Happy Birthday to me!
2022-Aug-22, Monday 19:36![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I'm forty years old now as of last Saturday! I'm an old man, finally matching the 👴🏻 emoji that ![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee uses in her phone for me. Except not really, because I'm still in great health and people I meet all assume I'm ten years younger than I am, so I'm doing pretty well for myself. I own a home and I have a baby, so I'm hitting my so-called milestones. And I still have all my hair.
I'm not sure I'm going to have a mid-life crisis, butsashagee says Laila was my mid-life crisis, which is as good an argument as any.
On Saturday, my parents came into town to see us--they were originally going to come the previous weekend butsashagee wasn't feeling well--and give me my presents, which were mostly extremely-dark chocolate. sashagee got me a neon Kirby sign 
, which we can put up in the kitchen area of our future home. And then we went out to eat at a local restaurant called Gadabout, which used to be a wine, cheese, and bakery specialty shop, and before that used to be an organic grocery store. I give them props for the server knowing exactly what was involved when she asked about dietary restrictions and I said I kept kosher--she told me up front they couldn't accommodate that but they'd keep the meat and milk separate--and anti-props for naming the shakshuka "baked eggs." But when it came all was forgiven:
The potatoes were delicious too, with toasted shallots and a bit of some kind of creme on them.
My parents stayed until Laila's second nap, delayed due to the restaurant trip, and then they went home, but not before telling me that they had put a considerable amount of money into Laila's college fund. More than some people's entire college costs (but not enough to cover a single year at Penn >
). They don't expect to live long enough to see Laila go to college, or if they have, they don't expect to have all their faculties. But they want to make sure that Laila can go anywhere she wants. As a high school student, my father got into Stanford but could not afford to go and so went to USCD. He's determined that no one in his family will have to make the same decision.
The rest of the day we took it easy so thatsashagee could rest.
On Sunday, her parents came to visit and we got food from the exact same restaurant, and I ordered the exact same thing since it was so delicious the previous time.sashagee got a chia pudding and a chai cinnamon roll since the French toast she had ordered the last time wasn't really that great, even though she had thought she would love the horchata-based sauce it had. We didn't go anywhere or do anything exciting, just ate and talked and let Laila crawl around while sashagee's mother held her and her father played with her, and at her second nap they left to go home--fortunately against the Air and Water Show traffic. This time, though, we did not rest the rest of the day since we had another scheduled event--ribfest!
I was a little bit worried when I first arrived and saw all the pork, pork ribs, bacon, even bacon-infused whiskey, but while waiting in line for a spot that had a brisket sandwich I noticed the rabbi was also in attendance, which made me feel better. When we arrived, we met up with some people from the Anime Club who were nearby--we had missed a house party the previous day due to the aforementioned resting--but pretty quickly got separated from themsashagee picked a particular booth with an extremely long line. According to ![[twitter.com profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
spacedragon, this year was the first time back after the Plague Years, and the vendor situation was weird. Only six stalls seemed to be even serving ribs and at least one of them was out by 6 p.m. We talked to a couple in line ahead of us after Laila grabbed the man's shirt, and they said they were originally in a different line until the booth announced that no ribs would even be ready until 6:30 p.m.
The brisket was okay. Not worth the hour we waited for it. Laila liked it thought! And the ribs--if she wants to keep kosher it'll be her decision, and we're prepared for "But abba doesn't eat lots of food!" with explaining to her all the rules I follow and asking her if she wants to follow them too. We'll see where that leads.
All in all, a good birthday weekend spent with family.
sashagee uses in her phone for me. Except not really, because I'm still in great health and people I meet all assume I'm ten years younger than I am, so I'm doing pretty well for myself. I own a home and I have a baby, so I'm hitting my so-called milestones. And I still have all my hair. I'm not sure I'm going to have a mid-life crisis, but
sashagee says Laila was my mid-life crisis, which is as good an argument as any.On Saturday, my parents came into town to see us--they were originally going to come the previous weekend but
sashagee wasn't feeling well--and give me my presents, which were mostly extremely-dark chocolate. sashagee got me a neon Kirby sign , which we can put up in the kitchen area of our future home. And then we went out to eat at a local restaurant called Gadabout, which used to be a wine, cheese, and bakery specialty shop, and before that used to be an organic grocery store. I give them props for the server knowing exactly what was involved when she asked about dietary restrictions and I said I kept kosher--she told me up front they couldn't accommodate that but they'd keep the meat and milk separate--and anti-props for naming the shakshuka "baked eggs." But when it came all was forgiven: The potatoes were delicious too, with toasted shallots and a bit of some kind of creme on them.
My parents stayed until Laila's second nap, delayed due to the restaurant trip, and then they went home, but not before telling me that they had put a considerable amount of money into Laila's college fund. More than some people's entire college costs (but not enough to cover a single year at Penn >
). They don't expect to live long enough to see Laila go to college, or if they have, they don't expect to have all their faculties. But they want to make sure that Laila can go anywhere she wants. As a high school student, my father got into Stanford but could not afford to go and so went to USCD. He's determined that no one in his family will have to make the same decision.The rest of the day we took it easy so that
sashagee could rest. On Sunday, her parents came to visit and we got food from the exact same restaurant, and I ordered the exact same thing since it was so delicious the previous time.
sashagee got a chia pudding and a chai cinnamon roll since the French toast she had ordered the last time wasn't really that great, even though she had thought she would love the horchata-based sauce it had. We didn't go anywhere or do anything exciting, just ate and talked and let Laila crawl around while sashagee's mother held her and her father played with her, and at her second nap they left to go home--fortunately against the Air and Water Show traffic. This time, though, we did not rest the rest of the day since we had another scheduled event--ribfest!I was a little bit worried when I first arrived and saw all the pork, pork ribs, bacon, even bacon-infused whiskey, but while waiting in line for a spot that had a brisket sandwich I noticed the rabbi was also in attendance, which made me feel better. When we arrived, we met up with some people from the Anime Club who were nearby--we had missed a house party the previous day due to the aforementioned resting--but pretty quickly got separated from them
sashagee picked a particular booth with an extremely long line. According to The brisket was okay. Not worth the hour we waited for it. Laila liked it thought! And the ribs--if she wants to keep kosher it'll be her decision, and we're prepared for "But abba doesn't eat lots of food!" with explaining to her all the rules I follow and asking her if she wants to follow them too. We'll see where that leads.
All in all, a good birthday weekend spent with family.
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Date: 2022-Aug-27, Saturday 15:18 (UTC)I dyed my hair "petrol" colors when I turned 40, and I joke that was my midlife crisis. Or is, since 3 years later I'm still doing it!
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Date: 2022-Aug-28, Sunday 14:52 (UTC)If that's a crisis, you seem to have brought it to a satisfying resolution!
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Date: 2022-Aug-29, Monday 23:49 (UTC)That is really touching about your parents, but also a little heartbreaking! I hope that they are around for a long time to spend with Laila. I'm so glad that they got this time together.
That sign is so awesome!
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Date: 2022-Sep-01, Thursday 15:04 (UTC)It does make me sad when I think about it
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Date: 2022-Sep-02, Friday 22:12 (UTC)In actually, I feel we are similar. It's funny and strange. I'm 37 years old and Oleg is my first child. It is considered is so late for first child in russia.
Many peoples give me on ten years less, although my hair is started to thin out. It's never mind. In my soul I still young.
Well. I'm seriously wish all good things to your daughter, wife and other family.
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Date: 2022-Sep-04, Sunday 15:06 (UTC)You're 37?? From your Instagram, I would not have guessed that either. Your pictures show your young soul!
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