Sylvia's Birthday

It's Sylvia's birthday today. She's been a very good friend, even though sometimes she and I don't agree on certain issues or see eye to eye. True friendship is accepting of each other and embracing each other's differences. I am working on that all the time, because I know I am far far from perfect. I called Sylvia's brother on Monday and invited him and his wife to dinner. I wanted to surprise her a little, since she wasn't expecting anyone but me to show up. She indeed was pleasantly surprised, but wasn't that shocked to see her brother and his wife there with me. We went to Tofu Village to celebrate. The food was mostly decent, if not outrageously good. The restaurant wasn't busy tonight. We found our service to be pretty excellent, and we all had a wonderful time. Sylvia seemed to like the present I got her. I had always wanted to get her a beautiful perfume set, and I was happy to finally make that happen tonight. It's baby pink in color with a sparkling bottle design, and has "crystal" in the name, very fitting for Sylvia's liking and personality. And it's a fresh, gorgeous scent. Hoping to see her wear it some time. Of course, after dinner I came home smelling totally like Korean BBQ, but I didn't want to change or take off my jacket. It's been a dry, windy and cold day. I could've turned on the heater, but that felt like too soon. So I just kept my jacket on and will wait 'til after shower to change into something more comfortable for bed.