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While my DS is charging
Sep. 14th, 2010 11:19 amMy sweetie got me the new Professor Layton game for my birthday. I've played it until the little lights have turned red, so I have to keep myself occupied until it's charged enough to play for several more hours, because that what I'm like with these games. Puzzles are so addicting!!!
But that's not all the birthday fun there was to be had last week. The tale started on Thursday (even though it was supposed to start on Wednesday, but weather got in the way, however we won't dwell on the negative bits here) with my very first ever trip in a sailboat. It was a sailing lesson with Scovare Yachts, and it turned out to be a private lesson because all the other students canceled for the day (and the captain didn't want to leave me stranded on the docks two days in a row). We didn't go far from the Willamette Park docks, but we got up to a pretty good speed at one point (and a pretty good lean which scared me a bit) and I was at the helm for most of the hour. Very exciting.
I followed that with two hours of sauna time at Löyly, in the Clinton area. They had a wet box and a dry box with a cold shower between, and lots of little extra goodies that I didn't buy (like cleansing tea and sea salts and snacks and facial packages and shampoo). I went during women only hours, so no suit thank goodness. Only problem was one woman mistakenly grabbed my robe and wore it around the resting area for a good ten minutes before I realized it. So I just went around in my towel after that. Ick.
Saturday morning I got up and finished my new dress, then went to a sewing circle meetup at PDX Seamsters. It was the first time I'd been back in the new space and it was wonderful back there! So much room, so many cutting tables, lots of space to plug in machines and even a kitchen and a changing area to try stuff on. I may just go back there sometime even if there's not a meetup there.
Then I came home, got gussied, and sweetie and I went out to eat at Bo Asian Bistro, which was very disappointing, but I was nervous anyway and didn't want to eat much so it was ok. Then we went to Voicebox, where I'd rented a private karaoke room for my friends and I for two hours. And we sang and sang and sang and sang and one friend brought me homemade peanut butter brownie bites and it was so completely awesome. We ended the night with Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me." It's my new favorite karaoke song.
Just when you thought it couldn't get any better, Sunday morning came. My sweetie wrote me a poem and read it out loud to me (and I had a little teary-eyed moment of joy) and then he made me french toast with strawberries and bacon (and tried to make me a pot of tea) and announced that even though the new Professor Layton game wasn't supposed to come out for another week or so, they had upped the release date to THAT DAY and we could go pick it up as soon as I wanted to (squee!!!!). I got phone calls from all my family members. And then my neighborhood threw me a birthday party (well, it was the Belmont Street Fair that day, but still).
Yeah. Best birthday ever.
But that's not all the birthday fun there was to be had last week. The tale started on Thursday (even though it was supposed to start on Wednesday, but weather got in the way, however we won't dwell on the negative bits here) with my very first ever trip in a sailboat. It was a sailing lesson with Scovare Yachts, and it turned out to be a private lesson because all the other students canceled for the day (and the captain didn't want to leave me stranded on the docks two days in a row). We didn't go far from the Willamette Park docks, but we got up to a pretty good speed at one point (and a pretty good lean which scared me a bit) and I was at the helm for most of the hour. Very exciting. I followed that with two hours of sauna time at Löyly, in the Clinton area. They had a wet box and a dry box with a cold shower between, and lots of little extra goodies that I didn't buy (like cleansing tea and sea salts and snacks and facial packages and shampoo). I went during women only hours, so no suit thank goodness. Only problem was one woman mistakenly grabbed my robe and wore it around the resting area for a good ten minutes before I realized it. So I just went around in my towel after that. Ick.
Saturday morning I got up and finished my new dress, then went to a sewing circle meetup at PDX Seamsters. It was the first time I'd been back in the new space and it was wonderful back there! So much room, so many cutting tables, lots of space to plug in machines and even a kitchen and a changing area to try stuff on. I may just go back there sometime even if there's not a meetup there.
Then I came home, got gussied, and sweetie and I went out to eat at Bo Asian Bistro, which was very disappointing, but I was nervous anyway and didn't want to eat much so it was ok. Then we went to Voicebox, where I'd rented a private karaoke room for my friends and I for two hours. And we sang and sang and sang and sang and one friend brought me homemade peanut butter brownie bites and it was so completely awesome. We ended the night with Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me." It's my new favorite karaoke song. Just when you thought it couldn't get any better, Sunday morning came. My sweetie wrote me a poem and read it out loud to me (and I had a little teary-eyed moment of joy) and then he made me french toast with strawberries and bacon (and tried to make me a pot of tea) and announced that even though the new Professor Layton game wasn't supposed to come out for another week or so, they had upped the release date to THAT DAY and we could go pick it up as soon as I wanted to (squee!!!!). I got phone calls from all my family members. And then my neighborhood threw me a birthday party (well, it was the Belmont Street Fair that day, but still).
Yeah. Best birthday ever.
