birthdays & bbqs
how depressing that i walk into the office only to be greeted by a friendster reminder that dan epstein's birthday was yesterday.
having no other way to respectfully segue from that news into my holiday yesterday, i will now write about, well, my holiday.
tuesday evening shelby had to work until 9pm which totally blew, but i got to catch up with phil who came over to hang with kent. meeting up with shelby, we had a late dinner at cafe 50s where we ran into karie who had just gotten out of la vie en rose. then we crashed.
we made it to the valley in time for kar3n's surprise party at chris's. tina and jenz were already there, and the look on kar3n's face when chris opened the door was priceless. i wish somebody had a camera. we dove into her coldstone ice cream cake before coleman had to book it to universal then spent the next few hours playing jenz's wii in the living room while colemen kept texting wanting to know what the evening plan was.
we said our goodbyes around 4, made a quick stop at the body shop for shelby's massage oil, then headed to culver city for bridgitte's bbq. got to catch up with brian, graeme, & bill whom I hadn't seen in ages, chatted a little bit more with my upstairs neighbors, sean & mary frances, who we see almost as much as anybody else, or as we call each other - our parking lot buddies since we really only catch each other as we're coming or going, and met some new faces who declared we were super cool. we left after the culver fireworks, and shelby gave me a lovely back massage before we crashed, dreading thursday.
today is sarah c's (also karim's) birthday, and she's invited me to a girls' nite in the hollywood hills, so that'll be fun since i haven't seen her in over 2 years.
oh, and using her bday as a reminder, today is my half birthday. yippee!
having no other way to respectfully segue from that news into my holiday yesterday, i will now write about, well, my holiday.
tuesday evening shelby had to work until 9pm which totally blew, but i got to catch up with phil who came over to hang with kent. meeting up with shelby, we had a late dinner at cafe 50s where we ran into karie who had just gotten out of la vie en rose. then we crashed.
we made it to the valley in time for kar3n's surprise party at chris's. tina and jenz were already there, and the look on kar3n's face when chris opened the door was priceless. i wish somebody had a camera. we dove into her coldstone ice cream cake before coleman had to book it to universal then spent the next few hours playing jenz's wii in the living room while colemen kept texting wanting to know what the evening plan was.
we said our goodbyes around 4, made a quick stop at the body shop for shelby's massage oil, then headed to culver city for bridgitte's bbq. got to catch up with brian, graeme, & bill whom I hadn't seen in ages, chatted a little bit more with my upstairs neighbors, sean & mary frances, who we see almost as much as anybody else, or as we call each other - our parking lot buddies since we really only catch each other as we're coming or going, and met some new faces who declared we were super cool. we left after the culver fireworks, and shelby gave me a lovely back massage before we crashed, dreading thursday.
today is sarah c's (also karim's) birthday, and she's invited me to a girls' nite in the hollywood hills, so that'll be fun since i haven't seen her in over 2 years.
oh, and using her bday as a reminder, today is my half birthday. yippee!