make one dream come true, you only live twice
*checks to see if journal is stable* ...So, how is everyone?
I can't recall where I left off on LJ, but somewhere along all those errors I thought I'd just hop off until the madness ceased. So, um, sorry if I missed your posts, I am checking up on my friends list as we speak.
In the meantime, my birthday was pretty awesome. We decorated the table to the nines for the mad tea party. I had my milk glass plates and tea cups out, and rose-patterned china for the serving places and teapot. At everyone's plate, I had a glass, corked bottle full of pastel-colored M&Ms with a 'take me' sign. For 'afternoon tea', I made chicken salad pita pockets, PBJ sandwiches shaped like teacups, deviled eggs, and ham and turkey sliders. And Izze with 'drink me' tags around the necks, and the food had 'eat me' signs propped by it. Also, tea. Actually the 'mad tea party' blend purchased at The Disney Village in Florida. (I wish I could show pictures of this, but the madre has the camera and I can not at this moment yoink it.)
Then we waited almost an hour or so for one of the people I invited to show up. Apparently, he'd forgotten my party started at one. Hilariously, the invitation I sent to him was labeled: 'to: The White Rabbit.' Next time I'll call him the Jabberwocky or something. Also, he went to the wrong gallery. Good night.
We showed up in DC too late for the scavenger hunt, so we wandered around the Nation Gallery instead, looking at the paintings and marveling over everything. I bought a book at the museum shop, to no one's real surprise. It's about the history behind the pigments for all the colors of paint. Then, the gallery closed and kicked us out, and we went to the sculpture garden instead, home to such wonderful creations as the big metal rectangle and the cement block pyramid. We went to a giant, circular fountain in which people were dipping their legs and feet. (Did I mention it was bakingly hot?) After that, we viewed the Capitol building and then shopped around at Union Station's mini-mall of shops.
I mention here that one of my friends and I split a box of Neuhaus chocolates between us. These are the best chocolates ever. They are ridiculously good. SO GOOD, THEY MAKE MY TONGUE WRITHE IN ORGASMIC BLISS. They had smurf sets to celebrate the new smurf movie (Belgian company, smurfs are Belgian,) although I think it's probably a catastrophe. Has anyone seen the smurf movie? Is it as much of a catastrophe as I think it is? My brain tuned out once NYC was mentioned.
Then, we went home, crawled down the rabbit hole to the downstairs tea party, and had dessert tea! At 9PM, so no one wanted tea. We DID have awesome cupcakes, brownie bites, lemon squares, scones and cream, and chocolate raspberry biscuits. And cream puffs, but no one wanted those because we already had so much sugar. And pearlescent gumballs, which people put in their mini-cocktail cups, poured Izze over, and slurped at with the paper straws I'd brought. The sun and exhaustion had turned us mildly deranged, I feel.
Anyway, that was my birthday. The kids arranged me one at the daycare and one kid brought me a giant gummi bear while the other got me a DVD of Where the Wild Things Are. I love kids.
How've you all been?
Also, internet meme:
Your old Halloween costume is now your new career.
This makes me either an evil witch queen, or a steampunk-type subterranean monster hunter. I might like evil queen pay grade more, but subterranean monster hunter does have a ring to it.
I can't recall where I left off on LJ, but somewhere along all those errors I thought I'd just hop off until the madness ceased. So, um, sorry if I missed your posts, I am checking up on my friends list as we speak.
In the meantime, my birthday was pretty awesome. We decorated the table to the nines for the mad tea party. I had my milk glass plates and tea cups out, and rose-patterned china for the serving places and teapot. At everyone's plate, I had a glass, corked bottle full of pastel-colored M&Ms with a 'take me' sign. For 'afternoon tea', I made chicken salad pita pockets, PBJ sandwiches shaped like teacups, deviled eggs, and ham and turkey sliders. And Izze with 'drink me' tags around the necks, and the food had 'eat me' signs propped by it. Also, tea. Actually the 'mad tea party' blend purchased at The Disney Village in Florida. (I wish I could show pictures of this, but the madre has the camera and I can not at this moment yoink it.)
Then we waited almost an hour or so for one of the people I invited to show up. Apparently, he'd forgotten my party started at one. Hilariously, the invitation I sent to him was labeled: 'to: The White Rabbit.' Next time I'll call him the Jabberwocky or something. Also, he went to the wrong gallery. Good night.
We showed up in DC too late for the scavenger hunt, so we wandered around the Nation Gallery instead, looking at the paintings and marveling over everything. I bought a book at the museum shop, to no one's real surprise. It's about the history behind the pigments for all the colors of paint. Then, the gallery closed and kicked us out, and we went to the sculpture garden instead, home to such wonderful creations as the big metal rectangle and the cement block pyramid. We went to a giant, circular fountain in which people were dipping their legs and feet. (Did I mention it was bakingly hot?) After that, we viewed the Capitol building and then shopped around at Union Station's mini-mall of shops.
I mention here that one of my friends and I split a box of Neuhaus chocolates between us. These are the best chocolates ever. They are ridiculously good. SO GOOD, THEY MAKE MY TONGUE WRITHE IN ORGASMIC BLISS. They had smurf sets to celebrate the new smurf movie (Belgian company, smurfs are Belgian,) although I think it's probably a catastrophe. Has anyone seen the smurf movie? Is it as much of a catastrophe as I think it is? My brain tuned out once NYC was mentioned.
Then, we went home, crawled down the rabbit hole to the downstairs tea party, and had dessert tea! At 9PM, so no one wanted tea. We DID have awesome cupcakes, brownie bites, lemon squares, scones and cream, and chocolate raspberry biscuits. And cream puffs, but no one wanted those because we already had so much sugar. And pearlescent gumballs, which people put in their mini-cocktail cups, poured Izze over, and slurped at with the paper straws I'd brought. The sun and exhaustion had turned us mildly deranged, I feel.
Anyway, that was my birthday. The kids arranged me one at the daycare and one kid brought me a giant gummi bear while the other got me a DVD of Where the Wild Things Are. I love kids.
How've you all been?
Also, internet meme:
Your old Halloween costume is now your new career.
This makes me either an evil witch queen, or a steampunk-type subterranean monster hunter. I might like evil queen pay grade more, but subterranean monster hunter does have a ring to it.