Birthday festivities for 28.

I haven’t done it properly since 2003 (and only before that in 2002, really), but we are watching one of my very favorite films tonight: Amelie. I received it as a gift for my birthday in 2002 with a small volume of Baudelaire’s prose poems. I was instructed to watch it without knowing anything about it. So I did, on August 29th, the night before my birthday. Turns out that a lot of the movie is set on that day. In Paris, Where I can’t get soon enough.

If, for some reason, you haven’t seen it, go get it, and watch it. My, oh, my. I know it’s fashionable to like it, but that’s for good reason. It really is a fantastic movie.

I am listening to the [FANTASTIC] soundtrack right now as I smell my [all organic and made from scratch, even the icing, but my wonderful wife] birthday cake cooking in the oven.

Tomorrow, I am making omelettes. Jalapeno (with squiggle) peppers, plum tomatoes and sweet onion. And both kinds of veggie sausage. Links and patties. I am making them because, well, I’m the only one in the apartment who can make omelettes.

Downtown. Maybe find the army surplus daypack I’ve always been looking for at H&H. Read Street Books. The Walter’s Art Museum. Other fun things, involving lots of good coffee. My family is coming downtown to meet us at the Mount Vernon Donna’s, after which it is cake and ice-cream [organic, too].

It’s going to be a nice birthday.