weekend warblings

warning: this is a much longer post than i intended. i need to find remunerative employment. or just employment.

in other news, we braved DC proper again on saturday. the day started out well enough:

(in the car, straining to hear the australian lady who lives inside the GPS, while avoiding a collision at every intersection)

nick: so, what's up?
elyssa: nothing!
nick: well, i think you're kind of mad at me.
elyssa: no, i'm not!
nick: ...
elyssa: i'm a little grouchy. it's not your fault. it's just that time of the month...
nick: weird. you seem to get period-grouchy every time it takes us a long time to get out of the house.
elyssa: (smoldering)
nick: well, shoot. i just realized you're going to get really mad at me today.
elyssa: (baring fangs) WHY??
nick: i don't know ANYTHING about american history, and we're going to the american history museum--and you DETEST stupidity!

at that, i realized that i deserved the to be the second-ever recipient of the WOMAN OF THE YEAR banner, crown, and canned ham. my husband thinks i detest stupidity and people who are stupid. he misunderstood. i detest willful stupidity, and anyone who completed thirteen years of public schooling without retaining the info that hiroshima and WWII are related put a lot of effort into avoiding that information.

for the record, i did not get really mad at nick at the american history museum. we had tons-o-fun. see?
how could we not, when we snatched FREE PARKING??
best of all, we were welcomed by a domesticated herd of segway personal transporters.

we also visited the national gallery of art and felt very depressed about our own artistic endeavors. we also felt depressed about nick's inability to steal plastic cutlery from the "pies on the fly" cart outside the museum, forcing him to drop $3.00 on stress-reducing vitamin water as an excuse to jack a spoon for our lunch.


that night, we babysat our landlords' kidlets. they are soooo cute and soooo well-behaved! and they loooove worms!



topped it all off on sunday with a super awesome ward who nearly suffocated us with greetings--yay for tiny wards who notice fresh meat and make it feel uber popular and beautiful!

we's havin' a good time.