Birthday Gifts From My Girl, Plus Dinner And Cake!

After a long day out on the road yesterday, we just wanted to be home the rest of the evening. As such, when it came time to decide on dinner, we opted to simply order out from a local Italian eatery which has been in the area for decades.

This place makes the best spaghetti sauce in town, and they are by no means skimpy with the portions. This literally looks like an entire box of noodles. I dare say there are four+ portions in this container. Even after eating our fill, we'll get multiple revisits to this trough before it's gone. Of course, we kept it light because we knew there was a cake to follow.

First though, my girl gave me some gifts.

When my girl saw that I had obtained my own 9.8 copies of Spider-Man number one she was pretty disheartened. However, after reminding her that I already owned 60+ copies of the book, and professed how ecstatic I was to add yet one more to my collection, she changed her mood.

No foolies on this one. I'm giddy as a school girl to have four graded copies now. This is great!

I actually opened my gifts in waves. As those of you who remember my Christmas traditions, I'm not about rushing through events. I wanted to take my time, and saver the moment of each gift.

The first half of them consisted of several classic cartoon DVD's which were on my want list, as well as an ebay gift card from her son, and the 1989 Joker van from the Toy Biz movie line.

I've wanted this van for a long time to complete "my" collection, but could never justify the buying price of $100+ for something so generic. I say, "my" in parentheses, because I have no desire or intentions to get the Batcave. As for the van, believe it or not, we found this at an estate sale a couple weeks ago.

Check out the shelves as they are as of today! Apart from having a lot of these as a kid, what makes this line extra special to me is that my girl and I put this set together...um, together. She bought all the figures from the 1989 film, as well as the Batmobile, Batwing, and now, The Joker Van. I picked up all the remaining figures, the cycles, and the candy heads.

As the evening turned into late night, I opened the remaining gifts, which consisted of all the more classic cartoon DVD's, and a really cool set of book ends. It was at this time that my girl confessed that Amazon had a major blow out sale on these discs, and took full advantage of it. Hey, I'm not complaining. I love me some cartoons.

These book ends are straight up awesome! I'm going to use these to sandwich my music video DVD's together on the top shelf of one of my CD shelves. For now, it's holding up all the cartoon DVD's I got. These are really heavy, and feel incredibly durable. Plus, they just look incredibly rad!

With all the gifts open, and me chomping at the bit to go play, we fueled up the internal emergency tanks with sugary cake.

Knowing my love for kid type cereals, my girl made me a Fruity Pebbles tres leches cake from scratch. Bros and girls, this cake was fantastic! She made the cream topping with heavy whipping cream and mascarpone cheese, and then baked the cereal into a vanilla cake, which she saturated with a mixture of evaporated milk, condensed milk, and whole milk (the tres in tres leches).

The only downside was that I told her there was no way the two of us could finish an entire cake of this size. Let alone before the milk spoiled. I recommended she share some with her co-workers tomorrow, as she returns to work, while I am off the rest of the week.

Overall, this was one great birthday...well...with exception of the colonoscope the day prior. Good outings, good gifts, good times. Now all I have to do is relax these next few days. With a bunch of CD's cartoons, comics and new toys, that shouldn't be a problem.

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