February 8, 2004
Advance Warning
If any post seems more than usually incoherent this weekend, please forgive me, as I am celebrating my birthday. On this day in 1972 (that is 29 years ago - in the Keilholtz dictatorship we do not admire the Commies, but there is something about their ability to change basic facts to fit with ideology), I was born in the Great State of California, in a town that will someday be known as Carmichael del Caudillo.
To celebrate my birthday, please have a Sapphire martini (diluted with a splash of water, as gin is sold at too high a proof in this country) and tell me about it. I was going to have a martini before dinner, but realized that I am out of gin and had forgotten to get more. They say the memory is the first thing to go.
If for some strange reason you do not drink gin, then you can celebrate with roast pork and fried potatoes, or trippa alla fiorentina or by playing Toddler Iron Chef (go to a good butcher shop and let the 2 year old pick the meat. It is great fun and you might learn to cook something you never have done before. If you are really adventuresome, do this at the Oakland Housewives Marketplace, which is practically a museum of variety meats). If you want to stop by here to celebrate, please make sure to call first, as we might be doing something after mass. If you really want to give me a birthday present, then come to mass at the National Shrine of St. Francis and volunteer to help with collection, as I am on duty as head usher and am always looking for volunteers.
Posted by erik at February 8, 2004 2:22 AM | TrackBackHey, February 8 is my mama's birthday too. She is 76! :)
Posted by: Ell at February 9, 2004 6:48 PMYou guys make me feel old! I graduated from High School in 1972.
Posted by: alicia the midwife at February 9, 2004 2:07 PMI was also born in 1972 (on the Feast of St. Nicholas)-it was a good year!
Posted by: Pansy Moss at February 9, 2004 11:07 AMHappy Birthday!!! I was also born in 1972 (January 11th) :-)
Jenny
Erik-Happy birthday! It's all downhill from 29 (or 31) on...note that "all downhill" can have a positive or negative meaning!
I don't drink (well, I consume fluids, but not those containing alcohol) so I'll hoist an exceptionally strong glass of iced tea in your honor. John
Posted by: John Salmon at February 8, 2004 4:52 PMHappy birthday!
Posted by: Peony Moss at February 8, 2004 3:49 PMI am out of Sapphire, but I think I have some stuff in a green bottle - on second thought, I might just have a grappatini! Roast pork - yummmmm. Too bad I should have started cooking hours ago. The time zone strikes again.
BTW - is there a parishioner at the Shrine who attends with a wheelchair bound 24 y/o son? Dad is Glenn, son Frank? Good tenor voice (dad)? if so, please tell them hello from me and from John.
Yes, let Amalia pick the stuff while her mind is still as young and open as the big, blue sky! Sow as much adventurism now, in the formative years, as you possibly can!
All too soon they enter the age of EEEEWWWWW.
Posted by: KTC at February 8, 2004 5:01 AMHey, happy birthday!
"Oakland HOUSEWIVES' Marketplace?" VARIETY meats???
Last night I heard horror stories of two housewives who had conniptions at the idea of simply cutting a whole chicken into parts!
One woman, after calling her husband in hysterics, actually had to LIE DOWN ON THE COUCH after hearing joints crack! I kid you not.
I don't think I'll be swapping my giblet gravy recipe with them...
Posted by: KTC at February 8, 2004 4:58 AM