My 26th Birthday Blog Post

Monday, September 30, 2024

🎈 My 26th Birthday Wish Lists (Version 2)

🍽 Food Wish List:

- Chinese buffet: Number 1 Buffet

- Hot Cheetos and cheese (QuickTrip) for birthday movie night! (I was rewatching Misfits)

🍷 Drink Wish List:

- Stella Rosa (I got ginger beer instead)

🎂 Cake Wish List:

- Angel food cake

🍩 Dessert Wish List:

- A jelly filled donut

OR

- A chocolate eclair

OR

- 1 Vanilla ice cream scoop with colorful sprinkles on top 😋🍦

Mom put her gifts for me in this gift bag.

🎁 Gift Wish List:

1. Scented pillar candle OR possibly a huge pillar candle for many hours of reading by candlelight 6 inches in diameter

Pumpkin scented pillar candles from Ma <3

2. Thick teal colored throw pillow OR teal colored back rest pillow

Reading pillow from Senia <3

It is called a Plush Memory Foam Pillow for Reading and Relaxing by Clara Clark. It is quite plush hehe.

3. Visa gift card (Ale got me a $25 gift card and she let me choose some snacks yumm)

4. Plain white t-shirt from men's section, 1 small size and 1 medium size (Hane's or Fruit of the Loom)

5. Old Navy black pixie ankle length pants, size 12, curvy, skinny OR straight fit (Ma got me one of these)

Senia also gave me this kit that I saw she also tried out

🚶🏽‍♀️ Activities:

- Go to the Burton Barr library and see Mom finally use her Phoenix library card!

We did go to the Burton Barr library after going to the Velma Teague library. Sadly, Mom's old library card didn't work :((((, but we did find two copies of a short book that we can read together as part of our new Mother Daughter Book Club! As we were leaving I saw this ad and took a pic so I can check it out later.

- Also ask Mom to tell me the story of when she first got her library card so i can record it and type it on my reading blog :)

Here is the transcript of what Ma said about where she got her old library card:

"Probably got it from the one by the Phoenix Memorial Hospital where we used to go to for doctor's appointments. The one she is referring to is the Harmon Library on 5th Ave. & Buckeye Rd. She said that the building that's there now is new and we used to go to the older building that was there. After our doctor's appointment Mom said she used to take Senia and I to the library to try to read a book and check it out. Then that's when she decided to sign up for a library card! :D

Here is a pic of the famous card!

Date of original registration: 8/5/2000
Expiration date: 11/30/2020

- Ale and I go to the 3 other Glendale library branches to browse the book sale and use our 2 coupons we got from our Summer Reading prizes

1. Velma Teague Library: no good books in the book sale area, but I did try to find some thin books and found two interesting books! Kill Joy by Holly Jackson and The Silence by Don DeLillo. As we were walking to the library there were two cute pumpkins by some benches and Ale wanted some coffee from one of the cute places around Downtown Glendale. We went to the one we visited last Christmas or so. It's called Coyote Oatie Cookies.

2. Foothills Library: This was Ale's first time visiting this Glendale branch. She found two books!

These are the two books that she got!

Ale thought that that the Foothills Library was a cute place for old people. She said that she wanted to explore more of the place.

I only found one called The Reader by Bernhard Schlink. My other coupon is now expired and sad.

- If weather permits, take a walk after the birthday dinner

After the buffet all of us except Senia went to Friendship park to walk off the food. It wasn't far from the buffet. It was nice. We swung on the swings for a bit. We saw lots of rabbits and frogs! And a small mouse! So cute! The frogs make sense when I saw this mural:

We stayed until the park closed at 10 p.m.

And here is a cute pic of Mr.Squishy!Bean hugging his chili all on his own in his bed <333