The Mighty Toygers

It was J's birthday yesterday and we had a little party for him over the weekend. His collected birthday gifts include:

"Heroes" t-shirt
HeroClix
Spiderman night light
Spiderman candy
Superhero band-aids
Three Stooges memorabilia
Gift certificate to comic book store
Artistic rendering of Risk pieces
Superman sling toy
Banana Republic slacks and hoodie

Can you guess which one I gave him? It was actually really sweet that people brought all these goodies; it gave the party a bit of an old school feel. And by "old school" I mean "elementary school." And by that I mean "lots of fun."

I attempted a four layer chocolate cake, which had a lying recipe and turned out only three layers. One day, when the sun and moon are aligned just right and the other forces in the universe see fit to make it so, I will produce the perfect cake. Until then, it is slightly dry cake with imperfect frostings for me. I find it infuriating that I can't seem to make a delicious cake, but I blame it mostly on the fact that I don't make cakes that often. Who makes cake often? It's a special occasion thing. Which is why it should be extra important to have that infallible recipe tucked away and ready for use.

On Krista's last night, we ventured out to a British bar and played a pub quiz for most of the evening. I'm semi-terrible at trivia, but J and Krista have minds like little steel traps and we did brilliantly for our first go. Plus our team only had us three*, while others had the collaboration of up to six members. The sixteen points we missed were almost certainly in the "name the video game music" round, which was entirely harder than we thought it would be, and the "celebrity downfalls" round, which was more obscure than anticipated. All night, Krista and I were gunning for a reality television question, and when it finally came, it was about "Work Out" and who watches that show? Sadly our vast knowledge of model-, singer-, and vapid teen-themed reality television went untapped.

* For the visual round, we were given eight pictures of different movie posters starring Jodie Foster. Krista was going crazy trying to get the first one and we finally called in a long-distance teammate to help out. Luckily, Tom came through and provided us with "Sommersby," which would have given us a perfect score if we hadn't missed "Anna and the King."

Willow and Mike are here in a week and I think J and I will commandeer them for a night. I have a feeling that couple is good for a lot of facts.

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