New Year's Resolutions

Happy 2009! I don't know about you, but I woke up with a pretty great champagne hangover, chocolate on the light switch, and every surface of my house in need of a cleaning -- in other words, a pretty great ending to 2008.

Now is the time to face the new year with great hopes and resolutions. Here are a few of mine:

• I resolve to save more money. This coincides nicely with the credit crunch and the total collapse of our economy, but I also have some plans and some dreams I'd like to finance in the future, so I'll be tightening the ol' belt this year. What this means is that this blog will be shifting focus ever so slightly -- I'm still on a quest to do 365 things that make DC unique and wonderful, but there is going to be greater emphasis on things that are free or cheap. This means there will be fewer fancy meals to report, but more museums, festivals and taco trucks.
  
  
• I resolve to blog more. Yay! I know I was pretty quiet in the last half of 2008, but I'll be back to posting once or twice a week in 2009.
  
  
• I resolve to tweet. You can now follow me on Twitter by searching for DC365! I'll tweet upcoming plans and locations, and ask for suggestions and feedback.

May you all have a happy, healthy and prosperous 2009!

Thing 75, Revisited: 2nd Annual Scavenger Hunt

I have finally compiled the master photo album for the 2nd Annual Birthday Scavenger Hunt!  You can find the pictures HERE.

Thank you again to all of you who participated and made this year even bigger and better than last year!  The Boyfriend and I are already planning ways to improve and expand in 2009.  

You can read about the first one here, and see the complete pictures here.

And if you'd like to plan one yourself, and are looking for a little inspiration, leave a comment.  I'm more than happy to share my lists with anyone interested.

Housekeeping, and Other Things

...Hi there...

This is not a political blog, but being in DC on Tuesday night was an historic, moving and amazing place to be.  

I was incredibly fortunate to have been on U Street when they announced Obama as the winner.  I was a part of the spontaneous crowd that poured into the street, honking horns and dancing on cars.  I danced with people I'd never met, smiled at everyone I saw, hugged friends with tears in my eyes.

The same street that burned 40 years ago in the wake of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, the neighborhood of Langston Hughes and Thurgood Marshall and Duke Ellington came alive with joy on Tuesday night and into the early hours of Wednesday.  I feel honored and proud to have been a part of it, and my eyes well up even now thinking of it.

I know this blog has been quiet of late.  I work in politics, and it was a busy time for us.  My plan right now is to come back in the new year with a slightly different focus, but one I hope will make the blog even better.  There may be the occasional post here and there, but I hope to begin regular posting again in January.  I thank you for your patience.