While we were there of course Melissa & Travis also came in to eat there. Of all the places in T-town, the Rosewood is the one where we most often run into other people we know, because everyone we know likes to eat there!
We swung by Linnea's on the way home so Carrie could pick up an Amsterdam book she'd left there. Linnea also gave us back our air mattress, which we'd let her borrow so Erin could have someplace to sleep when she was in town. I played with Lena on the rope swing out front while Carrie & Linnea visited. Eva seemed to be doing pretty well considering that Thursday was her 1st birthday.
We came home and I worked on work stuff, and Carrie mostly just relaxed. I took her to the store so she could teach her class, and I printed out her handout and stapled it and ever'thing. Then I came home for just a bit before heading out again.
I met my entire family + Jason & Alexis at the Azteca's in Federal Way. Why? For to celebrate my mom's birthday, which is really unusual, because it's within ten days of her actual birthday. For the past few years this time of year has been so busy (EVERYBODY seems to be born during the last half of April and the first half of May) that my mom has postponed her birthday celebration until August. But not this time!
After dinner (at which I had three cheese enchiladas) we went back to my folks' place where presents were opened. Mum got a Kitchenaid food processor thing and a knife sharpener and some books and a DVD, and I got her a gift certificate to The Rock AKA "Rock Pasta."
My brother recently picked up a copy of The Planiverse
, a book I read many, many years ago but vividly remember about a 2-dimensional world. Apparently 2-D universe writing is an entire subgenre of Science Fiction. Anyway, I thumbed through the book and, yes, I had remembered it very vividly, down to remembering several lines of dialogue with 100% accuracy. Here's something very unusual that happened as well: Sitting on the dining room table when I got to my folks' place was the CD/DVD set of Venue Songs by They Might Be Giants. See, last year for my birthday Susan ordered that set for me, but it hadn't arrived when I had my family celebration. It arrived a while later and was promptly mis-placed. People at my folks' house swore they gave it to me when I picked up some boxes of my junk from their garage, and I swore up and down that I had never been given it. Well, apparently it was found still out in their garage only a short while ago. So now I have Venue Songs, almost an entire year late. Better late than never, though! My car's CD player has been throwing tantrums, though, so I didn't get a chance to listen to it while I was driving around.
At 10:00 my brother & I headed down to the Supermall to go see Hot Fuzz. The craziest thing happened: As Mike & I were buying our tickets, out of the theater walks Geoff and one of his friends. They'd just gotten out from watching Hot Fuzz. Geoff said we'd love it. We thought it would be funny if he said we'd hate it while we were buying tickets for it.
Well, Geoff was correct. I've only seen three movies in the theater so far this year, which sucks, but so far all the movie's I've seen have been incredibly excellent:
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Grindhouse
- Hot Fuzz
If the rest of 2007 keeps up this pace (which is impossible), this will be the best year for movies EVAR.
By the time I finally got home it was after 1:00 in the AM.
Labels: Life, Movies, Restaurants
