Yesterday (the 20th) was my birthday (even though I was born in a different timezone, which gives me two birthdays).
Pierre, my brother-in-law, is here for one more week. My husband, Anthony, took this week off from work so we could spend it together.
My type of celebration
For my birthday, I wanted to be close to the ocean and in nature so we drove to Vancouver to have a long nice walk along the Sea Wall. If you are not familiar with Vancouver, the Sea Wall is a road where bikes/rollers/pedestrians can be. It is around Stanley Park and the total loop is about 8.5 km. We did not do it all because it was started to be late for lunch (the girls are out of school at 2:55 pm, and it’s about an hour drive from the city to home) but we walked a good 6km.
You might already know that my favourite food is Japanese cuisine in general. After fighting and arguing, my husband and I settled down on having lunch at Gojiro Ramen, in downtown Vancouver (a full article is coming to my other website, Nova’s Kitchen).
I have been craving tsukemen for a while now. Tsukemen are the same chewy noodles as used for ramen. However, the broth is on the side and you dip them in it. I ordered the tori karaage tsukemen, so it came with fried chicken. Everything was so tasty! It satisfied my craving. Now, I need to find a recipe for the broth so I can make it at home.
Once home, I baked myself my favourite brownies. I am VERY picky when it comes to brownies, so now that I have found a recipe I love, I just use this one and made some variations now and then.
My husband made is cocktails, so delicious! And to close the day, we watched Birds Of Prey. I really love this movie…
Understand me better
This is something that I deeply believe is one of my life mission in this incarnation: figuring out who I am at my core. Not just the surface.
I have a weird passion for personality types… Even though these are general character traits, there is always something I can grab to understand myself better. In the MBTI (aka Myers Briggs Type Indicator), I am an INFJ-T. It stands for Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling and Judging; the T stands for Turbulent). It is said to be the rarest personality trait but I come across so many other INFJ women, it’s a little creepy 😉
I love this Youtube channel above and this specific video could help you understand me a little better.
The sea wall sounds truly divine. If I ever make it up past the border, I’ll hope to enjoy a visit to it.
I’m an INFP – always, EXCEPT for that one time I took it while heartbroken and feeling confused about if I should trust my intuition like I had in that relationship. That time I got an INTJ and it made so much sense to me that it had changed, just that one time.
I am glad you had an awesome birthday! I LOVE the 36 on the brownies, that’s my kinda birthday cake! I wish you a good year ahead, where you keep on being true to this incarnations mission!
The Sea Wall sounds lovely. I hope if I ever get to Washington again, I can ferry over to visit Vancouver. I came close a few years ago, but I was the only one of our group that could so I didn’t.
Happy belated birthady!!
I usually test as INFJ. I find it very interesting that it’s supposed to be the rarest one, yet almost everyone I know has the same result…INFJ.
I love brownies, and I’m picky about them. I like mine a bit more cake like and I love eating the middle while it’s still warm 🙂
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Happy belated birthday, Nolwenn! I love that you walked the sea wall. I used to live in North Vancouver and loved walking around the sea wall. Beautiful. And i love that you got to do all those things you loved for your birthday. And that your brother-in-law is still visiting. <3