Presents in the Past

I have been a horrible blogger this year so far. I get home from work, and I am either desperately trying to do something active after a day of sitting at the office, or I am desperately trying to not use my brain at all, which leads to no blogging.

At any rate, this post is overdue.

One of the fun things about the holiday season is that, in addition to Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years, S' birthday is on January 6. That meant for him lots of fun things in a row, like visits with my family, visits with his family, and a gaggle of food, more food, and presents.

For his big day we did something similar to his 21st, when we went to, hands down, the fanciest Chinese Restaurant we have ever been to, Mr. K's in New York City. This time around, we stayed pretty local but went into Boston to eat at Morton's Steak House. S got the New York strip steak and pretty needless to say, I got the vegetable plate, which came with some of the largest pieces of broccolli I have ever seen, much less eaten.

We then proceeded to take a nice long walk around the Prudential Center, admiring what was left of the holiday lights and trying to stay warm in the "smix," or what I have been getting quite used to in New England as snowy mix of freeeezing rain, sleet and snow, which always seems to form in puddles right in front of the place where I am about to walk. I end up with soaking feet every time, I sware. Despite the chill, it was a fun time reminicent of S's earlier birthdays.

Decked Out for Dinner

Birthday dinner that weekend for S was preceeded by a more traditional celebration during the week on his actual day of birth. We had a little cake, for which I found the best candles ever - the kind where the flame emitted takes on the color of the candle itself - so purple candles burn purple flame and so forth. My scientist boyfriend, before he knew the were special candles, got freaked out and shouted, "How hot is that candle?!" when I at first lit the white candle in the pack and it emitted a light blue-ish flame. Observant to the core, he is.

Birthday Cake with the "Shrek" S

Family Photo during the Party

Earlier, and by that I mean LAST YEAR, I meant to post pictures of S opening some Christmas gifts from my family, because they didn't get to see the pure joy in his eyes in person when he opened his "Man-poo" and other Axe male hygiene products, or his coveted Cat-A-Day calendar and all the other great goodies he got. We really did have a wonderful holiday season, filled with plenty of downtime, great food and entertainment, and best of all, family and quality time to spend together. It's made it a struggle to get back to days of report writing and editing, planning meetings, and the constant delegation of work and crazy that life tends to bring after the start to a new year.

The good news is, I think I am on the rebound from my earliy 2011 funk. The bad news - until we get back to mountain, that is, is that it's snowing...again. Get ready for the smix!