Chocolate Cake=Win
Jul. 31st, 2009 08:17 pmYAY FUN BIRTHDAY IS FUN.
In my family, we believe with celebrating anything and everything with large quantities of food, so it shouldn't really be a surprise that my dad and I spent the entire afternoon eating awesome stuff. Grilled shrimp and lobster (I think lobster was on sale at the Chinese market, which is cool since I've never had it before), potstickers that were absolute perfection, and a new Sichuan squid dish we got out of my Big Chinese Cookbook. So fabulous, and really different from the normal ways we do squid. And then after dinner my grandparents and my aunt and uncle and other aunt and baby cousin came over for cake and ice cream and presents and lots of sitting around in the living room talking.
I got some really neat presents from everybody! My grandma's big present was the trip to Santa Fe on Wednesday, but she also gave me a neat laundry bag to use at school, and my aunt in California sent me a really cute top and a pair of jeans (I'm going to have to exchange the jeans, which are two sizes too small, but they are still cute). My aunt here gave me money and an Obama Inaugural Commemorative Book thing. It has coins and stamps and a portrait and it's just basically so neat. My dad let me pick out my presents this afternoon - he said I could get whatever I wanted (up to about $50, of course) online and he would buy it for me. Luckily I'm good at budget-shopping online, so I got a lot of bang for my buck. The first two Justice League International trades, soap, lotion, and a wooden soap deck from Chagrin Valley, and a hairstick from Ketylos. So much shiny! Not that the stuff matters as much as all the time I've been spending with people this week, but still, shiny.
I'm going over to my mom's tomorrow to hang out and do birthday-ish stuff, and we'll probably do a meet-up with that side of the family next week to do dinner or a picnic or something. Very much looking forward to that, since I haven't seen my grandfather or my aunt at all since I got home for the summer. Yay family!
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colourofsaying wrote me a birthday fic! And you should go read it right now, because it has Chekov, and Sulu, and Chekov and Sulu playing backgammon/chess, and it is pretty much the cutest thing in the history of ever.
In my family, we believe with celebrating anything and everything with large quantities of food, so it shouldn't really be a surprise that my dad and I spent the entire afternoon eating awesome stuff. Grilled shrimp and lobster (I think lobster was on sale at the Chinese market, which is cool since I've never had it before), potstickers that were absolute perfection, and a new Sichuan squid dish we got out of my Big Chinese Cookbook. So fabulous, and really different from the normal ways we do squid. And then after dinner my grandparents and my aunt and uncle and other aunt and baby cousin came over for cake and ice cream and presents and lots of sitting around in the living room talking.
I got some really neat presents from everybody! My grandma's big present was the trip to Santa Fe on Wednesday, but she also gave me a neat laundry bag to use at school, and my aunt in California sent me a really cute top and a pair of jeans (I'm going to have to exchange the jeans, which are two sizes too small, but they are still cute). My aunt here gave me money and an Obama Inaugural Commemorative Book thing. It has coins and stamps and a portrait and it's just basically so neat. My dad let me pick out my presents this afternoon - he said I could get whatever I wanted (up to about $50, of course) online and he would buy it for me. Luckily I'm good at budget-shopping online, so I got a lot of bang for my buck. The first two Justice League International trades, soap, lotion, and a wooden soap deck from Chagrin Valley, and a hairstick from Ketylos. So much shiny! Not that the stuff matters as much as all the time I've been spending with people this week, but still, shiny.
I'm going over to my mom's tomorrow to hang out and do birthday-ish stuff, and we'll probably do a meet-up with that side of the family next week to do dinner or a picnic or something. Very much looking forward to that, since I haven't seen my grandfather or my aunt at all since I got home for the summer. Yay family!
PS:
colourofsaying wrote me a birthday fic! And you should go read it right now, because it has Chekov, and Sulu, and Chekov and Sulu playing backgammon/chess, and it is pretty much the cutest thing in the history of ever.