Sailor Soldier of Love and Justice

Yesterday? Kinda lame. I spent 5 hours with a bunch of other coordinators in the office de-duping records. By the end of the day, I felt like my eyes were going to bleed. And we didn't even get through half of them! It was terrible.

Today was significantly better.

Despite the rain, I went apple picking with Allicia and her fiance Rich. It was a lot of fun! And the rain actually stopped right as we started picking and didn't start again until we got back.

We went to Stribling Orchard. It wasn't my first choice but ended up being really nice. Allicia was late, so I drank a cup of warm apple cider while sitting in front of a big fire. Not a bad way to kill the time.

We got there pretty late in the season, so most of the low hanging fruits were gone. But that was ok, because they gave us this tall arm tool to grab the apples at the top of the trees!



It worked pretty well except when you'd accidentally knock another apple off the tree and down onto your head.

I ended up buying way more apples than one human could possible eat. Plus I got little apple pies (apple sticks!), apple cider, and local honey. I had to flee the store before I ended up buying more.



At least I mostly picked tiny two-bite apples, so those I can snack on each day. They are perfect for when you are just a teeny bit hungry, but not hungry enough to make something.

After the orchard, we went to Naked Mountain Vineyard for wine tasting and cheese. I am too much of a lightweight for such things and don't like wine anyway, so I just took part in the cheese.



The cheese was Amish, I think.

The vineyard was full of these huge creepy looking beetles. None of them bothered me directly, but they were still pretty freaky.

Home now and happy to be warm and dry. I might warm up one of the little apple pies, pour myself a glass of cider, and get some quality cartoon watching time in before ben wake up from his nap.

Today has been a fantastically good day. It's been so good, I'm actually starting to worry. :P

First of all, I had a good night's sleep with plenty of good dreams. Then I got to sleep late and enjoy a lazy morning in bed. I think I scared ben a bit with my huge happy grin when he woke up.

Once we were eventually up and dressed, ben and I went looking at apartments. Ben drove the whole time! Go him!

The first one we went to was closed so it was a good thing I had looked up a second place for us to look at. The second place no longer rents to people with dogs so that was out, but the lady in the office suggested another place nearby to look at. We went there and was given a tour of an apartment. It's a bit more than we want to pay and much smaller than what we currently have though. Pooo.

On the way home we stopped at the apartment complex across the street from our current place. Unfortunately they were closed too.

So after all that we decided we deserved a reward for our hard work. We went down to herndon for smoothies and chipotle lunch. Ben slightly messed up my burrito (he got me a chicken fajita rather than a veggie burrito) but it's not a big deal. I can pick the worst stuff out.

Now ben is playing one of the games he bought last night and my dog is sleeping in a very cute way on the couch.