{"id":7747,"date":"2025-05-11T17:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T21:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=7747"},"modified":"2025-05-11T17:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T21:09:10","slug":"happy-birthday-to-me-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=7747","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday to me!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"180\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1CB91C06-320F-4577-A112-243462D935F7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1CB91C06-320F-4577-A112-243462D935F7.jpeg 180w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1CB91C06-320F-4577-A112-243462D935F7-169x300.jpeg 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><figcaption>Gorgeous flowers from Ann!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a great birthday this year! I was so surprised to get these gorgeous Dutch iris delivered to the apartment from Ann &#8211; thank you, Annie! The night before was book club at our house (including takeout Pims Thai food) &#8211; it was fun to spend the evening with Lea, the two Rachels, and Bhavna and they surprised me with a great cake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"202\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_4451.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_4451.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_4451-300x189.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Bad Rachel, Bhavna, Good Rachel, and Lea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/att.u2_phF8DtzkCF6qsgshwY1pzdzxt6w2fri6jLgXPJgg.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/att.u2_phF8DtzkCF6qsgshwY1pzdzxt6w2fri6jLgXPJgg.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/att.u2_phF8DtzkCF6qsgshwY1pzdzxt6w2fri6jLgXPJgg-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption>The cake says \u201cPeace Out!\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For my actual birthday, John took me to dinner after work at Carneros where we had great steak and wine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Sunday, John and I went to lunch at a fun restaurant a little outside of town, La Ferroviario. It\u2019s a big fun place and filled with huge tables of three-generation families. Afterward we went to La Feria del Mataderos where I bought a beautiful handmade <em>tabla<\/em> and some items made of cow horns (salt &amp; pepper shakers, napkin rings, etc). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, a few of the EFMs took me to lunch at a nearby parrilla &#8211; so nice of them! Saturday, Lea and I had hair appointments with Linda, then she took me to a nice birthday lunch at Villegas Resto &#8211; delicious BBQ ribs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"219\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/79e90e83-e39d-4095-9c57-b51ab025546b.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/79e90e83-e39d-4095-9c57-b51ab025546b.jpeg 219w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/79e90e83-e39d-4095-9c57-b51ab025546b-205x300.jpeg 205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><figcaption>With Lea and Linda at the salon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John and I watched a good movie, \u201cBlack Bag,\u201d and we\u2019re catching up on \u201cAstrid\u201d and \u201cHacks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the organizing for packout painfully continues!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great birthday this year! I was so surprised to get these gorgeous Dutch iris delivered to the apartment from Ann &#8211; thank you, Annie! The night before was book club at our house (including takeout Pims Thai food) &#8211; it was fun to spend the evening with Lea, the two Rachels, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7752,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747\/revisions\/7752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}