You make me happy when skies are grey / you'll never know, dears, how much I love you
Yup, today was my 40th birthday. Out here in the real world, despite my best laid plans for laying low and not making a big deal, it was quite stressful and upsetting at times, with everyone other than me having Expectations that were apparently Not Fulfilled and miscommunications and ugh.
Suffice to say, the one place I could turn to for succor and comfort and support was-- as usual-- MY FLIST.
Heartfelt thanks to my posse, wendy, selu, storydivagirl, boom_queen, oxoniensis, electricalgwen, one_2_3_4, jaimsie, pheebs1, and exsequar, for much-beloved and squeed-over vgifts.
Also, the ultra-amazing-in-every-way dotfic wrote me the delightful Scaling Fences (Gen, PG)
And the uber-darling-with-a-cherry-on-top enablelove wrote me the schmooptastic island in the sun (J2, PG)
And the unbelievably-crackalicious-with-heart-as-big-as-the-whole-world pinkfinity made me this ridonkulous vid to The Killer's cover of Romeo and Juliet. (Seriously, she dropped a hint that she might be doing Dire Straits and I joked, "Wut? Sam and Dean as Romeo and Juliet hahaha?" AND IT WAS. IT WAAAAS.)
OH AND, I just this minute discovered that people got together over at drvsilla's place to leave me a plethora of omg beautiful gifts (which I will respond to asap! thank you!).
Plus, I really thrill to see each and every individual birthday greeting in LJ posts and PMs and emails and comments, and I plan to say thank you individually to each of you too (in the morning!).
I say it all the time, but I don't believe I say it enough:
You all mean the world to me, and I don't know what I'd do without you.
Suffice to say, the one place I could turn to for succor and comfort and support was-- as usual-- MY FLIST.
Heartfelt thanks to my posse, wendy, selu, storydivagirl, boom_queen, oxoniensis, electricalgwen, one_2_3_4, jaimsie, pheebs1, and exsequar, for much-beloved and squeed-over vgifts.
Also, the ultra-amazing-in-every-way dotfic wrote me the delightful Scaling Fences (Gen, PG)
And the uber-darling-with-a-cherry-on-top enablelove wrote me the schmooptastic island in the sun (J2, PG)
And the unbelievably-crackalicious-with-heart-as-big-as-the-whole-world pinkfinity made me this ridonkulous vid to The Killer's cover of Romeo and Juliet. (Seriously, she dropped a hint that she might be doing Dire Straits and I joked, "Wut? Sam and Dean as Romeo and Juliet hahaha?" AND IT WAS. IT WAAAAS.)
OH AND, I just this minute discovered that people got together over at drvsilla's place to leave me a plethora of omg beautiful gifts (which I will respond to asap! thank you!).
Plus, I really thrill to see each and every individual birthday greeting in LJ posts and PMs and emails and comments, and I plan to say thank you individually to each of you too (in the morning!).
I say it all the time, but I don't believe I say it enough:
You all mean the world to me, and I don't know what I'd do without you.