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Mon, Aug. 20th, 2012 10:23 pm
Thank you all for the birthday messages <3! I love everyone *^^*
Friday night was the traditional birthday dinner put on by Mum, strangely on the actual night-of this year, so that was extra special X3 The tradition involves many things--a packet of sour cream and onion Pringles, which we think was started with Christmas stockings when we were, like 5 years old; between me and my brother, wrapping presents in the plastic/paper bag they were bought in; specifying a base from which Mum then creates dinner. This year's base, just to be different from the standard duck or lamb, was tuna. Because tuna is such a rare thing, it being pricier and not quite as awesome as salmon. But dude. Tuna. If ever there was an excuse, birthday dinner is it X9
Awesome green-curried prawns for nibblies with some cocktail I forget the name of but which featured Galliano, orange and grenadine, among others, followed by entrée of AMAZING. A bit of puff pastry with smoked salmon and a poached pear, then doused in an amazing subtle white Costello sauce alskjdgaklsj so awesome I love my mummy. The tuna itself was done in Moroccan spices and was cooked to perfection. Then~ a kumquat sorbet curiously well matched with herb bread, and finally~ apple tart for dessert.
Backing up a bit, work on Friday was lovely, too X3 Started off with a free coffee and the staff of the coffee shop singing happy birthday to me, dorks <3 Then the first thing I saw on my desk upon arriving in the office was a packet of Haigh's with Happy Birthday from [Workmate] written on it *^^* The traditional box of donuts* came in with designer!boss and we feasted on them for the day. Also spoiled myself for lunch and got a smoked salmon wrap from the coffee shop. I almost took a full hour for lunch, too, but that'd mean getting home half an hour later so I didn't.
Presents~ man oh man I got a haul. I love my people <3 Just so I don't forget:
Anna P: Actually given to me two months ago, because it was a bike light, the BRIGHTEST AND MOST BLINDING AVAILABLE, so I don't get run over while riding to and from work in the dark of winter.
Colin: A wine airator! With stand included. This thing is damn classy. We used it on the night, too, though since it was tuna we only had a(n aged) rosé to go with it, no impressive reds that would really benefit from the airating. But yes. Classy.
Laura: Half a dozen crystal red wine glasses. They are beautiful <3 Also, a pair of green earrings from my favourite shop in the city, Ikeguchi.
Mum: Full set of crockery! Plates, bowls, side plates, eight of each. A mouli, which is a sort of strainer thing, vital in the making of real tomato sauce.
Dad: Amazingly, not tech! A Wusthoff utility knife, in fact. Homg. I love it. One knife closer to my set of Wusthoffs <3
Gran: $30! I'll have to think about what to spend that on. I always deliberately spend birthday money on a Thing, so I can say the Thing was from that person and have good memories :D Rather than just letting it dissolve into bills and petrol and weekly shopping.
I feel special *^^*
Rest of the weekend was just spent bumming around, really. Watched the Crows (lose to Brisbane. WTF boys) then went to see the Bourne Legacy, which was a fabby addition to the Bourne franchise, annnnd a whole lot of telly watching. It was that kind of weekend.
Work today... surprisingly quiet. At least, it felt it, though I finished the day with more than the usual number of emails in my inbox. In any case, I can actually see what I'm doing now. I have six people to chase up with regard to proofs tomorrow, then some business cards for someone else to edit and reproof (fsking QR codes), then the day SHOULD be free to work on the alpaca catalogue for the Show. Really looking forward to that, I think it'll be fun to design :D Every time I look at it, tho, I do get the Llama song stuck in my head. But I've successfully gotten it stuck in my workmates' heads as well, so that makes it all okay. And now I've done it to you, too. Sucked in >D
* I am yet to understand this tradition. Every other workplace in the country, I'm sure, requires that you buy your own goddamned cake for your own goddamned birthday. NOT MY WORKPLACE.
Friday night was the traditional birthday dinner put on by Mum, strangely on the actual night-of this year, so that was extra special X3 The tradition involves many things--a packet of sour cream and onion Pringles, which we think was started with Christmas stockings when we were, like 5 years old; between me and my brother, wrapping presents in the plastic/paper bag they were bought in; specifying a base from which Mum then creates dinner. This year's base, just to be different from the standard duck or lamb, was tuna. Because tuna is such a rare thing, it being pricier and not quite as awesome as salmon. But dude. Tuna. If ever there was an excuse, birthday dinner is it X9
Awesome green-curried prawns for nibblies with some cocktail I forget the name of but which featured Galliano, orange and grenadine, among others, followed by entrée of AMAZING. A bit of puff pastry with smoked salmon and a poached pear, then doused in an amazing subtle white Costello sauce alskjdgaklsj so awesome I love my mummy. The tuna itself was done in Moroccan spices and was cooked to perfection. Then~ a kumquat sorbet curiously well matched with herb bread, and finally~ apple tart for dessert.
Backing up a bit, work on Friday was lovely, too X3 Started off with a free coffee and the staff of the coffee shop singing happy birthday to me, dorks <3 Then the first thing I saw on my desk upon arriving in the office was a packet of Haigh's with Happy Birthday from [Workmate] written on it *^^* The traditional box of donuts* came in with designer!boss and we feasted on them for the day. Also spoiled myself for lunch and got a smoked salmon wrap from the coffee shop. I almost took a full hour for lunch, too, but that'd mean getting home half an hour later so I didn't.
Presents~ man oh man I got a haul. I love my people <3 Just so I don't forget:
Anna P: Actually given to me two months ago, because it was a bike light, the BRIGHTEST AND MOST BLINDING AVAILABLE, so I don't get run over while riding to and from work in the dark of winter.
Colin: A wine airator! With stand included. This thing is damn classy. We used it on the night, too, though since it was tuna we only had a(n aged) rosé to go with it, no impressive reds that would really benefit from the airating. But yes. Classy.
Laura: Half a dozen crystal red wine glasses. They are beautiful <3 Also, a pair of green earrings from my favourite shop in the city, Ikeguchi.
Mum: Full set of crockery! Plates, bowls, side plates, eight of each. A mouli, which is a sort of strainer thing, vital in the making of real tomato sauce.
Dad: Amazingly, not tech! A Wusthoff utility knife, in fact. Homg. I love it. One knife closer to my set of Wusthoffs <3
Gran: $30! I'll have to think about what to spend that on. I always deliberately spend birthday money on a Thing, so I can say the Thing was from that person and have good memories :D Rather than just letting it dissolve into bills and petrol and weekly shopping.
I feel special *^^*
Rest of the weekend was just spent bumming around, really. Watched the Crows (lose to Brisbane. WTF boys) then went to see the Bourne Legacy, which was a fabby addition to the Bourne franchise, annnnd a whole lot of telly watching. It was that kind of weekend.
Work today... surprisingly quiet. At least, it felt it, though I finished the day with more than the usual number of emails in my inbox. In any case, I can actually see what I'm doing now. I have six people to chase up with regard to proofs tomorrow, then some business cards for someone else to edit and reproof (fsking QR codes), then the day SHOULD be free to work on the alpaca catalogue for the Show. Really looking forward to that, I think it'll be fun to design :D Every time I look at it, tho, I do get the Llama song stuck in my head. But I've successfully gotten it stuck in my workmates' heads as well, so that makes it all okay. And now I've done it to you, too. Sucked in >D
* I am yet to understand this tradition. Every other workplace in the country, I'm sure, requires that you buy your own goddamned cake for your own goddamned birthday. NOT MY WORKPLACE.