THINGS I am grateful for, in every order of everything:
1. I met the lovely
runesque &
theprerogative for drinks and a Christmas gift exchange tonight: I now have a gorgeous scarf that looks as if it's been woven from moonbeams and cobwebs by way of
runesque.
2. Thank you everybody who remembered and celebrated my birthday with me!
a.
theprerogative and
tokei took me out for dinner and made me wear bunny ears because I was an hour late by way of work, heh; and I now have this really classy formal dress from
theprerogative (it's of a kind I've always admired on other people, and always made mental notes to get for myself if the opportunity ever arose);
b.
amandes was a total darling and was the first person to wish me happy birthday; also thank you for the adorable hand-made card and samoyed (!!!) and blue-eyed white fluffy dog!;
c.
little_ribbon did this gorgeous gorgeous thing and was a sweetheart as always:
d.
hemera_oneiroi and
julineci took me out to dinner and gave me this lovely and incredibly soft sakura-patterned scarf ♥ ;
e.
cynic_in_charge remembered and called all the way from where she was ♥ ♥ ♥ ;
f.
aingeal_isilme (she's active
over here on Tumblr, and you can check out her art
here and
on HitRECord) did this
gorgeous, gorgeous:
source also I
love the way she thinks.
g. Thank you also to everybody who wished me a happy birthday ♥ ♥ ♥ Thank you to everybody RL who is not reading this and also my brain is emitting white noise from the awesome and I think I have forgotten things AAAAA.
3. Other awesome things that occurred in the etherworld on the day:
a. THIS made me smile so hard:
jrosemary's
Which is your favourite Out of Context White Collar picture Poll. IT WAS HILARIOUS and I could hardly pick one. I realllly wanted an option that said ALL of the above.
b.
astolat's baby girl
was born! (
astolat wrote one of my favourite White Collar fics ever:
Taking Liberties). (haha, I share a birthday with a fandom baby)
4. Met
elvaron with mutual friends for lunch at place that does potato salad with bacon and dill, and also has really comfy chairs and water you can help yourself to (I am a fiend for water, I drink it like a fish).
5.
arrch &
nescienx were in town, and we got to hang out at STGCC with
lysistarielle and
sarahcoldheart.
6.
khursten and
izkariote were in town for STGCC, and we hung out with
amandes and
tasogareika and there were awesome presentations along the lines of
this.
... I AM LITERALLY SURE THERE IS MORE, BUT MY BRAIN HAS SHUT DOWN FROM THE AWESOME.