Movin' along...

Today was kind of relaxing. I got up and replanted my fern and petunias. Now they look pretty. After that, we hung picture around the apartment. However, we ran out of nails so I'm gonna have to get some tomorrow. Daniel cooked a lovely meal for me today. We had hotdogs, tater tots, and baked beans. It was pretty good. I've learned he doesn't like corndogs. Not really sure why, but I personally like the grease on a stick. We took a walk around the town center, stopped into Best Buy and finally at Harris Teeter-- a store along the lines of a Whole Foods. On our way back to the apartment, we stopped by the geese and "played" with them. Unfortunately, I think something has happened to "Harry" the Heron---Janie what did you do? I've been looking for him for about a week and half now and he hasn't come back. I guess I missed out on getting my picture. Maybe he'll come back soon. My china and stemware pieces that I purchased with the gift cards and the credits from repeat items came in today. I've got to open them up and make sure everything is okay. I also had some shelves on order from linens n' things and it came in yesterday. I think I'm going to hang those in a bit.

Tomorrow looks like we will be going to church and then maybe just browse around for awhile. I'm gonna get some new bed raisers so I can stick the rubbermaid drawers under there for some extra storage space. We the ones from school, I'm shy about 1 inch from making it work. Maybe I'll stick those under our bed for a little more height. I guess that's all from me. Hope everyone is doing great and enjoying the blog. Love, DL

Rest assured, the real blogger is back!

As I'm trying to right this blog, Daniel reads the title and spits across the screen. ('Least it got it's yearly cleaning.) Mom left on Wednesday to return home. It was really great having her here to help us go through stuff and make sense of where to stick things. We really want to thank Ben and Celi for helping us lug everything up the stairs. It took some time, but we did it and I'm extremely grateful for their help. I'm learning my way around--so much that Daniel even admitted that I might know how to get around better than him now. However, I have had my mess-ups. When I took Ben and Celi to the airport, I missed my exit off the free part of the toll road to get to my real exit...so I took the really really long way around, but I managed. I didn't have to call anyone or even stop. Man I'm good. Coming back from Baltimore (Mom's flight left from there), I accidentally took the exit for the free part of the toll road...oops. I guess I'm a criminal now...but at least I saved $1.25.

Well, I'm officially a Virginian now. Apparently, I'm for lovers. They tried to say I needed some other information--like my birth certificate--I quickly said that I had a marriage certificate wouldn't that do? And they said "oh yeah, that'll work too." I mean be somewhat helpful. It took me longer to get through the "gatekeepers" line then actually sitting for them to call my number. I was sitting for like 5 minutes and they called my number...I didn't have any of my paperwork done. So, I'm up there and tell the guy what I needed to do and all he did was give me one-worded answers. I didn't know what I was doing and so I was trying to understand- When I asked him if I was getting my title back (my original Alabama title)---he laughed at me and said "yeah." Heck, I didn't know how it all worked and I didn't get my original title back. I got a new one for Virginia. It's not as pretty as the Alabama title. Anyways, I now have my Virginia license, new title, ss card, temporary tag, and a new voter registration card on the way. The cool thing was that they made my license right there in about 5 minutes. No paper license. Although, I think their red pigment was a little off because now it looks like I have a severe sunburn. Oh well, such is life---at least I actually have my license.

I'm still slowly working through our stuff and trying to get things organized. It's coming together. The air conditioner man came to look at our unit to see why it wasn't blowing through some of the vents. Apparently it was still blowing, we just couldn't tell it cause our hand wasn't touching the vent. He says there is nothing wrong and I think he thought I was stupid. Tonight, we had dinner with one of Daniel's friends from work, Roger. It was very nice to meet him and I think I was used. We went to this Mexican restaurant where if someone at your table has never been there, then you get a free dessert-sopapillas. Well guess who had been there before and who hadn't? Pretty sure I was used, but the dessert was good. When we were driving home, we saw a fox in the middle of the road. It was trying to cross the street but it stopped in the middle while we drove by. It was a little one and kinda cute--not that I wanted it for a pet or anything. It was the first time I had seen a real fox and in that regard it was pretty cool.

Daniel didn't want to write/type anything tonight so I guess I'm spent. TTFN.

I'm back...

Since I haven't posted in a while, as Janie reminded me, I thought I would fill everyone in on what's been going on. It's been a pretty busy week for me at work and trying to get the apartment ready for Lauren and Mrs. Mauter. Now, they're here, Ben and Celi got here this morning and we now have a full apartment, literally. It was a lot of fun (sarcastically) getting all of the boxes and furniture up to the third floor, we were very fortunate for all the help! We're in the middle of clearing some things up in the apartment and getting things organized....while watching American Idol Rewind. We're gonna go to Mass tonight at 5, then to the town center to see a concert that starts around 7. Our plan is to go into the city tomorrow and do some sight-seeing and see some museums. We'll fill you in on all that we did a little later. Now, it's back to work.

What women want...

and coincidentally the movie we are watching. No reason for the title, I just couldn't think of anything more interesting. This morning we went to the farmer's market. It was pretty neat. We got some peaches, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, and a loaf of sourdough bread. The bread is good. Then we were pretty much bums until we had to pick up Uncle Bill and Janet at the airport. Later we went to dinner with Uncle Bill, Janet, and Uncle Bill's neighbor and his son to Champ's. Daniel uploaded a slide show to our blogspot so check it out. It has a picture of the sad looking cake. Hopefully, it's a good laugh. There should also be some pictures from NY, Montreal, and Quebec. I'm gonna try to get some pictures of the suspected heron and the geese flock. We are planning to go to church and then check out the Reston Festival tomorrow. Okay, so I guess this is it for now. We are pretty blogged out today. Blah.

Daniel woke up stupid again...

I spent much of the day cleaning and yet, I don't feel like I got much done today. Surprise! Surprise! I did three loads of laundry, ironed some...and still have more to do. I took some of Daniel's clothes to the cleaners...and now I'm $20.00 lighter....for four items! Maybe that's good, but I don't really think so. Tonight we had a good dinner--lemon pepper chicken, steamed broccoli, sweet potato (Sam would be jealous), and a salad. I also made a funfetti cake--daniel's favorite(apparently I'm not worthy of capital letters). That was fun and my cake looks really special. So, I don't exactly have our round cake pans here and I didn't want to do it the easy way in a 9X13 pan so I made three loaves of cake in a single bread pan. I think I need a little more practice at that one...it's quite sad. After dinner we went for a walk. We saw what Janie says is a heron......not really sure since she wasn't here or anything. One of the ladies in our complex has a dalmatian named Riley, he was a sweetheart. We also saw a bummy, which reminds me of my Grandpa. And finally, we saw some really pretty orange day lilies that were unlike any i have ever seen. They weren't like the ones at mom and dad's house, but more like a a real orange crayon or orange jello. BTW, I'm excited about seeing some pictures of the three trees that fell a mom and dad's. I know Dad took some, so I will try to post them when I get there. Maybe soon I will put some exciting pictures up on this site.

The Reston Festival is tomorrow and Sunday. They are setting up tents, different concerts, character drawings, arts and crafts booths, and daniel is really excited about the free balloon animals. I think I'm gonna try to check out the farmers market tomorrow. We are also supposed to pick up Uncle Bill and Janet at the airport tomorrow from their return from Italy.

Well today started off good...

Daniel woke up being stupid! (Not quite true, but pretty close.) (Not true at all) I tried going to the DMV today, and well apparently getting your bank statement printed off on official letterhead with your new address is not enough...rather a true enough bank statement. It had to be mailed. My question is, how do they really know if it was mailed or not? Beats me. So, I went to the post office and put in some change of address forms and hopefully i will have something soon that they will accept. Till then, I can't get a new license or a temporary tag. I have been able to get my SS card changed. I came home after those fun experiences, and cleaned up a bit and rearranged the kitchen. Where, one of the drawers attacked my leg (i.e. she ran into it) and now i have multiple drawer shaped bruises. Then, a drink pitcher decided to jump off the counter and fall on my toe (funny how none of this has to do with something she did). It's quite a nice shade of red-- i'm glad I like red and it's various shades.

We had a good dinner of BLTs. Except, I made Daniel try the toms, because they smelled like freezer burn to me. And apparently, they tasted like it too (I don't recommend being the guinea pig in these situations). So, needlessly to say, we didn't have the Ts. I baked a few cookies and we had some ice cream with them. It was very good, if I do say so myself (they were Pillsbury, pre-made).

We got some green sofa covers! They look pretty good. We also got two new brown pillows. They are nice and fluffy. I'm ready to hang some pictures, I feel like we have a bunch of stuff in about six places. (To an extent, it's true. :) ) I went to the grocery store yesterday. That was fun and expensive. I knew it would be more expensive than back home, but, I guess i didn't think it would be that much of a difference. The only thing I can think of is that I hadn't really grocery shopped for a) two people, plus we didn't really have anything at the apartment and b) I haven't shopped for at least 2-2.5 months because of not wanting to have a lot of leftovers when I moved out and really seen the price changes that everyone has been talking about. Let me tell ya, I've seen it now.

--This is Daniel (also me in some of the parentheses' above). I had a regular day. Caught the bus at 7:30, the train around 8:00 and got to work around 8:45. You may think that's late to get to work...but I get there before everyone else. I'm glad tomorrow's Friday, it's been tough getting used to working again. I think I'm getting Lauren hooked on "The Office." She watches a couple of episodes every now and then with me. That's about all for me. I may think of something less boring to write about tomorrow.

First Post!

We started our blog today! We'll get around to fancifying it at some point.