First Teenage Babysitters
Nicole and Bobbie pose with Kirstin for a quick
picture before they take off for the evening.

Well, I’m writing this post about 24 hours after I probably should have, but I was quite tired when we got home last night. Beer does that. Go figure. It wasn’t even that much. Ah well.

So as the picture implies, Beth and I went out to the local Italian place for my birthday, which required a babysitter. In this particular case, it ended up turning into two babysitters (because they happened to be together hanging around that night).

Turns out that Kirstin basically slept most of the time we were gone. So that works out just fine. Nobody’s upset. 🙂

The group of us at work (in the building) went out to the Italian place for my birthday lunch. Good times. I’d not been there for a few weeks (when we celebrated someone else’s birthday). So I ordered something new off the lunch menu and pseudo-planned what I would order for my supper later. Anyway, after I got home from work, I got a few things done around the house and we then got ready to go out to eat. Somewhere in the process, we got a call from Jill asking if she and Erik could ‘crash our date’ and go out with us. There was no problem with that, and they found a babysitter for Henry, so we turned it into a double date. Good times. We met them at the restaurant and ate a significant amount of food (at least I did, but it seemed as though I was being offered food all the time). I didn’t end up ordering what I’d planned at lunch, because their dinner menu is more expansive than the lunch selection (and also had more new things to try).

Regardless, we had some good conversation, good food, and good times. All-in-all, a successful birthday. 🙂

That’s basically the highlighted portions of the celebration of the day of my birth. Now I’ll write another post about today to make up for my absence.

–MZ