earth day birthday

yesterday was earth day, my father-in-law's birthday, and my birthday. :)

i had a wonderful day. nat surprised* me by taking me to breakfast at jim gould's. the pancakes there are gi-normous! i couldn't even finish all of my breakfast, so you must know that it's huge! :) nat also took me to a lovely dinner at timpone's. he tried to keep it a surprise*, but it's the only nice restaurant that i really like, so it was no surprise. :P other than that, i had a nice day with sean and go to run some errands. it was a nice day outside which lifted my spirits b/c it was forecasted to rain. :)

sean (via nat) got me some nice presents--a voucher for a family portrait, a pyrex glass pan (i broke on sunday, so this was a timely gift), and a pair of tongs. :)

* nat really wanted to surprise me on my birthday, but if you know me, i can be quite a pest about surprises. i want to be surprised, but i also like to play the game of "what are you going to surprise me with?". :) horrible, i know. :) a few weeks ago, i had made an off-hand remark that i'd like to go to jim gould's for breakfast with nat--he had gone with his breakfast group a couple of friday's b/c of a coupon. nat was discouraged b/c he thought i'd figured out that i was going there for my birthday. :P he also got discouraged when i guessed the day before we were going to timpone's. :P so, to keep the last surprise of the day, he wouldn't tell me who was coming to babysit sean while we went out. well, actually, it started out by him saying "sean might go with us, he might not. it's a surprise". eventually, he conceded and told me that sean was staying home. he kept referring to the sitter as "robot 2000" b/c he said he got a robot and not a person. i went along with the joke, and eventually "robot 2000" appeared. :) it wasn't a robot, but rather our friend susan. :) what a surprise! :)