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November 3, 2006
48 Hours of Birthday
There was a time when I became accustomed to celebrating birthdays for a week, with a little present given the celebratee each day. Nice. In the past two days, however, I have experienced more than a week's worth of celebrating, and it was brilliant.
On my actual birthday on Wednesday, in addition to sundry telephone calls and emails with birthday wishes, at work we had a cake and ice cream for me and a colleague who had her birthday a day earlier. And then during cake and ice cream my brother, sis, and their adorable children showed up with more sweets.
In the evening, Angela brought cobbler and ice cream (that was my choice) to house church. Very nice. And after, some of us hit Blueberry Hill, where we were joined by the boys.
Then Thursday began with breakfast at Bob Evans with my very loving father, which has become somewhat of a tradition.
Finally, last night after work we had an ever so nice gathering at what I think is my favorite pub, Dressel's. There were roommates and churchmates and new friends. Lots of cheer, chips with salt and vinegar and rarebit, and yes a rather largish number of libations. In fact, I am doing rather well today having survived my first Irish Carbomb. I am not very keen on slam-em-back drinks, but when it is your birthday and your roommates are keen on them and are being absolutely lovely to you, well, there is nothing for it put to slam it back. OK, so I wanted to as well. For details, click below. Yes, I was sober enough to drive home and make this wee diagram, though perhaps not sober enough to fully consider "Why am I diagramming a drink." It was yummy, but it does knock you back a bit.
After some lovely presents, including a CD of these folks, and much joyous banter, it was time to come home and bring my 48 hour birthday to an end.
Thank you so much to everyone who was a part of it. For lots of pictures of both pub nights, click on the picture below.
Pure Silliness | By jackdas | 1:55 PM
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Congrats on your now Irish heritage. :)
Great diagram! Happy Birthday Friend!
Tana
Posted by: Tanya at November 5, 2006 11:15 PM
Glad the birthday was filled with fun and friends.
'Cos: friends are friends forever,
if the Lord's the Lord of them! And a Friend will not say NEVER, cause the welcome will not end..
heh heh heh
(if I could type little music notes, I would.)
Posted by: heidi h. at November 5, 2006 11:20 PM
Thanks Heidi.
Thank you Michael W. Smith.
If you find the need to listen to it go here:
http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=CD00802&p=1006648#curr
Posted by: Tanya at November 6, 2006 3:45 PM
