Not yet in my pocketses

[mrissa]

I don't mean to go all Bert Blyleven on you*, but it's 12 days to my birthday.

I really like birthdays. This year I am very tired, and birthdays perk me right up.

I don't think that anybody should buy me a present who wouldn't otherwise buy me a present. I dislike trolling for presents. However. If you are a person who was already trying to think what to get me, a caffeine-free tisane with ginger and no anise in it is very welcome indeed. Staff of life, ginger. Staff. Of. Life. I went through one box of the spice tisane I'm using most in the two weeks since alecaustin went home: I distinctly remember opening it the morning he left, and now it is gone. And I've been drinking other tisanes sometimes still.

There are rumors about other things that are the staff of life, and this is my 2^5 birthday, but "to the fifth" should not be a theme, because I am not at all a good drinker, and a fifth of anything would last me to my 3^5 birthday.

Mostly you should get me a chatty e-mail for my birthday, really. Or string, or nothing.

Not actually string, unless you've done something good with it, but if I'd left the string out, it wouldn't have been a Tolkien reference. So there you have that part.

You can get me a Tolkien reference for my birthday if you like. Those are nice, and they often fit.

*/obligatory laurel reference

Comments

[asciikitty.livejournal.com]

you're going to be this many! ::holds up both hands, left one with all fingers and thumb up, right one with just thumb up::

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

Mmm... Twinings Lemon and Ginger tea is exceedingly yummy! Definitely one of the staves of life.

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

I believe we have already discussed what I am likely to get you for your birthday, which is to say that I'm sure it will come as a *total surprise* (after I cunningly and selectively erase your memories of those discussions, anyway).

Hem.

Also: good grief, that is rather a lot of ginger tisane to drink in 2 weeks. Would you want more of that particular brand, or have you got pallets of it hidden away out back somewhere?

[redbird]

How are you about other ginger(y) things?

(Contemplates sending five chatty emails.)

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

I had string I had done wonderful things with but it was deemed "uncleanable" so I didn't retrieve any of it. I will have to restock my weaving stash. Then when people say "String or nothing" I can say, "Hah! String!" and produce spiffy odds and ends.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

i am coming to the ends of tiny balls of yarn in my sock yarn afghan project, and i am in fact ending up with pieces of string too short to use.

(my sister's partner's grandmother had a box labelled that. she lived through the great depression.)

[mightyjesse.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what I want to make you on the ginger theme, but am unsure as to whether or not Pennsic prep and Bebe will allow it. I shall do my bestest, because new forms of Ginger Therapy are always lovely.

What are your feelings on mint? (the leafy kind, not the gum/candy kind)

[carbonel]

Would you like a birthday party for your birthday? At my house, I mean?