Today is K's 40th birthday. Last night we celebrated, as girls are wont to do, in high style with decadent desserts and alcohol. I mean, really, what else is there. A good fried cheese curd would have been welcomed, but it wasn't the scene.
Inherited from my mother, I have developed a strong passion for passion fruit. Anything passion fruit. As if it were made just for moi, Pix last night had a most heavenly Passion fruit Creme Brulee. Two of my favorite things rolled into one. How could I resist. Well, why would I, really. I paired m selection with an old standby, Bonny Doon Framboise. Old standby for me, as I'm a UC Santa Cruz grad and spend quite a few Saturdays at the Bonny Doon tasting room. For those unaccustomed, Framboise is a raspberry dessert wine. quite strong in flavor, but it can be mixed with champagne for a lighter touch. I highly recommend both.
In other news, I am a bit disturbed my the lack of citizenry displayed in front of my house this morning. We are getting new neighbors today (yay!) which means the street in front of their house has cones with "NO PARKING" signs. Kind of hard to miss, them really. So, as I'm walking my daughter to school, some lady on a cell phone in mini van pulls up and parks in the loading zone. She puts on her hazards. Oh, she must be helping the new neighbors move in, how nice. Nope. She gets out and walks down the street. I yell after her about the no parking area. She says, "I know, that's why I put my hazards on". Well, bully for you. I guess she's special and can park where she wants. Hazards make it so. It wouldn't bug me so much if there was not a free space not 10ft in front of her car, 2 directly across the street, and 2 more a bit further down (actually closer to the house that she was visiting.) I mean, really. How hard is it to pull forward? Monumentally difficult, it seems. She was there for 25 minutes, too. I believe in being a good citizen. I am a bit bothered by her selfishness, to be honest.
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