Happy Birthday, Mary!

It was Mary's birthday yesterday. We were together all day. First we went shopping for quilt fabric at Fabrics 'n' Fun, our local quilting store in Milpitas. Mary got a discount on some items because it was her birthday, and other items were discounted because the store is moving soon and they are reducing inventory. Mary bought fabric for a quilt she is working on, plus she found fabric to start another quilt. She is making these interesting quilts called Nine-Patch Pizzazz. We also signed up for a Log Cabin class in April, and we bought the fabric since it was on sale: 20 dark fat quarters, and 20 light fat quarters. We are going to take the class together but we are going to work together on one quilt.

After we came home Mary made a neat get-well card for David Brandt, who cut his thumb with a rotary cutter while working on a quilt. I'm afraid of rotary cutters although they are a necessary evil. Anyway, David and Kathleen loved the card and it got a lot of attention on Split Coast Stampers. It is made on a background of duct tape, has a duck on it, and contained a package of duct tape band-aids we found at Orchard Supply Hardware.

Later in the afternoon, we went to another quilting store in Cambrian Park, where Mary picked up a missing fabric that the owner of Fabrics 'n' Fun called around a located for her. Then we went to our new favorite sushi restaurant, I Love Sushi in San Jose at the corner of Hamilton and Meridian. (I thought they had a web site, but right now I can't find it or their business card.) Since Sushi Lovers has been closed during the reconstructed of Milpitas Town Center, we've found nowhere else that warranted repeat business, until now. We've been going to I Love Sushi every Wednesday before church.

Calvary Chapel San Jose has been doing a Wednesday night video series called the Truth Project, about the basics of the Christian faith. Since that series ended, they'll run a short series about creation and evolution. The first was Unlocking the Mystery of Life, which presents the case for Intelligent Design. I'd already seen the video previously in another class, but it was new for Mary, and she liked it. We don't know what's coming next, but it will have something to do with science or animals, and the ad-hoc series will continue through February.

When we got home, we had my famous extra-strong homemade margaritas, which weakened our inhibitions to the point where we ate everything in sight (mostly tortilla chips, cheddar cheese, and pistachios) and pretty much blew our chances of a decent weigh-in at WW on Thursday morning. Oh well, birthdays don't come along that often ...