So, I'm 54 years old today! I can't believe that I used to hate birthdays, because I never really celebrated them but always felt like I should be self-consciously "happy" all day long. The last few have been so much fun, entirely because I have this delightful group of friends who help me to celebrate. Not to mention the legions of greetings ( Read more... )

Walking to work this morning, and noticing the autumn leaves, thinking that one serious winter gale and they'll all be gone ( Read more... )

One of my hidden talents is that I can make an extremely good cheese and spinach souffle from scratch, without a recipe. This evening, a friend came over to meet Tabitha and stayed for dinner, so I made said souffle and also a salad with pear and walnuts, and we had some white wine from the fridge. It was all extremely good ( Read more... )

That was one of those gnomic utterances* that chime out in the middle of late night conversation from those a little the worse for substances. I wish I could remember more because I remember almost peeing myself laughing at certain moments, and now, of course, all has faded except the memory of conviviality ( Read more... )

The big news - I got to meet classics_cat!! She's one of my first and oldest LJ friends, and it was SO delightful to meet her today. She was both what I expected and not what I expected, all in good ways :) It was great to get pulled into one of the firmest and most sincere hugs I've experienced in a while. But I hope she's not annoyed with me for ( Read more... )

I was awake ridiculously early again this morning, partly because I had to get up more early than usual anyway, to meet a friend for a dog-walk, and when I have set my alarm I always wake up an hour before it. We had agreed that we would meet rain or shine, and it was raining, but not pouring when we set out. By the time we got about half way ( Read more... )

(nablopomo 3) A friend from UVic asked "would you like to go play badminton"? This is not something that I'd ever considered doing, really, but I'm always up for a lark, so I agreed. We went to a drop-in session yesterday afternoon and it was GREAT fun. The irony is that my friend had to stop after one game because her neck was hurting, and I ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a good dayTM.

( Morning walk )

This is what I was doing at about 11:00 this morning


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I had lunch today with lidocafe and her charming daughter, and it was good :) Then we wandered over to visit superfoo and marri at their place of employment and hung around making a nuisance of ourselves and bought some yummy cleansing things. Then we bought ice-cream. Then we wandered down to the harbour and went shopping in a silly things shop for birthday ( Read more... )