Things I Loved About Washington, D.C.

I had the great opportunity to spend Fall 2006 in Washington, D.C. Life-changing event for me. I guess you really can't call it an event since it lasted four months...whatever. Well I saw some pictures the other day and it got me all nostalgic. I'm going to write a list down of all the good memories and reasons why I loved D.C.
Actually I'm going to start with 100. I'll probably add more later. Feel free to email me any other ones you may have.

1. How everyone hated Dr. Stiles (Kenny!!!!) at first because we all thought he was insane.
2. Drew's nickname for Kenny at the beginning.
3. How Letty's phone went off every single class when she was there.
4. Jon's crazy nicknames for people (Wisconsin, anyone? Wolverine? and i forget, what was Kristen's name?)
5. How Vice President Cheney's motorcade would drive by every third thursday morning or whatever. I never actually got to see it.
6. The story of the most awkward first date EVER, and how he had no idea. NO idea. hahahaha that was a good one.
7. I was the table setter for Supreme Court Justices Scalia and Breyer. Heck yeah. Without me...they weren't going to be fed that night.
8. The paid homeless strikers who tirelessly walked around the front of the ConSource building, including the giant rat that called Kaylee and Megan bad names.
9. Driving through Niagara Falls, Canada, and seeing the couple walking down the median of the busy street with his hand straight down her pants. Doesn't get any better than that.
10. The fight at the George Washington gym. You see, this guy rolled a ball through our game so i kicked it out of the way and kept playing. It was a real intense game too. So like 5 minutes later this punk kid comes up and yells "hey who kicked my ball?" well this huge guy on the other team like freaks out and tells him to step off. Well the punk kid says "what if i don't?" and totally walks up to him. after a lot of yelling and like 5 guys holding the big guy back the stupid punk kid left. and then we all made fun of the dumb kid and we finished the comeback to win the game.
11. Kaylee and Dave getting the hotel room at the Travelodge
12. Driving to Palmyra and just being amazed at how pretty all the leaves were
13. Climbing up to Jefferson's Rock above Harper's Valley and seeing the Shenandoah River. "it was really pretty, I finally understood what all the type about the south was" - Kendra Price
14. Coming back from that rock and seeing Eric, Dave, and Trisha swimming in the river.
15. Remembering how i was glad that i didn't sit next to those three on the bus, cause they smelled like river.
16. Leaving Shawn at Valley Forge. Way to go Dave.
17. Kendra and Kaylee's big gigantic gummy ball of goodness
18. Running next to the Potomac River at sunset and seeing the pink reflected across the water with the Lincoln Memorial in the background
19. Learning the majesty of Disney Princess Fruit Snacks
20. Trader Joe's!!! (Trader Hos.)
21. Eating the peanut butter cups from Trader Joes
22. When Sam came out and visited me in D.C.
23. Walking on the mall every single day, because the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where I worked, was on the mall :)
24. That one day walking home with Kristen and the heavens erupted and water just came down and we didn't have an umbrella. I did give Kristen my coat to put over herself
25. So we stopped in the Corcoran gallery and it happened to be on the free evening, so we walked around and looked at cool art
26. Trying to get a taxi, but none came and cars would just hit me with big puddles of water instead.
27. Eating at Cosi for dinner that night, looking like drained rats.
28. Finally making it home and laughing at all the people who were also too stubborn to take the metro.
29. Kendra and how she kept hooking me up with sweet tours
30. Going on a white house tour!
31. Almost sneaking past the red rope at the white house, but seeing the big security guy and deciding not to.
32. How me and Kirsten would walk by the white house and think that big fancy people were walking out of the front door...and then we figured out after the tour that it was just tourists.
33. Kendra's amazing capitol tour. Best capitol tour ive been on ever
34. Kendra getting lost on our tour.
35. Kendra lying to me through the whole tour, making stuff up about Jackie Kennedy and other things. Good thing I saw right through her.
36. Kendra falling over on her own tour, tripping over some stairs.
37. Trying to sneak past the guard on the tour to get into the senate side....yeah didn't work.
38. Kendra falling down the stairs at the Barlow BIG TIME.
39. And that's why you never play the game "Would you be my friend if" on stairs.
40. Endless games of mafia in the basement
41. "No!!! I'm not Mafia!!!!!" - Guess who
42. That time during the first Mafia game when I was TOTALLY mafia and everyone knew it, but I managed to convince all the girls to change their votes
43. My amazing celebratory dance after that win
44. How everyone called me a charmer cause i had charmed the women into voting for me
45. When i flicked the queen of spades up and it got stuck in the roof!
46. Jeremy and Autumn
47. How kendra can't say the name Jeremy
48. watching the ohio state michigan game. i hate ohio state. dumb game.
49. does anyone remember that dip that Drew made for the game? Heavenly.
50. Alexander Jones and Katie King
51. How Katie and Alex fought over when their anniversary actually is (day before Halloween, for the record)
52. How everytime I saw Katie King I would yell Katie King!!
53. Introducting everyone to Arrested Development
54. I hate the cardboard couches in the Barlow.
55. The BC in the DC. What a great name.
56. Halloween in Georgetown!!!
57. Eating at Johnny Rockets...again...wow dave and kate really liked that place
58. Kristen went to Ben & Jerry's and brought back some Pineapple coconut ice cream that she was just in love with...which happened to make Kendra throw up, since those are her two worst favorite flavors. I just thought that was funny.
59. Remember how great it was on friday afternoon when class was done?
60. My 8 mile run down the river trail through the rain.
61. Running around the isle with the hand coming out of it 3 times on my 15 mile run
62. Running around all the monuments
63. Running through Crystal City after it got dark.
64. Free samples at Trader Joe's
65. When I made pesto genovese for dinner one sunday
66. my cubicle buddy, Laura Lewis!
67. How much i loved wearing a shirt and tie to work everyday.
68. How the USDA paid for my transportation to work everyday.
69. walking home from the USDA with kristen
70. Lunches on the mall
71. Going on the sweet Smithsonian carousel
72. The great greek food restaurant my office would sometimes go to for lunch
73. The two IT guys that we sat next to at work. They were great.
74. When two guys almost got into a fight at a USDA meeting. Farmers fight!
75. Going to the pentagon and kendra taking illegal pictures of the snipers
76. Being interviewed for the Pentagon newspaper (google my name! its there!)
77. Ferris Beuhler Day!!!
78. Going to the library of congress
79. Going to dia de los muertos at the museum of the american indian
80. eating lunch at the museum of the american indian
81. finding the painting of president benson in the USDA.
82. Dave using his lobbying connections to get us to a cabin on the chesapeake.
83. Dave using his lobbying connections to get us a land rover to take us to a cabin on the chesapeake.
84. Katie and Alex arguing in the kitchen: Alex: No. Katie: but Alex.....
85. We need somebody to sign the card! Who has nice handwriting? Kendra? (Kendra's voice coming from the couch "noooooooo")
86. How Kendra literally spent 12 hours that day laying down in the couch.
87. Jumping in the chesapeake in december
88. Caneoing across the chesapeake (just around the riverbend!)
89. Leaving Kendra stranded across the bay.
90. her running out in the bay trying to get to the canoe
91. How Dave' s boss's wife saw the whole thing.
92. When we went sailing!
93. And....nobody knew how so we got stuck and some guy towed us out.
94. When Katie and Trish tried to sneak up on us while we were on the dock at night...yeah that didn't work.
95. Reading scary stories by the fire.
96. Football at the cabin!!
97. Going to the national cathedral
98. How everyone in our ward shunned us
99. Remember singing carols in front of the subway station? that was fun.
100. The first evening, hearing the national symphony orchestra play on the steps of the capitol

I am in Seattle

So I haven't had a blog since freshman year of university. That was five years ago. I didn't even call it a blog. I think that was the time before blogs. It was an online journal. Do I really think I will keep this one up forever and ever? Probably not.

Why not? Mostly cause I dislike the word blog. It's not an attractive word. Blog. Kinda sounds like one of the many different words for "to vomit". blog.

for example:
man i ate all this bologna yesterday, and i totally blogged it all up.

Second reason: I much prefer to tell you (well, honestly most of you) personally about my life. The people who I think would actually look at this are the people who I would actually like to tell you about my life and the funny things that happen to me. I don't want this to take away the personal contact that I actually like to have.
Though there are some of you who I would like to keep updated on my life, but with whom there just not is time. Ah, decisions, decisions.

But we will see how it goes. Maybe I'll keep it up. At least for the summer, when I seem to have a little more spare time than I do in Provo. I don't think I'll share all of my deepest and darkest secrets here. I don't think this will become a venting place or a place to rant and cry while depressed. If I do, sorry. I'm envisioning this as a place for me to tell funny stories and maybe expound my complex political feelings. (for example: i am against cloning full-grown people to maturity just so that i can have a ready-made liver.) Maybe I'll be one of those married people who maintain a blog to keep in contact with all of their friends without actually having to talk to them. I always thought that was kinda cute. Awww...a family blog....

Um to tell you the truth, I don't really know how I'm supposed to advertise this thing. Do I just tell people, "hey, check out my blog its at loganisreallyreallyawesome.blogspot.com. Can you just do that? Is that weird? Am i loser for having a blog? Is that a piece of blog on my shoe? blog blog blog