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mrissaIt is my birthday, and I have the blood of innocents on my hands. Or possibly it is cherry juice. These are some extremely juicy cherries, making for the best birthday scones on record. Also the dogbeast put herself to bed last night, which she does for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
markgritter but never before for me, since the apparent rule is that Puppies Stay Up Later Than Mrissas. (Puppies Also Use Lots Of Capitals. They're Like Twelve-Year-Olds And Victorians That Way.) Considering what a wretched brat she was for my birthday last year, this was extremely heartening.
I have all kinds of stuff on the agenda for the day. Some of it involves housecleaning, but these things happen; life is like that. Most of it is much better than housecleaning.
I definitely appreciate birthday e-mails and lj posts (and phone calls, cards, etc.). I tend to wish people "happy my birthday!" when they wish me a happy birthday, because I couldn't possibly have all the cake, ice cream, chocolate, flowers, presents, etc., nor would I even want to. So go nuts! Good chocolate is a perfectly reasonable way to celebrate my birthday. I have bottles of green wine in the fridge -- green wine is a very good way to celebrate my birthday. Read something good (and even better, tell me about it!) -- very appropriate Mrissish birthday thing. I usually have a great time on my birthday -- why shouldn't you?
Edited to add: I have been asked on e-mail by enough people now: green wine is wine that is green. You know how most white wines are a pale yellow? These are kind of a pale green. Yellowish green. The best green wines are Hungarian, but other countries do a credible job with them as well -- Portuguese vinho verde, for example, can be a very fine thing indeed. They tend to be sweet but not overwhelmingly so, and not very dry at all. I have occasionally made statements like, "If it's green, I'll drink it," but this is not strictly true. If it's green, and is a wine, and is supposed to be green, I'll drink it. Wheatgrass juice need not apply.
markgritter but never before for me, since the apparent rule is that Puppies Stay Up Later Than Mrissas. (Puppies Also Use Lots Of Capitals. They're Like Twelve-Year-Olds And Victorians That Way.) Considering what a wretched brat she was for my birthday last year, this was extremely heartening.I have all kinds of stuff on the agenda for the day. Some of it involves housecleaning, but these things happen; life is like that. Most of it is much better than housecleaning.
I definitely appreciate birthday e-mails and lj posts (and phone calls, cards, etc.). I tend to wish people "happy my birthday!" when they wish me a happy birthday, because I couldn't possibly have all the cake, ice cream, chocolate, flowers, presents, etc., nor would I even want to. So go nuts! Good chocolate is a perfectly reasonable way to celebrate my birthday. I have bottles of green wine in the fridge -- green wine is a very good way to celebrate my birthday. Read something good (and even better, tell me about it!) -- very appropriate Mrissish birthday thing. I usually have a great time on my birthday -- why shouldn't you?
Edited to add: I have been asked on e-mail by enough people now: green wine is wine that is green. You know how most white wines are a pale yellow? These are kind of a pale green. Yellowish green. The best green wines are Hungarian, but other countries do a credible job with them as well -- Portuguese vinho verde, for example, can be a very fine thing indeed. They tend to be sweet but not overwhelmingly so, and not very dry at all. I have occasionally made statements like, "If it's green, I'll drink it," but this is not strictly true. If it's green, and is a wine, and is supposed to be green, I'll drink it. Wheatgrass juice need not apply.
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Date: 2006-07-26 11:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-26 11:35 am (UTC)But all of that is a digression. What I really mean is to wish you a HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
and much joy and good health and OODLES of mail.
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Date: 2006-07-26 12:14 pm (UTC)(And this is why we take Ista out on the leash if she needs to go outside at all after about 10:30, 11:00--so that she doesn't keep the neighbors up all night. Giving small dogs a bad name!)
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Date: 2006-07-26 12:09 pm (UTC)I'm celebrating by taking the day off work. And later by taking a long nap. Woo!
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Date: 2006-07-26 12:28 pm (UTC)Happy Mrissa's Birthday, World!
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Date: 2006-07-26 01:16 pm (UTC)Birthday horoscope
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Date: 2006-07-27 12:50 pm (UTC)As it was my Bert-day, I was calling things so that they didn't happen. Ista did not pee on the floor, T did not need to go to the ER, and no nukes were used in the Middle East. Also Carlos didn't have a no-hitter, but really.
Your wife has impeccable Bert timing. She said, "Within five minutes, he's calling Buehrle a workhorse." It was within a minute. It was a thing of beauty.
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Date: 2006-07-26 01:36 pm (UTC)I was told, but do not verify, that vinho verde is green not because of its color but because it is young - green in the sense of "greenhorn." That said, for a white wine, sometimes it looks pretty green. At least the ones I buy do.
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Date: 2006-07-27 12:51 pm (UTC)There was indeed ice cream, and lo, it was good.
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Date: 2006-07-26 01:39 pm (UTC)I shall celebrate by stopping by the Palmer's candy outlet and buying a big bag of turtles to share with coworkers!
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