sheldrake

This has been an immensely cool birthday. It had food, presents, friends, tea, celebrity big brother, chocolate fish and men shagging in a tent. I want more birthdays, and I want them now!

Thanks for all the lovely messages, and to Lobelia, who wrote me yet more tent-shagging! :) You can never have enough tent-shagging.

I LOVE BEING 31 ALREADY!

Ahh, days off. Overslept and had to open the door to nice young Tesco delivery man in ratty dressing gown. Never mind. It occurs to me that I possibly shouldn't be embarrassed about this, considering I was persuaded to sign up to Match.com last night and my profile reads: I like reading gay porn on the internet... Well, start as you mean to go on, I say. Ooh, I just got 'winked at' by someone. He likes aubergines! I like aubergines!

Oh, I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who added me to their holiday/Christmas card/fic filters. I decided not to do any of that stuff this year, mainly because I'm too lazy and don't have time, so I didn't want to sign up to anyone else's without having anything to offer in return. But I really appreciate it. :)

Hmm, I think maybe I'm still asleep. A cup of tea, perhaps. Yes.

ps. I still love SGA. I need icons really.

ETA: Just in case you were in any doubt, I was in the ratty dressing gown, not the delivery man. Although I really think they should do that! It would make people who've overslept feel better when they answer the door.

Thanks, everyone, for your contributions to the fairy tale post. You were all very interesting and helpful, and replies with hopefully be forthcoming when I'm not half asleep. So, about May time then...

*hibernates*

I made a huge effort to start answering the huge backlog of comments and emails in my inbox, and I did make a start, and I was at it for some time, but then my dad phoned, and I had to make a potato salad, and my knitting's going badly, and I'm suddenly very tired and slightly dispirited, so I'm apologising to all the people I haven't got to yet. Which makes it sound like everyone loves me and I'm constantly showered with comments and and I'm terribly in demand, whereas I'm just very lazy (as you know) and so they go back weeks, possibly months, I don't know.

Also, in a move which should alert me to the possibility that I am going insane, I'm going to start apologising to people individually. trianne, elanorkat, jayest, lugna_vatten, badgermonkey, lizzyrose89 and lobelia321. All of you were kind enough to respond to the pathetic Doctor Who post in which I basically flailed through the medium of type. Thank you. Thank you for joining in my flailings, and for using real sentences. I meant, as always, to reply, but I did not. Possibly I was too flaily. Anyway, I feel that now the moment has passed, but please know that I appreciated your contributions and accept my heartfelt thanks. I realise that you've probably forgotten this incident entirely, lost as it is in the mists of time (last weekend) but these things play on my mind so. It's a little problem I have. Please bear with me.

I have eaten a million chocolate eclairs. I have toffee stuck to the inside of my mouth.

I'm desperately trying to think of a way to make this post less pointless.

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Nope. Not gonna happen. [posts anyway]

Fell asleep accidentally, and now I feel all weird and groggy.

I had such a lovely birthday, I should turn 30 more often. Thanks so much to everyone for the birthday wishes - I was quite touched. *wipes away small tear*. And that wonderful and generous person sophrosyne31 even wrote me this lovely fic, The Mercy of Rain. People are so nice (sob, sniffle etc).

I'm quite enjoying being 30 so far. I have a feeling the novelty will have warn off by the time 31 comes around though. Oh well.

Urg. Do'wanna go to work tomorrow. Wow, I'm really sparking and witty this evening, aren't I?

Thank you elouisa!!! The latest Lost disc has arrived, along with v. cute Christmas card and a bunch of lovely shiny LOTR card thingies. Not only are they pretty, but they smell delicious! Now I really need to set aside a day for watching Lost, as I'm starting to fall behind. Damn you, real life!!

In other damn you real life news, why why why have my friends at the old company not yet responded to my casual enquiry as to how things are going there? Didn't they realise it was merely an attempt to cover up the fact that my job is about to implode and I am therefore desparately clutching at straws? Ah, damn them, I say! Waaah, I don't want to be unemployed...

*panics*

*stops panicking cos can't be bothered*

*eats stuff*

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the fic rec request post. See how endlessly cool my flist is, lauramcewan? :) [/smug]

I've got a hangover. Things need cleaning and tidying and so on. Humph. Outside, the light is falling away, drenching the garden and the tops of trees and houses in indigo. In other words, it's getting dark.

Um... I have nothing to say, once again. And how are you? Tell me something interesting, or if not, then something boring.

Yay! Nothing more cheering than things through the post. Except bills and catalogues full of rubbish and flyers for Dial-a-Dinner, of course. But I did not get these. No, I got a cool card from angstslashhope, yay! And a card and parcel from Kia - books, yay! How cool is that? Thank you both. :)

I must stop saying yay. I shall say nay instead. Oh shut up.

Off to see that film tonight.

Oh, and regarding that deathmatch thing? I would like to make it very clear, right here and now, that I am a coward conscientious objector. All right? Good.

ETA: cinema trip has kind of fallen through, so I have nothing to do but twiddle my thumbs and spend enormous amounts of cash via the internet.

Forgot to say thank you!! to shrinetolust, who sent me Sean Bean on tap! Well, at the press of a button, anyway. Well, his voice anyway. No longer will I have to wait for those random phone ads to get my fix...

Shriney, please tell me what I can get you in return...

Apparently it's Talk Like a Pirate Day.

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That was Jake the Bloodthirsty and Reticent. Damn good pirate, didn't say much.

I saw aphids today! A whole bunch of them live in this picnic table in the garden of the building where I work. Some were a kind of soft mint green colour, some a light brown. All different sizes. They walked around a lot. Then a wasp came along and I was startled. I accidentally spilt some water all over Jane Austen and had to sponge her down with my sleeve. After that, I went back inside, having had quite enough of the wonders of nature for one day.

Thank you for all your attempts to be boring and dull-witted recently. It's very much appreciated.

ETA: In case you were wondering, the above isn't intended as a subtle dig, it's a completely sincere expression of thanks. I requested dullness and several people took the time to stop by and be boring for me, which was so kind.