I slept pretty much all day on Friday and Saturday, and my waking hours were spent sneezing and blowing my nose incessantly.
My only ventures outside were to attend my friends' parties on Friday and Saturday night, and I had to do a lot of rallying to get there. Surprisingly, however, in both cases, my socializing skills overpowered my ailment, and I almost ended up forgetting I was sick, although my aches and pains did force me home a wee bit early on Friday night from Dr. Dremo's.
Here was the real star of the night (no, not me)...
... my friend Mary, who just got her master's degree in conflict resolution. She used to work with me at State Department (we've had many a fond memory together traveling in Morocco), and she's also a month younger than me so we've enjoyed sharing b-day parties together in the past. Anyway, last Friday we also toasted our 33rd year.
And here's our other friend Jenny B....
... who also used to be our co-worker at State and is now a proud employee of Homeland Security. God Bless Jenny for keeping our homeland safe.
Saturday night was also filled with drinking beers I shouldn't have been drinking in my dehydrated and feverish state, where I caught up with all of my old Smithsonian co-workers and their men. (Yep, we were pretty much an all-girl office).
Here's one of the men... Luis...
... who shared the b-day honors with me. We even got to blow out candles on a cake together while everyone sang! (By the way, I look identical in all of the three pictures above... well, I am the same person so that shouldn't be so bizarre, but I have an uncannily similar pose -- sort of a weird sideways neck crane -- in all of them.)
All of my friends have become baby making factories...
... like Dwayne & Sarah with baby Henry and twin boys on the way.
Doug and Shannon have procreated as well...
... but not Amy. She teaches middle school in Harlem. She's just ruining the family photo.
Meg & Bob don't have kids either...
... and they're not married (yet).
Here's Sue & Stephanie, the NTHP girls...
... who are really funny. And they like to drink champagne.
Nichole & Luis host this barbecue every year (I think this might have been year #5), and it always, always ends in a dance party that ends around 3 am in their living room.
Not this year though...
... I think I took this photo around 10:30 pm. Holy crap, we're all getting old.
Not to mention responsible (at least some of us)...
... N & L's Baby Mia!!!! (not so happy to be woken up for a photo op.)
Check out the KC/ATL update tomorrow (more babies)...
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