Sakuramen

This week has been hot! Highs in the 90s and lows in the 80s. Bill somehow convinced me to leave the house and head over to 18th st for dinner. We started to walk to the bus stop, but the sun was beating down on us and I was getting nauseous even with a hat so we turned around and got the car.

18th Street in Adams Morgan reminds me of 6th street in Austin with a few more restaurants and a few less bars. It has a fun vibe and a huge variety of restaurants. Bill dropped me off and went to park the car. For our first dinner in this area, we went to Sakuramen. I had cold ramen with pork and a sweet sesame sauce. It was really yummy and refreshing. After dinner we had a long hike back to the car. Bill had parked next to Meridian park on 16th St. I was intrigued by the high walls surrounding the park every time I drove past and I told Bill we were going in. There was a lovely reflecting pool and these tiered pools where water flowed from basin to basin. It looked like there were irises that had just finished blooming and it is probably beautiful in the spring.

We stopped by the McDonald's near our house on Georgia and got ice cream and drinks and then went home and sat on the porch to watch the lightning storm.

I am officially diseased!

Yesterday the AMA voted that obesity is a disease. I'm not sure which is worse people asking if your pregnant or people asking if you have a disease. There have been the requisite headless fatty pictures above every article as well. Why isn't the headless fatty banned by the AP? It is dehumanizing and stigmatizing. Look me in the eye if you are going to call me fat! They never show an overweight person in a nice outfit doing something productive, they always show someone in ugly, ill fitting clothing walking around, sitting or eating.

I have also noticed, now that I live in DC, that there are almost no fat people here. Only 8% of white people in DC are obese. Its not just the white people, all the ethnic groups are skinny here. Seeing people who are like me is one of the things I miss about East Texas. At least I could pretend to be normal there.

Anyway, now that it is officially a disease, maybe they will find a cure that works for more than one day and we can all be just alike. Hmm, when do I get to start collecting disability...

Gardens are so much work

I am planting a garden in the tiny backyard of our row house. We will have lots of tomatoes, green beans, peppers, squash, cucumbers and herbs. I had to weed and remove lots of grass before I could plant anything and now I have to build a fence to keep the dogs out. Fresca dug up the carrot seeds as soon as I planted them so carrots will be coming up where ever they landed now.

I planted seeds and I bought plants at the uppity farmers market in Takoma Park. Bill said it was funny to see people dressed up in their hipster little house on the prairie outfits shopping for expensive local organic produce. There is a pretty good selection, eggs are just $5 a dozen (ha!) and you can get buffalo meat for heart stopping prices as well. There is a great cheese stand and bread stand. I will definitely be shopping here occasionally.

$5 a dozen! I didn't know I was getting golden eggs from my chickens. I would walk to the garden and collect four or five eggs every day. I used to eat beautiful eggs that were cream, brown, blue and green. I even had tiny banty eggs for when you cut a recipe in half and then needed only half an egg. I also miss my compost pile. It is so strange to put egg shells and coffee grounds into the trash.

We don't live in Texas anymore.

Bill and I ran off to Vegas at Christmas and got married at the Bellagio hotel on a balcony overlooking the lake and fountain show. It was perfect. Its kind of funny we were engaged for about 7 years and I couldn't plan a wedding so my parents and I went online and planned the ultimate Vegas wedding in about 72 hours.

The reason for the rush had something to do with taxes and Bill's new job!

We moved to Washington, DC in February with our two dogs and live in a row house near a park and a bus stop.

So far we have seen Cherry Blossoms and several monuments...