Happy 50th Birthday Edson!

Last weekend was Edson’s 50th birthday and we celebrated Thursday at work. Since I’m the social director, we waited until he was gone and decorated his office with Over the Hill stuff that I bought at the dollar store. I also stuck an Over the Hill yard sign in front of his parking space outside. When he came into the building and saw me the first thing he said was “you’re fired!” We all went to the board room, sang happy birthday, ate cake and I think he fired me a few more times.

Edson gave himself a birthday party and invited everyone to his house Saturday. He thought it would be fun to have a sushi bar and we joked about “mole” sushi. He said I wouldn’t know it was mole because he’d slice it paper thin. He also joked that my sushi would look more like a giant burrito when I got done preparing it. I wonder how he came up with that idea.

Anyway, I went to Spencer’s Gifts and bought him a cane that has a caution sign on front and a horn that says different “old man” things when you squeeze it. Jim & I walked into the house, I took off my shoes, put on a pair of slippers he has in a basket by the front door & handed him his gift & he fired me again. Jim told him that he thought he saw one of his sushis run across the road on our way in.

There was a houseful of people and he had the sushi bar set up in the kitchen. When it came to our turn to make our sushi, Edson told us what was in each bowl and brought up the whole burrito thing again. So he made mine for me and he knows me well enough that he put cooked shrimp & crab on mine instead of the raw salmon. It was pretty good but I thought the seaweed it was wrapped in was a little tough, causing mine to fall apart. There was more singing happy birthday with very fancy cakes that Edson likes to buy from a Korean bakery near his house and then it was downstairs for everyone’s favorite activity at Edson’s house – karaoke. Jim & I didn’t stay too long because we had to get up early Easter morning to meet his dad & brother’s family for breakfast. When we got home Jim didn’t feel very well but he didn’t blame it on the sushi – he said he thought it was from drinking the sake out of the wooden box.

I was very shocked the other night when Jim went to Pet Mart to get food for the fish and he decided to buy them a special treat. Seaweed. It looked exactly like our sushi wrappers!