RhymePhile's Rat Race

Thanks to all who wished me a Happy Birthday yesterday. I got many lovely posts and images that made the day even better. Shout outs to aqualegia and inlaterdays for kindly sending me V-gifts of a bottle of champagne and a noisemaker respectively, and thanks to I'm guessing unfamousl, who sent me Battlestar Galactica: The Plan from my Amazon wishlist. I'm guessing it was you, as you've been so generous in the past, and the package came with no paperwork whatsoever for some reason!

Mom and Dad called and Dad even sung me Happy Birthday. He doesn't take much interest in my life overall, and despite insisting I was 37 this year and one year calling me on November 2 to wish me a Happy Birthday, I suppose it's better than forgetting.

My co-workers even remembered this year with surprise cupcakes. I guess I didn't warrant the trip out to lunch that everyone else gets, but I'll take it because: cupcakes.

My GF even baked me some cupcakes and we had them last night during Glee. Speaking of, Matthew Morrison (Will Schuester), I hope we see more of you and your curly head of sexiness in the future, and not just in something that requires singing and dancing. He owned that scene last night between he and co-star Jessalyn Gilsig, and she's been around the block a time or two.

I celebrated 35 exactly the way I planned: with a cheeseburger and Supernatural. My GF was even able to choke down approximately 12 minutes of "Bad Day at Black Rock" until she abandoned me for Jack/Ianto fanfic.

The only minor discordant note was the fact that someone stole my deelishus date, walnut, and raisin oatmeal from my desk in work. They didn't just steal a packet or two, they took the whole box! WTF people?

I'm hoping 35-up will improve on the past 34 years. I have a job and a place to live and loved ones, but I still feel directionless and unfulfilled. Excuse me while I ennui.

Happy Birfday to my girl luffing! Hope it's a good one, babe!

Today is badtyler's birthday, and were she around to celebrate it, I'm sure I would be offering her birthday wishes along with comments about the new season of Nip/Tuck.

Girl, I didn't get a chance to watch last night, but I will tonight. We never got to finish our thoughts about what's going to happen to Christian and Liz. Now I'll be thinking of you when we do. Peace.

Friday was Sharon's birthday, and I wasn't sure how to note it until lorelei633 posted a note in her journal. She mentioned that Sharon's journal hadn't been placed into memorial status and was afraid its contents might be lost.

So I wrote to LJ support, and they were kind enough to place her LJ in memorial status. No further entries can be made at the journal, but comments can still be made on entries already there.

That will be my way of remembering Sharon's birthday. We miss you.

Today is my mother's 66th birthday and I'm headed back home on the bus (just like old times!) tonight to visit for the weekend.

My brother and I bought her a new computer, because her Dell from 1998 is frustrating as hell. Mom doesn't need it for much more than organizing and printing photos of the grandkids, e-mail, and shopping online, but that poky Dell just wasn't up to the task.

In other news, GO AWAY SUMMER. I am tired of being wet and constantly dripping, literally. It's 83 degrees with 73% humidity. That makes it feel like 89 degrees, and it's not even 9:30 a.m. yet. Here, look at this heat index chart. It's supposed to go up into the mid-90s today. I CAN'T STAND THIS ANYMORE. You can't do ANYTHING if you're not in an air conditioned room. This summer wasn't even that bad! June was blessedly cool, but this hot, thick, sticky, AWFUL August heat is too much. HURRY UP SNOW AND COLD. Seriously, I should be living in Alaska for how much I hate the sun.

Wondermark knows what I mean about the heat!

A very Happy Birfday to one of the sweetest people out there, the dear maddiec24. I hope you have a healthy and happy year ahead, babes!

I missed colleendetroit's birfday yesterday due to robot pirate ninjas, so I'm making up for it. I hope this coming year is much better than the last, sweetie.

Right now I'm eating lunch and listening to audio clips I downloaded from supernatural_tv here. "See if they've got any pie! Bring me some pie! Love me some pie..."

I'm also here to offer my girl siberian_skys a very Happy Birthday! I hope it's filled with lots of fandom happiness and sexxxings! Hee.

Happy Birthday to Florida-livin', Gary Carter-lovin', All Lee All The Time great lady fanfromfla!

I'm sure you're going to -- blargh -- go exercise even on your birthday. C'mon, be like the rest of us and sit on your ass and eat cake!

Happy Birthday, stargazer60!

( Oh look, Mr. Ianto Jones has something for you behind the cut, which you should view in your own journal style, because he's so big he broke my layout, LOL! )

Happy Birthday to the crafty, knitty, crochety, artistic mrs_sweetpeach!

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Happy Birthday to marciaelena! I hope VK comes for a visit and tells you when the heck Mad Men is coming back, LOL.

I hope you have a wonderful day.

Since no one ever took down vestafour's journal here on LJ, all of her Friends have no doubt gotten notifications about her birthday today. She would have been 54, but she passed away from cancer back in April.

It's surprising how emotional something like this makes me, as I never even met her. But the thought of someone so kind and sweet passing away at such a young age, well...sucks.

Her birthday today reminds me that as difficult as life is sometimes, we're only here for short time.

I'll be thinking about vestafour today.

Happy Birthday to my girl luffing! I hope you have a good day today.

I went back to skip=280 to catch up on what everyone has been posting about.

My Thanksgiving was loud (my nap-deprived 1-year-old nephew Greyson) and also good (getting to see my almost-5-year-old niece Harmony and my brother and sister-in-law). There is never enough pie, in my opinion.

I was a good girl and packed up all the collectibles on Saturday, just as I had planned to do. I have seven large plastic containers all filled with stuff, and I need to buy some more for the comics and magazines I've accumulated. This is one of the times where I face the problem of "What am I going to do with this crap?" while fighting "All this stuff is worth money!" I have an urge just to chuck the whole lot and be done with it, but in good fangirl conscience I cannot.

The original Angel puppet and original Spike action figure are going to have to go to eBay, since no one responded here. A pain in the ass as I've never sold on eBay before, but whatevs. still available if you want them. Looking at eBay and all the hidden costs gives me a headache. See my original post for details.

My family doesn't exchange gifts for Christmas, so we just have to buy for the kids. My brother gave us a list of things for the kids, one of which is something I AM NOT BUYING BECAUSE ZOMG EXPENSIVE, the Yo Gabba Gabba Dancing Brobee. There is no way I'm spending over $50 on something that's going to get tossed in the pile after watching it dance once or twice. Yes, yes, it'll make them happy blah blah blah, but for $50 with shipping? Just...no. Two Christmases ago I got the hard-to-find Extreme Elmo (we had exactly 5 come into work) or whatever the hell it was for Harmony, and he now sits dead and soulless sans batteries in a heap.

I don't even want Christmas gifts from my girlfriend, much to her annoyance. I've just come to the realization that I don't need any more useless *stuff*. I only want things I need -- like those freaking expensive Pur water filter replacements that fit onto your faucet. I can buy a whole new faucet filtration thingy for the cost of those filters alone! Sheesh. I told her to wait until I find a new apartment, and then she can buy me things I need to decorate and crap.

As much as I love everyone out there, PLEASE SAVE YOUR MONEY AND DON'T SEND ME HOLIDAY CARDS. I don't want to feel obligated in return, and frankly I'm trying to save as much as I can for the impending move.

Meh, I am Grinchly this morning. I'm just not a big fan of Christmas, for reasons better left unsaid, and now that it's December you can't get away from it.

Before I miss it...Happy Birthday to siberian_skys! I hope you have a great one, sweetie. And lookit, I used Deano just for you.

Happy Birthday to All-Lee-Lovin', All-The-Time (with room for Rod Taylor and The Kid Gary Carter thrown in), fanfromfla.

You, my dear, are truly a class act, and it was a pleasure to meet you last weekend. Have a great day!

It's biani's birthday again already? Time has been passing way too quickly, it seems. Happy Birthday, B, and many more! :-)

It's kanld's birthday today! Yay, France! (And, interestingly enough, it's my mom's birthday today, too!) To celebrate, some Nick:

His eyelashes wish you Happy Birthday...






He seems happy...






And finally, a grin for the birthday girl...

Happy Birthday to callmerizzo. Jersey Girls in da house! W00t!

There are too many birfdays to keep track of.

Today the sweet maddiec24 has a birfday. I hope you have a great day, surrounded by love, family, and friends. I hope you and J go out to a nice dinner or something too.

And I hope this year finds you happy and healthy.