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Sun, Sep 16, 2007

Nanette's Birthday Party

Posted at 10:05 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

Nanette's birthday was Friday, which is picking day. And Saturday was Market, which leaves us all exhausted. So we celebrated today. About a half a dozen of her friends attended: Linda and Jan and Galen and Susan and Caroline and me, and we had a good time talking and eating. Chuck's friend Douglas was there for a while, too, and took part in the ceremonial singing and cake eating.

We did a lot of talking about Alton Brown and 'Good Eats' and various kinds of cooking that we are good at or hopeless at. (I can do breads and soups, Nanette is great at pies but hopeless at soups...Galen made a wonderful cake for the party).

I know and like all of the other ladies who were at the party. I know them all through Nanette, and seldom see them except when she is also present. It seems that in recent years Nanette has become more and more my primary social anchor outside work. All the travelling and long term re-locations have pretty much destroyed any opportunity for what little social life I used to have.

I haven't been to a science fiction convention in years, and I've lost touch with my SF and anime fandom friends. I'm hoping to re-connect with that part of my life a little by attending MileHiCon this year and worldcon next year.

I can't really count on being around anywhere for club meetings or classes. When I was in Minneapolis for 6 months I attended a book signing and took a needlework class... but then the contract ended in what would have been the middle of the second phase of the class, so it gave me some activities outside work, but not really social contacts.

I've lost touch with other friends and acquaintances over the years.

But Nanette and I have been friends for about 25 years now. She is my sister even though we are not blood relations. People who see us together often think we are real sisters.

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