a trip with maggie and her mom to the very hip taste of arlington in (gasp) northern virginia today inspired an epic scarfdown that included, in various serving sizes ranging from bite to bowl, in approximate chronological order of consumption:

1. chili with cheese, onions, jalepenos, and hot sauce
2. smoked pork sandwich with hot sauce
3. pork over saffron rice
4. chicken shwarma sandwich
5. pasta
6. massive plate of anonymous indian food (right)
7. wine
8. lettuce wrap
9. ice cream sandwich
10. crab cake sandwich
11. paella
12. chocolate-covered strawberries (more than one)

the food plus torrential downpour made me think i might just get a cramp and drown on the bike ride home. luckily i made it — just in time for me to lay around and not eat dinner the rest of the afternoon.
and for the record, if any of you have ever found me attractive in the past and that’s no longer the case — i completely understand.

i would say, read this one: Stuff White People Like

sample:
#51 Living by the water
#46 The Sunday New York Times
#45 Asian Fusion Food
#44 Public Radio
#41 Indie Music
#39 Netflix
#37 Renovations
#36 Breakfast Places
#35 The Daily Show/Colbert Report
#33 Marijuana
#29 80s Night
#24 Wine
#23 Microbreweries
#17 Hating their parents
#14 Having Black Friends
#11 Asian Girls

GREAT find, andy!

with a week to reflect upon my time at home, i can definitively say this is what i did over the holidays.

1. went to my palace, somerset mall. almost every day.

2. played guitar hero 3. until my wrist and fingers hurt.

3. watched movies
national treasure: so bad, it’s still bad.
enchanted: the excellent moral to the story was don’t get married after a day. or 5 years.
sweeney todd: if you like/tolerate musicals and excessive/gleeful blood and gore, this is excellent holiday fare.

4. hung out with babies. lots. of. babies. a small sampling

5. ate a lot

6. drank a little, mostly this:

7. played pictionary. can you guess what these are?

what are these scribbles? from left to right.
1. two interpretations of an ostrich.
2. next was “stake,” which was only guessed (by me) after the fangs were drawn in. big surprise there
3. let’s just say i froze up after the artist drew water, then a stick figure with huge boobs, then violently circled the crotch area. it’s obviously a bikini.
4. other attempts: wolverine, pacman, and the 7yo guessed spider. correct answer = crab