Per usual, it was a weekend of manymanymany things!
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Friday was slightly less relaxing than I would have hoped. The squirrels in my attic are back! (No – that’s not code for anything. There are actual squirrels in my attic.) The “Humane Exterminators” supposedly solved this problem a couple weeks ago, but to quote one of my roommates:
REALLY LOUD wheezing, erratic scampering. Basically it sounds like one or more of them is dying [inhumanely]. There could be others around that aren't dying because i heard some "normal" scampering too. The one that's dying a slow and horrible death is doing it directly above my bed. welp, that's the squirrel update!
Once I dealt with the whole squirrel situation (i.e. called the exterminators and had them tell me in a very round-about way that there is nothing they can do), I moved on to football-watching. (Let’s all just take a moment to agree that the US was robbed by that bad call in the game against Slovenia!) Eventually I felt the urge to leave my apartment, but quickly regretted that decision when I realized that it was hotter than the surface of the sun outside.
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Friday evening I continued my sports spectating with the Nats game against the White Sox. (Obama was there!) It was actually really fun! The last baseball game I went to was forever ago – my family likes going to Giants games, but whenever I go it’s extremely boring, low-scoring, and many many many extra innings. The Nats lost…but the game was followed by some pretty impressive fireworks, so that made up for it.
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Saturday was supposed to be the most awesomely epic country music experience ever…but then it was canceled! Due to "sickness"!!! WTF!?!?! I can’t even talk about, I was so disappointed. To fill the country void, I went for a long run (YAY), hit up a couple Farmer’s Markets, and then met some friends at Eastern Market.
LLC cooked a pretty kick-a Chinese dinner. (One of these days we'll get Photoman at one of her dinner extravaganzas, and then you'll be able to drool over the awesomeness that is LLC's wok-cooking!)
Sunday…well, Sunday is best captured by this country song (please click on that link!). We planned a trip to the beach, but the beach we wanted to go to was 3 hours away…which is a bit far for a day trip…so we made do with Fairview “beach.” It feels more like a lake, but it's kinda on the Potomac, but you can go in the water, and there is sand…so basically, good enough for me!
We thought it’d be crowded, I mean, Father’s Day, right? In my family, we mark the day with a beach walk at Bolinas while my dad goes surfing (I don’t – shark attack is the last way I want to die), usually followed by fish and chips of some sort. Happy Father’s Day Daddy-O! But apparently Virginians don’t do the same. Besides, a beach walk on this beach would take all of 1 minute. (Soooo basically this is me, missing CA….)
As you know, I am quite the pro at lying in the sun, reading my book, and jumping in when I get too hot. (And this time without burning off my skin - I may or may not still be peeling from Florida!) So rednecks and all, it was pretty awesome.
Countdown is on – 5 days 'till next weekend!