Birthday weekend!

On Friday, the school had a birthday card for me signed by some of the staff members. And of course of the staff told the kids, so kids were wishing me happy birthday left and right. To celebrate my birthday, I went out with a few friends to the Spaghetti Factory for dinner. I needed a restaurant that I could have a good non-meat, non-fillet-o-fish meal. So I got the Manager’s Special with clam sauce and mizithra cheese. It is in downtown Minneapolis, so afterwards we walked around and stopped in a couple bars. It was a very fun night, even if I was DD for my own birthday. In Saturday, I had to tutor in the morning. I didn’t do much in the afternoon, but for dinner I went out with some other friends, Charlie and our other friends, for the annual birthday gathering at Buffalo Wild Wings. This is the fourth year that we have been doing this. Since my birthday landed on a Friday in Lent, and all of us are Catholic, I figured it would be better to have this gathering on Saturday. It was me, Shawn, Ian, Mark and Charlie (L-R).


I got the regular, potatoes with cheese, 6 teriyaki and 6 parmesan garlic traditional wings. It was a good time as usual, great conversation and stories! And it was a good way to support one of the companies I own. Oh and new flash…they now have dry rub flavorings too! I didn’t try any of them though.

And today, Sunday, I actually didn’t do much besides go to church and sit around. It was a pretty nice and relaxing day. I worked some on my stamp collection. I’m sorting through used stamps and placing them together, and eventually they will end up in chronological order. I also worked a little on my scrap books and arranged a couple more pages.

Tidbit by Thomas: Welcome to pothole season! About a month and a half ago I noticed that one of my hubcaps was missing. I am sure Lily can attest between ungodly snow banks and monstrous potholes, hubcaps are a common object to disappear during the winters in frozen tundras. Well in the spring, the snow melts and revealing hubcaps all over the place…freeways, streets, curbs, alleys! I haven’t found one for my Honda, but these were apparently found on the street right around the corner.