Silk Scarf , map of Shanghai
I made Big Daddy soup on Friday so he was Mr. Happy all weekend. That man loves his soup.
I will start with the most exciting and finish with the WTF.
Punkin Head called and wished me a happy day. That boy makes me happy. Last year he sent a card but we never gave him the new address when we moved.
Big Daddy gave me a beautiful hand made shawl with 999 roses sewn on, this signifies everlasting and enduring love and devotion. The color of the roses means his only love forever. So if I die he cannot give it to wife number 2. And because it was my birthday and we have spent a bunch of money there the shawl store gave me a silk scarf with a map of Shanghai on it.
Amay gave me a beautiful silk scarf in my favorite colors, purple and green.
After a nice walk I got a taxi and surprised BD by going to Kapps for dinner. He loves that place and we both had excellent steaks. First steaks since we have been back in China.
Sunday we went for a walk and ended up grabbing a taxi to the Italian restaurant on Maoming. BD has wanted to go there for awhile and have pizza. Their pizza is just like the ones he had in Torino, and last night the special was truffle pizza. He was over the moon.
When I got my hair done Saturday Anna gave me a free deep conditioner for my birthday. It is the one where they wrap up your head and put under a bonnet that ties you down and then a bunch of steam comes off your head for 20 minutes. Gotta say my hair looked great.
Oh yes, others remembered my special day too, Sephora sent me an email with a free gift (did not open the email yet) Delta Airlines sent me a Birthday Greeting and a discount code just in case I want to spend a bunch of money with them before December 31, and my old radio station in Detroit emailed me a have a happy day. Wow.
Seriously, I had a great weekend, drama free. Except for one little thing. We stopped at the video store and no they do not have The Help movie. They tried to show BD the new movies and he told them is not buying anything until they get The Help. They were sad, we do spend some kwai with them. Then we were walking past Mr. Woody's and what do see, a poster for The Help. Mr. Woody does not have the movie The Help, he has the poster. Yes, yes, we have the poster now. WTF. BD went on the Internet looking for movie here in Shanghai, they sent him to my blog.
I just this movie is a ball tearer when you get it. rates 8.1 on IMDB I sure would not want you to be disappointed - even with the 20 cent version. And happy birthday. The Delta code must have been a buzz - did they promise not to bust your ass next time you fly?
ReplyDeleteYepper, I hope that movie is not gonna disappoint.
ReplyDeleteI love the last line, he found you, how cool is that, [no question mark need]
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ReplyDeleteesby, yes that is your new name, we need to get you some milk and cookies. Today is chocolate chip and double chocolate milk as I am tired.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the new name. When I turned 47 I picked up a fourth name legally, the S, before that it was just three initials, ebb. While I was in college I informally had an extra E name in the second position, so it was eebb for a short while. I lived with a bunch of Mexicans in the dorm who pronounced it several ways.
ReplyDeleteI am tired too, stayed up reading and writing and fine beveraging, and I get to go do a POS software installation today for another company, so that will be new. I use POS quite a bit, but this will be a newer version, and I've never installed it before. But I have been a computer scientist for about three decades, so I've installed abazillion different things from drivers to operating systems as well as lotza hardware. The lights go blinky-blink. My cookies today will be cashew sandies. The Keebler peanut butter cup style were terrible, both packages. Bad elves or possibly a bad peanut crop, not sure.
ReplyDeleteWhen I glanced at your picture of the scarf I could immediately read the 'Shanghai' part on the right side of the characters, because I knew that Chinese proper name, but I wasn't sure what the left side characters were. My Japanese and Chinese are quite limited.
ReplyDeleteesby, we do not eat grocery store cookies. It is wrong. If one is desparate one goes to a vending machine and gets Famous Amos.
ReplyDeleteMy preference at the moment is German Chocolate cake, but of course that will soon change to pumpkin pie.
ReplyDeleteThat Chinese writing on the scarf appears to be a Comic Sans font version of the language. Interesting, but I couldn't figure it out besides the Shanghai part.
ReplyDeleteOh, Badger started calling me "esby" now, so your new name for me is spreading.
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