My birthday in a nutshell:
12:00am – A hotel room somewhere in New Jersey — relatively close to my brother’s place. We had just returned from Passover Seder #2. Exhausted after a full day. Kid is already asleep in the rollaway bed next to ours. I get a “Happy birthday, honey!” from socKs. And a kiss. I, however, am obsessed with Facebook — wondering why the hell they have birthday reminders about everyone else’s birthdays on my page — but not mine. I eventually head to bed as it’s hard to keep my eyes open.
7:30am – I wake up. I get a happy birthday hug from the kid — very excited about the whole birthday thing. We pack up after enjoying a wonderful birthday brunch of matzah and fruit. I sneak in a bit more time on the computer to see what random birthday messages I had received. I used to get a yearly unsolicited message from the Klingon Language Institute wishing me a Gnrok K’atlanta do’Fuk’urm Om! Or whatever “Happy birthday” is in Klingon. Nowadays it’s just lots of Facebook folks.
9:00am – I am greeted by my Dad and his girlfriend. Another round of happy birthday wishes. We’re driving them to my brother’s place — they’ll be spending more time there and then heading back home. We drive. In New York area rush-hour traffic. But it’s not too bad.
9:30am – We hit the New Jersey Turnpike and head back to Virginia. And we fill up with a tank of $3.17 gas. I’m sure we won’t see that price again in a long time…
1:30pm – Home! A little bit of unpacking. Av and I log time on the computer playing the Cars “Mater-National” video game for a bit.
2:45pm – Av and socKs head to the store; I head to a special appointment to get a birthday present for myself.
6:30pm – I’m presented with a kosher-for-passover brownie ice cream cake made by socKs. Amazing. And friggin huge. This will be dessert for the entire week.
7:30pm – Rack my brain to find an excuse to morph a picture of Iggy Pop into a picture of Tony Danza and actually blog it.
8:30pm– Watched an incredibly funny episode of “How I Met Your Mother.”
11:30pm – open my birthday present which I got earlier in the day.
I spent the whole day with my immediate family. Didn’t go to work. Got to wear shorts for most of the day. Spent a good amount of time driving through a relatively traffic-free I-95. Oh — and an obscene amount of ice cream cake.
I suppose it was a good day…
(Birthday cake pictures coming soon…)
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Sounds like you had a busy, yet wonderful birthday! Now about that brunch…matzah crackers? matzah soup? I don’t know what else matzah food there is. My stepday is Jewish and I used to participate in some of his traditions. Including Hanukah, which as a kid, was one of my favorites! Hmmm…I wonder why…
And the gas prices? *faints* They’re horrible! Averaging $3.59/$3.69 here in Wisconsin.
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Mmmm ice cream cake. I wished you lived closer cuz you’re nice and I know you’d share. Hee hee. Happy birthday Shiny II!
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Happy belated birthday, my friend. So did you do two seders in one day? 8 glasses of wine? I am afraid to do four this saturday. Is it okay if I drink white wine? I get migraines with red wine.
🙂
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A great birthday from the sounds of it.
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You’re on Facebook? Why aren’t we friends yet? If we were I would have totally known that it was your birthday!!
Happy birthday!
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Shiny: Matzah becomes slightly more palatable when you really can’t eat much of anything else. Matzah balls are nice in soup and don’t quite fit the bland matzah motif that we’re usually used to…
But you’re correct — Hanukkah is far more fun.
Winter: Thanks! And since we still have some left over, I’d be happy to share…
Absurdist: We had two seders over two nights — so all was good. And as I mentioned yesterday, white wine is cool. Let me know if you have any other seder etiquette questions — and post about how it went!
Karl: ’twas!
MetalMom Isn’t everyone on Facebook? Oh well — you’ve been added. Just make sure not to make the same mistake again next year… 😉
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