mayday!!!

Another brand new month is upon us, and I as always, am busier than sin. There was nothing much to post for new music tuesday, however, I recently changed my email address and I didn't have a chance to post deets for last night's Yellow Fever and Riff Raff events. For this, I'm truly sorry. Tomorrow night, I'll be attending a DCBIA dinner for the Revival of H Street. I'm especially excited because Harriet Tregoning, the newly appointed DC Director of the Office of Planning will be one of the speakers. For those of you who don't know, Ms. Tregoning spent a number of years at the EPA and later, helped to found the Smart Growth Network. I don't talk about work much, but she is totally one of my "sheros". Anyway, I'm hoping to rub elbows with her and a bunch of other forward thinking DC development people tomorrow night, so I'll be missing out on my typical Thursday night hijinx with you kids. Hey! I'm looking out for YOUR FUTURE!!! Stay tuned...

weekend recap and shout outs!

I know, I know, it seems as if I’ve been away for an eternity, but in all actuality, it’s only been four days since my last posting. Before I get into too many details about everything that’s going on at the end of the month and into April, I wanted to briefly recap this weekends events and say thank you to a few people….

It’s not often that I stay at any single event for too long. Friday night was a rare exception. Djs Yellow Fever and Co’s. Hosiery party came correct, BYOB style.This is the evening that I discovered that the Safeway on Georgia by the Wendy's doesn't sell booze, but I was quickly directed to the liquor store across the street that had the usual stash to choose from. This was also the night that I discovered that Mad Dog 20/20 made "Purple Rain" flavor. I stood in awe for a second, debated grabbing the Sour Apple flavor (which is damn good!), debated grabbing both and then decided on the bottle of Purple Rain. This was met with "hooo-eee's" and "damn GIRL"'s from the guys who were hanging out in the store. I met up with a couple peeps at Pharmacy and we were off. Who knew that I was going to show up with three of the best dancers in the house? Murph and A.O. were tearin that shit up til at least 4:30 when we decided that food was well in order... The night ended (as so many fine nights do) at the Diner over burgers, mac n cheese and some pretty Sawful conversation. To the Hoisery crew, thanks for keepin it live. To Murph, Seb and the gang, thanks for showin a girl some new moves.


saturday night's alllllright!

dudes. I'm stoked. Saturday afternoon, after brunch at Pharmacy, I got my shit overhauled. seriously. A quick trip up to Chevy Chase to visit Big Daddy Shawn at City Bikes proved to be one of the highlights of my weekend. New tubes, tires, lights, a sweet new lock, a full tune up and the courage to take it to the streets. I was wise enough NOT to do this on Saturday night (which for those of you who don't remember, was St. Patty's Day). nope, we continued J HOCK's birthday weekend from the Cat to the Nine and oh, what a lovely evening it was. To Girl Andie, thanks for the veggie sandwich. To Patrick, thanks for the beers. To Shawn, thanks for pimpin my ride.



and last but not least...

Sunday.Sunday.Sunday.

My first ride in city traffic was a complete success. I only "almost" got hit once and by my accounts, that's pretty damn good. Destination: Pharmacy Bar (yes, again) for brunch and I didn't realize until after I got there, that this would be my initiation into drunk ridin. Side note* Who knew that the hottest dance moves could be found within the frames of the weekly Prince Valiant strip?! Git Low, Git Low! Oh, I forgot how fucking fun brunch at my favorite bar could be. To Kiki, thanks for the salad and the 411 on the 86'ed items. To A.O., thanks as always for the laughs and drinks. To Sadsack, thanks for keepin my Toddy Hot. To Shawn, thanks for the Mind Eraser. and last but not least, to Francis Bacon Bikini the Third, thanks for the two hour text message marathon. I'll see you in the battlelands.

x/n

don't buy this phone! the moto q sucks ass.

This is probably the worst phone of all time. I bought it for it's sleek design, qwerty keypad, microsoft operating system, speakerphone, camera, predictive texting functionality... the list goes on and on. After 5 days of being on my home phone with customer no service and STILL completely unable to download ringtones, upload photos, see when I have a message (yup, no fucking lighted display), or constant web browser failure, I'm done.

where's the packing slip? this one is going back to the factory.

I LOST MY PHONE IN PHILLY, I LOST YOUR NUMBER TOO...

oh joy.
no, really. I can't tell you what an AMAZING time I had in Philadelphia. I hijacked Mary Hellyeah and a bit over two hours later, we were drinking Pedestrians (you'll have to get the recipe from Kendra) and eating chocolate covered potato chips in celebration of my friend Laris' birthday. It was after the dance party at about 4 am, when it was decided that a walk around the city in sub zero temperatures was in perfect order. Now, I fell down a few times, musing, singing and shouting about how "Being a Gangsta is so Neat" (Is this Eazy E lyric ONLY funny to me??), but I held my own on the Pontoon boat on the frozen river, found more than a few places to publicly relieve myself, thought the better of climbing any higher than my friends, who had reached the Gargoyle on the Lincoln Memorial and so many more things that are probably best left for my friends to tell me next time we meet....

"uuuuh, what does this have to do with anything?" you ask?

OH YEAH! Somehow, in the midst of all of these shenanigans, I LOST MY PHONE & CONSEQUENTLY, YOUR DIGITS. So if you haven't sent them already, please do. I just found out that the donkeys at Sprint won't have my fresh new Moto Q in stock until Wednesday.

Hell's Bells

Let me issue a User's Warning for the coming few weeks as the "Congressional Season," as we affectionally call it at work, ramps up to a screamingly urgent tea-kettle pace. The User's Warning is for moi, Ms. Becton. Even though I love a fast and furious day at work, they will all be fast and furious until, oh, about April. So, well intentioned as I may be to meet everyone out in the eveings, there will be more nights than usual that I just shutdown and crash unpredictably. I send you my best, I love you all, don't take it personally, and you can always try to call and rally me.

Yeah, and e-mail w/ me is/will continue to be spotty. I hate to say it, but txt is the best way to reach me if you don't e-mail me at work.

I should be back in the evening game in a week or two once I get back into the swing of actually working again all day at work. (Case in point, I don't think that's a sentence.)

safe & sound. 01.20.07

uuuugh! ya'lls were lucky that I didn't endanger your sweet and tender selves last night. The Benjy Ferree show was great and it seemed as if everyone I know in the city was out. Go team dc! The bad part was that I started drinkin what I wanted (beam and coke) rather than what I should have been drinking (water) and by the time we finally got kicked out, all I could think about was getting home to my sweet, sweet pillow...

Thankfully, I had the mental fortitude to pour myself into a cab, which was by all accounts, probably one of the best cab rides I ever had that didn't involve screaming in the back seat with my girls or a hot make out session. The cab driver had my favorite am radio program on ... yes, I DID mention it earlier this week... Coast to Coast AM630... after we got back to my place, I sat in the car and talked about ghost stories for about 20 minutes with one of the nicest cabbies in dc. and he didn't try to jack me with another zone charge!!

and yes, virginia, there IS a santa claus!


oh...
and yes, I'll say it...love the ALF laugh. ha!