i did it!

i really did it! i managed to have a surprise birthday party for boy. :) a lot of folks showed up. since we're all ancient and tired on fridays, folks filed out around midnight, but that's four hours of chitchat, drinking, cake, and veggies. :)

boy was happy. as much as he claims to hate his own birthday parties, i think he had fun. he was genuinely surprised at the collection of people i managed to amass. i got two former roomies, his best man, a friend from pennsylvania, and loads of people from all over the DC area. several of his high school friends were in there and lots of college friends. i basically got almost everyone he loves.

it was cool, even if i managed to blow the grocery budget *and* my allowance. so totally worth it. we've never had more than six people in our apt and tonight we had around 20.

anyhow, i did most of the dishes... we still have a few dishes, a bowl or two, the huge cutting board, a wooden cheese board, and the stove to clean up... i think those can wait until tomorrow.

and i didn't eat all day, so after i finished most of the dishes, i had a big plate of leftover lasagne and a piece of garlic bread. mmmmm... garlic. i did manage to have several drinks (mmm, liquid bread), a piece of carrot cake, piece of cheese cake, and a handful of veggies every now and again.

for now, i'm going to finish my drink. as soon as iron chef is over (right about now), we're going to bed.

i'm so happy. :)