Sounds like a perfect Kara birthday.

I didn't really do anything stressful -- a bunch of empty plastic bottles, a half-dozen plaster splotches, dishes. No big. The thank-you notes were really by far the worst part, and I did take an ice cream and cheerfully brainless comedy break afterwards. Nothing heavy was lifted, I'm fine and un-leaky, and the Halloweenie is prancing about inside me even as I type.

I don't know if they have it in Ireland, but in Scotland and Yorkshire I found something called Eirn Brew, or something like that. It was orange and chock full of caffiene. Good stuff.

hee! On the train in Scotland once, encountered a young teenage girl who started chatting us up in an incomprehensible glaswegian accent, asking if we wanted an "Irn Bru"--but we'd never heard of it, so couldn't understand a WORD she was saying, and started looking at each other wondering if she was crazy or slow...Eventually we figured it out. :)

t sometimes feels very strange to me that I didn't know y'all on 9/11/01.

Amych? You weren't here then? I feel like you've been around forever!!

I'm not quite ready for that commitment as a new Buffista. I will, however, let you touch me behind the cyber bleachers.

HAH! We can work up to it. Wear you down with peer pressure.

"You are... thank you for sending those birthday wishes, and I love you. You're so nice people. You make my world glow, full of stars and beauty and love, although, I do like you. You're very awesome. You're great guys...girls...You are the perfect people. You are great. You are beautiful. That's all I want to say to them."

AWW! I want to hug her and kiss her and call her Tyrone.

This isn't the best picture of it, but here's my new tattoo: [link]

t edit It's not a sharp picture, so you can't really see the shading, which is the part that makes it look so good. I'll have to shanghai The Boy's digital camera for a better picture.

That's glorious, Tep!

hee! On the train in Scotland once, encountered a young teenage girl who started chatting us up in an incomprehensible glaswegian accent, asking if we wanted an "Irn Bru"--but we'd never heard of it, so couldn't understand a WORD she was saying, and started looking at each other wondering if she was crazy or slow...Eventually we figured it out. :)

My favorite train moment was in Italy, when I won several hands off the straight Italian version of Carson from Queer Eye. He had four fabulous friends with him, all very straight and macho with the cigarrettes and the versace and the "Ciao." I won no money, but I did win a footrub.

I haven't greeted SCube yet. Greetings!

I can't see the link since I'm still at work, but I'm looking forward to checking out the Teptattoo when I get home.

YAY for Cass seeing the neicelet!

YAY for happy birthdays for Kara and Trudy!

GC, I am also insanely jealous but so very happy for you and GF for having such a wonderful trip.

In meme news, I think I may have dislocated my shoulder, or at least really f-ed it up. I am in serious pain, and yet I have no idea how I managed to injure it. It was fine this morning, but a few hours later I went to pick something up and was OMGWTF in so much pain I could barely breathe. If I just sit here quietly, it's a dull ache. The second I try to move it, it hurts like hell. It even hurts when I try to open a door, but I can't imagine it hurts enough for it to really be dislocated. Maybe it's just pinching a nerve? In any case, I have a 4PM chiro appointment tomorrow, but tonight is not going to be fun, especially since ND is out of state. t /whine

Tep, that tat is awesome. Verra cool.

Beautiful tattoo, Teppy!

Cass, continued ~ma to kittenish. I'm glad you got to see the neicelet and the rest of the family.

Kara's birthday sounds like it was tons of fun.

Happy Birthday Trudy!

Happy Birthday Tyrone!

YAY for good trips to London and Paris, and to San Diego, and niecelets and nephlets and getting kittenishlets back.

{{Kristin}} Shoulder pain is of the suck. It might also be that you strained the rotator cuff somehow. It's incredibly painful without dislocating bones.

GC, your vacation sounds fab! But, I think I want SCube's foot rub. In Italy. I never got anything like that on the trains in Spain, drat it all.

Teppy! Bee-yoo-tee-ful tattoo!