Surprise party

Last night, Lauren threw a surprise party for me, celebrating the fact that I got my first ongoing job in journalism. It was truly amazing. Using my facebook account, she contacted a bunch of our friends (as well as an old friend I hadn't seen in almost a year) to plan this surprise dinner party. Her cover story was that she was making dinner for me, and that we'd then go out to see a movie, but I suspected something was up. I wasn't sure what that something was, but I could tell she was planning some kind of surprise. Still, my own surprise was genuine when we arrived at her place and saw everyone there.

It was great to be the centre of attention for the evening. A few of my friends told funny stories about me, and later on I shared stories about a couple of them. It was such a wonderful, thoughtful thing for my girlfriend to do. (Thank you, baby.)

Unfortunately, my camera earlier ran out of batteries, and I didn't have my camera-phone with me either, so I don't have any pictures from the evening. But I'll always have the memories.

UPDATE: Oh, and I must mention also that Lauren spent at least three days preparing for the actual dinner party. She went all-out by buying a specially made arrangement of flowers, making dinner and buying dessert for a dozen people, decorating the table-setting with tea candles and those little smooth glass stones, giving everyone a take-home napkin-bag of chocolate-covered almonds, and having everyone bring a bottle of wine so that there was ample choice for everyone. It was even more incredible by the fact that this was the first dinner party that she's ever thrown. Judging from how much everyone enjoyed themselves last night, I'm sure it won't be the last.