May stuff

The first weekend of May, we went to Chicago for a wedding. We proceeded to eat a CRAZY meal at Alinea, attend the wedding, and spend a day with some friends we met for the first time (mini-TGFCon 2009!), and generally had a great time. Chicago was beautiful, the wedding was sweet, and the TGFers were kick-ass, as expected.

I then flew to Philly to spend some time with my best friend H and attend her graduation from nursing school! Woo hoo! I almost cried seeing her walk. I also saw a bunch of friends I hadn’t seen in about 3 years, and a handful of cousins, two aunts, and one uncle I hadn’t seen in probably about 15 years. They all fed me until I was stuffed to the gills and generally babied (unintended pun!) me due to my being pregnant.

Oh, lest I forget, I finally got to meet the little daughter of a friend I’ve known since the third grade! She is also referred to as The Paragon, The Perfect Angel, etc. by my other friends. 😀 And you know what, she serious was really, really awesome: perfectly behaved, totally charming with her hellos and thank yous, and honestly the prettiest little baby girl I have ever met, apologies to my very good looking female nieces/cousins/kids of friends, whom I love dearly. I mean, many of them have been simply adorable! But C was kind of unreal in how pretty she was. And as I said, she was a perfect little charmer as well.

All during the trip, I actually worked full time, which was the only bummer, but I was lucky to be able to work remotely at all, so I am not complaining. Since most of my friends work full-time anyway, it wasn’t a big deal to just meet up for lunch and dinner.

I miss my friends already. I will be missing one of their weddings in September due to it being so close to my projected due date. 🙁 I told her she should live videocast her wedding, but she seemed to think I was kidding. I wasn’t!