Another year

I was mostly ambivalent about my birthday this year, especially in that I kept forgetting it, lol. I guess I finally got to that age that you always hear older people talking about, when they stopped really celebrating? In spite of that, several people went out of their way to make me smile--okubyou_kitsune got me the coolest vintage globe bookends *ever* that are now perched on my bookshelf in the living room so I can see them all the time. My Swedes got me a second x-box controller, and I've been badgering my poor darling Muse to play Resident Evil 5 with me *grin*.

My nephew told my sister that he wanted to make me a spider protection amulet, since they scared me, and it had to be green, b/c that's my favourite colour (this kid kills me--whenever I visit he makes sure he's wearing green underwear and a green shirt) so Amberdawn helped him make me a bracelet with charms of wasps and birds that eat spiders, and pretty green beads.

Of course, Muse had already got me my gift--a new car--but she took me out to dinner yesterday, and it was utterly amazing *sigh* They had a cheese sampler, and salad with calamari, and hanger steak with fingerling potatoes and these yellow tomatoes in a blue cheese sauce, ugh, and the dessert was s'mores bread pudding with marshmallow ice cream *dies*. Best ever.

And I can't leave out defect_no9 for my cupcake, omg. I never get these gift, thank you so much, I can't even--you deserve all the fic.