..he who must no be named...
I planned the reunion this year in Fairfax at Fast Eddie's it was attended by
me
Beth
Ed and his gf
Ahren
Heather J-M
Melissa
Dean
some guy named Roy
Aleta and three friends
John D.
John W.
Tami and her husband
and
VLJ
Nascar man and that other guy Zack that none of us knew showed up that night...
VLJ bought Beth and I dinner and payed for everyone to play darts and pool all night which would be nice..except well he is VLJ...
I had a lot of fun talking to friends and hanging out when VLJ was not hanging ALL OVER ME...
Ed came up to me at one point and said VLJ was nice? I said what??? I am not used to hearing that... I said um sometimes...
I sang 18 and Life Karaoke with
Beth, Melissa and Tami it was really fun.
I wanted to sing " I love the way you lie" by Eminem and Rihanna but they did not have that song on there...then I wanted to sing ANYTHING by the cast of Glee...but they didn't have that either...
it was a good night and will be better next year because no VLJ

party

I had a soup party over at Carrie's last week you can check out the pictures on FB which I will post soon.
It was attended by
Carrie
Keli
Paul
Kelly
Dorsietta
and
Chad
I brought a broccoli cheese soup that I got at the Safeway in Fairfax, Kelly brought a chicken tortilla soup with chips that she got at Costco.
Carrie contributed her house,a salad and some oranges
Paul made some amazing mocktails, virgin pina colada and pomegranate Crystal Light.
Dorsietta brought some popcorn but we never got around to eating it because we were so FULL.
I made the most AMAZING CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES EVER!!!!! if you just google Doubletree cookies then you will find the recipe.
after we ate we retired to Carrie's basement and played games, we played a game called Imaginiff, it is SO FUN. You put everyone's name on the board and then you have these cards and you have to say imagine if this person was doing this and you have different choices. It was so fun and FUNNY!!!
I wont tell you what I accidentally said instead of Elvis's pelvis...but well.. Chad and I laughed until we cried and Dorsietta fell off her chair!!!! pretty funny!!!! :)
Kelly, Carrie, Dorsietta and I stayed up late talking about boys and then Carrie and I stayed up even later talking about boys.
GREAT NIGHT!!!!

Field trip

Last Saturday my friend Carrie, Spike and I went for a hike/walk in Alexandria at a park called Huntley Meadows there was snow on the ground and it was snowing but the weather was not that bad and the snow was not that deep. We had a nice time walking around and taking pictures and talking. I need to be outdoors more! I will put the pictures on FB soon and people can check them out there.

holiday

For New Years Day I was not feeling very well so I did not really do much. I hope that everyone is excited for 2011. Who knows what will happen to any of us this year just make sure that you are happy and that you make good choices. I did set some resolutions, like we all should have.
I want to read 52 books this year. I am on my second one right now.
I want to go to Utah and visit people and also do a session at the Draper and Oquirreh Mountain temples they are the only ones in Utah that are complete that I have not done a session at.
I want to read all the books that Justin's dad wrote.
I want to exercise more.
I want to study and read the scriptures and pray more.
I wish everyone a happy and healthy new 2011... I still don't know what to call it ? I call it two thousand eleven but it seems like everyone else calls it twenty eleven. ..

holiday day 1

for New Years Eve I went and interviewed with my new boss Alicia in the morning, she showed me around the house and I got to know the boys a little bit.
In the evening I went to my friend Elaine's she had a small get together it was attended by about 12 people. Elaine made chocolate waffles with egg nog whip cream and some regular ones too. We played a game called Last Word, watched the ball drop and toasted 2011.
I got home at almost 3AM and there was a HUGE possum on my moms front porch bigger than a house cat! That was scary! I was opening and shutting my Blazer door.. and then I thought there is no sense in scaring it... it will just play dead.. I had on these strappy high heels and I was so annoyed like man if I had my boots on I could at least THEORETICALLY kick it...or have a better chance running from it or SOMETHING...

field trip

Over Christmas break I took Bowman and Tenney to the Stabler-Ledbeater Apothecary in Alexandria, VA. My friend Elaine came along with us.
The apothecary is located in Old Town Alexandria they have a gift shop that I could have spent a lot of money in because they had some very cute jewelry in there. While we were waiting for our tour to begin. I talked to the girl behind the desk and she has a degree in museum management....just like that guy at Mt.Vernon remember him? So I asked her if he Obama's had ever toured there. She said the younger daughter Sasha had been on a field trip there with her class but that she was on her lunch break when they came. THAT IS MY NEW QUESTION... I am now going to ask everywhere that I go, Has anyone in the Obama family been here?
Our tour guide was an older gentlemen that I thought did a great job. He showed us how Martha Washington and Robert E. Lee had shopped there. He said that in 1933 that the person that owned the apothecary just walked out and locked the door and left everything as it was. The city of Alexandria bought the building and made it into a museum. The original bottles with the original contents are still there in the same places.
We went upstairs where they had a trap door that the tour guide opened for Bowman and Tenney they had fun looking through it and down on Elaine and I.
We went into a room with a sliding door and it looked like Diagon Alley in there. They had things like Unicorn root ( which is a plant) and Dragons blood ( the pulp of a plant) they even had cocaine, heroin, opium and cannabis, IDK if those things were still full of those things but who knows.
there is another upstairs above that BUT it is not up to code so we were not able to tour that. I had a nice time touring that place and I did get a magnet.
Elaine, Bowman and Tenney also enjoyed their time.