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10/25/2003 Archived Entry: "full birthday details =D"
This has been a really memorable birthday. Thursday night some new friends who live near main campus stayed over, they woke me up at 6am with ice cream cake. I took a test later that morning, but I did well on it so woot!
Then last night Dan, Hallie, Ben, David and I all went out for sushi. Little Tokyo has such a good environment for laughing and joking around along with good food. I ate a whole deluxe platter of sushi and if anyone knows of my eating habits that says something. Lots of great new jokes. I almost chocked a few times from some of David's comments. It was SOOO refreshing being in the company of such wonderful friends. It makes me wish I had all my friends and family with me all at once, but that'd be rather chaotic =) We then went and wandered on top of Mt Washington. I love my city. I missed my city. I missed the people in my city.
My grandfather took me out for lunch this morning. And then my grandmother came into town today too. She is such an amazing cook. She got me free-range chicken. ^_^ Really really wonderful concord grapes too. I've never had concord grapes before. Sure, everyone's had the jelly, but the actual fruit? I can see why people make jelly to taste like them.
I feel really bad that I couldn't see my friend Sarah. She was supposed to visit me but I really needed to go home and also my grandmother rarely takes visits. I was planning on visiting home mid-semester so I left all my winter clothing at home...and now it's friggin freezing and I have tank tops and sandles to wear.
Definitely been a very memorable birthday though. And it wasn't even a traditional 21 birthday. (aka 21 shots and then 21 pukes. I have barely any alcohol tolerance anyways). I had a glass of wine at dinner. *nods* But I had sushi, taco salad, traditional kentuky fried chicken (my great-grandmother was a southerner and it's her recipe), concord grapes, spoon bread (another souther recipe used on in a now yankee household), green beans, and a wonderful pear and cranberry cobbler.
Oh! I want to talk about spoon bread actually.
I love family traditions. Generally because I come from a very "old money" family. We don't exactly have the money of that old money, but we have the heirlooms and traditions, and I love all of them.
One of them is spoonbread. Spoonbread is a starch served at dinner. Most American faimlies use some sort of potato dish. We have a thick extremely moist (to the point of falling apart) corn meal based side dish. It's made out of corn meal, a specific ground type of corn meal. It's very easy to make if you can find the corn meal. But a year or two ago, the remaining manufacture of the corn meal said they were discontinuing it. This was a bit upsetting because it's a tradition for at least 3 generations that I am aware of. I thought we had had our last spoonbread last thanksgiving. I was pleasantly surprized to find out that the manufactures decided to continue making the corn meal. So I had spoonbread. And things were good. It makes me want to have kids so I can serve them spoonbread. I love traditions.
But either way. I'm an adult now. Wow. *laughs* Not that I didn't know I could be as emotionally and intellectually mature as some, but....I'm too irresponcible and playful about some things. It's sort of weird. Do I become boring now? *laughs* I guess I get to. =)