Birthday 2022

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This has been a very good year! And by the time you’re this age, you know not every year will be, so I am filled with gratitude.

Many thanks to my dear friends who brought the party to our studio during Final Friday, including champagne and the best chocolate cake!

I’ve listened to the Hamilton soundtrack so many times that I almost know the whole show by heart but had never seen it on stage so treated myself on Sat night for my bday

Ate dinner at a new French restaurant called Royce on Fountain Square before the theatre.

Some good wines by the glass, an heirloom tomato appetizer and trout amandine for Joanne and beef tartare and quark boutelle for me (very delicious vegetarian entree with salty ricotta cheese dumplings, grilled sweet corn and mushrooms.

The crème brûlée, an Abbott (McLean) family favorite was the standout dish of the evening. I liked how they affixed one birthday candle to the plate with the candle wax and lit it!

I had never seen Hamilton and loved it! This was early - every seat was filled with an enthusiastic audience. I cried three times during the show. Even though I knew every word by heart because I’d listened to the soundtrack so many times, the staging, movement, lighting and acting added even more to how the music moved me in telling this story. So much more than the 800-page Ron Chernow book did.

Woke up Sunday morning and drove to Louisville to visit my nephew and his boyfriend. A beautiful fall day! 

We loved the St. James Court Art Fair and I enjoyed seeing Central Park and the architecture of the homes in that neighborhood just as much!

Zoomed with my best friend when I got home and received this great card from her. Our parents were friends in college and we’ve known each other since we were born so she knows me well. What a great gift to have a lifelong friendship like that!

Tomorrow is my actual birthday. Best reason to be on Facebook! It is so great hearing from people who you’ve crossed paths with along life’s journey, especially those you don’t get to see F2F or talk to very often.

And I have more celebrating planned with my besties tomorrow night and Tuesday, when it may even be nice enough to play golf. After not being able to play for so long and always playing with a bad knee before that, this summer has been the most fun I’ve ever had golfing.

Watching TV outside is fun! When DWTS is airing, we pick who we think will win and get together on Monday nights with potluck to watch it, buying a chicken dinner for the one who picks the winner correctly after it’s over.