Tonight's birthday celebration wasn't as good as last year's - less food, less friends, and self-funded - but it was still alright. I made a cheesecake-ish pie and my "famous" orange chicken and rice. The pie slices were spread to many guys in the dorm while the orange chicken and rice was split with West.
I made the pie by mixing powdered milk, powdered whipped topping and orange fruit drink. The crust was crushed vanilla wafers with a layer of chocolate syrup and flattened pieces of candy orange slices. The milk mixture went on top in a gooey consistency and thickened to a kind of dry cheesecake. All the different textures worked very well with each other, and I ate almost half the pie on my own. :-)
The orange chicken and rice was made with my "orange slices in barbecue sauce" recipe and turned out quite well, too. For the first time, West ate his whole serving on his own, but maybe he was just hungry.
The best thing about this birthday, though, is that it will be my last in prison. Even if parole is taken for some reason, my sentence ends in June and there is no way to keep me here any longer. Next year I will be able to celebrate in freedom with family and friends and that's worth celebrating in itself.
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