Woke up, went to Safeway, bought the ingredients for spinach sausage loaf, went home, set the bread dough to thaw. Jack helped me clean up a bit while we listened to excellent music. (Recently I have really enjoyed "Teenagers" by My Chemical Romance, and Jack and Neil love "Rag and Bone" by White Stripes.) Then I spent around 4 hours reorganizing my dad's massive never-before-organized living room book shelf while listening to Ken Burns' documentary on the Civil War. This was pleasant in several ways. History is more fun to listen to than to read, with people reading out loud from the letters of the past, using the same accents and verbiage, etc. McClellan sounded like a complete idiot, btw. It was also nice to go through all of Dad's books and realize how many good ones he owns. I love books. I picked out a few to borrow, and I felt like I ought to have a rolling ladder to swing across the shelf while singing songs from Beauty and the Beast.
Anyway, when I finally finished that I made spinach sausage loaf and used the extra bread dough for cinnamon rolls. In the course of doing this, Morgan, and then Henry, and then Doug came over. We all ate and drank and joked and of course, played lots of Tichu. Henry and Morgan had never played before, but they did well. Henry especially picked up quickly (Morgan had to leave early), and ultimately it was Henry and me playing Neil and Jack. We got stupidly good hands, to the point where it was hilarious to even lay down our cards because we were so crushing Neil and Jack.
We finally wrapped up the game near 1:30am. Well worth it. Overall a great birthday.
PS - Forgot to add: Jack got me a gift (already in addition to the wonderful dinner!) It is a 100-page scrapbook for me to fill up, and he said he wants to help me with it. It came with a note and was all very sweet. I like him. :)
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