when I get older, losing my hair ...

[freckles_and_doubt]

Perfect birthday! wake up to bucketing rain and high winds, lie in bed enjoying it without having to dash off to work. When maxbarners arrives, tragically without smoczek because her work is being evil, hijack his plan to go out for a birthday breakfast and instead use him as an excuse to make waffles. With chocolate ice cream, because that's all that was in the house. Consume vast and unlikely quantities of same.

Read multitudinous birthday messages on Twitter and Facebook and email, being touched and surprised that so many people remembered. Realise that both Facebook and LJ send out reminders if you tell them your birthday, which I apparently did. Be touched and happy anyway.

Spend the afternoon in a warm kitchen with cats and tea and loud rock music, cooking enormous meals and chocolate cake for my favourite group of role-playing lunatics this evening. Why, yes, role-playing is my idea of a perfect way to spend a birthday evening. Why, yes, I am an enormous geek.

That Dreaded Age has apparently found me still firmly in the Cooking Huge Meals For Friends camp, to which I say, damn straight. It's also given me a bit of a warning about doddering dillyness, being as how I accidentally left my wallet on the counter in the liquor store this afternoon, necessitating one of those embarassing groping sessions at the Woolies checkout, immediately followed by fleeing the store without paying. On the upside, the Cosmic Wossnames dictate that I wasn't actually pickpocketed, and didn't drop the wretched thing in the street, and that the liquor store clerk returned it to me with the minimum of mockery, so I think we're ahead.

My subconscious seems to be firmly convinced that this is just another birthday and I'm really no more than a day older now than I was yesterday, so I seem refreshingly free of Milestone Angst. Thanks to everyone for wishes, will reply individually, eventually, but for now know that there's a Warm Glow that's not entirely about the Earl Grey. Also, looking forward to seeing a pleasing proportion of you on Saturday.

Comments

[stringgeek.livejournal.com]

1. Happy Birthday! :-D

2. You're on FB??? Heh. :-)

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Why yes, I am. As, apparently, are you :>. I should warn you, I don't go onto Facebook very often at all, so don't expect massive wall posts or anything.

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

Akcherly, I remembered your birthday all by myself and received no LJ warnings. Still have not got you anything resembling a present, but have parcel for your esteemed papa. What do you want for your birthday? Do you have, wochercallums, wishlists?

Have a galaxy. Nay, have two.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Of course you remembered, you're w-n! I am very grateful that you have a thingy for my papa, should I come by and collect it sometime? I have wishlists on Loot and Amazon.uk under my actual name, more or less a record of stuff I intend to buy sometime, but will also post a sort of wishful-thinking listy thing later today, other people have asked me.

Thank you for the galaxies, they're luvverly!

[mac1235.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday, belatedly. Glad you enjoyed it.

BTW - in Significance the big ones seem as mere chicken feed when you get to the next, or the one after that. Or, as my Mum tells me, you realise your children are getting there!