Piggies Drink Water

My guinea pig’s water bottle caught a leak recently, and I didn’t have time to run out and get a new one for a day or so. In order to keep my pigs properly hydrated, I improvised. I had a square plate with raised sides that I filled with water and placed in the cage [...]

Leslie’s Visit to DC

Last month my sister Leslie came to visit me. We had a great visit! Because Leslie and I are both homebodies, the activities we did were mostly eating, then hanging out, so there aren’t many pictures of us doing stuff. This is very unlike what I expect to report after my mom visits in a [...]

New Piggies!

So, I know I haven’t written in a while. I also know that these “I haven’t written in a while” posts are really boring, but it’s my blog, so I get to write about why I haven’t written. So here’s why: My life has been a little bit busy! Not interesting, necessarily, just busy. First [...]

Fro-zen-Yo

There is a really cool frozen yogurt store in Columbia Heights that I visited a few months ago called Fro-zen-Yo. It’s kind of a self-service soft-serve bar. Even though it’s colder now, I figure it’s never too cold for frozen yogurt! Unless it’s -10. Then it’s too cold. Anyway, at Fro-zen-Yo, there are a bunch [...]

DC’s Best Snowman?

We in the DC area had our first significant snowfall last Wednesday. You may have heard about how about five inches of snow brought our nation’s capitol to its knees. You may have heard about how our city’s transportation authorities (along with MD and VA) were totally unprepared for the snow. You may have heard [...]

Georgetown Cupcake 2

About a thousand years ago (and by that I mean a couple months), some friends and I headed down to Georgetown to visit the flagship Georgetown Cupcake. The line was much longer than the line at the Bethesda location, but it moved pretty quickly. An employee came by to pass out menus during our wait, [...]

Weekend in Wytheville

A few weeks ago my mom called me up and said “Lauren, let’s hang out this weekend!” I said, “Okay. What?” Then she explained that she wanted to meet me halfway between DC and Nashville, which sounded great to me, until we learned that halfway would end up being Wytheville, Virginia. Wytheville has a dark [...]

Second Annual Chili Cook-off

Once again, Mosaic Church celebrated All Saints’ Day with a Chili Cook-off! Eleven people made their best chili, and brought it the church for tasting. Church members lined up to try the chilis, spooning samples into little cups. The little cups were a great idea! Last year we just had regular-sized bowls, which meant that [...]

Pumpkin Picking at Larriland Farm

Saturday a bunch of Centro Maria residents headed out to Woodbine, Maryland to get some pumpkins at Larriland Farm. After the hour drive, we were really happy to arrive! We stopped in at the main farm first, where the food, store, and hay maze for the kids was loacted. The farm was decorated for fall, [...]

Ledo’s Sundays at Mosaic

One thing my church does that I really love is Ledo’s Sundays. The first Sunday of every month, the entire church (whoever wants to, that is) gets together at Ledo’s Pizza to eat lunch together. It’s often loud, and always fun. Unfortunately for me, I despise tomatoes, so pizza is not very appetizing to me. [...]