Ridiculous Bunny Cuteness!

Honestly, sooooo awesome!  Maybe one day I can capture my buns in action (although in their older age they are not quite that frisky anymore).  I'll have to get someone who has a digital camera and a cool mac to make a video for me...

~L

Manassas and the Civil War

This past weekend (a long weekend thanks to Christopher Columbus), my friend and I got a chance to visit the Manassas Battlefield Park.  Well, really, he wanted to go to a Cracker Barrel, and one of the closest ones just happened to be right down the street from the park, so it really only made sense to drive out to Manassas to do something besides just eating at Cracker Barrel so we also went to the park.  It was neat, and did a good job of showing the history.  There was a good video and a little musuem.  Apparently there were two battles of Manassas, and the North lost both of them.  (Northerners actually call it the First and Second Battle of Bull Run.) But the South can't get too cocky because we all know how it turned out in the end...  In fact, neither side can be too proud because over 620,000 Americans died in the civil war which is just slightly more than all other wars combined.  That is a shocking statistic!  The first battle was the first major battle in the civil war.  People actually brought picnic lunches to watch from nearby hills and thought that it would be the only major battle.  In the second battle, something like 15,000 Northern troops died and 10,000 Southern troops died (or were wounded which pretty much equals death in a time before penicilin).  So can either side really call that a victory?  It was certainly eye-opening and frightening to picture that much death.  And while I'm glad that the North eventually won, I have to wonder what brought them to such a place that so much death was the only answer?  Sad.  I guess the silver lining is that we haven't had another civil war since!   And hopefully, we never will.  So it was definitely an interesting visit.  And being from the North, it was interesting to be at a site of Southern victories.  But like I said before, we all know how it turned out in the end!  It has inspired me to rent the Ken Burns documentary.  And possibly read that book on Lincoln (Team of Rivals).  It certainly was a fascinating moment in our country's history!

~L

Bunny Buddies on Bunspace

Wow.  Bunspace may just be the silliest but happiest website in the world!  It's like myspace, but for bunnies!  Mikey, Kevin, and even Murphy have their own pages now.  Murphy's profile has a rainbow because in bunny world, all of the little bunnies that have passed away are said to have "gone over the rainbow bridge".  I think it applies to all pets actually.  There's a really nice poem about how they are all up in some sort of pet heaven frolicking about!  But it's a great site to look at pictures of everyone else's bunnies.  And the bunnies also have blogs!  Some of the other bunnies have already sent messages to Mikey and Kevin.  One bunny even sent in a story to Kevin, in response to his attempts to chew on the ottoman, that described an even better idea for furniture destruction!  It's pretty cute.  So check out their profile pages!  And I think that you can give them a carrot.  Although that might only be for members...

~L

Crossing Over - Soon!

No, not to some strange religion or parallel universe.  Just that I'm excited that I (finally) finished the second panel of my "Crossover Top"!  Hooray!  I just have to do the edging and the waist band and voila!  My second Robyn sweater will be complete!  Then I just have to figure out which of the projects from her new book to make first! :)

~L

Blueprint Crochet has arrived!

My friend Robyn (of Crochet by Faye) has published a book, and I was sooooo excited to come home after a long day of work and find it waiting for me on my doorstep! I immediately forgot about the groceries I was supposed to put away and tore open the book to look at it. It's so cool! The design is great and the photos of the items are really well done. They're "cool" without being crazy trendy. Which is true about her designs too! You won't find any crazy fun fur monstrosities in here! So, I don't know that many of my loyal blog readers are crochet fans, but it's cool news none the less. If you know any crocheters, tell them to check out her book!

Blueprint Crochet, by Robyn Chachula
(with some help from her dog Faye!)
~L

Victory is Ours!

That's right! My softball team went undefeated to become the league champions! Good work Falcons! Ca-caw! All in all, the summer has gone by way too quickly, but it's been fun! Besides softball, I've also been training for my birthday half marathon. I ran 10.7 miles yesterday. I was supposed to run a whole half marathon but it was just too hot! I ended up getting goose bumps and being cold which I knew was bad when it was 85 degrees and 1000% humidity! But the first 8 miles went well, and then the rest was down hill. Or unfortunately uphill! But it was a nice trail. I'll have to go there for some more of my training runs. Work is also going fairly well, and there is even some hope that I'll get to move overseas for an FY08 project! But there is also still the chance that they will wait until next year to send me out. But either way, I've starting "purging" out my closets. It is amazing how much stuff accumulates! I've thrown away ratty towels, old tshirts, and even some cooking supplies that were from college! ew! I don't think sesame oil lasts quite that long! I think some of the salad dressings were definitely from my old apartment. But the cleaning is going well! The next big challenge is my books! I'm going to hopefully take a bunch up for the book sale.

Take Me Out to the Ballgame!

I finally made it to a nats game and to the new stadium. It is wonderful! It's a little like camden yards or fenway, but it also is very "new" looking. But it works! The scoreboard is cool, and it really does seem like there are no bad seats. They also have lots of cool dc food places like ben's chili bowl and five guys. So its a very DC ballpark! The nats even actually won the game! And afterwords they had fireworks. I got to go with a bunch of people from work and we all had a great time! I'll have to organize another night for my other friends to go too! Hopefully next time it won't be 90 degrees out! But even then, a good time was had by all. Now I'm off to New Haven to see my bro and to celebrate Traci's bd!

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