Shortbread Anniversary (& Others)
Aug. 15th, 2014 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aSo this last Tuesday was the 14th anniversary of my and Kimberly's wedding. It used to be called the ivory anniversary, but that's no longer PC, so husbands give their wives shortbread cookies now. For those married less than 14 years: take note.
We had dinner out at Skate's on the Bay, which is located out on the Berkeley Marina. It's actually hanging out over the Bay, which means that it's going to be the first up against the wall when the Global Warming Revolution comes.
The staff was all very nice and attentive, and the sea food was good, but we were really paying for the view, and we definitely got that. Per our request (and we had reservations, of course), we got a window seat looking west. That means that as we ate we got to watch the sun slowly drop down through the sky, then behind the Marin Headlands. We really couldn't have asked for a much nicer day to watch the sun set. There were enough clouds about to paint the sky interesting colors, but not enough to block out the view. And having a day in Berkeley when we could still see the sky at 8pm is nothing short of miraculous.
Overall, it was a nice evening when we got to just relax and enjoy each others' company. Then we got to enjoy the fresh (but cold) air out on the Bay for about 5 minutes before the bus came and took us home. (Yeah, we took the bus to our nice anniversary dinner, and that's not the first time we have; last year it was a different bus to downtown Oakland, then a walk to Jack London Square.)
So that was our shortbread anniversary.
It was good to have some downtime because the week leading up to the shortbread anniversary was just exhausting for me. As I wrote last week my RPG history book, Designers & Dragons when live on Kickstarter the previous Monday.
I'd suspected it would be emotionally draining, but it was even moreso than I thought, plus there was the work figuring out stretch goals because the Kickstarter took off so spectacularly, plus there were questions to answer, plus a history to suddenly rewrite, plus, plus, plus ...
Agh.
I could really tell how tired I was on Saturday. (After I ran an RPG session!) I got home and only then realized that my bike odometer/speedometer wasn't working. The fact that I hadn't paid attention to it the entire way home means that I really wasn't paying enough attention to be biking ...
So on Monday I went up to Lake Temescal and did some quiet writing there from dinner time until the sun went down, and then on Tuesday we had our anniversary, and then I did some gaming on Wednesday and Thursday. And between all of that I've destressed. The Kickstarter has revved down to its long-term burn, which helps, and we've probably figured out the stretch goals for where it's likely to run ...
We had dinner out at Skate's on the Bay, which is located out on the Berkeley Marina. It's actually hanging out over the Bay, which means that it's going to be the first up against the wall when the Global Warming Revolution comes.
The staff was all very nice and attentive, and the sea food was good, but we were really paying for the view, and we definitely got that. Per our request (and we had reservations, of course), we got a window seat looking west. That means that as we ate we got to watch the sun slowly drop down through the sky, then behind the Marin Headlands. We really couldn't have asked for a much nicer day to watch the sun set. There were enough clouds about to paint the sky interesting colors, but not enough to block out the view. And having a day in Berkeley when we could still see the sky at 8pm is nothing short of miraculous.
Overall, it was a nice evening when we got to just relax and enjoy each others' company. Then we got to enjoy the fresh (but cold) air out on the Bay for about 5 minutes before the bus came and took us home. (Yeah, we took the bus to our nice anniversary dinner, and that's not the first time we have; last year it was a different bus to downtown Oakland, then a walk to Jack London Square.)
So that was our shortbread anniversary.
It was good to have some downtime because the week leading up to the shortbread anniversary was just exhausting for me. As I wrote last week my RPG history book, Designers & Dragons when live on Kickstarter the previous Monday.
I'd suspected it would be emotionally draining, but it was even moreso than I thought, plus there was the work figuring out stretch goals because the Kickstarter took off so spectacularly, plus there were questions to answer, plus a history to suddenly rewrite, plus, plus, plus ...
Agh.
I could really tell how tired I was on Saturday. (After I ran an RPG session!) I got home and only then realized that my bike odometer/speedometer wasn't working. The fact that I hadn't paid attention to it the entire way home means that I really wasn't paying enough attention to be biking ...
So on Monday I went up to Lake Temescal and did some quiet writing there from dinner time until the sun went down, and then on Tuesday we had our anniversary, and then I did some gaming on Wednesday and Thursday. And between all of that I've destressed. The Kickstarter has revved down to its long-term burn, which helps, and we've probably figured out the stretch goals for where it's likely to run ...