Thanks!

[jlh]

Thanks to everyone for their birthday wishes! So glad I have this nice bday icon from ladylisse from last year as it is very handy. Also, maybethemoon drew me a cute piccie which you can see from her journal. Thanks sweetie!

I am, in fact, in sunnyish southern California, with my pal C. Went out with friends here last night which was a lot of fun. Really liking D's boyfriend; he's quite a talented photographer. Ripped through a couple of pitchers of margaritas. It was a good evening.

And now, C and I are off to the Huntington and lunch with another friend in Pasadena.

Thanks again, everyone!

Comments

[ari-o.livejournal.com]

ohhhhhhhhhh! Happy Birthday!

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[rhiannon333.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!!!

Best wishes for a squee-ful year to come!

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Hah, a scroller, how sweet!

belated but...

[earthquake1906.livejournal.com]

I would also like to send an especially S/D flavoured birthday hug! Even though it's a bit late.

The Huntington has such a wide variety of stuff, I'm sure there will be something that will do something for you...I'm also quite partial to those "Greene houses" in Pasadena as well...

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Now thinking of the Huntington gardens, you must have heard the story of the two statues (I will leave their gender unspecified so we can each have fun with this story) who stood for centuries facing each other in a formal garden...

And one night (I'm sure this bit would be a good long digression but I don't know how exactly it happened) a sorceress almost as powerful as yourself (you writer-magician you!), granted them their hearts' desire: for thirty minutes, they could be as alive as any of the humans who walked the garden paths...

So they find themselves having soft human skin and they jump up and down and join hands and run gleefully together into the nearby shrubbery.

And after fifteen minutes they come back, adjusting their draperies, giggling and giddy, looking very happy - one even might say, satisfied -

And the sorceress says, hey, you two have another fifteen minutes -

And then one statue says to the other, OK, let's do it again, almost exactly the same way, except that this time I'll hold the pigeon and you shit on its head --

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OK, well, as Dorothy Parker used to say, that might have been better. Something might have been made of that!

*fangirls you regardless, and wishes you a great trip* / earthquake

Re: belated but...

[jlh.livejournal.com]

hahahaha! Huntington was great, especially the desert and the Australian forest part, and the Japanese stuff.

When I started reading your story, though, what I thought of first was those dogs, as I really loved those two statues particularly.

Thank you so much! :D

[heart-of-wine.livejournal.com]

Happy belated birthday! I'm so sorry I missed it. I hope it was lovely (it sounds like it was) and I wish you a year full of love, laughter, and happiness.

Hugs,
Elia