Happy Birthday, Me!
09.15.2009
Yep, it’s that time of year again. Time for my birthday! I got the family all together and we went to Todd’s Unique Dining. It’s is one of my favorite restaurants in town and I don’t get a chance to go there very often but I figured a birthday was a valid and perfect occasion. Ma brought the perfect birthday cake. Nice and portable. In case you can’t tell by the picture, those are candles on peanut butter cups stabilized with a lifesaver mint. Genius. The candle numbers aren’t really correct but it wouldn’t be one of our birthday’s if it was. Ma has a limited number and variety of candles and it’s more fun this way than to just get a set with all the right numbers in it. My actual age is 34 so the 33 plus the 1 candle represented by a peanut butter cup/mint/candle combo makes the correct number. If I was 40 it would still say 33 plus the 7 peanut butter cup/mint/candle combos would make 40. It’s all about spinning the story.
We also have a cool thing when we have a party at mom’s house. There is a “happy 18th* birthday” banner that keeps getting reused every year and mom will just put a post-it over the 18 with the correct age. Awesome.
*editors note: author can’t really remember age on banner but it hasn’t been the right in a very long time.
I don’t remember this banner at all, except maybe once with a post-it
I believe the banner says 50 and she trots it out all the time. Pretty much every birthday we have at her house. Adam, wasn’t it up for yours?
Yeah after I made the comment I realized I haven’t been home for anyone’s birthday for awhile. Makes sense if it is a 50th b-day banner. Would’ve been nice for someone who knew about this to put it up for her birthday . . .
Coolest cake and candles ever!
She really outdid herself with the peanutbutter cups.