thanks!

[jlh]

Yesterday was kind of awful but today was pretty great! It's weird, my birthday is at the end of August but it always turns cold right before it; when I was growing up in Maine I could never have a swimming party for my birthday.

Anyway I slept in just a smidge, then went to work and actually had quite a good day at work, which included work and getting things done and writing about 1500 words of fic. Then I went to a pub that has $5 mussels and had some moules frites and rose with ali_wildgoose, and had a passion fruit mojito for dessert.

I also bought myself some macarons at a little French bakery near my office:



Rose, orange blossom, violetta, cerise, lemon, and rhubarb. AND Ali made me some peach tarts! So I have dessert for days and won't be making that rhubarb crisp for a while, nor am I missing the failed ice cream.

Now I'm going to watch New Jersey housewives be insane, but before then, here's my "card" from my BFF C____, who's a drummer. Everyone cool I share my birthday with is dead—River Phoenix, Gene Kelly, Louis XVI, and Keith Moon here. As C____ said in his email, feel free to fast forward to the good part at 4:33.

Thanks everyone for your good wishes!