Happy Birthday to Michaelangelo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rob Reiner, Ed McMahon, Alan Greenspan, Shaq... and me.

It's a low-key penultimate Monday birthday this year. I had been planning to go to the Whitney Biennial yesterday and then dinner at Candle 79 and homemade cupcakes today. But - yesterday I slept in and didn't feel like doing any of this so we ordered Chinese delivery and then went into Manhattan to go to City Bakery and try their famous chocolate chip cookies and hot chocolate (as well as getting to witness their amazing back-of-house like efficiency with the huge lines around the counter) and then walked 18 blocks to Best Buy to get a new TV.(Audrey broke ours a few weeks ago. It no longer had a power button. We've been having to turn on the light switch (controls the outlet) then press the volume button up and back down and then the channel button up and down to get it to work.) Then we watched the Oscars and went to bed.

Today I'm at work, then home where Patrick will be cooking me a squash risotto with bulgur instead of arborio and then we are opting out of homemade sweets (there's always too many left over and I'm trying to eat less sweets and junk food) and going back to the Chocolate Room to try the cake I didn't get last time. And I have learned my lesson and will stay away from the cloyingly sweet dessert wine. And sometime in there I will open the overgenerous mound of presents from mom and Patrick. |