Happy birthday PC!
Also, I'm mentioning this already because it's shabbat soon in my timezone, and the 13th (also known as "tomorrow", still) is billytea's birthday, but in his timezone it's very soon going to be this tomorrow, when I'll be deep into shabbat and not in front of a computer. So early timely timezoned wishes for him, as well!
In fact, it's my birthday now! Allow me to sing the praises of Wallybee, who has gifted me with a scrapbook of our relationship. Includes the first email I ever sent her, photos from important dates in our life, three echidnas, and an entire page dedicated to penguins. I'm very touched.
I'm also getting Twilight Struggle, a board game devoted to the Cold War, but I think I like the scrapbook better.
Aw! Happy birthday, y'all!
Perkin - I bet they
don't have any of them under contract yet, so it depends on who signs firt
and then, voila,
baby daddy
.
I'm also getting Twilight Struggle, a board game devoted to the Cold War, but I think I like the scrapbook better.
Happy Birthday, billytea and forgive me for my mind immediately going to sparkly emo vampires fighting to get out of a bad book.
Ooops... was that my outloud voice again?
Hmmm, I believe I read a casting spoiler about 90210 that might answer that question.
DANA -- have you seen this?
Les Misbarak (completely work-safe although you probably don't want to play it at full blast in the office -- although you'll probably want to)
Come to think of it, we didn't hear from Dana once she left for the library yesterday. Maybe she's still there?
No, no, I did eventually make it home. Husband disposed of the mouse in several plastic bags, and I sincerely hope it suffocated quickly.
May I never see another one in the house again.
Happy birthday, P-C!
Happy birthday, billytea!
I'm coming from a family that reads 15 minutes of the Haggadah just because I make them do so, or else it would be 3 minutes. After an hour and a half my dad and the "dad" of their side looked at each other and mumbled "umm, mind if we skip this part...?".
We usually go to my aunt and uncle's for the seder, and they're very Orthodox (members of the Bostoner Rebbe's shul) and read every single word, so that's the sort of seder that feels "right" to me. There was one year that we couldn't get up to Boston, so we had the seder at our house with some local cousins. My mom and I spent a while beforehand editing the Haggadah to exactly what we would say. We ended up mostly taking out the parts that my dad refers to as "rabbis doing multiplication" -- the stuff about exactly how many plagues there were, if you count the "strong hand and outstretched arm" stuff as multiple plagues.
Happy birthdays to Polter-Cow and billytea!!!
And I understand that biting the nads off of reindeer as a adolescent rite of passage fits in there somewhere, too.
I wonder if my grandpa ever did this while drunk. He's from Lulea, Sweden, about 150 miles south of the Arctic Circle. It's an industrial city, but IIRC he grew up on a farm outside of town, so there might have been reindeer around.
Barb, you might be related to my BIL! He and his family were among the last to get out before Castro shut down the borders in 1962. His sister and her husband lived down the street from Castro's mistress and were going to be kicked out of their house due to security reasons anyway, so they left then, as well.
