Rudi and I threw my birthday party tonight. This was the first birthday party I’ve had since we moved down to D.C. four years ago and I definitely think we’ll have to do it again.<\/p>\n
For once, we were actually sort of ready when the party start time came around, but our friends gave us a sufficient buffer so we could do things like frost the heart cakes and cupcakes (with lavender-colored buttercream icing) and turn on the party lights.<\/p>\n
Rudi cranked the 80s party music early in the afternoon to keep us bopping until the Police kicked off the Grammys in high style.<\/p>\n
We’d originally suggested board games when we invited folks over, but I don’t think anyone missed them when we opted not to pull them out in what was otherwise a low-key evening. It just means that we will have to have folks over again in a few weeks for a few rounds of Mille Bourne and Trivial Pursuit.<\/p>\n
Rudi’s chili was tasty and the new cake recipe I tried out was quite successful. We had a full house squeezed around the coffee table and insufficient seating, although we seemed to make do.<\/p>\n
I came away from the evening with chocolate, wine, a book, a kitschy-cool shell lamp, and the warm fuzzies from spending time with friends.<\/p>\n
It was a good night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rudi and I threw my birthday party tonight. This was the first birthday party I’ve had since we moved down to D.C. four years ago and I definitely think we’ll have to do it again. For once, we were actually sort of ready when the party start time came around, but our friends gave us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n