Re: Happy birthday Magda!
Posted by:
Magda (---.dialip.mich.net)
Date: May 12, 2003 05:46AM
And as to everyone else:
Sarah:
Thank you! Please convey my belated birthday greetings to Minsky. As it happens, I didn't make a cake for my birthday, but I did still make two cakes this weekend.
For the Mothers' Day potluck at church, I did a red velvet cake with cream cheese filling and buttercream icing, with a spray of buttercream roses on top and basketweave on the sides.
And I just finished a cake for my mother to bring to work for a coworker's 60th birthday. The top is done to look like a basket of flowers (light chocolate icing basketweave covering the lower third of the round top, and a rope handle piped round the rest of the border, and lots of royal icing flowers), while the side has white and yellow basket weave. I'll go take a picture of it shortly, before boxing it and putting it in mum's trunk (boot).
Twila:
Thank you! No, I didn't get an ice cream cake, but I did get free dinner at a very nice Italian restaurant, including a free birthday cannolli with fresh fruit (which I shared with my mother in exchange for some of her tiramisu).
Emma:
Thanks! While I didn't get vershnicket, I did have a nice glass of wine with dinner.
Gill:
Thank you for letting me know I've been mentioned. Hopefully the strong impression I made on Jasper was a positive one....
And hello to the rats. I'm rather fond of rats myself, but unfortunately my immune system is no more fond of them than it is of cats (allergies).
And thank you to all the other human and furry folks who've wished me happy birthday!
BTW, my main birthday present from my mother was tickets to see the Billy Joel and Elton John Face to Face tour, during their stop in Detroit last weekend. Fabulous concert with 3 and a half hours of straight music. Only annoyance was that the seats were very small (significantly smaller than a coach airline seat) and I'm not, so I had to wedge myself between the armrests. There were a lot of people significantly larger than me, and I have no idea how they managed to fit in the seats. Then the guy who sat next to mom arrived late (15 minutes into the concert), left 3 times during the concert to use the loo and buy more beer, and then left early. This means I had to wedge myself out of and then back into the seat a total of 8 times to let him in and out of the row. Annoying, but it didn't spoil the concert, by any stretch. Where else am I going to see Billy Joel sing "Stop! in the Name of Love" (Something I wouldn't have thought I'd ever see, but then again, we were in Motown). Particularly enjoyed the way the band dropped out and let the audience do the "La la la" bits in 'Crocodile Rock' and the chorus in Piano Man.
BTW, there were very few empty seats. All but the most expensive tickets were completely sold out, and this was a second concert added after the one the night before sold out. The arena holds 18,000 people with the stage set up (it hold 22,000 for basketball games). Needless to say, it took a while to get out of the parking lot afterwards.
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