{"id":25123,"date":"2021-11-01T21:02:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T02:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=25123"},"modified":"2021-11-08T21:03:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T03:03:31","slug":"birthday-lunch-with-mom-and-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=25123","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Lunch with Mom and Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Had a nice birthday lunch with mom and dad on Saturday at P.F. Chang’s. It was just going to be only me and Brian at first because we had to go to the store for a few things before the get together at our house but mom and dad happened to be available. We owed mom a birthday lunch and we owed dad a lot for helping Brian with the electrical work in the basement storage room. <\/p>\n

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Mom got me a present and the birthday card had a hair clip.<\/p>\n

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The shirt she got me is absolutely perfect but it will probably turn into a tank top.<\/p>\n

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Here are some pictures of our food.<\/p>\n

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We started with the starter sampler which had perfect portions of everything for the four of us. We got four of each of our favorite appetizers — egg rolls, crab wontons, pan-fried pork dumplings — and a handful of edamame. <\/p>\n

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The crab wontons are still my favorite. <\/p>\n

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Mom enjoyed her coconut mojito. <\/p>\n

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Brian decided to try the orange chicken instead of getting his usual Chang’s spicy chicken. It was okay but both agreed we still like the Chang’s spicy chicken better. <\/p>\n

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Mongolian beef and eggplant. It’s our most favorite dish that’s not even on the menu. I mean it is but the Mongolian beef doesn’t usually come with eggplant. I ask them to add substitute it for the green onions.<\/p>\n

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We shared a great wall of chocolate and vanilla ice cream for dessert. It was perfect because it’s hard to eat an entire slice of that chocolate cake by yourself. Even with the four of us helping (well, maybe mostly me), we couldn’t finish the cake. <\/p>\n

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The four of us had a lovely lunch. <\/p>\n

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The best part is always the fortune cookies at the end. Our server gave each of us a fortune cookie instead of just putting all four of them in a pile in the middle so in a sense she picked our fortunes for us. <\/p>\n

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Dad got a typical cryptic one. I wonder what truth he will discover. <\/p>\n

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Mom’s is actually fitting because I have no doubt that she will master pickleball (her new hobby in the coming years). <\/p>\n

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Brian is convinced he got the wrong fortune cookie and this was meant to be for me. He would never describe himself as an optimist and, frankly, neither would I. LOL. <\/p>\n

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Lastly, my fortune cookie tells me that others will seek my talents in the coming months. I’m a woman of many talents so I’m not sure which specific talent this is referring to. I hope that, in addition to seeking my talents, the people seeking my talents are willing to pay me for my services as well. It would be nice to be able to do something with my talents like make a little money on the side, if not actually make a living. One can dream. Until next time. GNG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Had a nice birthday lunch with mom and dad on Saturday at P.F. Chang’s. It was just going to be only me and Brian at first because we had to go to the store for a few things before the get together at our house but mom and dad happened to be available. We owed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7],"tags":[115,2474,189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25124,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25123\/revisions\/25124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}