Birthday - backlog
Ok, it's two weeks and a day since my birthday, but I'm still going to write about it. It's my journal. :-)
Work wasn't, let's say, the best of days, with deadlines of various kinds. The evening, however, was excellent. I've developed a very effective technique over the years, whereby I tell lots of people that I have a birthday coming up, and then hound them mercilessly until they agree to go out for drinks and a meal. It was even easier this year, because one of the invitees has her own birthday a week after mine, so we put together our powers of persuasion and succeeded in badgering 23 people into attending a combined birthday celebration. (Sadly, only one - altariel1 - has an LJ account; the others are unconverted. We have hopes of 'siring' more.)
So it was that we started with drinks after work, accumulating people slowly over the next couple of hours, until we eventually descended en grande masse on the curry restaurant, where we remained for the rest of the evening. There were food and drink in large quantities, and presents of a number and shiny gorgeousness to make even a hardened shopaholic like me weep. They included candles (including some with a beautiful holder), a mirror, a photo frame, painted glassware, a copy of 'The Hours' and other books, Lush stuff, a cookie jar (with cookies, naturally), coasters and many many more. The highlights, however, were the even greater quantities of talk and laughter. Friends are a Good Thing.
Work wasn't, let's say, the best of days, with deadlines of various kinds. The evening, however, was excellent. I've developed a very effective technique over the years, whereby I tell lots of people that I have a birthday coming up, and then hound them mercilessly until they agree to go out for drinks and a meal. It was even easier this year, because one of the invitees has her own birthday a week after mine, so we put together our powers of persuasion and succeeded in badgering 23 people into attending a combined birthday celebration. (Sadly, only one - altariel1 - has an LJ account; the others are unconverted. We have hopes of 'siring' more.)
So it was that we started with drinks after work, accumulating people slowly over the next couple of hours, until we eventually descended en grande masse on the curry restaurant, where we remained for the rest of the evening. There were food and drink in large quantities, and presents of a number and shiny gorgeousness to make even a hardened shopaholic like me weep. They included candles (including some with a beautiful holder), a mirror, a photo frame, painted glassware, a copy of 'The Hours' and other books, Lush stuff, a cookie jar (with cookies, naturally), coasters and many many more. The highlights, however, were the even greater quantities of talk and laughter. Friends are a Good Thing.