I'm still much younger than most of the people I work with, and I doubt there are many 40 year olds who can say that. Go food bank volunteers!
The birthday party was big fun! I managed, somehow, to invite just enough people from all the circles of my life for everyone to see someone they knew. The chatter was loud!
The food was good - if I say so myself, since I made most of it and Shobi-wan made the rest. 
We had yummy beverages made from Stirrings brand martini and margarita mixes (with which I wound up due to circumstances beyond my control). I told everyone that since the mixers don't include high fructose corn syrup, and lemons and limes are high in Vit C, the drinks were healthy!
Plus, Rouzi has agreed to be my personal bartender. Every forty-year old should have one.
As requested, my friends also brought 107 pounds of canned goods and a generous cash donation to the party for the food bank, which rocked. I got the idea from a young Alamedan who did it for her birthday party two months ago.
The next afternoon Shobi-wan and I went kayaking at Half Moon Bay. I had never been before and just as I was thinking, "Hm, kayaks!" Shobi-wan asked, "Wanna go kayaking?" We got outfitted and paddled around the outer walls of the harbor, looking at pelicans, jellies, and sea stars.
Monday Mom, Shobi-wan, and I went to a preview of the new California Academy of Sciences, which was amazing. I am really excited to go there when the whole place is open. There were a few familar things: the pendulum, which a docent told us hadn't originally been planned as an exhibit in the new building, but the docents petitioned and persuaded the curators to add it back in; the T. Rex skeleton; the original Hall of Man with dioramas of African animals (which now includes an African penguin tank, and had a human in it playing with the birds); and the original seahorse railing around the alligator swamp.
In the evening we met Zirpu, KT, and No at Destino for dinner and alfajores for dessert. A great birthday weekend!
The best thing for me - and excuse me if you think I'm getting soft in my old age; I've always been sappy - is that I got to spend it with people I like who like me.
Now, what to do for my October Unbirthday...? I'm celebrating the whole year, you know!
1 comment:
That pale croc is intense. And cute. Sounds like an awesome weekend. Maybe October could be an examination of the different yous. Halloween always makes me consider & explore identity. Maybe not a costume party - or maybe a costume party when you come from one of the favorite points in your past (5 years old, 13 years old, etc.)
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