Tag: fun

Birthday Celebration Part IV

Aside from a delicious meal with the BroMAunts, Matt, and Kelly, plus opening presents, I also got this blast from the past from my mom’s cookbook collection.

I had a great time going through the recipes.

And this drawing was attached. Note the lack of multicultural crayon options available to Gen X kids meant we had white face or blackface. Apparently, I wasn’t in the mood for white face when I drew this.

Birthday Celebration Part III

Yes, that’s right. For the third birthday celebration, we took the day off work and went to a corn maze! The one on Kruger’s Farm, to be precise. We arrived just as it was opening and were the first ones there. There was one other couple that came after us, but other than that, we had the place to ourselves. Here’s what we found:

Timer photo from atop a bridge with views.

The view:

There were many of these. We had fun solving them.

My previous visit to a corn maze in October taught me that footwear choice is key to comfort and enjoyability. I walked through while Matt walked around.

This was a big bonus to being the first ones in. There were many of these patterns on top of the mud made by some critter. We asked, but the person who worked there hadn’t ever seen them before.

Mushroom!

Some gross corn. The person working said it was a kind of fungus.

The inaccurate ruler puts Matt at over six feet.

And me at 5’4″

We traded off so we could get our faces in all the holes.

And used the timer to take this series:

After that we went on a different hike (really a walk, but less muddy than the corn maze) on Sauvie Island

And then, wandering around looking for someplace to eat, discovered that Broder is where Laughing Planet used to be on Mississippi. Big win, as I love Broder!

Here’s what my activity tracker looked like for the corn maze.

Birthday Celebration Part I: Pix and Dune

Matt (a fan of the David Lynch version of Dune) was excited to see the new version and I (not a fan of the David Lynch version but a fan of Timothée Chalamet) planned to see Dune and then go to Pix’s new vending machine as part of my celebration. Pix was a not-long walk from the Laurelhurst Theater.

Matt quite liked the new version (he talked nonstop the entire walk to Pix) and I liked it better than the David Lynch version (an easy bar to to clear).

The Pix-o-matic was fun to use, but very fiddly. Looking at the not-yet-cleared transactions on my credit card would have freaked me out, had the sign not informed me that if I messed up, the charges would be there, but wouldn’t be charged. I think there were 15 different tries before we finally got our Pix.

Pix also had a fun Halloween setup.

Fun birthday celebration Part I was followed by Part II on Sunday when we went to see the French Dispatch at Cinema 21 and ate at Lardo.

A Very Exciting Bulk Mailing Arrived Today

There is so much to love about this. Just on the front cover alone we’ve got a lion with wings, a woman in a mask, a dragon, some jaguars with wings, and a billowing flag.

Then, it turns out that it goes on for an entire week! I could even attend on my birthday and learn about Revelation’s 1000 years!

And it’s been so long since I’ve had a proper learning session about the mark of the beast.

Also, what does “especially designed for busy people” mean?

This is the kind of thing I’m always tempted to go to, but never quite do because I don’t know if the time spent would be worth the irony.

Still! A fun bulk mailing!

Great Find: Your Family Centers

This was sitting in a free box outside the antique store in Kenton and I grabbed it based on a quick flip and some pages that had to do with building things. The bulk of the book, though, rambles on about each center in a home.

I guessed the date nearly correctly (was one year off) based on this photo, especially the blue and white checkerboard coach and the way the plants were hanging. What year do you think this was published?

More clues. Velveteen couch! Also that blouse and hair combo.

How about this breakfast bar setup? I feel like a yellow version of that dishwasher was in my life at one time.

What about this entertaining space?

Did you guess 1981? You guessed correctly!

The Big Party Aftermath

I entirely guessed wrong about how much ice would be needed. That was a month of preparation task I didn’t need to do. Also, too late I realized I could have emptied these outside and let the melting ice water the garden.

The Watergate Cake with Impeachment Frosting was the big winner of the three cakes. It also might have been cut and served when the most people were there.

The Pink Cake was also enjoyed. Once of the guests told me that it was literally the best cake he had ever eaten. I feel the same way about that cake.

The poor Goober Cake didn’t get much play. By the time we cut into it at 8 p.m. we were down to five party attendees.

I thought the 9/11 remembrances turned out well. I enjoyed reading where people were on that date.

We didn’t get a lot of traction on singing, unfortunately.

People were all into the both and plan for celebrating anniversaries. I voted for May.

It was fun to realize that some of us had known each other for a very long time.

The Big Party had the most number of signatures in the party retrospective lineup.

But we had good turnout for this one.

And this one. The 40th birthday party was the biggest party prior to the Big Party.

Happily, cleanup didn’t take very long. Sadly, Burt and Laurie, who were the witnesses for the wedding, couldn’t attend because Burt was ill.