So today I got together with a friend I hadn't seen in 10 years. She helped me move to New York. I remember I moved on Memorial Day weekend in 1999...so I got one of the last U-Haul trucks available. We had to take a train to a remote field to pick it up, and it seemed to be hanging together on a spit and a prayer. And then I drove that thing over the Triborough Bridge through the Bronx and into Manhattan. The beginning of an era.
My friend was refreshingly the same...though in some respects, we are both older and wiser. We've been in contact for a while, and during some of those lost years, she lived in Colombia and China. We went to Veselka, everyone's favorite Ukrainian diner (apparently not Polish, as I had thought) where I noshed on a veggie burger with sweet potato fries and avocado-wasabi mayonnaise and she got a turkey Cobb salad. (I am still adjusting to the fact that she is no longer vegetarian.)
She met E for the first time, and I think it was safe to say she was enchanted...both with his curly hair and the way he leaned against her as he sipped from his bottle. I have (sshh!! very tentative, people!) been thinking about having another child. No time soon. Maybe a year from now. Maybe not. I love children but....I would like a better sleeper this time. Maybe one of those little bundles who sleeps through the night at 7 weeks with no parental intervention. Because they're out there, I've heard of them.
My friend was refreshingly the same...though in some respects, we are both older and wiser. We've been in contact for a while, and during some of those lost years, she lived in Colombia and China. We went to Veselka, everyone's favorite Ukrainian diner (apparently not Polish, as I had thought) where I noshed on a veggie burger with sweet potato fries and avocado-wasabi mayonnaise and she got a turkey Cobb salad. (I am still adjusting to the fact that she is no longer vegetarian.)
She met E for the first time, and I think it was safe to say she was enchanted...both with his curly hair and the way he leaned against her as he sipped from his bottle. I have (sshh!! very tentative, people!) been thinking about having another child. No time soon. Maybe a year from now. Maybe not. I love children but....I would like a better sleeper this time. Maybe one of those little bundles who sleeps through the night at 7 weeks with no parental intervention. Because they're out there, I've heard of them.
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BTW, it's cool that you've reconnected with an old friend like that. When I was out east visiting my family back in July I contacted an old high school friend that I hadn't seen since my high school graduation party over 15 years ago.