I had more of a birthday week...
( December 10, 2012 ) ( December 12, 2012 ) ( December 15, 2012 ) December 16, 2012
I had to work 8:30-4 but at least, that left me time afterwards and I did Taco Bell for my lunch break. Nobody was having fun with their latest charity drive so I put down my name as Yoda.
Then, my brother picked me up for the movie.
I know thirty is a big deal and I did try to think about how best to celebrate it. However, the last big birthday was turning 21 and how did I celebrate that?
A bunch of hobbits, a dwarf and a ring...
So, I decided what I wanted most for this birthday was...
A bunch of dwarfs, a hobbit and a ring...
( Most people have seen this now, right? ) Now, yet another nitpick/problem with the movie:
I was looking at the movie merchandise with my mom, before she saw it, and pointed at Tauriel.
Me: She wasn't even in it!
My Mom: She wasn't in it? Why?
Me: Because they didn't get to the barrels yet. They just showed Legolas' dad a few times.
My Mom: But Legolas was in it, right?
Me: No.
My Mom: Now, I'm not sure I want to see it...but he'll be in the next one?
Me: Definitely, it's when his dad puts the dwarves in barrels because his dad is a dick.
My Mom: How did Legolas turn out so well?
Me: I'm going to assume it was Aragorn's influence.
I understand how
Lord of the Rings had long moments of lacking female characters but he was able to insert Arwen flashback or Arwen instead of Glorfindel or whatever so it wouldn't seem so bad but here...
Total sausage fest as they're fond of saying on Tumblr...The worst part is that it gives people the wrong idea about Tolkien when Tolkien created one of the earliest examples of a bad-ass modern female hero ever who rescues her man rather than being the damsel in distress herself...Luthien. Luthien does what she wants, cuts her hair, rides a wolf, does a rescue attempt against SAURON!, FIGHTS HIM!, defeats him with help, faces motherfucking MORGOTH! and goes to the freaking Halls of Mandos to get her man back.
We seriously need a Silmarillion movie NOW. Sadly, I've seen The Hobbit twice and I'm pretty good with that until the extended dvd comes out.
Then, I went home, ate a Lunchable and watched television.
December 17, 2012
DOWNTOWN DISNEY AGAIN!
Anywhere on Disney property is one of my favorite places ever and since we went directly to Downtown Disney without stopping at the outlet mall or Altamonte Springs first, we passed Hollywood Studios and under the main entrance.
We both expressed a sigh of sadness at not having passes anymore. It's been one year and nine months and it doesn't get easier, lol.
I got a birthday pin from Guest Services, just like we were in the parks, yay!
We got LOTR keyrings from Lego; Gandalf for her and Gimli for me. I'm really impressed with the detail for Gimli and his armor.
The previous week, I had made a Disney employee sad at D Street. She felt like she had disappointed me because of my shock at her revelation that she had never seen
Star Wars...any of them. This week, I shocked her with the simple sentence:
No, we've never had a Dole Whip.
We just assumed it was full of sugar and crap and not worth it. Now, everyone acts like we had passed up ambrosia. "It's only available at three places in THE WHOLE WORLD!" I suppose if we ever do Magic Kingdom again, we'll have one. Then, my mom gave me the Master Sorcerer Badge Pin. It's very awesome looking.
( The highlight was the T-Rex Cafe! ) I had never eaten at one before or built a dinosaur. I always wanted to but it seemed sort of expensive. However, you only turn 30 once. We were sat right away, next to this adorable baby Mammoth who would move his trunk.
There was almost too much to look at between the other customers, the fish tank bar, the animatronic dinosaurs, the animatronic Mammoths, the non-moving decorations and the meteor showers ever twenty minutes. It was also so loud that it seemed off that they were even trying to have cantina music in the background.
The food wasn't priced as badly as I thought, about $15 for both of us. I got the Brontosaurus Burger with waffle fries. I'm a connoisseur of fries and restaurants, other than Chikfila,
( Read more ) THESE WERE THE BEST WAFFLE FRIES EVER!!!!!!
They were crispy, sort of like when Burger King redid their fries in 2000 or so, but they also had a seasoning similar to the spicy fries we used to have in public school.
They were so freaking good that words cannot deeply express how good these were. I worshiped every bite with an appropriate amount of ketchup and pepper. The burger had swiss cheese, a large onion ring on top and the perfect pickles. There are two types of pickles that I feel are best for sandwiches; One is when they're cut the long way like Steak and Shake and the other is when they're cut thickly and not too pickled. These were the second ones. The burger was so thick that at first I had to bite from the top and then bite from the bottom until it was able to sog together into a smaller bite. Admittedly, it was hard to discern the different flavors once that happened but it was still a lot better than any fast food burger. My mom had the Asteroid French Onion soup which was daring because it was sherry based and she never has any alcohol at all. It was bought out in a metal tureen like Medieval times which was very cool. She also had a Jurassic salad with Balsamic Vinaggrette. She declared everything delicious.
However, it wasn't until after ordering that we realized our mistakes. We try to only eat Humane egg products and the onion ring was probably made with an egg mixture. More serious was that the French Onion soup was probably made with a beef broth...my mom's been a vegetarian since
Babe in 1995.
Best Part? Two of the employees came over at the end and sang to me, Happy Birthday!!!!!
It was awesome and my mom wished she could have taken pictures. I'd never had that happen before.
( Bathroom ) After visiting their bathroom which didn't disappoint, I made my dinosaur. It's a fluffy Carnotaurus! I was tempted by a Rainbow Pterandon but fluffy Carnotaurus?! Who could pass that up? It took a little longer than usual because I had to come up with new Buildabear wishes. My wishes for Coulson to come back and Obama to win re-election have already come true.
I named him Estel, both for Aragorn and the meaning. I wanted to get him this clothing set with a
Jurassic Park raptor on it but his tail was too big for the hole. I love that whole store, the Buildabear portion and the regular portion. The t-shirts were hilarious especially the Tea-Rex one.
Afterwards, we originally were going to see The Hobbit but my mom decided she wanted to put that off for a week. Instead, we hit Wiregrass and saw the light show; always the same but always fun especially since we were close enough to experience the snow. I also picked up "Tre" and plushie Gollum while mom bought this awesome keyring that's Orchist and the map.
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