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[in_the_blue]

First things first.

Happy birthday, parke_matru!!!

I don't know if you're still reading LJ or not, but if you are... here's to you! And to a happy, fulfilling, successful, fun year. Because you deserve that.

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Hannah had a little party here today! It was so cute. Because they're 12, and because 12 is almost kind of too old to go trick-or-treating, but not too old to dress up in costume, it was a pre-Halloween costume party. She had two friends from her old school and one from her new, and there was much candy and pizza eating, and they all had costumes and they all had a good time. To keep solidarity with Hannah (who dressed as "the stereotypical emo kid"), I wore a costume too but when it was clear that her friends were in costume too, I went and changed. See, I hurt my hip the other day and while I love my 1980s Rocker Chick Halloween costume and the boots with the 4" heels, it wasn't comfortable today. The wig cracks me up, though: it's part Elvira and part Ozzy. I have the biker jacket and the black clothes, so... yeah. I'm glad I don't have to take kids trick-or-treating in the outfit, though.

And most of the parents stayed too, so we had a little adult party in the kitchen/dining room while the kids had the living room. It was nice. We grazed -- after work today I'd gone and gotten a whole bunch of adult-style finger food -- and gabbed and all that good stuff.

And now all the cats are inside and we're watching baseball. But that was my Saturday so far: how about you?

Comments

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Short form, for me Saturday was no laundry but much dancing and diplomacy. :) And my 2nd Second Life persona's going to have a 'rez-day' only two days after your birthday, so he'll be a hybrid Leo-Scorpio.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Heh, that'll make it easy to remember, yeah?

Your little offhand hybrid comment brings something up, though, and that's the whole idea of astrological hybrids. There's a lot of talk about people being born on the cusp of a sign as having tendencies to both signs, but I happen to think that's bullshit: a person is one or the other. An astrological chart and the person who it represents is of course tempered by all the planetary influences it contains, but in specific ways. At its heart, astrology is a mathematical and scientific study, based on absolute time and location, by charts of the stars in the sky at the very moment of one's birth. I forget what the odds are of any two people ever sharing the exact same birth chart but in the foggy recesses of my brain I seem to recall it's something like one in more than 20,000,000.

Not that this applies to your 2L persona, because that's made up so he can be whatever you want him to be. It's more just noting this in general.

Have fun playing today!

[kit-the-brave.livejournal.com]

Aw, that sounds like a great party!

We had a little party too. My boss is retiring and she had a combination 65th-birthday-and-retirement-party. HtB called it the perfect introvert party - tons of food and a two-hour time limit. :)

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Heh! That's what I thought when Hannah's party ended: plenty of food and not too long. Hers lasted two hours too, which was just the right amount of time for four twelve-year-olds.

And for all us parents, too. It worked out well.