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Happy Birthday Mom
Nov. 8th, 2012 09:35 amYesterday was my mom's 70th birthday. She wanted to celebrate by getting a second piercing in her ears, which she mentioned a while back so I looked up piercers on Yelp and found a tattoo parlor with good reviews in Concord. My dad mentioned it to his personal trainer, and (the trainer, who is in his 60s, I think) recommended the place where he'd gotten his tattoo of Jesus carrying his cross and doing pushups (I have not seen this tattoo but it sounds kind of awesome). Dad couldn't remember the name, but he remembered the directions to it, and when we went there it was the same place that I had found on Yelp, so it was definitely the place we were meant to go to.
The piercer was super nice and got Mom set up while Dad and I perused the sample tattoos. He said he was thinking about getting one, but I'm not sure how serious he was. I'm still deciding on the placement of my next one - I don't have the design per se, but I have a pretty good idea what I want and expect to work with an artist to get it right, but I was originally thinking of getting it on my back and now I feel like I want it somewhere where I can see it easily, but also cover it up easily, so, I don't know. Anyway, Mom got little opal studs that she'll keep in until my birthday, and then she can wear her multitude of sparkly studs that she was pretty much never wearing because she has lots of dangly earrings she likes (she can always wear fun earrings that are suitable for the occasion whether it's a holiday or a trip to a historic monument or time to work in the garden) but now she can wear both. So yay!
Then we went to dinner at a pretty great Mediterranean place that gave us all free soup and brought Mom a free piece of baklava with a candle in it, which she said she was going to share but then ate all of, so it must have been pretty good! Then I made Chocolate Chantilly out of a couple of Valhrona Extra Noir bars, and that was a big hit.
My sister suggested that at some point (which looks like it will be next May, maybe) The four of us (Mom, me, my sister and my niece) have a Girl's Weekend at a cabin somewhere, Lassen or Shasta or wherever ends up working out. My dad loved that idea, so that became part of his birthday present to my mom, too. That will be a lot of fun when it happens.
So, good day. And I was actually productive on my own stuff before doing all that - my To Do list for yesterday is completely cleared! I think I might be a bit of a slug today, though, I'm kind of tired and it's supposed to rain and I have a lot of TV to watch...
The piercer was super nice and got Mom set up while Dad and I perused the sample tattoos. He said he was thinking about getting one, but I'm not sure how serious he was. I'm still deciding on the placement of my next one - I don't have the design per se, but I have a pretty good idea what I want and expect to work with an artist to get it right, but I was originally thinking of getting it on my back and now I feel like I want it somewhere where I can see it easily, but also cover it up easily, so, I don't know. Anyway, Mom got little opal studs that she'll keep in until my birthday, and then she can wear her multitude of sparkly studs that she was pretty much never wearing because she has lots of dangly earrings she likes (she can always wear fun earrings that are suitable for the occasion whether it's a holiday or a trip to a historic monument or time to work in the garden) but now she can wear both. So yay!
Then we went to dinner at a pretty great Mediterranean place that gave us all free soup and brought Mom a free piece of baklava with a candle in it, which she said she was going to share but then ate all of, so it must have been pretty good! Then I made Chocolate Chantilly out of a couple of Valhrona Extra Noir bars, and that was a big hit.
My sister suggested that at some point (which looks like it will be next May, maybe) The four of us (Mom, me, my sister and my niece) have a Girl's Weekend at a cabin somewhere, Lassen or Shasta or wherever ends up working out. My dad loved that idea, so that became part of his birthday present to my mom, too. That will be a lot of fun when it happens.
So, good day. And I was actually productive on my own stuff before doing all that - my To Do list for yesterday is completely cleared! I think I might be a bit of a slug today, though, I'm kind of tired and it's supposed to rain and I have a lot of TV to watch...