Projects at Home: Food

I have been trying to get my family to eat better. This has proven to be very interesting, because I can't cook. I can fake my way through things from time to time but I miss more than I hit. Tonight should have been a miss, but it wasn't! My dad's staple is spaghetti with red sauce, ground beef and sausage. We swapped the sauce out for a Heart Healthy brand, the noodles out for rice noodles, and all of the meat out for tofu. It was not pretty. The noodles tasted like paper mache, icky! The sauce looked like... well... nasty. We went back to the regular spaghetti noodles and rolled with it anyway. To our surprise my dad loved it! We can never tell him that he was loving soy instead of beef.

Strawberry Margarita

Oh hell. I'm waaaay behind! Let me break it down for you. In no particular order here are the major events over the past month.

1. I cut 14 inches off of my hair. Donated a foot and lost the other two inches to styling, yey! Love the new do. My scalp tingled and my neck hurt for two days after the cut. That head of hair weighed more than I thought!

2. I turned 26! I am officially old...er. I had a great group of people out for my birthday dinner. Parrish, Peter, Chris, Jay, Ann, Craig, Amy, Stacy, Chris, Beth, Will, Erika, Michelle and James. We went out and had dinner before heading out to Eighteenth Street Lounge for some drinks.

Once there we picked up a few more people. Jean, Tim, Daren, Gillian, and Kat. I had a really good time. It was such an amazing feeling to be surrounded by so many good people. I'm so lucky to have found them.

3. I finished up at Ray's. The amount of time I spent with everyone there made it very sad for me to leave. I was happy that most of the senior staff wasn't there on my last night. It would have been much harder to walk away. Saying goodbye to Danielle and Jaime was hard enough without my girls there.

4. There Cherry Blossoms! After a year of being annoyed about missing the Cherry Blossoms last year in Japan and DC I have finally seen them! Leanne and I took Channy down to see them and it was a great day. Chan slept for most of our walk around the Tidal Basin and woke up just in time for the FDR Memorial so we could take some pictures before she decided it was time to go home.

5. My going away party. It was such a rough night! I picked up Joe and Dave from Dulles and we went to check into our hotel. We got all dolled up and got on the Metro to Courthouse. Erika, Bonnie and Jeff met up with us at Four Courts for a drink. Jeff couldn't stick around for dinner but spent enough time with Joe and Dave that they were totally man crushing on him for the rest of the night. We ate at Ray's and Beth and Leanne were late. The two that should know better! Parrish and Kory met us there. Dinner was amazing and the crowd died down by the time we were done. I had brought a cake for Leanne's birthday, which was the next day, and as I brought it out Jaime brought a cake that Leanne had made me out of the kitchen! Two birthday cakes deep, we were already stuffed, so we each had a bite and sent the rest to the kitchen for the guys.I had to say goodbye to Parrish at the restaurant. The beginning of the end. We all loaded up in Beth's minivan and Leanne's car. Other than a quick stop to repair a "padiddle" we were on our way to Rocket Bar. It was packed! The Caps game had just let out and the bar was swarming with Cap fans. We had a bunch of people meet up with us there and it was on! Beers all around and some good laughs to finish off the night. It was just the way I wanted to say goodbye... For now.