Birthday Tradition Continued
Two weeks late, but wanted to post about what a great birthday I had. I already thanked everybody, but wanted to give another thanks to everyone who made LJ posts, sent me private messages, sents v-gifts, or posted happy birthday wishes on Twitter. It really meant a lot.
It was a great day, even though the first part of the day was spent doing mundane things like grocery shopping and driving around dropping off or picking up job applications. But Mike had the day off and we got to spend the day together so that was mostly what I was happy about. Mike woke me up by telling me he had wanted to make me french toast (his french toast is heavenly) but the dogs made a mess in the new greenhouse Jean built, so he spent the morning cleaning up their mess. But he made me an omelet instead, which was great anyway so morning wasn't ruined. It was also fabulous that my birthday was on a Wednesday and was a cheat day for me, so I got to pig out as much as I wanted. Mike took me for ice cream and hot dog sliders, which were delicious.
It happened a little earlier than I had planned, but we went and saw X-Men: Days of Future Past which kind of upheld an accidental birthday tradition. When X-Men: Last Stand came out, I saw it on my birthday as well, though that wasn't planned. I had a horrible birthday that year - my mother and her boyfriend drove me around all day doing shit they wanted to do and I was stuck in the car. So finally really late my mom took pity on me and dropped me off at the movie theater and I saw LS. I have the unpopular opinion of actually really loving that movie (I never really get why people hate it so hardcore. I definitely think there are missteps and it has its flaws, but I don't think it's the clusterfuck people make it out to be.)
When First Class came out, I think it was my first birthday with Mike, and he asked me what I wanted to do. I had no really desires to do much, so I suggested going to the movies. There wasn't much else I wanted to so, so we saw FC. It's not that I didn't want to see FC, but I was kind of bummed that they were re-booting the series and wasn't as excited for the movie, but I love James McAvoy so I was longing forward to seeing his take on Xavier. I ended up being really pleasantly surprised by the movie and enjoying it.
After seeing Days of Future Past I think I have a new favorite X-Men movie. I really loved it. It was so enjoyable and fun and entertaining. It didn't take itself too seriously, but wasn't ridiculous and had good emotional weight to it, and my head didn't hurt too much with the time travel aspects.
I think I have a new favorite X-Men, well probably a tie (Ice-Man still rocks), with the Quicksilver character. That whole slo-mo scene in the middle of the movie is so hilarious and amazing fun. Though I was kind of weirded out when I got home and checked IMDb and found out that first of all X-Men movies aren't technically considered part of the Marvel universe (I thought they were since the movies start with that Marvel logo) and that they'll be using a different version of Quicksilver in the Marvel's Avengers sequel. That'll be odd.
Like I said, I love The Last Stand, but I was so happy with the ending of DOFP fixing some of the mistakes of that movie and how everyone is alive. I don't care if it screws up any timeline, not that I would really know or understand if it did. I'm just happy Jean's alive and not a psycho. Scott's alive! Ice-Man died a million times in DOFP and is still alive and with Rogue. Yay! It's basically a clean slate and they can do whatever they want in the next movies.
Mike had asked me what I wanted him to make for dinner for my birthday and he makes excellent, excellent meatballs, so he made that for me and we had that after we got back. No cake because Jean and Greg were working during the day, so we had that on the next Saturday.
I only did minimal angsting about getting older. I had a couple of (irrational) moments here and there in the week ahead of my birthday where I freaked about it. I kind of had this thought process of okay I'm one more year from being 35, which means I'm that much closer to 40, half my life's over, and I'm that much closer to death (no offense those over 40 on my F-list :)) I only really had one of those moments on my birthday. My sister joked innocently enough about me being an old lady. I laughed at first and then I got weird again, but it quickly passed.
So not the most eventful day, but I definitely enjoyed it! (It ended with birthday sex, what's not to like. :))
Stacey
It was a great day, even though the first part of the day was spent doing mundane things like grocery shopping and driving around dropping off or picking up job applications. But Mike had the day off and we got to spend the day together so that was mostly what I was happy about. Mike woke me up by telling me he had wanted to make me french toast (his french toast is heavenly) but the dogs made a mess in the new greenhouse Jean built, so he spent the morning cleaning up their mess. But he made me an omelet instead, which was great anyway so morning wasn't ruined. It was also fabulous that my birthday was on a Wednesday and was a cheat day for me, so I got to pig out as much as I wanted. Mike took me for ice cream and hot dog sliders, which were delicious.
It happened a little earlier than I had planned, but we went and saw X-Men: Days of Future Past which kind of upheld an accidental birthday tradition. When X-Men: Last Stand came out, I saw it on my birthday as well, though that wasn't planned. I had a horrible birthday that year - my mother and her boyfriend drove me around all day doing shit they wanted to do and I was stuck in the car. So finally really late my mom took pity on me and dropped me off at the movie theater and I saw LS. I have the unpopular opinion of actually really loving that movie (I never really get why people hate it so hardcore. I definitely think there are missteps and it has its flaws, but I don't think it's the clusterfuck people make it out to be.)
When First Class came out, I think it was my first birthday with Mike, and he asked me what I wanted to do. I had no really desires to do much, so I suggested going to the movies. There wasn't much else I wanted to so, so we saw FC. It's not that I didn't want to see FC, but I was kind of bummed that they were re-booting the series and wasn't as excited for the movie, but I love James McAvoy so I was longing forward to seeing his take on Xavier. I ended up being really pleasantly surprised by the movie and enjoying it.
After seeing Days of Future Past I think I have a new favorite X-Men movie. I really loved it. It was so enjoyable and fun and entertaining. It didn't take itself too seriously, but wasn't ridiculous and had good emotional weight to it, and my head didn't hurt too much with the time travel aspects.
I think I have a new favorite X-Men, well probably a tie (Ice-Man still rocks), with the Quicksilver character. That whole slo-mo scene in the middle of the movie is so hilarious and amazing fun. Though I was kind of weirded out when I got home and checked IMDb and found out that first of all X-Men movies aren't technically considered part of the Marvel universe (I thought they were since the movies start with that Marvel logo) and that they'll be using a different version of Quicksilver in the Marvel's Avengers sequel. That'll be odd.
Like I said, I love The Last Stand, but I was so happy with the ending of DOFP fixing some of the mistakes of that movie and how everyone is alive. I don't care if it screws up any timeline, not that I would really know or understand if it did. I'm just happy Jean's alive and not a psycho. Scott's alive! Ice-Man died a million times in DOFP and is still alive and with Rogue. Yay! It's basically a clean slate and they can do whatever they want in the next movies.
Mike had asked me what I wanted him to make for dinner for my birthday and he makes excellent, excellent meatballs, so he made that for me and we had that after we got back. No cake because Jean and Greg were working during the day, so we had that on the next Saturday.
I only did minimal angsting about getting older. I had a couple of (irrational) moments here and there in the week ahead of my birthday where I freaked about it. I kind of had this thought process of okay I'm one more year from being 35, which means I'm that much closer to 40, half my life's over, and I'm that much closer to death (no offense those over 40 on my F-list :)) I only really had one of those moments on my birthday. My sister joked innocently enough about me being an old lady. I laughed at first and then I got weird again, but it quickly passed.
So not the most eventful day, but I definitely enjoyed it! (It ended with birthday sex, what's not to like. :))
Stacey