OT HAppy Birthday

Many thanks! I got a surprise from a dear friend of mine...told her that I wanted "coffee and shmooze" time with her today while our kids played.....got there, only to discover that she had invited another friend, and was making a cake for me!!!

She *did* give me an earful though....since she was out of coffee, I told her I would bring some. Then I called to see if she wanted me to bring anything for lunch..she said she was out of bread, so I told her I would bring 2 frozen pizzas that I had. Instead, I got her coffee, pizzas, bread, hot chocolate, juice, and cookies.....man, she went up and down about how I wasn't supposed to do that for somebody else when it was MY birthday......I always thought you could help others no matter what day it was .

Larisa

JJ wrote:

larissa... happy BD! i turned 39 on monday----and am feeling like an old hag!

tell your friend to WAKE UP and SMELL THE COFFEE--you were incredibly sweet to do what you did---and yes, you do do those things for friends and loved ones,,,no matter whose bday it is! betsey "we do not inherit the earth, we caretake it for our children"

Tell her you're a hobbit! On their birthdays they give other people presents!

Have a wonderful day, Larissa!

Kate,

I didn't know that about HObbits. However, I th> Two x over wrote:

It is the The habit of Hobbits to give 'mathoms' on their birthdays: some of these have been doing the rounds for years. At the beginning of The Lord Of The Rings, there is almost a whole chapter dedicated to this habit. The Sackville Bagginses get all Bilbo's silver teaspoons, to go with all the ones his aunt has taken away over the years, secreted in her umbrella! The precise wording of the labels on the gifts explains Bilbo's relationship with his friends and relations very nicely. There are a lot of little things like this missed out of the films. The habit and the manner of the giving says quite a lot about hobbits in general.

Elvish gifts tend to be a little more perilous...

Kate Dicey wrote: The precise wording of the labels on the gifts explains

I rather liked the wastepaper basket given "In memory of a long correspondence".

Yes, it'd be nice if it all made it in, but then we'd have an 18-hour movie and all of our butts would go to sleep and fall off. (Sez the lady who watched the extended FotR and TT today in a row in prep for RotK - I have tix for Wed!)

The damned thing is longer than War and Peace! And therein hangs a tale...

When I was 13 I had glandular fever and was off school for a few weeks. I was bored to the point of driving my mother nuts! Dad handed me War & Peace, big Sis handed me LOTR. I read them both, back to back, then turned them round and read them both again. It took me 2 weeks to read them both twice each! Then we were back to, Mu-u-um! I'm boooooored!

Well, at least you didn't do what I did...

I knew I was coming down with the flu, so I went to the library to get a stack of books. I was perusing the shelves, and said to myself "hmm - 'The Collected Works of H.P. Lovecraft'. I've always meant to read those"....

NEVER read Lovecraft when you have a high fever! I had nightmares for three days, and kept getting up to go look in the closet, or under the bed.....

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I'm not a great Lovecraft fan, but I do know what you mean! The silliest thing that once gave me a nightmare I will never forget is that song from Fiddler on the roof (have I got the right film?) about having staircases: One going all the way up, and another coming all the way down, and one going nowhere at all, just for show!

Your line should have been "It's MY birthday -- I'll do as I please!"

Joy Beeson

Also, do not read true crime forensics when you're stuck in a remote cottage in Cornwall one long Christmas, having come off your anti-depressants. Seriously. Don't.

;) Trish