Happy Birthday E!

Happy 26th Birthday E!

(E dancing in a hotel room at my 18th birthday party)

Today marks E's 26th year of life! That also means that I've kissed him from ages 16-26, which is kind of mind boggling.  Since E made breakfast in bed for me on my birthday, he wanted a special breakfast to start his day as well. I wasn't able to wake up before him since we have some minor construction going on here that ended up waking us both up, but I was able to whip up some delicious chocolate chip pancakes in my nightgown sans glasses. Not bad if I do say so myself, though I'm not sure our construction workers appreciated the unkempt view. 

(No, sadly these aren't my pancakes. I was too busy serving E and our construction crew to snap some photos! They did look like this though)

After breakfast, we ended up taking care of a few wedding related errands. Since I'm changing my name we've been waiting on our certified marriage licenses to show up so we could start making appointments. They finally showed up today so I made my appointment with the DMV and paid a visit to the social security office to notify them of the change. This was actually a quick 15 minute trip, unlike the epic DMV wait I'm anticipating. 

E and I also decided to merge all our finances and we've had a surprisingly hard time doing just that. The actual merger in the bank went just fine, but our bank has been having difficulties getting us the right cards. To date, they've sent me two correct credit cards and two incorrect debit cards. E got one wrong credit card, one correct credit card and three incorrect debit cards, just for the hell of it. It's getting a little ridiculous at this point so we went into the bank today and tried to straighten everything out.  More on whether this was actually successful later -_-

Our last stop was the parking office! Where we live, you can't park without a permit so we need to pay for guest permits whenever we have a party. We forgot that our parking office is closed on Fridays and weekends when we had our Hanukkah party so we went today to make sure our guests don't have to park a street over. They've gone up to 2.50 per day pass per car but it's cheaper than a ticket!

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Finally, E and I decided to hit happy hour at McCormick and Schmicks in Beverly Hills. Finding the parking lot was a bit of a challenge but was amazingly free if we were there less than 2 hours. E enjoyed their calamari, garlic fries, lobster mac'n'cheese, and cheeseburger and we both shared the creme brulee. Not the most amazing food we've ever had but it was good and the happy hour prices were excellent so we'd probably go back.

All in all, it was a really productive birthday! Not quite the epic fanfare I think E secretly wanted, but we're having a little party for him this Saturday which should be fun. Once we get some cash/win the lottery/make friends with a leprechaun and his gold, we'll go on a little trip and do some relaxing.