My Mom

A while back I had this brainy idea that I wanted to paint our neutral blah looking hutch. It is your traditional looking hutch that we found on craigslist but personalizing it was very appealing.
Notice I say 'I' wanted to paint it!
My wonderfully talented Mom was here this weekend and decided this was the weekend to do it.
Of course I started out with a bang selecting which colors to use and where to put them. You know ultimately designing the look of things. haha,
Of course I helped but ultimately my Mom did this for me.
I think it is booootiful THANKS MOM!!

The LOVE boat

Crown Princess

Crown Princess is the crown jewel of the Princess fleet. Its unique Crown Plaza is an atrium designed in the spirit of an Italian piazza where you can get a bite to eat or just relax and people-watch. Other highlights of this brand new ship include the Crown Grill, modeled after a classic steakhouse, the Sanctuary deck area, reserved just for adults, and Movies Under the Stars®, our poolside movie theater.

This is the cruise line featured on the famous Love Boat TV series from 1977-1986.

(WOW it was on that long!?)

This April we will be celebrating Dan's grandmothers 90th birthday and his Mom's 60th birthday on the Crown Princess. We are all so excited for this relaxing family vacation celebration!

Did you ever watch the Love Boat? As a child this was a show not to be missed during my summer vacations with my grandparents in Florida. I can hardly believe that I will be on the one of many in the fleet of Captain Steubing's ships!

Dan is beside himself, he says he will eat every hour for the entire week! Starting with a bowl of bacon the first sunrise. What is it with guys and bacon?

Happy Cruising! There expecting us!

Inauguration Day

Inauguration day photos.
We ended up only listening to the swearing in and President Obama's speech at the Ronald Reagan building. Nevertheless a wonderful experience. After the swearing in we mingled with folks in the city and did a little Obama shopping. Then we prepared ourselves for the big security line. It took nearly two hours and we were just going to make watching the parade on 7th and Pennsylvania Ave. This was a relatively peaceful experience, every so often when we moved the people in line would moooo like cattle. We were not really a line it was more like a square block of people, something like a game cube filled with silver balls and every time a few were let loose it was a bit of pushing and shoving to the gate. We were bumper to bumper.
At this time we could not feel our toes but we figured it was still sunny and the parade was going to start any minute. We made a quick call to my Mom and found out the unfortunate news of Senator Kennedy, the parade was very much delayed. We gave in, headed home and watched it on the tellie.
We waited a long time for this day and enjoyed being a small part of such a big celebration.

Sunday January 18th

The concert at the Lincoln Memorial.
What a wonderful day. Honestly, it was beautiful and very moving. Dan and I tried to put ourselves in a calm happy place knowing there would be a record number of people on the mall. We walked about four miles to get there and it was well worth it.

the weekend

I wrote the last message on Friday with hopes that I would do as promised and post some photos.

Ummm no such luck!

The weekend just escaped me as most do.

Friday night Daniel took me to one of my FAV places for dinner, BOMBAY CURRY!!

Then he was one of 4 guys at the movies, we went to see Bride Wars! I can not believe he said he would go. Maybe he felt sorry for me that the only girlfriend I know who might possibly go with me lives in Brooklyn now! Or maybe he secretly wanted to watch the two hotties Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson for an hour or so...

I like to think he is just a wonderful husband who earned buco brownie points!

It was a fun movie and of course brought back nice memories for us.

Saturday morning was like a regular work day, to start we were up by 6:30. We had to do a flower delivery for Dan's Mom (she was in CA). We drove to Lorton and then to AU in DC and then to Potomac Mills to pick up a TV for his grandmother who is on her way here todayfrom California to stay for a couple of months or so. We made a short side trip to Ikea where we picked up a very cute kitchen timer and we ate breakfast at Ikea! The way to a man's heart through his stomach, the way to get a man to go to Ikea ...tell him food is involved!

We returned to Lorton to hook up the TV and then we finally went home. Oh no! We had to make one stop at Target for essentials...poor Dan.

Anyway by the time we returned home it was 3pm. SO much for the day!

We ended up napping and then making a run to whole foods for some dinner.

The rest of the night was a wash....we couldn't do more than sit on the couch, eat and watch a movie.

Sunday was no better really we overslept...go figure!

Did some work around the house, headed out to Marshall's so Daniel could use one of his Christmas gift cards ran a few other errands and then it was Sunday night pasta and Soprano's.

We bought each other the Entire box set of Soprano's for Christmas! Since then we have been watching 3 to 4 episodes on Sunday nights accompanied by various pasta. So addicting!

Last night I used a recipe from my Silver Spoon cookbook. Delish! Pasta with crab meat.

That's it in a nutshell...

I will post pics tonight or tomorrow "girl scouts honor" (I was never a girl scout)

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Happy New year!

Ok so I know I have been missing as of late. Things just got a little out of hand over the holidays and there was no time, no rest, no ...I know No Excuses!



Over the weekend I hope to post some photos of the goings on over the holidays (since November, boy am I behind!)



This has been the longest week of my life. It is the first full work week, 5 DAYS

count em' F-I-V-E days in a row of work, real work since I don't know when!! Ok- I am done, and for the record I am not really complaining anyway just expressing the lengthy week.