I was just taking a walk after work. But I got me this badge.
This badge also reminds me that 2022 was the first year I regularly heard “Lunar New Year” rather than “Chinese New Year.” The former seems the more accurate term, as the same type of celebration happens in countries other than China.
Some craft cocktail fixins, a great mug, and a stack of reading material with bonus Sarration. Win!
I’m back in the emergency room, hanging out with the emergency room patient. Of note, apparently they call them emergency departments now? Seems dumb. Though more descriptive of what they are.
I didn’t have all my Wordle supports and improvised with this. It didn’t work out so well for me, though.
From the future, I can report that the patient got admitted, went home, and got admitted the next weekend too. Fun times.
I discovered this little stack of post-it note calendar and bought one immediately. It’s fun to pull off the note each day and discover the next week’s theme.
This also came with a little spiral bound book where I could stick each day’s note in the book. There was a lot of flavor text that I couldn’t read because it was in Japanese. Google translate told me that it was talking about the various office supplies that are featured each week.
Matt and I took the moms to see the Bakelite Santas. As they were last year, they were fun to find.
I enjoy their glow in the December dark.
This year, only one was wearing a mask.
Sara sent many fun things, including this tile that I’m excited to tile into something in my home. Kitchen? Bathroom? It remains to be seen.
Thanks, Sara!
I ordered the fun Collins glasses with the orange diamonds from the Betsys on Etsy, and got this personalized note with my order. Delightful.
In searching for a link to their shop, I see I could have also bought rocks glasses in the same style. Perhaps I will be shopping with them again soon.
Aside from a delicious meal with the BroMAunts, Matt, and Kelly, plus opening presents, I also got this blast from the past from my mom’s cookbook collection.
I had a great time going through the recipes.
And this drawing was attached. Note the lack of multicultural crayon options available to Gen X kids meant we had white face or blackface. Apparently, I wasn’t in the mood for white face when I drew this.
Yes, that’s right. For the third birthday celebration, we took the day off work and went to a corn maze! The one on Kruger’s Farm, to be precise. We arrived just as it was opening and were the first ones there. There was one other couple that came after us, but other than that, we had the place to ourselves. Here’s what we found:
Timer photo from atop a bridge with views.
The view:
There were many of these. We had fun solving them.
My previous visit to a corn maze in October taught me that footwear choice is key to comfort and enjoyability. I walked through while Matt walked around.
This was a big bonus to being the first ones in. There were many of these patterns on top of the mud made by some critter. We asked, but the person who worked there hadn’t ever seen them before.
Mushroom!
Some gross corn. The person working said it was a kind of fungus.
The inaccurate ruler puts Matt at over six feet.
And me at 5’4″
We traded off so we could get our faces in all the holes.
And used the timer to take this series:
After that we went on a different hike (really a walk, but less muddy than the corn maze) on Sauvie Island
And then, wandering around looking for someplace to eat, discovered that Broder is where Laughing Planet used to be on Mississippi. Big win, as I love Broder!
Here’s what my activity tracker looked like for the corn maze.
Matt (a fan of the David Lynch version of Dune) was excited to see the new version and I (not a fan of the David Lynch version but a fan of Timothée Chalamet) planned to see Dune and then go to Pix’s new vending machine as part of my celebration. Pix was a not-long walk from the Laurelhurst Theater.
Matt quite liked the new version (he talked nonstop the entire walk to Pix) and I liked it better than the David Lynch version (an easy bar to to clear).
The Pix-o-matic was fun to use, but very fiddly. Looking at the not-yet-cleared transactions on my credit card would have freaked me out, had the sign not informed me that if I messed up, the charges would be there, but wouldn’t be charged. I think there were 15 different tries before we finally got our Pix.
Pix also had a fun Halloween setup.
Fun birthday celebration Part I was followed by Part II on Sunday when we went to see the French Dispatch at Cinema 21 and ate at Lardo.
