Today, Oct. 26th, is my birthday, and as a birthday present a few friends flew in for the weekend to help me get my act together. As I have said before, they are here to save me from myself. Tammy is still here, David is back for stage 2 of the move, and Jody Z. is in from Florida as well (she has had some experience in the past helping me move).
Jody got in Friday night and we all crashed early, she had been up since 4am working OT. The next day Jody states the obvious to me—we’ll Meredith, you have all this metro shelving, why don’t we put some together to get stuff out of the way til you get some furniture. DUH! We got up and I cooked breakfast and we were just getting started when David called, his flight was 30 minutes early~ Like that EVER happens. As Jody very prophetically stated, once David gets here, he’ll have it whipped together in no time. That David is the King of Organization – LOL After a quick trip back to the container store, yet again, the whirlwind of activity ended around 6pm and I had a working Apartment. I can see the floor and the kitchen counter—It’s fabulous! Of course I might have to make a few conference calls to SC, NY & FL to find things, but that’s okay.
Then the slumber party started~ We decided to eat in and went to the grocery store and made salad, chili & cornbread, and we were all beat and in bed at 10:38pm. At least we were until the giggle fits started and the sudden chocolate ice cream orgy. LOL Yes, even in our 40’s we are still a bunch of kids and I have the pics to prove it! My friends are as goofy as I am. Did our parents ever do anything like that?!? 5 minutes laster and after a Walton’s goodnight we were all snoring.
We decided to do a birthday brunch on Sunday since both David and Jody were flying back home around 7pm. After careful consideration we decided on Perry’s in Adams Morgan (a neighborhood in DC) that has an infamous Drag Queen Brunch. Oh my! I laughed so hard, we made David get his picture with all of the “girls” and at the end they pulled Tammy up for some little risqué fun. It was a blast, we laughed so hard, AND the food was actually good. LOL
Afterwards, we walked around a bit and then came back to the apartment where we got into a massive pool tournament that probably took way longer than it should since we are all pool sharks. Well, Jody actually is one, the rest of us, not so much. All I could do was continually scratch on the eight ball. LOL
I could write lots about the weekend, but I think I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves…. LOL
Oh and by the way, my parents didn’t even CALL me on my birthday, what’s up with that? Hint hint.
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October 27, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Lisa-Marie
Looks like ya’ll had a blast!!! I wanna go to Perry’s!
My mom totally forgot our anniversary this year lol. She called the next day and I didn’t have the heart to tell her she was off… John told her but I didn’t! (Cause did I tell you my brother remarried last year on MY anniversary????)
XOXOXOX, LM
October 27, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Nita Letts
Shame on your parents!!! It almost reminds me of our trip to Florida except we knew you would be having fun and running around so we decided to wait and call on Monday or Tuesday. It looks like you had a blast on you bday. I have been known to have a big ice cream after 11 o’clock – iT IS always fun with friends and to laugh and giggle all nnight. Love
M
October 28, 2008 at 3:58 am
Dad
we got your call Sunday when we got home from church — you must have missed my Happy Birthday Song – sent at 7:40am that morning -the high tech stuff must have been sleeping in – loved the pics of party….the ice cream is in the genes….;-)as is the “scratching” xxoo
October 28, 2008 at 3:59 am
Dad
and your comment clock is way off
October 29, 2008 at 10:51 am
Lisa-Marie
This one is to Dad more than to Mere lol… I still remember riding in the car one day with you and you were trying to teach us “Mares eat oats and does eat oats…” I taught it to Jack and he thought I was nuts! XO
October 29, 2008 at 10:52 am
Lisa-Marie
OMG yeah your comment clock is like 4 hours fast!
October 30, 2008 at 2:42 am
merflet
the time is set to greenwich mean time – so says wordpress.com
Mares eat oats,
And does eat oats,
And little lambs eat ivy
A kid’ll eat ivy, too,
Wouldn’t you?
Classic Manny Letts (aka Dad) =)
October 30, 2008 at 4:19 am
Lisa-Marie
and here I simply expect the world to be on my clock!
We got very lucky in the parental department you know :O)
XOXOXOX
October 31, 2008 at 3:40 am
Dad
google – “Mares Eat Oats” – see what happens, then spend some time – there is even a MEO Gift basket – L-M’s competition – i finally got used to Pacific coast time – now we have gone international with GMT……?? probably to help things run more smooth-ely in D.C.