I’ve been out and about just about all day. I was woken up at 11:30 (another late night as of 24 hours ago, I’m afraid) with an invitation to go out to lunch. My mom had this thing to do at Tysons Corner, so we went out to P.F. Chang’s. It was fantastic! I got Mongolian Beef – way better than the stuff I made – and for dessert, we got the Great Wall of Chocolate. It was literally the biggest piece of chocolate cake I have ever seen. I was barely able to eat one layer, and it was six layers tall!! It was huge, and really dense chocolate. Mmmmmmmmm. 🙂

After that we went on a search for shampoo since I’m sadly almost out of Lush shampoos from England. 🙁 I only have a fourth of the shampoo bottle left, and all the Coolaulin conditioner is completely gone. I’m a sad little shampooer. We went everywhere, even Sally’s Beauty Supply, and we couldn’t find anything that was as chemical-free as the Lush stuff. Lush stuff is to die for, they just need to open a store here before my hair goes through withdrawl. Seriously! It makes that much of a difference. For example, with regular shampoo and conditioner, since my hair is so dang curly, it can take up to twenty minutes to brush my hair out. But with Lush, I’ve timed it and the longest it ever took was four minutes. Straight through, same brush used in the last test, and an average of two minutes brushing time. AND, to top all of that, it takes less hair gel to control the friz so my hair ends up softer, lighter, and more touchable. I’ve never had a bad hair day with Lush. (Tee hee, I sound like a commercial.) I shall miss it until I venture again over the atlantic to the coasts of Great Britain. Or until I can convince my Mom to drive me to Toronto – they have Lush stores just about everywhere in the world, but not in the US. I mean, come on, if they have a Lush store in Slovenia, there should so be one in Washington, DC.

Whoa, that got a lot longer than I meant it to be.

So, shampoo shopping. Checked that off the list; I finally found some stuff that had only 8 chemical ingredients and no ammonia or alcohol in it. (Lush only has two chemicals. So n’yuh.) It smells pretty good, so maybe it’ll hold me over until my next Lush fix. Then we went over to Ross, I got some new clothes cause they were dirt cheap. I got some really swanky Dockers for $3.00. Cool, eh? We then rushed home because my Mom had to do another thing that I can’t talk about in Tysons, this time at the uber-posh Capital Grille – again in upper-echelon Tysons Corner. Since my Dad went out to play golf for some strange reason (he was supposed to go with my mom), I got to go. I threw on my new slacks since the dress code called for business casual, a new green shirt (that I really love since it matches my eyes), and my nifty bracelet. Add a pinch of make-up, some fancy shoes, and baby, ten minutes later, I *am* “business casual.” 🙂 I wanted to add a pearl choker, but alas, I don’t own one… yet.

The Capital Grille is my new favorite restaurant. I had a $35 porterhouse steak that was to die for. They dry age it for 14 days, letting the meat marinate in its own marrow. Holy crap, it was the best steak I’ve ever had. Probably even the best meal I’ve ever had. And the service was great! If you ever go there, ask for Dana. He was really sweet.

For dessert there my Mom and I shared the strawberry cheesecake which was made with ricotta cheese instead of the regular cream cheese so it was really light and fluffy. Mmmmmm, again! I love this going out to eat for free stuff. I want to go back to the Capital Grille for my birthday (only five months! Eee!), but I highly doubt that will happen. Maybe one day… Tee hee.

Anyway, since the steak was 24 ounces (huge!) I still have well over half of it left. That steak… ooooh… it’s just impossible to get over. On one side of the bone was a filet, the other half a sirloin. Nummies. Or rather, humminah humminah. 🙂

And now I’m back home, relaxed, no longer “business casual”, and ready for sleep. Thankfully I’m actually tired this time, even though it is almost 3 in the morning. As of last night I didn’t even feel tired enough to sleep until 4:30/5:00. How sad is that?

Anyway, off I go, sleeping before another happy day tomorrow – I have some nice emails to answer (I just couldn’t get to them today. I’ve had like five minutes online all day) and then in the afternoon, some friends are probably coming over to watch ‘Lord of the Rings.’ Fun, fun, fun! 🙂