birthday report

[bronze_ribbons]

Overall, it was a pleasant, low-key day: wrote to mrissa over breakfast, went to a meeting, tackled assorted administrivia, was feted with cake, grimaced through my allergy shots, cooed over the stylish earrings from qrssama, swore at my cellphone provider's automated attendant interface, snacked on a tin of oysters and an orange, read a bit about the French revolution, and opened a bottle of Old Pulteney.

It was another beautiful night, so the BYM drove the convertible with the top down. Dinner was at Zola: a Spanish red (I forget the name), the "beets with heat" appetizer (beets coated with a pecan crust and accompanied by greens, goat cheese, cranberries and other embellishments), and venison with a foie gras marmalade sauce for the entree. Then we came home and the BYM watched "The Apprentice" while I sipped more Scotch, caught up on COPYEDITING-L, and figured out where I'd mispiled the water bill. (That's not a typo: piles before files...)

Today's been a bit more of a scramble: I got dressed to work out, but then I opened an email about a noon deadline, and the print cartridge is acting dodgy, and I could swear I've scooped up the same gigantic pompom of Abby-fur from the hallway five times within the past twenty-four hours (and I just remembered the load of whites I left in the washer. Eeek!). But all is nevertheless well -- the dog will get walked, the cabbage chopped, the "hyphens" changed into em-dashes. . .

Comments

[gramarye1971]

Birthday birthday! *hands over cake*

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

Thankye! *raises flute of fizzy stuff in your direction*

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

What are you going to do for your other four days?

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of making them the 9th of the next four months. . .

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That sounds fair to me, as long as the BYM or someone else locally crucial doesn't have a birthday conflict (as I seem to remember from your last e-mail that he does not).