Judecorp.

Today Jennifer and I received an incredibly generous gift certificate for an upscale sushi/Japanese place in the South End (Oishii Boston) from my smurfbrother and my SIL. To say I am grateful is an understatement; likewise to say I am stunned. I am looking forward to using it someday on a fancy-pants date with my favorite smoochie as we bid farewell to our life in Boston.

Also, I hope they have a lot of delicious cooked options, because I plan on being pregnant! (Ha, if it was only that easy.)

Wow. Major wow.

(Thank you.)

So it's the birthday that keeps happening, especially since I got cake and some "Happy Birthday" singing at staff meeting and then lorac and the lovely Miss Katherine took me out to dinner. Miss Katie Jean even let me get in some snuggling and allowed me to feed and burp her... all before telling me I was the most wonderful person on the planet. She is just so thoughtful!

Jen had to get up at 5:30 this morning to drive back to Amherst for work. I woke up with her alarm and couldn't get back to sleep. I am quite sleepy now. I will probably go to bed really soon. *yawn*

Earlier this evening, I heard my phone ringing very softly. I thought it was under the blanket and I kept looking. Finally I realized it was under /Ralph/! That dastardly Ralf!

My coworkers keep making me feel the guilty guilty for moving away. Coworker Dorcas was all over me today. So sad! I just love Dorcas so much, though. If anyone had ever told me that one of my favorite ever people in town was the totally devout Jehovah's Witness single mom who doesn't believe in evolution, I would have laughed in their faces!

Great big birthday kisses to my favorite smoochie!!

xo

Happy birthday yesterday to my favorite chutup (who probably doesn't even read this anymore). And happy birthday today to the wonderful thatpatti. And those two plus a big happy birthday to Jen and me tomorrow and there's the potential for craziness!

At least, there used to be. I miss our "Four Girls Birthday Party" days.

Does anyone have pictures of that LJ cake that Cari had gotten? That was a riot.

xoxoxo

Happy birthday, prunesnprisms! You are the spiffiest Pru I know!

I hope you have a fantastic day and that you have finally completely kicked that death cold.
xoxo

It wasn't until meglett e-mailed me that I realized that I had left LJ hanging with a real downer of a post. Whoops. Don't worry, I haven't been sitting here listening to emo music or anything.

I've been sick. I never wake up early early in the morning (like Friday's 4:30am) unless I'm getting sick. So I went to my haircut on Friday afternoon and almost fell asleep in the chair, then went to bed for real around 9pm. I woke up in the morning with that head-pounding feeling of your temperature being too high and your head being too stuffed. I took a pregnancy test (negative) and then pounded some tylenol. Went back to bed.

I ran two important errands yesterday with Jen: the bank to open a new account for my Dead Dad money, and Trader Joe's because we were out of food. That wiped me out. I spent the rest of the day making progress with my new Sims (my baby turned into a kid!) and watching a bunch of television, including Taxi starring Queen Latifah and Jimmy Fallon which was pretty awful. I also read quite a bit of Choke by Chuck Palahniuk, which is good because Book Club meets on it tomorrow.

I had some weird spotting yesterday morning and thought for sure I was going to get my period (early), but I didn't, so we had to trek up to Waltham this morning for my beta (blood pregnancy test) in the craptacular weather. I'm pretty sure I will start bleeding some time today, though, making the trek futile. Oh well, it got us out of bed bright and early on this /beautiful/ day.

The other thing I haven't been able to give words to is much sadder. A woman I used to know, someone I spent a lot of time playing on the internets with back in the day, a woman with an infectious smile and a hot, hot temper, died completely unexpectedly the other day. She was found dead on the bathroom floor by her father, and as of now I don't know how or why. Cyn and I hadn't spoken in quite a few years, but there is and will always be a soft spot in my heart for the kind woman who took in several of my friends as their lives were in transition, who allowed me into her home as a guest and showed me the utmost hospitality, and who extended to me the same offer when I confessed uncertainties about my impending marriage to A. On one of my last days of my big visit, all of the girls, Cyn included, hit up Chuck E. Cheese and oh god, we had a blast. Maybe I will find some pictures and scan one so you can all see how lovely she was. I wish I'd stayed in touch better, and my heart grieves for her and also for her close friends that she left behind, lovely people who used to be my close friends before I slipped out of that scene: Diana, Sara, Bob & Renee, Julie & Matt, Amy, Jennie et al. Sigh.

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Yesterday was my Labortine laurajones's birthday and I hope it was fabu! I <3 my Labortine!

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Big thanks to meglett for e-mailing me. I miss the McGs bunches and bunches and bunches. Poo.

Happy birthday, quinniepants!

Happy birthday to one of my favorite people in the world, lorac. I miss you terribly and want you to come back to the US, but since you're still in Japan, I suppose I'll just have to wait.

Carrie, you continue to be one of the sweetest, most genuine people I've ever met. I just adore you. Come home soon!

(And we sent a package from your Amazon Wish List to your mom's house.)

Happy birthday, Kat! I miss you!

Happy birthday to Brain and the beautiful Krusty!

I hope you have nothing but smiles all day!