Thursday, February 23, 2006
you say it's your birthday...well, it's my birthday too yeah!
Well, Mari's birthday went off without a hitch. I was worried that I would screw things up or mess her day up somehow, but I don't think I did. I did opt to buy her a cake instead of making her one. I decided that making her breakfast and serving it to her in bed was good enough. Timing worked out just right too. I was able to finish burning off the CD with the compilation and my new song on it just in time to pick her up from school. It was great to surprise her with that song! Our whole Lawrence posse drove to Topeka and ate at the Olive Garden (her favorite restaurant). The funniest thing was Adam spoiled my gift for her! He blurted out in the car that we went shopping for a bike for her! Oh well, I think she was expecting it anyway. After the Olive Garden we ate my cake from Target and opened presents. It was really great day and I'm just glad she enjoyed herself. She even went wild and ordered a strawberry daiquri at the Olive Garden. She wasn't carded (one of the perks of having a kid...people think you're old). Um, I'm tired of typing so that's everything for now.
Monday, February 20, 2006
valentine's day and other thoughts...
So Valentine's Day has come and gone. Mari and I celebrated at home. I made her a candlelight dinner and we attempted to drink a bottle of wine. I say attempted because we quit drinking it after the first glass. My first wine experience was disappointing to say the least. We had a $15 bottle of Merlot and it tasted like crap. Oh well we had some back-up lingonberry sparkler in the fridge to save the day. Nothing like drinking something from the motherland (Sweden, that is). Mari was a sweetheart and she bought me a new wallet since my old one was falling apart (it was tearing at the seams from all those fat wads of cash I carry around!) Ha, that makes me laugh!
Anyway now I'm looking ahead to Mari's birthday. She turns 21 on Wednesday. I'm taking her to the Olive Garden to celebrate with our merry old gang of friends here in Lawrence. I spent the majority of this afternoon recording a song for her. It was a song I wrote for her for Valentine's Day 2003. It was probably one of the most satisfying recording experiences I've had in awhile. I'm starting to enjoy recording with just Adam. We don't always see eye-to-eye, but I feel like we come up with some really interesting ideas of things to do on songs, plus he really pushes me to sing better and get my guitar parts down. I'm putting the song at the end of a compilation CD of love songs that I made for her. I miss the old-fashioned mixtape. It was more of a labor of love. You had to craft each side and determine just how much time you had to fill before it cut off on you. Oh well...
Well, I think that about does it.
Anyway now I'm looking ahead to Mari's birthday. She turns 21 on Wednesday. I'm taking her to the Olive Garden to celebrate with our merry old gang of friends here in Lawrence. I spent the majority of this afternoon recording a song for her. It was a song I wrote for her for Valentine's Day 2003. It was probably one of the most satisfying recording experiences I've had in awhile. I'm starting to enjoy recording with just Adam. We don't always see eye-to-eye, but I feel like we come up with some really interesting ideas of things to do on songs, plus he really pushes me to sing better and get my guitar parts down. I'm putting the song at the end of a compilation CD of love songs that I made for her. I miss the old-fashioned mixtape. It was more of a labor of love. You had to craft each side and determine just how much time you had to fill before it cut off on you. Oh well...
Well, I think that about does it.
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