[[Still A Girly Girl: Milestones and Birthday Cakes]]

Mar 26, 2005

Milestones and Birthday Cakes

I probably haven't mentioned it much, but Thursday is Kevin's and my one-year anniversary. He's taking the bus from Vancouver on Monday morning and is going to stay for a full 18 days. Unless he gets bored and wants to go home early.

I picked up the groceries yesterday for his birthday dinner, and I'm looking forward to having an appreciative party to cook for. I told him I would make whatever he wanted and his first response was that he wanted fried chicken. I questioned his decision since I cook fried chicken for him all the time, and he knows how to make it for himself. He asked me to make chicken and ribs instead (I think it's a Canadian thing). I've never made ribs before, but after consulting my mom I feel fairly confident that I will do justice to the lovely boneless short ribs I selected.

I also bought a box of Duncan Hines Signature Desserts cake mix. I've tried the Orange Dreamsicle and Boston Cream Pie flavors before and wasn't terribly impressed, but the White Chocolate Raspberry cake looked too yummy to pass up. I bought two boxes and am going to make one tomorrow as a "tester". If it's no good I will return the second box and choose something safer, like a spice cake with cream cheese frosting. I might just do that anyway.

I ordered Kevin's birthday gift a couple of weeks ago and should receive it in the mail any day now, but I'm still a little anxious that it will take a long time to get here and I want to have it wrapped to present to him at his birthday dinner. I have a couple of small things to give him, but the yet-to-be-received gift is the piece de resistance. No, let me correct myself: the anniversary gift is the piece de resistance. I know you are all dying to know what fabulous items I will be spoiling him with, but since he reads this blog you will have to wait a week or so to find out exactly what they are.

So, with Kevin in town for two and a half weeks, I'm not sure how much time I will have to post. Hopefully I will be able to pop on every couple days just to say, "Having a great time, wish you were here!", but don't lose faith in me if it takes me awhile to update.

I haven't forgotten my promise to upload an MP3 for your listening pleasure. I've found someone with the webspace and bandwidth capacity to host it, now I just have to send him the file, wait for him to upload to his domain, and link it here. Keep checking back!

Posted by erynthenerd @ 4:35 AM

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