Happy Birthday to Rae

Rae's birthday was yesterday.  I had to help set up for a community meeting last night (fortunately another planner was 'working' the meeting, but he's new and I needed to help him get set up) so I wasn't home until just after 7p.  The Girls decided to go to a local pizza joint for Rae's bday, so when I got home, off we went for dinner.  It was packed and took a while to get our pizza, so it was a late evening and we ran out of time to bake a cake.  I have another community meeting tonight that I do have to work, so won't be home until after 9p, so while it's not ideal that Rae bake her own cake for her bday, it will give her and M something to do tonight while I'm working.

M and I did give her her present yesterday morning.  I was at the comic shop on Monday (day off, Veterans Day) and picked up the first TPB of the new Buffy series, Season 8.  We were big Buffy fans, and I thought Rae would get a kick out of getting it (and I'll read it too, of course).  M thought it was cool that mom was getting a comic book for her bday :)

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This weekend M is off to her grandparents and Rae and I are headed out for dinner and a movie on Saturday evening. For dinner, I made us reservations at Blue Water Grill.  I've heard good things, but a few mixed reviews as well.  Still, Rae loves seafood, so here's hoping it's good.  For our movie, I've picked something a bit different - Persepolis, an animated feature being shown as part of the St. Louis International Film Festival.  It's based on a graphic novel of the same name, about a young girl coming of age in Iran during the cultural revolution.  Should be interesting, hopefully fun.  I'm sure we'll go for coffee and convo after the movie.  Should be a nice birthday evening.