The Birthday Report
Dec. 17th, 2011 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
przedI've had a low key, if extremely pleasant birthday this year. (And it was made even more pleasant by all the lovely birthday greetings from you all!)
The highlight was probably taking Ros skating for the first time this year. She started off a bit wobbly, but that didn't last long, and she kept us on the ice for nearly two hours. Two hours! By the end, my toes were freezing and my face had gone numb, but she insisted she wasn't at all cold and wanted to keep going. I was saved from hypothermia by the sun going down. (Well, the rink has lights, but I wasn't about to point that out.)
For dinner, I took the Sweetie and Ros for their first Mongolian Grill experience. Ros now has another restaurant she says she'll go to, so that was a success.
As for the pressies, there was no wrapped up Howard Donald forthcoming--the Sweetie balks at the kidnapping of British pop stars--but he did get me prints of Kate Beaton's Jam Watson and Gay Watson cartoons, so there's a visit to my favourite framing store in the offing.
There was also this t-shirt:
And we have managed to track down a baby sitter for tomorrow afternoon, so there will be an outing to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie, completing the weekend's Holmes theme.
ETA: Almost forgot, huge thanks for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
solosundance, moth2fic, ancastar, sc_fossil, just_ann_now and kotirion for the snowman cookies and cupcake!)
The highlight was probably taking Ros skating for the first time this year. She started off a bit wobbly, but that didn't last long, and she kept us on the ice for nearly two hours. Two hours! By the end, my toes were freezing and my face had gone numb, but she insisted she wasn't at all cold and wanted to keep going. I was saved from hypothermia by the sun going down. (Well, the rink has lights, but I wasn't about to point that out.)
For dinner, I took the Sweetie and Ros for their first Mongolian Grill experience. Ros now has another restaurant she says she'll go to, so that was a success.
As for the pressies, there was no wrapped up Howard Donald forthcoming--the Sweetie balks at the kidnapping of British pop stars--but he did get me prints of Kate Beaton's Jam Watson and Gay Watson cartoons, so there's a visit to my favourite framing store in the offing.
There was also this t-shirt:
And we have managed to track down a baby sitter for tomorrow afternoon, so there will be an outing to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie, completing the weekend's Holmes theme.
ETA: Almost forgot, huge thanks for
solosundance, moth2fic, ancastar, sc_fossil, just_ann_now and kotirion for the snowman cookies and cupcake!)
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Date: 2011-12-18 09:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-18 01:08 pm (UTC)I am very much looking forward to seeing the movie.
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Date: 2011-12-18 01:18 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-12-18 02:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-19 05:03 am (UTC)Isn't Hark a Vagrant awesome?! I tried to buy the prints the Sweetie got me earlier this year when Beaton was at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, but she was like a rock star there. Her table always had an enormous lineup and she apparently sold out of everything in hours.
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Date: 2011-12-18 02:51 pm (UTC)And I just spent, like, 2 hours on Hark! A Vagrant! Thanks to your links. *shakes fist!* ;)
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Date: 2011-12-19 05:04 am (UTC)And I'm so pleased to introduce you to Hark! A Vagrant. I love Beaton's work.
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Date: 2011-12-19 05:06 am (UTC)Heh. And of course, if I had a boxed up Owen in my possession, he'd only be a city away from you. *g*
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Date: 2011-12-18 08:52 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-12-18 10:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-19 05:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-19 12:43 am (UTC)I love Kate's artwork and sense of humour. I hadn't seen the Holmes ones before. I found her work through her Tesla references.
Hope you enjoyed the rest of your birthday weekend.
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Date: 2011-12-19 05:07 am (UTC)I adore Beaton. I love her history geekiness, and her obvious affection for slash doesn't hurt either.
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Date: 2011-12-19 01:52 am (UTC)no subject
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