Everybody's eating for the weekend.

[leahbobet]

Yesterday was my 28th birthday, and for my birthday I went to kiviuq's book launch, utterly failed to get blocking pins for my lace shawl that I wish to block, had a loffly Buddha Bowl and a lavender chocolate cupcake for dinner at Fresh, and then had a party with The People, various regiments and divisions, at The Central. It was good! We had fun! Madeline almost made me spit a drink I laughed so hard!

Overall, good birthday. Laid-back. Nice. :)

Today was the Mother's Day/Leah's Birthday Combined Annual Dinner (this happens a lot) at my parents' place. There was barbeque, gluten-free dairy-free chocolate cake which was nonetheless really good (my mom can't have dairy, my grandmother can't have gluten) and presents. My sister got me a really nice book about the history of tea. There was, in fact, tea.

Since my mother, grandmother, and great-aunt were downtown this afternoon with my grandmother's old ladies' social group seeing a Music of Gershwin show, it was decided that the easiest way to get up to my parents' place in the 'burbs was to take the bus back up to my grandmother's apartment building with the rest of said retired social group and families. My mom and I sat at the back of the bus doing stuff like this:

Me: Oh look, it's Shoppers Drug Mart. (points out the window to office building with Shoppers logo) I choose to believe that that's actually not a head office, but just a really, really big drugstore with every kind of toiletpaper in the universe. Twelve floors of toiletpaper.

Mom: It's twelve floors of tampons, and when it rains, it's 24 floors.

(Both collapse into hysterical laughter)

...so now you know who's responsible for me being how I am. Happy Mother's Day. *g*

Comments

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I make a really tasty chocolate torte (that's what the recipe is calledfor some odd reason; it's not a real torte) that was originally intended for Passover, but it's good enough that I make it any time of year. I use butter, but the recipe actually originally calls for margarine (so it's pareve, I presume) and it's based on ground almonds rather than flour.

Want the recipe for future family usage? (Though it sounds like what you had may have been the same sort of thing.)

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I may well take you up on that.

I think the cake my mom made was just out of a garden-variety gluten-free cookbook.

[haruhiko.livejournal.com]

RACHID TAHA \O/

Happy Birthday! <3

P.S. During my stay in Vancouver I learned that Shoppers Drug Mart's waterproof band-aids DO NOT WORK AS ADVERTISED. >:[

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Thank you! <3

(And yeah, no surprise. :p )

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Yay for good birthdays!

[hominysnark.livejournal.com]

"It's twelve floors of tampons, and when it rains, it's 24 floors."

heeeee!

Happy belated birfday!

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

[wirewalking.livejournal.com]

Aw, I was away from my computer all weekend until late yesterday and by that time my brain was fried and I totally forgot it was your birthday. Happy belated! <3

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Ooh - what is the history-of-tea book?

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

It's Tea Culture: History, Traditions, Celebrations, Recipes and More, Beverly Dubrin. It's sort of half-cookbook. Nothing hugely scholarly, but nice.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I will track that down. (I'm scared of anything too scholarly, you understand.)

[coffeeem.livejournal.com]

Shopper's Drug Mart made me laugh uproariously. My compliments to your mom. *g*

ETA: D'oh! And HAPPY BIRTHDAY! (I got to laughing and forgot that part. o.O)

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Hee -- thank you!