Mall Parking Surprises
Blueberry Birthday Cheesecake
December 23, 2010 – Home – It’s been talked about and insisted upon months ahead. “We have to spend your birthday together,” he says. It wasn’t a banner year, but we persevere nonetheless. The circumstances are different, but I was still on my merry way.
Late December afternoons have been rather dull lately. Overcast and chill, the threat of rain pervades the atmosphere. “It just wasn’t conducive to celebration,” I said to myself as I wondered what he had planned this time. Pulling up to the curb, the rear doors opened almost immediately and what followed were rustling sounds of much activity and pleas for me to keep looking forward at the street – this was it. What next?
I had a few gift certificates left, so we decided to go to the mall and spend the rest of the day there. Tron was showing and GCs meant I could see the movie despite lukewarm reviews, guilt-free.
The parking annex was especially dark – bad lighting and an already somber sky didn’t help. He was excited of course. “Close your eyes. No peeking!” I did what I was told just when the radio started to play “Marry You.” And after what seemed like five long minutes, I opened my eyes to a lighted birthday cheesecake. I blushed. I loved the cake, and I loved how everything fell into place.
Lighted
We saw the movie and came back to a melted cake. It wasn’t nearly as presentable – okay it wasn’t at all presentable – but I’ll consume it with gusto (as soon as I get it firmed up in my freezer).
Someone told me that people take the beautiful things in life for granted because people expect that it is what is owed, while the few occasions things didn’t go as planned are remembered to bitter end – it’s human nature. We had a terrible year and things aren’t the way they were, but the few exceptional moments when everything went as planned will always be remembered, cherished, and in this case – preserved in cyberspace.
An Intimate Celebration
