Dinner parties & Anniversaries

This addition to the blog has been a long time coming. I kept on forgetting to put it on but I really wanted to add it since I had such a good time. A couple of weekends ago, some friends of mine from down around D.C., etc. came up for dinner. My friends Cris & Noelle…and their gal-pal Lucy… my friend Elizabeth aka Bits, other friend Leigh aka Leigh-Dog or Preggers and her hubby, Jay were there. It was nice because none of them had seen the place before and beyond that, it’s nice to see them on my side of town… which doesn’t happen that often since it’s not the happenin’ place. I especially enjoyed Lucy’s gold boots and seeing Cris makeout with my dog, Sadie. Hopefully I can find some pictures of both. The food was fantastic, and so was the company.
Other than the sweltering heat that we’ve been experiencing over the last week, not all that much has been going on. The last two days, as I’m driving home, I noticed that the temperature gauge in my car was reading 104 degrees!… keep in mind that it’s humid as can be, so they said that the “heat-index” was about 110 degrees. That doesn’t happen all that often. Bits, is of course going to make fun of me for talking about the weather.
Our friends Jeff & Jason left just the other day (well, Jason left today) and are moving to St. Louis, MO. They’re moving there because Jason is going to continue his pursuit towards a law degree and wanted to go to the university there. They’ll be missed but I hope that they’re able to visit from time to time. Apparently, Jeff is going to be based work-wise out of Baltimore. He and Jason are flight attendants for Southwest Airlines.
Last, but not least, Dave and I spent the last weekend in Philadelphia celebrating our 5th year of wedded bliss… 9 years total of putting up with each other. It was supposed to be a surprise for my by David, but I’ve come to learn that he is horrible at keeping secrets. A couple of months ago, when I was looking into going to a Cirque du Soleil show, I noticed that there happened to be one in Baltimore on the 14th and 15th. When I asked if we could go to that, he proceeded to inform me that we couldn’t because we wouldn’t be in town. I didn’t pursue it any further since I didn’t want to ruin the surprise. So, I figured I’d look to see if there were other shows that we could go to. I noticed that there was a show going on in Philadelphia for the whole month of July. I asked Dave if he’d like to go to that, he reached into the cabinet and dropped tickets for that very show right in front of me. I closed my eyes because I didn’t want to know… so he told me. So, now that the cat’s out of the bag and I know that we’re going to Philadelphia for our anniversary, we were talking to friends the week before we were planning on going to Philly, and Dave proceeds to talk about the fact that we’re staying at the Sofitel Hotel. Again, a surprise ruined…but a surprise nonetheless. Dave chose that hotel because of our shared affinity for everything French. So, the weekend in Philly was great. We got to see our friend Rachel and Dave’s childhood friend Mike Alleruzzo and his wife Christine. Good times were had by all. The best part was the walking around town. Philly has got to be one of the best places to walk and enjoy the environment. Naturally, we wanted to drop everything and move up there, but since neither of us has found a sugar-daddy that would support both of us, nor have we won the lottery, Baltimore and our jobs it is. On the last day, we took a detour on the way home and went to south Jersey to visit our friends Pete & Keemia who we haven’t seen in about 5 years. We were fortunate to hang out with them for a little while and get to know their two handsome sons, Pocket (4) and Bastian (2). Both had their parents’ good looks. We hope to be seeing a lot more of them in the near future.