Rant: My boyfriend is apathetic about Halloween costumes, but I’m really psyched about mine this year. I’m afraid we’re just going to sit at home and do nothing on Saturday.. Laame. Also, boyfriend’s friends are grating on my nerves lately.

Rant: Work’s starting to get stressful–but I’m grateful to have a job.

Rave: Friday? That’s about all I got.

Rave: The big boss is extending his vacation until the middle of next week. The office runs smoothly and no drama.

Rant: Teenagers on the red line running from car to car while the train is moving while the driver continuously calls for security to meet him at the next station. At the station we sit for almost 10 minutes while the driver continues to call for security to respond. Good thing it wasn’t a truly serious situation. If the stupid teens had fallen between cars I would have testified on metro’s behalf.

@Kalorini – don’t let your boyfriend’s apathy stand in the way of your awesome Halloween costume! I’ve had that happen in the past where I had an awesome costume and the former bf didn’t want to do anything. Fight for it!

Rave: I’m being Marie Antoinette for Halloween – carrying around a tray of petit fours with a sign that says “let them eat cake!” (I know I know she didn’t really say that)

Rave2: my boyfriend is being a guillotine

Rave: PoP Launch party! So excited to meet all of you!

Rant: general exhaustion

Rant: writers block with a deadline looming.

Rave: There a rave in here somewhere, just don’t know how to express it today.

@Kalorini – tell him you’re going out alone to 18th St. to look for somebody who knows how to have fun on Halloween! That’ll get him off the couch.

Rave: My boyfriend’s mother is visiting today and we are meeting her for a lovely dinner and then going to give her a tour of his newly purchased rowhouse in Columbia Heights.

Rave: He actually cleaned his grimey house for her visit! It was way past due!

Rant: The restaurant where we are going does not serve alcohol and he is out of wine at home. I sure hope his mom doesn’t mind if I make a run to the liquor store during her house tour!

Rant: Teens at metro, rec centers, playgrounds, grocery stores, calling each other “son” and “ni^ga”, shouting, fighting, spitting, littering, blocking the sidewalks, as if somehow that makes them cool or something, or part of something really enriching and meaningful in life. Feeling like the neighborhood is backsliding, despite crime being down.

Rave: Looks like a nice Saturday after a few rainy weekends.

Rant: Spent the morning with swine flu infected husband at urgent care after he kept us both up all night with horrible coughing.

Rave1: As I’m feeling fine (just really tired) it looks like I may be spared the wrath of the swine this go round.

Rave2: Free halloween cupcakes greeting me in the lobby when I finally showed up at work!

Rave: MY DOG REMEMBERED THAT AT LEAST HALF OF HER ANCESTRY WAS BRED TO KILL RODENTS!!!! She killed a mouse last night, and delivered it to me! That is carcass number 2 for those keeping track, which means if history is any indicator, we’ve only got one to go! (My mice come in 3s; I don’t know why – the old adage has never held true for me!)
Rave: Hilloween tonight at Eastern Market, followed by Thriller on H St.! I don’t like Halloween and think costumes are dumb, but Hilloween is just neighbors hanging out; Thriller on H will just be fun to watch!
Rave: Pig Roast around the corner tomorrow night!
Rave: Doggie costume contest @ Lincoln Park tomorrow. I think costumes for humans are dumb, but I’m not above trotting the pup out especially in light of Rave #1 since her costume is a cat!
Rant: Before all this fun can commence, I have a bunch of errands to do for the upcoming CHAMPS Hillys Awards and I have to drive to both MD and VA today to pick stuff up. Will bring good music and the pup along for a fall ride though!

Rant: Overheard two teens at lunchtime, 13 and 14 yrs old, discussing how she, the 13 yr old, was pregnant by her mother’s 32 yr old boyfriend and she was glad because her momma made her sick because she wouldn’t let her wear her hair in a certain way and slapped her. The 14 yr old replied that it only happened because her momma was 30 yrs old and no man wanted somebody that old. The 14yr old knew this because she was sleeping with her brother’s 19 yr old friend who aparently was still in high school and that’s what he told her men want….and on and on.

Rave: Neither one of these little ignorant bi-otches are mine.

@gsHoeflinger here ya go:

http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/02/15th-street-traffic-pattern-announced/

@ GAAYYYYY! Chop off an arm, 25 lb problem solved *and* instant Halloween costume! Bonus!

@Matt – I officially stated that I would quit smoking back in February… I’ve relapsed a bunch of times (mostly when drinking), but you’ve just gotta push through! I now find myself craving the nicorette and not the cigarettes, which is good, but I still get a hankering for a smoke every now and again. The biggest help for me was the Quit Rewards program that Nicorette offers – there’s a red logo on the box of nicorette that gives you the info. You can get $5 – $10 off a box of nicorette, and every few boxes you enter into the program you get either a Visa gift card, or at the end you can get a portable DVD player, ipod shuffle, or $50 (I think) gift card. That really helped me push through. Also, I used to smoke about 18-20 cigarettes a day, and the 2 mg was just not enough nicotine for me – get the 4 mg if you smoked a lot.

@ Mal – Thanks for the tip – tonight will definitely be a challenge.

Happy Halloween everybody!

Rant: No plans for tomorrow night…might just stay home and deal with Trick-or-Treaters.

Rave: Going to the Caps game tonight! Let’s go for 7 straight!

Rave2: Still healthy even though most of my co-workers have been/are sick (including one with Swine flu).

Rave: meeting a friend (who is deploying to Afghanistan in a couple of months) at Birch & Barley/Churchkey in about an hour. It will be my first time there and we’re both sorta beer geeks.

@Steve

The beer is awesome. Amazing selection (for a fun time, ask them if you can order a bottle). Food kind of blah/bready, at least in the upstairs.

horrible day so far, but should be good and drunk in a few hours.

anyone know of someone looking to rent out a room in the petworth or columbia heights area?

Rave: I settled on my new Petworth house today

Rave: PT Crittenden will be a terrible moniker.