Wonderful Birthday!

I had a wonderful day yesterday.  Chris took the day off of work to spend it with me.  Colin milked the goats. My mom & Chris got Calli to band and the boys to art (yes something I normally do by myself :). I did my health risk assessment through Chris' work. And thank goodness as I had to fast and nursing moms should not be fasting until 11:30am! The blood taker could not have been more flattering.  Good way to get the day going.  Spent a wonderful afternoon with friends, and they even cared enough to bake and buy me a cake - yes 2 cakes! We went to Madison to pick up my cheeses cultures, but they had accidentally shipped them.  They apologized profusely and gave us our shipping money back immediately without us asking for it.  They brought the man out who made the mistake and he apologized.  Wonderful customer service.  The cultures should still be here today and I can't wait!  We returned Colin's computer and textbooks.  We went to Barnes & Noble and got an Indian & Thai cookbook  Kids bought some stuff too - addicts!  Went to Calli's soccer game.  Best I've seen Calli play so far.  That was a real joy.  Got into a discussion with a parent on our team about what offsides was.  It was funny because he was wrong, another parent on the other side was wrong too. Ref was right, I was right (it does happen).  Poor kids are getting yelled at, ref is getting yelled.  This is why Colin quit reffing.  These refs go through hours and hours of class they get re-certified every year. Who do you suppose knows more about offsides? A parent who has never played or opened a rule book  or the ref? If you ask the parent, its the parent - not the punk 14 year old kid.  Anyway I tried to explain off sides to this parent so he'd understand the game and quit yelling at his kid and the ref - I just thought it was a matter of him not understanding how it worked.  But no, he's just an ass.  Instead of considering the possibility that the kids were doing it right, and the ref was calling it right, and I understood what was going on - no, we were all wrong and he was right. Oh yeah- that's why I quit coaching too.  Anyway Calli's team lost even though Calli was awesome.  Then we went to dinner.  An old Indian restaurant that was remodeled, renamed and a new menu.  Mango lassis were gratis.  Service was SLOW but friendly.  Most of the food was fantastic.   Chana Paneer and Lamb Khana Mateer were exceptional.  The most expensive item - the Bombay Platter was very disappointing.  When they asked Chris was honest and said "not good".  At first the owner started defending the dish.  Chris pointed out that we liked and even loved the other dishes, this one just wasn't good.  He then acknowledged the possibility, apologized and brought us 3 different desserts.  We will be back.  Like I said service was slow and we did not get home until after 11pm.   Very late for this old lady!  Of course I had to Kit back to sleep once we got home.  And I had to start reading the book Kiki had bought me.  It was a wonderful day - and like my first 40 years- went by much too quickly.