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Nov. 18th, 2004 10:37 amBirthday celebrations were very keen.
On my birthday proper, my new boss let me leave early so I went home and lounged about while hub made a lovely dinner. There was an artichoke of course, and garlic mushroom pasta, and cherry pie for dessert. I opened my prezzies and got this chalice and this pendant. The chalice- well, it's probably pretty evident why, since I'm such a Pan fangirl. I am especially happy with the nymph standing behind him grabbing his ass. The pin- well, there's a part of me that wonders where I'll wear it since I don't wear pins that often, and I'm not a huge LOTR fan, and I will look like a big dork. But it's a beautiful design, something I wanted regardless of the connections to any movie, and I loved it since I saw it, so I'll just figure out something to do with it. Then lots of birthday shagging. Yay birthday shagging!
Yesterday dawned rainy as hell. I made some cookies for scheduling guy since he was so nice in going out of his way to find me a shift I like. Some cynical folks have referred to it as a bribe or kissing ass, but the thing is, I'm giving them to him after he did what I wanted him to, so *pthbpbpbpbpbp*, it's just a nice gesture. I took the rest to a unit meeting, which was stultifying as unit meetings generally are. A couple of people had cookies, and most of the rest looked at them longingly and refused, which seemed to give them a sense of pride but just seemed a little sad to me. Which explains my current ability to displace quite a lot of volume, I suppose- but they were damn good cookies! Kirby was appropriately appreciative when I found her in the break room, calling me at home to check on dinner plans. As I came out of the building, the Sun came out. Yay!
I had settled on Nutty Brown Cafe for birthday dinner with friends, which I knew was not conveniently close but it was what was sounding tasty. I had many take me up on the offer to be a Homernaut and drove six of us down in the minivan, and another 5 showed up at the place. It was a really nice time for me, though I think hub got overloaded from all the people. My food was pretty tasty too, though a couple of others had problems (including Gordon, who is always very high-maintenance so I don't know if I should count him). Also Sheena had some digestive distress, though I think it was less from the food and more a stress thing (lots of hugs to Sheena). But overall I think everyone enjoyed themselves. I was just happy that they were all willing to celebrate with me! I was also shocked and pleased to find that my covenmates chipped in and got me a day at a spa- I have a menu of facials (*giggle*), manicures, pedicures, massages, and various weird and cryptically-named treatments of various sorts to choose from. I don't know what I'll get, but never having been to do this before, it should be interesting.
Then home again, where a couple of folks stayed for Adult Swim, and then I drifted off while snuggling.
( the usual memes )
On my birthday proper, my new boss let me leave early so I went home and lounged about while hub made a lovely dinner. There was an artichoke of course, and garlic mushroom pasta, and cherry pie for dessert. I opened my prezzies and got this chalice and this pendant. The chalice- well, it's probably pretty evident why, since I'm such a Pan fangirl. I am especially happy with the nymph standing behind him grabbing his ass. The pin- well, there's a part of me that wonders where I'll wear it since I don't wear pins that often, and I'm not a huge LOTR fan, and I will look like a big dork. But it's a beautiful design, something I wanted regardless of the connections to any movie, and I loved it since I saw it, so I'll just figure out something to do with it. Then lots of birthday shagging. Yay birthday shagging!
Yesterday dawned rainy as hell. I made some cookies for scheduling guy since he was so nice in going out of his way to find me a shift I like. Some cynical folks have referred to it as a bribe or kissing ass, but the thing is, I'm giving them to him after he did what I wanted him to, so *pthbpbpbpbpbp*, it's just a nice gesture. I took the rest to a unit meeting, which was stultifying as unit meetings generally are. A couple of people had cookies, and most of the rest looked at them longingly and refused, which seemed to give them a sense of pride but just seemed a little sad to me. Which explains my current ability to displace quite a lot of volume, I suppose- but they were damn good cookies! Kirby was appropriately appreciative when I found her in the break room, calling me at home to check on dinner plans. As I came out of the building, the Sun came out. Yay!
I had settled on Nutty Brown Cafe for birthday dinner with friends, which I knew was not conveniently close but it was what was sounding tasty. I had many take me up on the offer to be a Homernaut and drove six of us down in the minivan, and another 5 showed up at the place. It was a really nice time for me, though I think hub got overloaded from all the people. My food was pretty tasty too, though a couple of others had problems (including Gordon, who is always very high-maintenance so I don't know if I should count him). Also Sheena had some digestive distress, though I think it was less from the food and more a stress thing (lots of hugs to Sheena). But overall I think everyone enjoyed themselves. I was just happy that they were all willing to celebrate with me! I was also shocked and pleased to find that my covenmates chipped in and got me a day at a spa- I have a menu of facials (*giggle*), manicures, pedicures, massages, and various weird and cryptically-named treatments of various sorts to choose from. I don't know what I'll get, but never having been to do this before, it should be interesting.
Then home again, where a couple of folks stayed for Adult Swim, and then I drifted off while snuggling.
( the usual memes )
