"All About David's Birthday Weekend!"

[thoreau]

It's David's "All About David's Birthday Weekend!". He explained to me last week how he hates birthdays and nothing I could do could make him enjoy the thought of celebrating his birthday. I love a challenge! So - I photoshopped up a old 50s style menu - showing him all the great stuff he could choose from to do on the "All About David's Birthday Weekend!" I wrote him emails - and took his "order" for the weekend from the menu - and today we started a lovely velcro morning in bed - then breakfast at Stacks (where we are becoming 'by name' regulars) - then over to Berkeley to go book shopping. (book shopping is the most boring activity in the world for me - but this weekend is about Dave) - so four hours I sat and read almost all the way through a starwars novel while Dave hummed and smiled his way through the math books and statistics textbooks. (The story was actually very interesting - the 17 years between the end of Revenge of the Sith and the beginning of Empire Strikes Back) Then we got stuck in horrific traffic - and after stopping at Safeway for foodstuffs - we're now home prepping for a night out at Barracuda Sushi with the boyz.

My 2nd box o'freshness was delivered on Wednesday - with fennel, radicchio, mandarins, tangerines, carnival squash, leeks, kale, pink lady apples, navel oranges and two meyer lemons. So on tap for tomorrow night for David's birthday is a home cooked dinner of spinach orecchiette pasta with fresh tomatoes, prosciutto, radicchio and goat cheese and a butternut squash tangerine soup. I am loving all the research it takes to learn how to use all these new things together each week as I get the box of stuff. Dinner tomorrow night will be followed by heading to Curtis and Paul's 2008 Christmas/Chanukah/Solstice/Kwanza/OhHellLetsGetDrunk Holiday Party which should be full of all sorts of fun people and well, lots of drinking.

He hasn't admitted it yet - but I think he's having fun just choosing what we do - and going with the flow and letting me take care of the details. :) Yay!³

Comments

[cuboz.livejournal.com]

I'm more a birthday person than a Xmas (or other holiday) person.

Although I DO remember one year, sitting on a bus coming home from work, and suddenly being hit with the realisation that tomorrow was my birthday - and I had nothing arranged or knew of nothing being done for me...

That was a bit sad. So, I reckon secretly, David's probably LOVING the attention! :-)

[septimuswarren.livejournal.com]

The box o' fruit sounds great. So very cool that you're getting to learn new recipes and have fun while doing so. You should come here and make some kind of soup or stew. It's 8 degrees and snowing out. Brrrrrr.....

[gorkabear.livejournal.com]

You just made me drool!