on my wishlist: a new bike shelf

look look LOOK at the goody jamie has turned me onto today:

just LOOK at this

beyond perfect for my new yellow bicycle

for when we have a bigger house

with room to hang things on walls

...like bicycles

or maybe we can just hang it in krishnan's room for now?

he seems to have ample space and an affinity for shelves

an attempt at vlogging

gah! i missed new tunes tuesday yesterday! i dont know where my mind was. i'll make up for it with an extra awesome NTT next week and this insight into the fun that is had on M street after dark. ENJOY:

where in the world is krishnan?

we are one roommate down.

who would like to rent a closet?

chock full of muffins and toasted sesame oil?

and striped polo shirts?

{excited jamie, sleepy krishnan}

new tunes Tuesday. Round 17. Mayer Hawthorne

an ode to (baby) Krishna(n) because it's his birthday! well, yesterday. sadly it did not coincide with M Street's new tunes Tuesday. but i will share with you his latest obsession. we reenacted this video to celebrate last night.

{the ills, mayer hawthorne}

new duds

{jamie, me, dc adventure}
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soooo, being gone most mondays-fridays leave most catching up, shopping, manicures, baking and other twin (see striking resemblance above and below) shenanigans for weekends. like this weekend for example - kicked off with a visit to the new neighborhood nail salon, over to Jeff and Ben's, out for empanadas/Cafe Citron/jumbo slice, m street after/sleepover party, a spectacular day outside saturday, followed by dinner - m street style (exciting new photo blog!), then a wildly fun evening of dupont, chinese food for breakfast and very little sleep. sunday = recovery. it's tough to cram it all into one weekend!
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SOOOO, the last weekend that i was home in the district, jamie and i went on a shopping adventure that ended with us laughing till we were crying and taking these photos.
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we only saw it fitting that scott said farewell to dc (living in Boulder, CO now) in style. 1 touristy adventure outfitted the 4 of us. my pants sadly (or purposely) cannot fully be seen. i HEART dc jeggings? YES, i am now the proud owner of a pair. certain involved parties mayyyy have not wanted these shared, but these are just too sweet to hold to myself. ENJOY! and be sure to compliment krishnan and his "special lady" shirt

the best of summer weekends

some of the best summer days yet. a weekend full of my favorite things - friends, cookouts, birthdays, meridian park, dancing, sunsets, icecream.

farewell, sweet weekend

{uncle Jack with the M Streeters}

{photo courtesy of Nique. which may or may not have been edited from this gem}

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welcome back from the weekend! this photo was taken during last summer's outing to Wounded Knee, South Dakota for a weekend with Krishnan's Uncle Jack. a weekend where Jamie sported wrist bands mid-calf (QUITE baller of her), Krish looked incredibly happy in his teal short shorts, and I was 3 and a half feet tall. ahhhhh, the good times.

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this weekend, though, the 3 M Streeters were split up - jamie and krish off frollicking at the Daddio compound on Chincoteague, and i was holding down the m street fort, playing a couple soccer games, catching a jazz festival show at Utopia, going swimming and fried fish eatin' out at Hains Point (!), fiiiiinally checking out Dickson, and possibly contracting emphysema from the 95 degree smoggy weather the District was enduring.

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ooooh, and planning ahead for Happy Wednesday this week. what do y'all think of catching some italian ice and an outdoor movie?

think warm thoughts...

...and get fucking jealous of me! (and jamie and ben and david and krishnan, too!!)

because in just a few short weeks (let's start the countdown now - 31 days, suckers!) we'll all be escaping this miserable DC weather to shake off our winter blues on the blissfully hot, sunny beaches of St. John. Cinnamon Bay, to be exact. doesn't that just SOUND sexy and beautiful?

so it went a little something like THIS: one cold and blustery evening (think 6 degrees coupled with 5 ft. snow drifts mounted against our house), five friends were cuddled up on the couches of our M Street abode, dreaming aloud of a warm trip outside of the District.

David: why don't we go camping on St. John?
Jamie: tickets look prettttttty cheap
Krishnan: yeah, let's do it! I could use a nice tan!

(elapsed time: 12 hours)

we all bought ourselves tickets to the Virgin Islands on March 25th . easy as pie. spontaneous as can be.

i can see it now..... me and jamie looking like this, and this. while the boys cook us dinner and pick us fresh pineapples (wearing coats made of questionable materials). paradise - HERE WE COME!