With A Cherry On Top
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laliandraSo!
I am 23.
It feels much as 22, only less symmetrical. I had a wonderful birthday yesterday, thank you so, so much for all the messages etc of good wishes and sprinkles and all that. I felt quite overwhelmed with love. You are all darlings of the highest order, and I feel very special having y'all as my flist. All other flists pale into insignificance.
Anyway, I had a lovely day. I went to a very excellent all day music festival on Sunday, so got up late and got cards and lovely things from the internet like virtual mix CDs and flower picspams. There was some mooching, also some faffing, and making people do my bidding (MUHAHAHA). Plus phone calls from awesome people, and cards with umbrellas on them.
Then Nat took me out for a swanky meal, and I had a very large black forest gateau with cherry ice cream.
But, it turns out that my birthday is a Magic Day! So many random good things happened! I did not know I had such power. So, here are five very cool things that we can all enjoy together, in light of 5th April being lucky with extra luck sprinkles.
1. One of the bands that I saw on Sunday were Hope and Social. Check Them Out! They were amazing. They have a brass section. And they played this one song that I just fell in love with.
Red, Red Rose by Hope and Social. When they play it live, they do call and response with "Blue Skies..." and it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
2. So, I had this conversation with Nat during my birthday meal.
Nat: I don't really have a present for you. I don't know what you want! But. You know I was trying to get a ticket for the first day of Leeds?
Me: No? You were?
Nat: What? Because, you do know who is playing there on the Friday?
Me: No? Who?
Nat: You do know that the Libertines are reforming for Leeds Festival?
Me: NO. What? OMG, what? *nearly falls off chair*
Nat: But... How did? You live in the internet, how did you not know this? Anyway, would you like a ticket as your present?
Me: *looks around* This restaurant is such a bad place for an attack of flailing.
SO YES. Did you know this? The Libs. They broke my heart last time, they had better stay friends forever this time round. I am putting my faith in you, Pete Doherty, do not let me down. If you haven't heard of them, you should definitely get on board, they were, are, a great British band. And they will always be extra special to me because both my boyfriend and my best friend adored them for years, and then I got to introduce my campfire ladies to them. I think I was slightly dazed at poor Nat for a while because, surreal! So, yes. The LIBS.
3. My dearest![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mcollinknight is doing a LADIES ARE AWESOME post. You should all go play. It's a great idea and also a tiny bit for my birthday, so I feel like I can invite y'all to her place. Just be good, don't break anything, be nice about Canada. We need more pictures and so on of awesome ladies being awesome!
4. Because pictures of cats are always amazing. This is Alfie, the unsubtle cat that I mentioned in my last post. He is ridiculous and likes to clomp around my Granny's house muttering to himself. He has tiger paws and the brain of a kitten...
5. My Dad got me a Good Deal of Amazon vouchers for my birthday. Which means that I will be set up to buy a book forbookdeyada for a good few months to come. And also that if anyone would really love to join but doesn't think that they can afford to buy a copy of this month's (really excellent) book, The Hunger Games, well, I could probably gift you one. Because it's A FANDOM BOOKCLUB AND I WANT EVERYONE TO JOIN AND HAVE FUN TOO! Ahem. Sorry, I am still really excited about it...bookdeyada !
There we are! 5 awesome things for the 6th. A catrillion hearts to you all.
I am 23.
It feels much as 22, only less symmetrical. I had a wonderful birthday yesterday, thank you so, so much for all the messages etc of good wishes and sprinkles and all that. I felt quite overwhelmed with love. You are all darlings of the highest order, and I feel very special having y'all as my flist. All other flists pale into insignificance.
Anyway, I had a lovely day. I went to a very excellent all day music festival on Sunday, so got up late and got cards and lovely things from the internet like virtual mix CDs and flower picspams. There was some mooching, also some faffing, and making people do my bidding (MUHAHAHA). Plus phone calls from awesome people, and cards with umbrellas on them.
Then Nat took me out for a swanky meal, and I had a very large black forest gateau with cherry ice cream.
But, it turns out that my birthday is a Magic Day! So many random good things happened! I did not know I had such power. So, here are five very cool things that we can all enjoy together, in light of 5th April being lucky with extra luck sprinkles.
1. One of the bands that I saw on Sunday were Hope and Social. Check Them Out! They were amazing. They have a brass section. And they played this one song that I just fell in love with.
Red, Red Rose by Hope and Social. When they play it live, they do call and response with "Blue Skies..." and it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
2. So, I had this conversation with Nat during my birthday meal.
Nat: I don't really have a present for you. I don't know what you want! But. You know I was trying to get a ticket for the first day of Leeds?
Me: No? You were?
Nat: What? Because, you do know who is playing there on the Friday?
Me: No? Who?
Nat: You do know that the Libertines are reforming for Leeds Festival?
Me: NO. What? OMG, what? *nearly falls off chair*
Nat: But... How did? You live in the internet, how did you not know this? Anyway, would you like a ticket as your present?
Me: *looks around* This restaurant is such a bad place for an attack of flailing.
SO YES. Did you know this? The Libs. They broke my heart last time, they had better stay friends forever this time round. I am putting my faith in you, Pete Doherty, do not let me down. If you haven't heard of them, you should definitely get on board, they were, are, a great British band. And they will always be extra special to me because both my boyfriend and my best friend adored them for years, and then I got to introduce my campfire ladies to them. I think I was slightly dazed at poor Nat for a while because, surreal! So, yes. The LIBS.
3. My dearest
mcollinknight is doing a LADIES ARE AWESOME post. You should all go play. It's a great idea and also a tiny bit for my birthday, so I feel like I can invite y'all to her place. Just be good, don't break anything, be nice about Canada. We need more pictures and so on of awesome ladies being awesome!4. Because pictures of cats are always amazing. This is Alfie, the unsubtle cat that I mentioned in my last post. He is ridiculous and likes to clomp around my Granny's house muttering to himself. He has tiger paws and the brain of a kitten...
5. My Dad got me a Good Deal of Amazon vouchers for my birthday. Which means that I will be set up to buy a book for
bookdeyada for a good few months to come. And also that if anyone would really love to join but doesn't think that they can afford to buy a copy of this month's (really excellent) book, The Hunger Games, well, I could probably gift you one. Because it's A FANDOM BOOKCLUB AND I WANT EVERYONE TO JOIN AND HAVE FUN TOO! Ahem. Sorry, I am still really excited about it...bookdeyada !There we are! 5 awesome things for the 6th. A catrillion hearts to you all.
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Date: 2010-04-07 12:17 am (UTC)It sounds like you had an amazingsauce birthday! Om nom nom cake, I fucking love cherry ice cream. KITTTTTTTYYYYY PICTURES I WANT TO BURY MY NOSE IN HIS STOMACH
which means my face would promptly die for two hours afterwards, but stillllll.HAPPEEEE BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUUUU AGAIN!
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Date: 2010-04-07 05:05 pm (UTC)Cake! It was so delicious. Cherry anything is all good things for me, but cherry ice cream is extra fabulous.
HE IS SO ADORABLE. He is also extremely spoilt, as I'm sure you can imagine. He has the silliest, tiniest kitten meow.
THANK YOU BB! <3
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Date: 2010-04-07 12:18 am (UTC)Glad to hear you had such a lovely day. I hope when I am in Europe permanently starting this summer/autumn, we get a chance to meet up!
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Date: 2010-04-07 05:07 pm (UTC)Yay, yes, I hope so too, that would be amazing! :D
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Date: 2010-04-07 01:51 am (UTC)AGH FLIPPING BOOKDEYADA. Okay, so, the thing about The Hunger Games is that it is a book I am very excited to read, and have been waiting to read for about a year now. Only I happen to know that a friend of mine bought it for me as my Christmas/birthday present last year... only we never had a chance to meet up and now she is off in foreign lands being very adventurous and whatever else, while my future copy of The Hunger Games sits in her bedroom where I CANNOT READ IT. And I can't get it from the library, since it's so immensely popular that the last time I tried to get it from the library I had to wait about four months for it to arrive (and then missed the pick-up deadline by one day, so, EPIC FAIL).
In other words, I CANNOT READ THE APRIL BOOK FOR BOOKDEYADA AND IT IS TEARING ME UP INSIDE. Hopefully I'll be able to join the party for May, though. (And, honestly, I already have stack of six or so books that I'm supposed to be reading next to my bed (some of them for classes which my parents are paying many thousands of dollars for me to take), so maybe this is a good thing.)
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Date: 2010-04-07 05:10 pm (UTC)Also, I am so pleased that you liked all our podfic recs! It is a great love of mine, and there is a ridiculous amount of awesome out there that more people should know about...
That sounds like a tale of great woe!
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Date: 2010-04-07 03:11 am (UTC)Also: KITTTTTY. Unsubtle cats are BEST.
That is all. &Lal.
&hearts&hearts&hearts
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Date: 2010-04-07 05:10 pm (UTC)HELEN MF MIRREN.
&Claire
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Date: 2010-04-07 06:33 am (UTC)DEAREST LAL, CONGRATULATIONS. I LOVE YOU. PLATONICALLY. AND I BLAME YOU. FOR MANY MANY GOOD THINGS. AND THIS IS WHY MANY MANY GOOD THINGS SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU. So there. :)
<3
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Date: 2010-04-07 05:11 pm (UTC)THANK YOU, MOST LOVELY BRAN
&hearts &hearts
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Date: 2010-04-07 02:43 pm (UTC)And I may want to steal Alfie and snuggle him and play with him and squee over him because I am So Cool ^_^
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Date: 2010-04-07 05:12 pm (UTC)Thank you darling!
I was very tempted to bring him home in my suitcase. No one is ever cool when it comes to kittys.
KITTY.
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Date: 2010-04-07 07:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-12 11:52 am (UTC)It is fabulous indeed!
BESTEST BIRTHDAY GIIIIIIIIIRL
Date: 2010-04-09 02:26 pm (UTC)DLing the song, eagerly awaiting my listen of it! Though am kind of always a sucker for songs that feature like, COLORS AND ROSES AND OKAY, SKIES for some reason wtf my brain. I blame my childhood obsession with Seal's KISS FROM A ROOOOOOOOOOOSE for the rose part, at least!
KITTY ALFIE IS A DARLING, and I love it when cats flop on their back like that! AJ used to do so, but apparently is too much of a stuck-up priss to do anything like that now where PEOPLE could ever see, sighhhhh
AND SPEAKING OF CATS-- YOU MUST READ THISSSSSSSSS i basically squawked and squeed and made all manner of STRANGE NOISES reading this genius bit of work <333
YOU ARE MY BEST GIRL, OK?
Date: 2010-04-12 12:11 pm (UTC)Oo, I havbe the SKY thing as well. Any song at all with skies in automatically has my hearrrrrrt. Do you like it?
Alfie is too silly for anything like dignity :D
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH THAT WAS AMAZING. Jim! UHURA! Catnip! Hchfu!
*DELIGHTED*
Date: 2010-04-13 10:55 am (UTC)AND YES I DO LIKE ITTT, *bops along to music* I wouldn't say no to some music, that's fo' sure :DD
HFFCHU I TELL YOU I LAUGHED SO HARD ahhh the idea of Spock and Cat!Kirk both stoned on catnip and how Pike felt the urge to vacate the premises reaaaaaaaaally quickly when he noticed their stares sjkahjasfh I have discovered that I am super fond of the idea that Spock has/had a GIANT CRUSH on Pike. EVER SINCE "RODE IT TILL THE WHEELS CAME OFF", THAT'S A FAAAAAAAAACT <333.
ALSO: SULU THE CAT-WHISPERER. DUDE, BROS sjkfhakjfh perfectttt