It’s been a long, wonderful few days. I took a much needed, unannounced hiatus for most of this week to celebrate my birthday and Christmas with friends.
Saturday I slept in (until 8:00 am!), hung around my apartment and watched a bunch of movies. Around 3:00 I headed down to the Quincy Compound to gather the troops and go to the annual Kiley Family Holiday Party. My friend Kiley pretty much has the coolest family in the world and a few times a year they throw these extravagant parties (Mexican Cookout in the summer, Octoberfest in .. October, and Holiday Party). Each party has more food than anyone could ever eat and more booze than anyone could ever drink. So we celebrated with their 50 closest friends and family for a few hours and headed back to the Quincy house where those kids had a little treat in store for me.
Hooker had been a big sneak while we were at the Kiley party and gone out and bought all this stuff for a ridiculous birthday dinner.
Chicken and rock shrimp in some … wine/cream/shrimp sauce. It was so friggin good.
… and HITACHINO NEST BEER. OMG. This is my favorite beer in the world. Mostly because it has a ridiculously cute owl on the bottle, but also because it tastes good. And I got SIX of ‘em.
So we all hung out:
Hooker.
Anthony and Desiree.
Keith. (honorary roommate in town for the week)
and Sophie.
Then when the clock struck midnight – the actual beginning of my birthday – I got an extra special treat. From Keith.
He came into the room wearing only green boxers and stockings on his feet singing “If you like Pina Colandas!”
The next day I spent first at my Dad’s for my annual birthday lunch of lobster and strawberry shortcake, then to my Mom’s to celebrate Christmas with our neighbors and THEN to birthday karaoke with the usual suspects.
Christmas day I lounged around my mother’s drinking a lot of coffee and then later that afternoon headed back to my dad’s for Christmas with him, his wife, my mom, my sister, my uncle and grandparents. Phew.
I actually took yesterday and today off from work … hence the no blogging. I probably should have taken today off from blogging too, but at least I had a few pictures to put up.
And the reason for so few photographs? My brand new amazing flash? Just stopped working on Christmas Eve. New batteries? Nothing. Another set of new batteries? Nothing. Happy birthday to me. I gotta go get on the phone with the company who sold it to me. This should be fun.
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hooker is nice.
that plate of food looks amazing.
schubert, kid kills me.
Now you see, instead of a member of the opposite sex dancing around in their underwear, the only memorable thing to have occurred to me in the last few days is my brother in law acting like a tosser on Christmas Day and leaving my better half in tears…. go figure.
Happy Belated Birthday – sounds as though it was relaxing and enjoyable.
Glad you had some down time – this time of year, my sanity depends on it.
if you get hitachino at the Other Side, they give it to you in the CUTEST GLASS, too. I’ve been tempted to steal it so many times, you don’t understand.