Birthday, birthday, birthday!!!!
How these three amazing people all have birthdays on the same day (and one of my stepsisters!) is crazyweirdwonderful to me.
wolfiekins, llembas/Jen and risiepookie, it's technically not quite all of your birthdays, but now I'm in the pacific time zone so I'm wishing you happy birthdays anyway.
My thanks to llembas for being the first person to beta for me, to teach me how to punctuate dialog, how *not* to overuse adjectives, and for giving me an invitation to join LJ back in the dark ages when you needed one to have an account. You are also the first fandom friend I sought out in person after knowing you online first. I'm so glad we're still friends and that you have an exciting year ahead of you!
To risiepookie: I'm so glad that I became a beta for you at TQP and that our relationship blossomed and blossomed and became a living, vibrant friendship. If I could take away all of your health issues, I would do so in a heartbeat. I mourn the fact that we're not able to be in touch as often as we were a while ago, but know that you are so often in my heart and thoughts and I hope to be able to see you in person again in the next year.
And last but not least, dear wolfiekins. It was on your birthday when I first got brave enough to call you! I can still remember sitting in the rocking chair in the room in my parent's house where I was living at the time, and how from beta'ing for you and then you for me and then us constantly cross-referencing each other's stories and chatting for hours about our stories became conversations about every topic under the sun and then I invited myself to your house. :D You have been a confidante and understanding friend unlike any other, and I am so grateful for your friendship and support in these recent years.
To all three of you: please know how profoundly you have affected my life and how desolate this world would be for me (and a great many others!!!) were you all not in it. It is a privilege and honor to be friends of each of you and I hope you're celebrated with joyful abandon on the 16th (and for days to come!) in whatever way makes you each the happiest.
Happy Birthday to all of you. I love you each dearly.
wolfiekins, llembas/Jen and risiepookie, it's technically not quite all of your birthdays, but now I'm in the pacific time zone so I'm wishing you happy birthdays anyway.
My thanks to llembas for being the first person to beta for me, to teach me how to punctuate dialog, how *not* to overuse adjectives, and for giving me an invitation to join LJ back in the dark ages when you needed one to have an account. You are also the first fandom friend I sought out in person after knowing you online first. I'm so glad we're still friends and that you have an exciting year ahead of you!
To risiepookie: I'm so glad that I became a beta for you at TQP and that our relationship blossomed and blossomed and became a living, vibrant friendship. If I could take away all of your health issues, I would do so in a heartbeat. I mourn the fact that we're not able to be in touch as often as we were a while ago, but know that you are so often in my heart and thoughts and I hope to be able to see you in person again in the next year.
And last but not least, dear wolfiekins. It was on your birthday when I first got brave enough to call you! I can still remember sitting in the rocking chair in the room in my parent's house where I was living at the time, and how from beta'ing for you and then you for me and then us constantly cross-referencing each other's stories and chatting for hours about our stories became conversations about every topic under the sun and then I invited myself to your house. :D You have been a confidante and understanding friend unlike any other, and I am so grateful for your friendship and support in these recent years.
To all three of you: please know how profoundly you have affected my life and how desolate this world would be for me (and a great many others!!!) were you all not in it. It is a privilege and honor to be friends of each of you and I hope you're celebrated with joyful abandon on the 16th (and for days to come!) in whatever way makes you each the happiest.
Happy Birthday to all of you. I love you each dearly.