{"id":677,"date":"2006-10-10T20:34:29","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T01:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=711"},"modified":"2006-10-10T20:34:29","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T01:34:29","slug":"how-things-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"The Way We Were"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an old Friday Five<\/a> entry I found. It was originally posted on February 23, 2002.<\/p>\n

1. Hey, baby, what’s your sign? Do you think it fits you pretty well?<\/b> Scorpio. Yes, I’d say it fits me pretty well. Or should I say, I fit into the Scorpio stereotype pretty well?<\/p>\n

2. What’s the worst birthday gift you’ve ever received?<\/b> There is no such thing as a bad birthday gift. At least, not in my book. I’ve never, ever received anything that I absolutely hated. All gifts have their own merits.<\/p>\n

3. What’s the best birthday gift you’ve ever received?<\/b> The personalized silver beaded bracelet that I got last year. It consists of two strands of various beads. The two strands are attached so they never separate. It’s got an antique heart clasp, which is the most beautiful that I have ever seen. Brian & his parents chipped in and they got it for me at Kay Wiggins (she’s known for personalized jewelry items). One strand has square letter blocks that spell “CHING” and the blocks on the other strand spell “BRIAN.” There’s a bead at each end of our name that corresponds to our birthstones (which happens to be our wedding colors, too — pure coincindence — we didn’t pick our wedding colors with our birthstones in mind). What makes it really special is that Brian mom got her bracelet first. Hers says “DAVID” and “DONNA.” Several months down the line, Brian’s parents got his grandma one for her birthday. Hers says “CLARK” and “BETTY.” Still a few months later, I got one for my birthday (you already know what mine says). I feel like a truly a part of the family now.. Like I am now officially a Brubaker woman.<\/p>\n

4. What’s the best way you’ve celebrated your birthday thus far?<\/b> The best birthday that I’ve ever celebrated was last year. It was very low-profile. We had a barbecue and only a few people were invited. But all of the important people came. And it’s the first birthday that I’ve celebrated in our very first house. I thought it was pretty special.<\/p>\n

5. What are your plans for this weekend?<\/b> Skipping work on Saturday (today). Gina Ann’s debut at the Hilton (Saturday night). Picking up my Ortho TriCyclen at Walgreens (Sunday morning). Getting our new (new to us, anyway) dining table from mom (Sunday night). It’s a hand-me-down. But it’s better than the one we’ve got. It’s a dark, solid wood (which will match most of the wood we’ve got throughout the house) and it’s got six chairs (our current dining table only has four, because the other two broke eons ago — it was a hand-me-down as well). I’m actually excited to have six chairs because Brian and I both love to entertain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I couldn’t believe the last part when I read it. I had to ask Brian if we ever liked entertaining. He said, “Who said that?” I said, “I did. I wrote it in a blog.” He goes, “Were you delusional?” How things change!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an old Friday Five entry I found. It was originally posted on February 23, 2002. 1. Hey, baby, what’s your sign? Do you think it fits you pretty well? Scorpio. Yes, I’d say it fits me pretty well. Or should I say, I fit into the Scorpio stereotype pretty well? 2. What’s the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677"}],"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=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}