Marking off the years (on one calendar)
Saturday, February 27th, 2010 10:51 pmToday is my chinese birthday. I didn't find out until just before dinner: because of the difference between the Gregorian calendar and the Chinese lunar calendar, my chinese birthday is not on the same day each year, so I have to rely on other people to tell me when this birthday is.
No celebration at all, though tomorrow (by coincidence), it's some sort of special day, so we get to eat sho wan ni, or however that's written, basically sticky rice balls with gritty sweet peanut filling.
Anyway, no cake or candles or anything, but I did find some leftover chocolate cake that had been sitting in the refrigerator for a while. I heated it up ten seconds in the microwave just for a change, and that rejuvenated... recumbent... revitalized... reMADE IT VERY GOOD. I may start heating more cake instead of eating it cold.
the_cynic reminds me that in a week I'll actually be a quarter of a century old (on my "real" birthday). Somehow, that seems older than twenty-five. (Wow. I feel like I skipped years 22 through 24 somehow).
No celebration at all, though tomorrow (by coincidence), it's some sort of special day, so we get to eat sho wan ni, or however that's written, basically sticky rice balls with gritty sweet peanut filling.
Anyway, no cake or candles or anything, but I did find some leftover chocolate cake that had been sitting in the refrigerator for a while. I heated it up ten seconds in the microwave just for a change, and that rejuvenated... recumbent... revitalized... reMADE IT VERY GOOD. I may start heating more cake instead of eating it cold.
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Date: 2010-02-28 02:19 pm (UTC)Happy birthday to you, too! Wishing you the best in pushing forward with a new tradition -- that's never easy, and whichever direction you choose to go, I hope you really really enjoy it!