I had a wonderful day today. Kyle normally takes the WSJ paper to work, but since he is out of town, I picked it up today. I was just browsing through it and all of the sudden I saw an article with his by-line on it! (Since he writes for the Editorial Page, all of his articles are usually unsigned.) I thought "Wow, what a great life to be a 26 year old living in Brussels and seeing your husband's name in a world wide paper!"
After reading Kyle's article I went to a friend's 40th birthday party. People over here do birthdays a little different than we do in the States. Over here, if you are the birthday person, you host the party for everyone else -- meaning that you bring your own cake to work to share, or you invite people out to lunch and you treat the whole group. In this case, my friend paid for a catered lunch for 25. It was a great group of women from all around the world. I will probably never again be in a room hearing about the four places in Africa an Italian woman lived while overhearing another group of women speaking German to each other and then switching to Dutch when a new woman joined the group.
After the party I did a little grocery shopping and then got ready for my bookclub. We barely talked about the book, but it was nice to catch up with everyone. Also, we found out my friend Jessica is going to have a baby boy!
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