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wwcitizenSoooo... my birthday weekend went like this:
Friday night - got off work at 6:15 or so, and went to dinner in Chelsea with Matthew and a friend,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
peterpandanyc - decent place called Sette. peterpandanyc brought his favorite bottle of red wine with him and a present called "Expert" - a game similar to Trivial Pursuit (I think) and it looks pretty fun! Then we all three went out for a bit to the West Village to one of our favorite bars till about 12:30 and were in bed by 1:00 AM. It was really good - saw lots of peeps I hadn't seen in YEARS!
Saturday - got up around 9:30 or so, had breakfast and piddled around the house doing things and watching TV (food porn). Went shopping for a couple of hours and I bought 5 new pairs of shoes!! Two of them are WICKED and I wore one of them yesterday to the city for my actual birthday. We went to a BBQ at a friend of Matt's house close by and were there from 7:30 till about 1:30. Into bed by 3:30 or so after opening Matt's pile o' presents.
Sunday - got up at about 9:30 (again) and was on the phone and on text messaging for about 30 minutes with family and friends with b-day wishes. Left around 10:30 for brunch at a Bobby Flay restaurant (Bar Americain - WONDERFUL) and discovered that my new shoes matched the restaurant's floor (diamond-shaped marble tiles)! I took pictures. Then we went to see Mama Mia! It was fantastic and we had superb seats - 4 rows from the stage dead center of the theater. Afterwards we went to the Meatpacking District for dinner at Fig & Olive, but stopped off at an Italian restaurant's bar for a bottle of red wine and olives. The dinner at Fig & Olive was so tasty and wonderful, we kept looking at each other and on the verge of ecstacy and tears kept exclaiming, "This is soooo good! I love this place!"
Have you ever eaten a meal that was so good that you wanted to cry? That was our meal at Fig & Olive. Excellent menu options (Mediterranean restaurant on 13th St.), and so much to choose from. The hummus was like butter it was so smooth. When we got home, although we had promised each other that for our diet, it would be a "blackout day" (meaning that we didn't care what we ate, we wanted to enjoy ourselves and our food), we started logging what we ate. We discovered that we had each eaten about 2-3 times more calories than was our standard lot. At one point in the restaurant, I was so full I thought I was going to throw up! LOL I didn't, but all the food was excellent, well-prepared, and tasty.
One of the F&O waiters (not ours!) mentioned that I matched their restaurant from the colors I was wearing. How funny is it that I took a picture of my shoes matching the floor in Bar Americain, and then I matched the entire restaurant in the evening! Must be my Qi.
It was one of the most memorable birthdays I've had in a long time. I would say that there are really three b-days that I will remember my entire life and that this is one of them. Matthew makes me so happy that I am gleeful all the time. When we were with his friends on Saturday, we kept glancing at each other and saying quietly, "We're the happiest couple of all of our friends here... and most people would think that gay couples wouldn't be this happy!"
All the couples there, except us, are on the verge of separation or divorce, but on the surface, everything's beautiful and perfect. It's really sad for them, and plus, I know they're all jealous of us - terribly so. Two of them were outwardly jealous that Matthew and I have lost apiece about 35 pounds. We hadn't seen any of them for a couple of months and the change is apparently so drastic, they were floored! Very strange evening. When we got there, we were the solid focus of the conversation and they all made us carry the conversation the entire evening. Very weird... but interesting and ultimately fun.
So, that was my weekend. Doesn't that sound eclectic and fun?
Friday night - got off work at 6:15 or so, and went to dinner in Chelsea with Matthew and a friend,
peterpandanyc - decent place called Sette. peterpandanyc brought his favorite bottle of red wine with him and a present called "Expert" - a game similar to Trivial Pursuit (I think) and it looks pretty fun! Then we all three went out for a bit to the West Village to one of our favorite bars till about 12:30 and were in bed by 1:00 AM. It was really good - saw lots of peeps I hadn't seen in YEARS!Saturday - got up around 9:30 or so, had breakfast and piddled around the house doing things and watching TV (food porn). Went shopping for a couple of hours and I bought 5 new pairs of shoes!! Two of them are WICKED and I wore one of them yesterday to the city for my actual birthday. We went to a BBQ at a friend of Matt's house close by and were there from 7:30 till about 1:30. Into bed by 3:30 or so after opening Matt's pile o' presents.
Sunday - got up at about 9:30 (again) and was on the phone and on text messaging for about 30 minutes with family and friends with b-day wishes. Left around 10:30 for brunch at a Bobby Flay restaurant (Bar Americain - WONDERFUL) and discovered that my new shoes matched the restaurant's floor (diamond-shaped marble tiles)! I took pictures. Then we went to see Mama Mia! It was fantastic and we had superb seats - 4 rows from the stage dead center of the theater. Afterwards we went to the Meatpacking District for dinner at Fig & Olive, but stopped off at an Italian restaurant's bar for a bottle of red wine and olives. The dinner at Fig & Olive was so tasty and wonderful, we kept looking at each other and on the verge of ecstacy and tears kept exclaiming, "This is soooo good! I love this place!"
Have you ever eaten a meal that was so good that you wanted to cry? That was our meal at Fig & Olive. Excellent menu options (Mediterranean restaurant on 13th St.), and so much to choose from. The hummus was like butter it was so smooth. When we got home, although we had promised each other that for our diet, it would be a "blackout day" (meaning that we didn't care what we ate, we wanted to enjoy ourselves and our food), we started logging what we ate. We discovered that we had each eaten about 2-3 times more calories than was our standard lot. At one point in the restaurant, I was so full I thought I was going to throw up! LOL I didn't, but all the food was excellent, well-prepared, and tasty.
One of the F&O waiters (not ours!) mentioned that I matched their restaurant from the colors I was wearing. How funny is it that I took a picture of my shoes matching the floor in Bar Americain, and then I matched the entire restaurant in the evening! Must be my Qi.
It was one of the most memorable birthdays I've had in a long time. I would say that there are really three b-days that I will remember my entire life and that this is one of them. Matthew makes me so happy that I am gleeful all the time. When we were with his friends on Saturday, we kept glancing at each other and saying quietly, "We're the happiest couple of all of our friends here... and most people would think that gay couples wouldn't be this happy!"
All the couples there, except us, are on the verge of separation or divorce, but on the surface, everything's beautiful and perfect. It's really sad for them, and plus, I know they're all jealous of us - terribly so. Two of them were outwardly jealous that Matthew and I have lost apiece about 35 pounds. We hadn't seen any of them for a couple of months and the change is apparently so drastic, they were floored! Very strange evening. When we got there, we were the solid focus of the conversation and they all made us carry the conversation the entire evening. Very weird... but interesting and ultimately fun.
So, that was my weekend. Doesn't that sound eclectic and fun?
