Counting down

Last Sunday I completed my forty-ninth year and now the countdown begins to finish  a half century. I’m not feeling particularly bothered by this right now although I realise my feelings might change as I get closer to the milestone. I think mostly it will just be sad to say goodbye to my forties.

My pine mouth had improved considerably as of the Saturday but it was still there on Sunday. It just stopped being an overwhelming taste of bitter/metal by that point. I’m not sure it’s totally gone but most foods are tasting normal to me now, almost two weeks later…which is pretty much what I read when I looked it up online.

My actual birthday was quite nice. The Scientist took me out to lunch at a place called the Flying Taco which a former colleague had raved about. Mexican food is an up and coming thing around here and we like to try out the various takes on it when we can. They didn’t win too many points from us at first. They were most inflexible about changes to orders. The Scientist wanted to leave the rice and beans out of his dish and they would only allow one item to be removed and the other reduced. I had ordered tacos and wanted to have two different fillings in the two tacos. Apparently this wasn’t possible and I ended up getting a double order. My heart sank when my order arrived and I saw how tiny the tacos were. They were nice but they were very small. Just as well I had birthday treats to eat later on. Also, they claimed their chipotle sauce was hot but even for me it was barely mild and I consider my tolerance pretty average. (I have to say this as Game Fanatic has a very high tolerance so compared to him, just average. :) ) The Scientist really enjoyed his meal though, so perhaps we will go back some time and I will consider another dish that is a bit more substantial. The dishes were also rather pricey for what you got so that just added to the insult…As I later said to the Scientist, I rated them 3/5 stars…taking off one for their inflexibility and one for the tiny portions of tacos. Also, one of the taco fillings I had was mushrooms. They were pretty good but there was too much sauce and the tiny taco tortilla got soggy and broke apart rather easily.

I had a voucher for a free ice cream at Cold Rock Ice Creamery so the plan to was to visit Hillary’s Boat Harbour where we could go there and also hit San Churros at the same time. But I suddenly decided I preferred to go to Fremantle and so we did. There was quite a long line at the ice cream shop, possibly as it was suddenly quite warm/hot again after a number of milder days. The ice cream was a kiddie size with one mix in added. I got a banana ice cream with Malteasers and it was pretty good. Then it was off the the chocolateria for my free churros. It was a two person serve and the Scientist didn’t partake so we got half of it boxed to take home for Lego Lover. We made a quick trip into the markets and grabbed cut fruit salad and mango at end of day prices to be eaten much later.

We came home and I had visits from my in-laws and my brother-in-law a little later. The Scientist had prepared a red velvet cake with frosting for me. He’d had ideas of something far grander but due to my pine mouth, didn’t want to do so much if I couldn’t enjoy it. The cake was quite fine, though, and we all had a bit of it, even Game Fanatic who originally declined when it was cut.

After the visitors had gone, we watched the old Hitchcock movie, The Trouble with Harry. I chose this one as it is rather quirky and I figured might be more enjoyable for the boys. Sadly this didn’t happen. Game Fanatic found he disliked all the main characters so much that he didn’t find it funny at all and was in quite a funk at the end. He simply didn’t quite get the sly humor of it. Sigh…this is one of those aspects of autism that can be rather frustrating. Fortunately he recovered reasonably quickly.

By this time it was rather late and the Scientist needed to get to sleep so said goodnight and happy birthday again. I really appreciate all the effort he put into the day, even if some of his plans didn’t work out as intended.

Also, I was pleasantly surprised to get a message on my Facebook wall from Game Fanatic, even if he was being rather snarky. :D

And now the countdown continues to fifty.