Friday, March 14, 2008

Birthday Listing

It being the cusp of yet another delightful weekend, it’s high time I regaled you with how much fun you didn’t have last weekend - unless you were among the 30 or so jolly souls who crowded into our apartment that sunny sunday to do the Zakparty Mambo.  Last Sunday was Z = 3 day and we cut loose with festivities that were so rambunctious and ecstatic that they can - and will - only be recounted through a series of lists:

List of Lists:
* Games
* Art Supplies
* Popcorns
* Salada
* Pizzas
* Beers
* Desserts

Games Played:
* Cooties
* Connect 4
* Chutes and Ladders
* Hi Ho Cherry-O
* Twister
* Trouble

Art Supplies Utilized:
* Crayons
* Pastels
* Pastel crayons
* Colored pencils
* Poster paint
* some other damn kind of paint

Popcorns:
* Salted
* Sugar-salted
* Garlic-salted

Salads:
* Kim’s everpopular dinner salad with spring greens, orange-essence craisins, pear, and chevre (and of course special Kim dressing)
* Corn, red onion, red pepper, and jicama with coriander in spices and apple cider vinegar
* Fruit (banana, papaya, kiwi, strawberry, blueberry, clementine - with fresh key lime juice and sugar)

Large Pizzas from Pizza Orgasmica:
* Brazilian chicken with brazilian cheese and corn ("Girl From Ipanema“)
* Shrimp, basil and tomatoes*
* Canadian bacon and pineapples
* Broccoli*
* Sausage-mushroom*
* Plain cheese (plus 2 medium plain cheese for the kids)
(*: thick sicilian crust)

Beers:
* Rogue Brewing Company half-gallon growlers:
> Kell’s Irish Lager
> Imperial Red Ale
> Mocha Porter
> Dead Guy Ale
* Bottles:
> Pyramid Thunderhead Ale (plus Hornsby hard cider, limoncello and bourbon for good measure)

Desserts:
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(*: all cupcakes were of unexpected and startling enormity and we were totally overstocked, but managed to work through the pain tyvm)

Upcoming party occasions include st pats, easter, purim, an unexpected weekend vacation break in Tahoe, the Pennsylvania primaries, passover, and national lungfish day.  Get your dancing pants pressed, it’s going to be a long season. 

(BONUS LIST! “Great Philosophers“ from my office wall calendar, which consists of educational posters from India, cited verbatim left to right, top to bottom:
* Budha
* Jesus Chirist
* Elangho
* Thiruvalluvar
* Vivekanandah
* Bharathi
* Mahaveer
* Sri Ram
* Kambar

By Bharathi’s Kambar, that’ll have to hold’em!)

Awesome listy lists. I always get a kick out of, “Canadian” Bacon and Pineapple. Actually, it says ‘pineapples’, plural. Does that mean both the bacon and pineapple were Canadian in nature? My pineappletree is just goin’ NOWHERE these days. I think it’s the difficult Canadian winters. *mental note: Try growing apples next year* At any rate, the whole point of this discourse was to point out...oh god; the obvious, I guess—that we don’t bother to call our bacon “Canadian”. (Now don’t get me started on the true definition of a “Hawaiian” pizza...)

I only had half a cupcake and I’m still thinking I’ve had my quota of cupcakes for the entire year. Huge doesn’t even begin to cover ‘em.

On behalf of your friend who kept the kiddies immensely entertained I think you need to add story time to the list of activities. From what I understand, the man can weave a tale.

Also, you misspelled Christ. Utterly blasphemous! and it made me giggle. Because I? am a heathen.

I spelled it exactly as it appears on my calendar.  Budha is also a little weird to my eye.  I’m assuming Thiruvwhatshisname and Vivikanwhozits are easily recognized in Inja and not likely to have been misspelled but it’s hard to tell from here....

I can’t believe Thiruvalluvar got gypped out of one of the top spots by those upstarts.

And damn, but I wish I could’ve partaken of your feast.  Here’s hoping I see you and yours before Zak’s bar mitzvah.

Sounds like Zak had a wild party. I hope he had a great time.

Of course now I am hungry for pizza!

your right, it should be two d’s Buddha.

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