{"id":5793,"date":"2019-07-14T09:42:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T13:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5793"},"modified":"2019-07-14T17:34:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T21:34:50","slug":"friends-make-it-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5793","title":{"rendered":"Friends make it easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5797\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5797\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5797\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EDE71C99-571C-4F79-B138-F1EC271F61B1-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EDE71C99-571C-4F79-B138-F1EC271F61B1-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EDE71C99-571C-4F79-B138-F1EC271F61B1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EDE71C99-571C-4F79-B138-F1EC271F61B1.jpeg 993w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Party glasses from Amy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My week was punctuated with visits from good friends. Thursday after work, Tammy, Amy, and Pam came over loaded with fun gifts and flowers. It was a tonic to sit and laugh with them and listen to them tell stories.<\/p>\n<p>Our good friend Scott from Pakistan days came on Friday afternoon, and again yesterday for a long visit. We had a great time &#8211; yakking, gossiping, and laughing. John was happy to get in a board game with him, too! It didn\u2019t feel at all like six years had gone by!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5796\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5796\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5796\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/A2E7C71E-0F23-4A11-94D9-985D06FE0DB2-e1563111659292-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/A2E7C71E-0F23-4A11-94D9-985D06FE0DB2-e1563111659292-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/A2E7C71E-0F23-4A11-94D9-985D06FE0DB2-e1563111659292-768x432.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/A2E7C71E-0F23-4A11-94D9-985D06FE0DB2-e1563111659292-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/A2E7C71E-0F23-4A11-94D9-985D06FE0DB2-e1563111659292.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With the fabulous Scott B.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>John went to the Kennedy Center yesterday afternoon to see \u201cThe Band\u2019s Visit,\u201d the wonderful musical we saw in NYC before Christmas last year. He came home singing, and we turned up the volume on the soundtrack for a while. What a great show!<\/p>\n<p>John\u2019s in class at FSI this week and next, so one of the housekeepers from the building is wheeling me to therapy and back in the afternoons. I actually made some progress bending my knee on Thursday!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been watching Season 2 of \u201cBig Little Lies,\u201d and John and I finished \u201cThe Black Zone,\u201d a well-made, kind of creepy French series. We watched \u201cThe Upside\u201d last night (with Bryan Cranston) &#8211; a good story. I\u2019m reading \u201cThe Secretary,\u201d a book from library John picked up for me.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5794\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5794\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5794\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/5BAAB5AA-88D9-4F15-831F-525B9CEA728C-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/5BAAB5AA-88D9-4F15-831F-525B9CEA728C-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/5BAAB5AA-88D9-4F15-831F-525B9CEA728C-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/5BAAB5AA-88D9-4F15-831F-525B9CEA728C-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/5BAAB5AA-88D9-4F15-831F-525B9CEA728C.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gorgeous pink roses from Pam<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5795\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5795\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5795\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/39FDE5D4-A0C0-433F-B5DD-ED32AB9D6AFC-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/39FDE5D4-A0C0-433F-B5DD-ED32AB9D6AFC-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/39FDE5D4-A0C0-433F-B5DD-ED32AB9D6AFC-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/39FDE5D4-A0C0-433F-B5DD-ED32AB9D6AFC.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tulips from Scott<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My week was punctuated with visits from good friends. Thursday after work, Tammy, Amy, and Pam came over loaded with fun gifts and flowers. It was a tonic to sit and laugh with them and listen to them tell stories. 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