Heard on the Street - February 29, 2008

"Can I just, like, pay the fine and admit my guilt?"

-Rhode Island Avenue NW at Massachusetts Avenue NW

Heard on the Street - February 14, 2008

"I don't have herpes!!!"
-Connecticut Avenue NW and Q Street NW

[Appropriate disclosure for Valentine's Day, I suppose.]

Happy 2nd Birthday Julia!!!

OK, I'm a week late, but we celebrated Julia's second birthday this past weekend with a cake that looked like Elmo (all homemade, by the way). Julia loved it - maybe too much? After she blew out her #2 candle, Grandma asked Julia if she was ready to eat Elmo. Eat Elmo?!?! No way! Julia started to freak out and wanted to get away from the cake. After we took off the paper that made up Elmo's mouth, nose, and pupils, making the cake look more like an apple with two weird white things on top, Julia still wouldn't touch it. She refused to even try the cake. Oh well...the rest of us enjoyed Elmo!

Found!

I found my bag, the Orla Kiely bag I posted below. After obsessing about it, I was ready to buy it (yay for tax returns!), but everywhere I could find it online - all 2 places - had it backordered. Well, I'm not a patient person when an obsession hits. I checked out a store here in DC that carries Orla Kiely (Tabletop), and low and behold, they had just gotten it in! It's so cute and so perfect for spring. And best of all - it's got really intelligently designed interior pockets - always my biggest pet peeve with bags.

Does this smell fishy?

U.S. Officials Say Broken Satellite Will Be Shot Down

"WASHINGTON — The Pentagon plans to shoot down a disabled 5,000-pound spy satellite before it enters the atmosphere in early March, a senior Pentagon official said Thursday."

I guess that's one way to do it. Sounds a little suspicious to me...

Vacation Anyone?

Isaac and I recently joined a travel company, and we will soon be registered travel agents. We have a website where you can book your travel, just like you would on Travelocity or Expedia or any of the other travel websites, with very comparable prices. You can book a flight, hotel, car, cruise, vacation package and the like. Check it out the next time you need to travel.

http://www.ytbtravel.com/grannysmith

In the interest of full disclosure, we make a small commission on any travel booked through our site. So not only will you get the same travel options that you'd get from another website, but you'd be helping us out a little bit also! All proceeds will go toward our wedding. :)

Time Stops at Grand Central

I think I'm in love...

My latest obsession is designer Orla Kiely. Her bags are so darn cute. I don't own one (yet) but they look like they're pretty high quality.
Photo courtesy www.shoptwig.com. Twig is an online retailer with some really cute, sorta funky stuff.