Happy birthday to me!

I'm almost 40! And even though I'm objectively getting old and have a child now, I don't feel that old because people keep thinking I'm 30.

I don't have a lot of special plans for today--having a baby means I simply can't have a day all about me--but I do get to have curry tonight! sashagee told me I could pick anywhere I wanted for dinner and so we're going to Indie Cafe, the Thai restaurant that also serves sushi (as is the custom for basically every Chicago Thai restaurant). It's in walking distance so I'll carry Laila, sashagee will get some more exercise, and at twilight we'll head out for some delicious food.

I did have exciting plans last weekend, though! On Friday night thosesocks came over after work in order to get some practice with babies, and stayed until lisekatevans came over for dinner, so we opened a bottle of wine, played with Laila, and sashagee cut lisekatevans's hair extremely short for her upcoming theatrical role. And then on Saturday, britshlez and tom.hen.12 came over for dinner, I made chicken teriyaki, and we played Exploding Unicorns! britshlez won after we used all of our tricks to stop tom.hen.12 from winning, as tends to be the way of these things. All in all, I learned that at least while Laila is still young, it's relatively easy to have people over to our house for dinner--Laila's good at sleeping through things and she goes to bed around 8 p.m. We can definitely send out more invitations.

I also learned that I'd been pronouncing tom.hen.12's name wrong! It's a transliteration problem--his name is תם חן, and when he moved to America he realized that transliterating his surname as "Chen" would give everyone the wrong impression, so he went with Hen. I changed it in my phone to Ḥen so I'd always remember...and then changed it to the Hebrew. My Japanese friends are in my phone with their names in Japanese, I should do the same courtesy for everyone else.

( Homemade meal )

I'm sorry that I haven't been keeping up with people's posts! I managed it for a bit when Laila was smaller, but now that she's interacting with the world more and now that sashagee is healed and we can do stuff together again it's a lot harder to find the time to sit down and read when there are so many other things competing for my time. I'm going to start reading again after Shabbat, though, and go as far back as I can. I hope everyone's been doing well!