Boom Boom Pow!

I'm going to Black Eyed Peas Concert on Feb 23 at the Verizon. I am extremely excited cz if you know me than you know boom boom pow was basically the only song I listened to my last three weeks in Provo last summer. (I miss those days Mel, waking up me going to work, and you going to work in a sweatshop making bouquets.) One more band/group/solo artist I can scratch off my concert list.

I still need (in no particular order):

• Lady Gaga
• Taylor Swift
• Carrie Underwood
• Rihanna
• Kelly Clarkson
• Maroon 5
• Mary J Blige
• Jay Z

Those are highest on my list but I am sure I'll keep adding.

National Symphony Orchestra

(Notice the huge Kennedy head on the left, kinda creepy)

Hall of Nations

I wanted to be a little more cultured so I went ahead and went to the National Symphony Orchestra concert at the Kennedy Center. I actually quite enjoyed it except for when the one guy started singing in German....So over my head. Apparently they have a tour you can take of the Kennedy center and a delish restaurant on the top floor. I need to go back and check those things out but when you are a broke college/not college student, you can't eat out at every restaurant. Know what I'm saying?

Updates on my life....

So I don't want to get back to Utah and have my Utah friends feel like they don't know me anymore so I am going to update you all on the little things that I have noticed that are new/changed:

1.I've switched to 1% milk.

2. Forget the honey nut cheerios it's Honey Bunches of Oats w/ Cinnamon clusters and I cut up strawberries and throw them in there! I love it.

3. I only eat out on the weekends ! Just something new I am trying. I've only been doing it three weeks but it's working!

4. I don't hate running as much as I used to... I actually feel kind of good when I run now.

5. I only eat rice like twice a week now! I miss the rice cooker.

6. I prefer Gaga to Britney! Sad but Brit doesn't get me as pumped as Gaga.

7. I don't even eat chips as much as I used to!! Crazy! I still love them but now I have apples with my sandwiches! Oh...and I've stopped adding the mayo and mustard to my sandwiches! Just trying to cut out small amounts of calories when I can especially cz I am not working out..like...ever.

Anyway... earlier I swear I had new things to share but now I can't remember them...Peace!

I forgot to mention....

I met Dan Rather.....

that's his signature...
All together now...

In case you are wondering he shook my hand 3 times..

I have a badge...

.....and it gets me wherever I want to go in the Capitol and Senate office buildings, and House office buildings and I take full advantage of it. I ride the trams that Senators use, I walk around the galleries after they have been closed to the public, I sit in the Capitol Rotunda and stare and stare ( I even know where the gas masks are hidden in case we are attacked..but I can't tell you.) and mostly I just explore and find all the offices of all the important Senators/ Congressman that I want. Hopefully I'll run into Obama one day! (Yeah, right. If I do bump into him I will probably be prosecuted for interrupting matters of National Security. But,a girl can dream, right?)I mean...sometimes I walk through these buildings with marble staircases and gold leafing and powerful people all around and I think gosh....I LOVE THIS!

One of the Hallways- just beautiful

My badge def wouldn't get me in there.

View of Washington Monument from the Senate Gallery

View of the Rotunda from Senate Gallery

Original Cornerstone that George Washington laid in full Masonic regalia

(We have got to say that when we give a tour)

Photo booth Fun

I have finally joined the throngs of people who have sat down with their Mac and wasted countless hours playing and taking pictures in Photobooth. Now if I could only figure out how to import the whole album into Facebook that would be great!......

I love GW

..and I'm not talking about Bush. I love George Washington our founding father, our first president, amazing general and all around great guy. If more countries had leaders like George Washington there wouldn't be as much corruption in the world! I had the opportunity to visit the George Washington Masonic Memorial and it made me love him even more!

Holocaust

So one of my favorite places in DC is the holocaust museum. I managed to make it there yesterday right before it closed. No other museum stirs my emotions like that one. Those poor Jews. How can some humans be so cruel?? I was walking through the propaganda exhibit snapping away and pondering over that question when I realized that you can't take pictures in the holocaust museum. Who knew?? I managed to get a few before the security guard tapped me on the shoulder and said," Ma'am, will you put the camera away?" And I said," OH..Yes, Sorry!"