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!)