Open Buddha

My wife cannot come to my work’s holiday party this year. It sounds like a nice event though, dress up, entertainment, alcohol…so I still wanted ago but I can’t go on my own. That’s just not done.

So, I invited Rubylou, who is one of my oldest and best friends as well as being one of my last *something-or-rathers* before my wife and I started dating. She’s just come back from a Catholic contemplative three day retreat but hasn’t had a lot of time out otherwise. She had her second child a few months ago and the first is a toddler so she has her hands full a lot. (Or maybe she’s secretly out all of the time, prowling the city as a dark, brooding defender of justice…)

She agreed this evening after her partners, by the sounds of it, effectively forced her to say “yes” in order to let her go out to a nice evening with me.

It should be fun.

(I posted an older picture of her from ten years ago when we worked together in an entry recently.)