The Adventure Continues...

You should see the apartment right now...I am up to my neck in boxes there are odd little pieces of paper on every shelf that I don't know what to do with and there is a whole lot of country music playing in the background (my guilty pleasure). Ahhh, the joys of moving. Yes, it is true Greg and I are leaving behind our little apartment on the beach. It is time... We were in desperate need of more space and by moving closer to Greg's work he might even be able to make it home for dinner sometimes! I'll post some pictures soon!

Our Version of the Winter Storm of 2010...

Just a tad windy...

They never actually move anywhere just sort of float on the wind...very strange to see.

The undertow is incredible!

Looking down the beach.

Surf!

I like this one.

No kid's are playing out there today...if you look in the background you can see some of the 12 foot waves we have been having.

In some ways, it is very beautiful, while in others, very ominous.

Road under The Pier...

I don't think anyone will be playing chess for a while.


Our apartment building...

Washington D.C. In Pictures

Greg getting ready to fly out!

Terra Cotta Warrior

U.S. Capitol

Supreme Court of the United States

Library of Congress...beautiful!

I was in pain when this was taken, I am pretty sure that both Greg and I got frost bite on our noses... It was worth it we loved D.C.!

They look cold...

Hope Diamond...we were not planning on stopping here but it was so cold outside we had to seek refuge in The National Museum of Natural History.

Love him...

Love coffee especially on cold days!

The Washington Monument...This was by far the coldest most windiest day that we were there.

Hideous face I am making but you get the point...it was C-O-L-D!

View from the top of the Washington Monument. We love this city!

Not too sure what this is but it looks important...oh wait that's The White House.

Ford's Theatre.

The theater box where President Lincoln was shot.

The Berlin Wall inside the Newseum... This museum had me close to tears several times.

It was bright out and I took a long time taking the picture...but here is Greg and The Capitol.

Us!

We loved riding the train.

The Postal Museum

Stagecoach!

Me on an old postal train car.

The Cleaning Fairy

I mentioned in the last post that Greg has left for D.C. This means a few things for me... one I can stay up as late as I want and no one tells me it is time for bed, two once I go to sleep I can use the entire bed, and three I can be a complete and utter slob for a few days. This is the way that my brain works whenever he leaves town...but did you know that there is no magic cleaning fairy? It's true, as I looked around the house today and debated if I really needed to get out of my pajamas; or could I possible make a meal out of some soy milk and a completely frozen turkey?... I decided that I could (don't ask me how...I'll give you a clue the turkey is still in the freezer). Then I realized that I too was leaving for D.C. in a couple of day's, and that meant that I would have to clean before I left, that is when I realized that my amazing plot of being a slob while Greg was gone, had backfired. Yes, it is 11:00pm and I am folding laundry doing dishes and wondering if I can get the floors mopped before 2:00am? Even as I write this I am sure that the next time Greg leaves town this will happen again because it has been happening for the last six years, and I hate changing my ways. I can't wait to see Greg and for him to come home so I have a little motivation because something tells me that I would be a bum if I could and stay in my pajamas all day long, read books, and watch more chick flicks than anyone has a right to. I have really loved the past few day's but I really look forward to waking up to a clean house tomorrow. I also look forward to meeting my husband in D.C. Nope there is no magic cleaning fairy, which is really too bad because right now as I type this and wait for the dryer to be done I keep thinking how nice it would be to watch some tear jerker movie and when the movie is done turning on the lights and the whole house would be clean! Something tells me that I should have listened to Peter Pan and gone to Never Land!

PS: While I thought of posting a picture of the apartment I realized it would be much more fun to let your imaginations run wild! So have some fun at my expense!

Christmas!

For Christmas this year, Greg and I made the trek back to Flagstaff to visit family. We stopped at my brother's house first for a few day's in Phoenix which was really fun, and then headed up the hill to celebrate as much as we could with both of our families. While splitting time between families is never easy this year the struggle was lessened a bit because my family decided not to give gifts, which made it so that we could spend Christmas morning at Greg's mom's house and then go back to mine for Christmas dinner. Also I should mention that since Greg and I didn't have to exchange gifts with anyone in my family we were able to give ourselves a very nice Christmas. Greg gave me a new purse...(I LOVE PURSES!!!), we got a new digital camera for our trip to Peru, and we got a food processor/blender...anyone who knows me, knows that I am not a good cook, but I do love kitchen gadgets and so does Greg, so we look forward to using this one! Greg and I got back to Santa Monica last Monday night, and I dropped him off at the airport yesterday so that he could go to a conference in D.C. I am counting down the day's to when I leave so we can go see our nations capital during the coldest time of the year!

Things That Make You Go "hmmmm...."

I decided to do a quick post while I work on our holiday rundown for the blog. Greg and I left Flagstaff on Monday afternoon and got home to Santa Monica around 10pm. Nothing says welcome home quite like having your locks changed. Yup that's right, while we were away on holiday our building manager took it upon himself to change our outside access door's locks..."hmmmm." After we tried every door in the building we resorted to some good ol' pounding and were delighted that our neighbor Tom was still up watching Monday Night Football. I am not a huge football fan but that night I was singing it's praises! Once we got into our apartment we found a lovely note from our building manager letting us know that he had changed the locks and here were two new keys...I don't know how we were supposed to get the keys without being able to get in the building but, maybe I should let that slide.
While we were in Flagstaff we had our mail on hold and they were supposed to deliver it to our house starting on Tuesday, however when I spoke to the mail man about not receiving our mail yet, his reply was that I would need to pick it up because "there was mail"..."hmmmm."
Finally on our way to the farmers market yesterday there was a note from FedEx on the outside access door for a failed delivery attempt, the reason? "Couldn't get in."

Here is to some common sense in the new year!

Fixed it!

Here are the pictures that I was trying to post on the previous entry but couldn't. Life has definitely been flying bye. I have been trying to get this loaded on here for day's but finally broke down and had Greg take a look turns out that I saved it as a very large file which is why I couldn't get them to load. Hope everyone is having a fantastic holiday! I'll post some holiday pictures soon!!!