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thebrokenarrows) wrote2015-05-20 05:52 pm
thebrokenarrows) wrote2015-05-20 05:52 pm
052015
GOTTA WRITE ABOUT MY BIRTHDAY bc it was the best birthday i've had in years and i enjoyed every second p much
SO our plans of course were to go to Carowinds and we got there without a problem but THEN DISCOVERED.... that the park doesn't open to the public on weekdays until next week. wowe. the joys of having a birthday just one week before the Official Beginning of Summer, memorial day weekend. which i guess bb didn't think to check LOL. so we sat there stunned for a minute because bb had already spent almost all his money buying the tickets [so we WILL be going, just not this week lol], but we HAD to do SOMETHING...
so we started back towards town and halfway there we decided we were gonna go to discovery place instead. and guess who managed to get us in for two dollars via their EBT card? that's right: me. i'm a genius. a broke genius.
so we had a great time that place is always great. it did somehow feel significantly smaller than it did going there every year as a kid, even though they renovated the hell out of it five years ago or so which made it feel much nicer and bigger. they had a lot of cool stuff that i hadn't seen before. i watched an exotic species of partridge taking THE FUCKING CUTEST dust bath in the dirt while two huge tortoises eyed each other warily. they had the single angriest puffer fish i'd ever seen, spitting water at me and jerking its head aggressively and staring into my eyes and just generally clamoring for my death. there was a pistol shrimp omg, which was all sorts of ridiculous colors and which responded incredibly curiously to my hands, first making a threat display and then calming down and coming closer to investigate before getting bored and wandering off. [the first time an invertebrate has ever seemed to me to be some kinda intelligent?!?! :o] and i got to touch a sea cucumber, which looked basically just like a huge turd but which was THE MOST DELIGHTFULLY SOFT SMOOTH SQUISHY thing to touch.
and we watched an IMAX movie about great white sharks, and played with all the science machines [i'm too heavy for the AIR CHAIR anymore oh nooo ;_;] and looked at lots of frogs and just generally had a rly great time. not bad for a birthday knocked off course entirely lol.
then when that was done we went down to the Public Market on 7th street and looked around. and got crepes at the crepe place because we were hungry, but also wanted to not eat too much so we could fill up on the stir fry my roomie was cooking up for my birthday. [the crepes were fucking delicious though holy crap] we bought a jar of blackberry jam to spread on homemade bread later, and the guy ringing us up apparently just thought we were cool and gave us a dollar off for it LOL. awesome. thanks man.
so then we went home and ate the things and it was great and i was so stuffed i could barely move. then TIPSY SKYPED w poe and bird for hours and THAT was ALSO great. and THEN before i got to bed i ended up receiving some amazingly good birthday sex. like WHAT MORE COULD A PERSON ASK FOR lol.
so yeah. it was a really great birthday and i'm so glad. and the best part is even though the birthday plan of going to carowinds went bust, i STILL GET TO GO TO CAROWINDS LATER ANYWAY LOL!!
today has been very chill, just relaxing, did some more skyping, then went for a walk and now relaxing again. might draw some things, might watch some things, who knows what i'll do in the last few hours before work. 24 is gonna be a great year. i wasn't prepared for how great the latter half of 23 was to be, but it sure has set me up for greatness.
SO our plans of course were to go to Carowinds and we got there without a problem but THEN DISCOVERED.... that the park doesn't open to the public on weekdays until next week. wowe. the joys of having a birthday just one week before the Official Beginning of Summer, memorial day weekend. which i guess bb didn't think to check LOL. so we sat there stunned for a minute because bb had already spent almost all his money buying the tickets [so we WILL be going, just not this week lol], but we HAD to do SOMETHING...
so we started back towards town and halfway there we decided we were gonna go to discovery place instead. and guess who managed to get us in for two dollars via their EBT card? that's right: me. i'm a genius. a broke genius.
so we had a great time that place is always great. it did somehow feel significantly smaller than it did going there every year as a kid, even though they renovated the hell out of it five years ago or so which made it feel much nicer and bigger. they had a lot of cool stuff that i hadn't seen before. i watched an exotic species of partridge taking THE FUCKING CUTEST dust bath in the dirt while two huge tortoises eyed each other warily. they had the single angriest puffer fish i'd ever seen, spitting water at me and jerking its head aggressively and staring into my eyes and just generally clamoring for my death. there was a pistol shrimp omg, which was all sorts of ridiculous colors and which responded incredibly curiously to my hands, first making a threat display and then calming down and coming closer to investigate before getting bored and wandering off. [the first time an invertebrate has ever seemed to me to be some kinda intelligent?!?! :o] and i got to touch a sea cucumber, which looked basically just like a huge turd but which was THE MOST DELIGHTFULLY SOFT SMOOTH SQUISHY thing to touch.
and we watched an IMAX movie about great white sharks, and played with all the science machines [i'm too heavy for the AIR CHAIR anymore oh nooo ;_;] and looked at lots of frogs and just generally had a rly great time. not bad for a birthday knocked off course entirely lol.
then when that was done we went down to the Public Market on 7th street and looked around. and got crepes at the crepe place because we were hungry, but also wanted to not eat too much so we could fill up on the stir fry my roomie was cooking up for my birthday. [the crepes were fucking delicious though holy crap] we bought a jar of blackberry jam to spread on homemade bread later, and the guy ringing us up apparently just thought we were cool and gave us a dollar off for it LOL. awesome. thanks man.
so then we went home and ate the things and it was great and i was so stuffed i could barely move. then TIPSY SKYPED w poe and bird for hours and THAT was ALSO great. and THEN before i got to bed i ended up receiving some amazingly good birthday sex. like WHAT MORE COULD A PERSON ASK FOR lol.
so yeah. it was a really great birthday and i'm so glad. and the best part is even though the birthday plan of going to carowinds went bust, i STILL GET TO GO TO CAROWINDS LATER ANYWAY LOL!!
today has been very chill, just relaxing, did some more skyping, then went for a walk and now relaxing again. might draw some things, might watch some things, who knows what i'll do in the last few hours before work. 24 is gonna be a great year. i wasn't prepared for how great the latter half of 23 was to be, but it sure has set me up for greatness.