Moving on

I had a fantastic weekend. Do you ever have one of those days where you're just like, hm, I love life? Yeah, I loved life this weekend.

On Friday, I stuck to my plan of doing nothing, sort of, except that I stayed up till 11:30 cleaning house. I laid down to sleep at 11:30, and before my eyes shut, it was 6:20 and time for me to head downtown for Race for the Cure. The race started about half an hour late, but there were some 48,000 people there and the whole thing was just awe inspiring. I expected that I'd get less choked up about the whole breast cancer survivors/running in memory of thing, but truth is I got just as choked up. In any case, the race was good, we were down in a little over half an hour and then we just took in DC. The Biden family was there, as well as some royalty (Crown Princes and such) from Syria. Crazy.

I should have felt like it was alright to snooze the rest of the day away, given that it was an early morning for me, but no. I had a ladies party to attend that afternoon, and later that evening I went for a bike ride out to Alexandria. Riding down 14th street was pretty much ok and crossing over the 14th street bridge was a little nerve wracking. It just seems like you're going to bash the handlebars into the bridge railings...or fall into the river even though that wouldn't ever happen. The ride was all pretty light and I sat on the river for a little while before riding to the Braddock metro and riding back home.

Sunday was a highly active day: given that I was sleeping by 11:30 on Saturday night and up at 9:30 on Sunday, I felt pretty good about doing stuff. First off, I went to the Dupont Circle farmer's market, which was FANTASTIC. It was really crowded and busy, and not nearly as big as Eastern Market, but the produce was excellent. I picked up rainbow Swiss chard (gorgeous), little super-sweet strawberries, a bunch of basil, garlic scapes and some excellent all natural soaps. I had never seen garlic scapes before and I was immediately intrigued. The price tag had a little thing that said it was good for making pesto (and if you know me at all, you know I can eat pesto by the bucket load). So, I bought two bunches and went on my merry way. I went on to have lunch with my brother and almost-looking-pregnant sister in law, then went for a light hike at Carderock. I got home to start my experimental pesto making with garlic scapes. One bunch of scapes yielded about 5 jars of sauce, and I made it in two varieties: one with walnuts, pecorino romano cheese and olive oil, and the other with walnuts, pine nuts, parmigiano reggiano cheese, and olive oil. I really prefer pecorino romano cheese because it's saltier; so much so that when I use it I don't have to add any salt to the sauce. I also made the basil pesto and froze that, so, hey, I've got a lot of sauces. And I still have another bunch of scapes that I need to use up but there is nothing left for me to store the stuff in. I should probably sell the stuff.

Anyhow, around 6:30, my friend and I headed out for a ride downtown and it was really excellent. Initially we were just going to ride around the mall and then turn back, but we ended up tacking on a little bit at a time. First the suggestion was to cross over to the airport, so he could see the cross over from DC to VA. Well, we got to the airport and decided to just ride to the metro in Alexandria. And once there, we headed toward the metro and continued on to Pentagon City metro. I think we rode about 20 miles (I forgot to start the GPS a couple times) and I was pretty happy with that, given the general neglect my bike has experienced as of late. My legs are a little twitchy but are otherwise feeling pretty good. What does NOT feel good it my ass. My ass hurts! But hopefully I'll manage to get my ass into "get used to a bike seat" conditions. We ended the evening with an Asian Fusion delivery dinner and the 5th Element. Not a bad way to end the night.

Today I'm scheduled for a 5 mile run (or the gym, if lighting rolls in). I'm not totally feeling a run, which is why I'm keeping it short, but I've got to keep that motivation going.

Also...I wish I could find the motivation to want to be indoors right now, working, when it's beautiful outside...arg. Being a grown up is such a bummer.