Birthday Blog
My birthday was Saturday. Woo! It wasn't too bad. Just kept it low key. I'm not all about crazy birthdays anymore at my age. I'm getting to be an old man ya know (I'm 33 now). So I'm not all about doing super wild and crazy things. Just give me a cake with a candle in it and be done with it. Although, I'm open to things if someone planned something. I mean I'm down for whatever. But if I'm planning it myself I'd rather just take it easy.
I did do some celebrating this afternoon with a friend who also had her birthday, coincidentally, today! We had some fun hanging out in West Chester doing a little barhopping.
I'll get to that later though... Anyways yesterday my day started off with me sleeping in. It was perfect. I then went for a run in Valley Forge park per my usual thing that I like to do on nice sunny days. Then I picked up some food from Cheesecake Factory.
The place was PACKED! I went to the one in King of Prussia. I placed a take out order and then grabbed a seat at the bar while I waited. Got a sandwich for my mom and a sandwich for myself. In addition to the sandwiches I ordered a pumpkin cheesecake slice for me and my mom wanted some kind of chocolate cheesecake. I scoured the menu and found her the Godiva one. That's about as chocolate as you get. From there I fought all sorts of traffic on 76 to get down to the hospital downtown.
I had to wait a bit for her to return from her dialysis treatment. We sat and ate. I had to help her since she's currently not able to see (although today she said that she can see outlines and shapes again ever so slightly, so I think that's a good sign that the treatment is reversing the inflammation that caused her vision loss). She kept picking up her sandwich and eating from different ends. It's hard to eat when you can't see. But she's doing the best she can. But hey, in the end she didn't spill any sandwich in her lap at least! So I say, who cares what side you eat a sandwich from. And who said you have to always take every bite from the front to the back?
I say that sandwiches can be eaten from any direction. There's no wrong way to eat a sandwich. Just enjoy the fact that you have a sandwich in the first place.
After the sandwiches I ate my cheesecake in place of having a birthday cake.
My mom had some of her hospital pudding because she wanted to save her cake for later. I looked in her fridge and she's got a whole stash of saved puddings! Seriously, she had like 3 or 4 in there. Stocking up I guess? She tried the cake today though and it was delicious, just in case you were curious.
They say that your other senses power up to compensate when you lose one. So I'm guessing her taste sense might be on overdrive at the moment.
Well, after that visit I just came home and went to sleep. My plan was to wake up super early and go to a chili cook-off event in West Chester. I didn't end up getting up until about 11am. I slept through my alarm. Then, of course, I had a million things to do and for some reason I just couldn't get to West Chester until after 3pm when they were awarding the winners. Sadly no chili for me, but there's always next year! I had intended to do all my chore/to-do list things the night before but I was SO tired that I just came home and fell asleep right away after visiting my mom in the hospital.
I joined up with my friend and headed to a couple of bars around West Chester. We went to two separate places to celebrate it being her birthday and a belated my birthday. At the second bar, which was a rooftop bar, we had margaritas. They were having some kind of free raffle and giving away random things. I ended up winning a giant inflatable Corona Light bottle. We took lots of photos. Everyone there wanted to get photos with the bottle too. It was like instant fame. Even as we walked down the street to get some coffee at Starbucks after the barhopping, people stopped us to take photos with the giant inflatable beer bottle. It was kind of awesome though and made for a memorable day.
I ended up trading my giant inflatable beer bottle with my friend Lisa's friend in exchange for a Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte. She REALLY wanted to give the beer bottle to her fiancé.
I said, "Yeah, ok, that sounds like a fair trade."
We shook on it.
After all was said and done I ended up grabbing some food at Iron Hill and then went off to Planet Fitness to do a little ellipticaling and treadmilling. Now I'm home and it's time for sleep.
Oh, so, here are some Instagams for everyone... because if there isn't a photo, it didn't happen. Or something like that. So here's photographic proof!
This photo made me laugh so hard. Happy birthday to my best friend Lisa! A photo posted by Kenny (@kennywest82) on
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