What-What?! Week of May 30th

We're celebrating my birthday early this year!  Didn't do too much other than hang out at home -- we had Thai food for dinner, and a chocolate mousse cake from Costco for dessert.

Celebrating inside this year, since the weather is only just okay

Mostly this year I got books, but that's fine with me! :)  This is a Roger Zelazny collected stories, volume one (out of something like eight?).

Very cute Kirby cups!

This is a wool bag for whenever we get back to SCA events.  The squirrel is embroidered, and there are oak leaf and acorn motifs as well.

This is a Sanrio manga, "Fluffy, Fluffy Cinnamoroll".  Very light reading, but nice if you just want to chill for 20 minutes.

This book, "Crooks Like Us", is interesting.  The Australian author went through a local archive of forensic photographs from the 1920s and collected them and some commentary / extra information in this book.  It's really fascinating to read about why people were arrested and look at how they posed, and what they were wearing.  I haven't had time to go through this in detail yet, but I'm looking forward to it.

My last present came in a HUGE box!

Once I wrestled it out, it was a Lego Space Shuttle Discovery!  This thing is BIG, with more total pieces than either my Saturn V rocket or my lunar lander.  The satellite there is actually a model of the Hubble telescope, so a pretty cool add-on. :)  I'm going to have to set aside some serious time (and space) to it.

 

 

 

What-What?! Week of June 7th

Last week was my birthday!  I am so old now, it's terrible.

The weather was nice enough on my birthday that we actually set up the canopy and celebrated outside -- it rained both the day before and the day after.

This year, the husband bought me a princess cake, which has a base layer of sponge cake, pastry cream, a dome of whipped cream, covered in marzipan.  It was a deliciously indulgent cake, for sure.

Showing the layers

I got some presents :)

This is the point where I asked how many pictures were going to be taken of me, ha!

What am I saying in this picture??  The movies are the animes Roujin Z and Record of Lodoss War

This is a book about calculus

And it has stills from Shrek in it!  I don't know what's going on here, but I'm interested to read the book and find out xD

My Little Pony comic -- this particular one is actually really good

And this is a poster of an image put out by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, from their "Visions of the Future" set.  The Grand Tour in this instance refers to the path that NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 probes took, passing Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune -- and using each planet's gravitational pull to help slingshot themselves to the next destination.  The New Horizons probe also took this route, slingshotting itself all the way to Pluto.  Cool stuff.