wiseheart | I'm getting 50 next Monday!

It's outrageous! Schocking! Depressing! Unbelievable!

So, cheer me up! I want, just this one time in my pretty unspectacular life, to have posted a LJ entry that gets so many comments that after a while they only appear as subtitles on the comments page.

So, give me this gift. Send people my way in cyberspace. Talk to me about everything and nothing - as long as it raises the count.

lhun_dweller might remember about that dream of leaving a supermarket with a full shopping cart - just once.

Yes, it's silly, I know. But honestly, it costs you not "a weary cent", as the Germans say, and I'd like to have this so badly, just this one time. And since it's highly unlikely that I'd manage to reach my goal by posting astounding fanfic or simply interesting topics, I have to use more drastic methods.

The audience room is open till October 9, which is my 50th birthday. Come in, have a good time and talk to me!

Edit: And if you want to know what are we going to eat on the RL party on Sunday, check out my next entry. *g*

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DOS! Ah yes, I remember that. Some fancy smancy computer engineer will think no one knows about it and expect us to be surprised when they go into the dos command to try to fix a problem. But for the longest time, that's all there was.

That much is true. My father didn't have running water when he was young. Some of what we've lost are things that we've romanticized, but there's definitely truth to it. I was never allowed to talk on the phone with my friends so I didn't develop the same closeness that they did to each other. I hear in Europe, instead of a flat local calls fee, there is a fee for every phone call made, even if it's just right next door or down the street. So they say that Europeans are more willing to get out of the house and just meet with friends over a cappuccino to chat instead of relying on the phone and thus lack of personal presence. Email makes things possible. There are some things that I say in text that I could never say in RL. That's part of the reason I thought I would write, to give voice to these unsaid stories and thoughts. I have seen people take risks. A high school friend met a Dutchman in an English-speaking bar in China while she was touring there, and she took a chance and decided to enter into a relationship with him even though it seemed doomed from the start. For the moment, they're married and happy.

But it is very different. Just to sit at the shores of the West Havens and look outward at the sea, feel the gentle breeze as we walk down the pier and talk about elves and slash. Or sit together at dinner and talk about how the Teleri would love the sushi but the Noldorin and Sindarin elves might find fish disgusting. I sometimes think about how it'd be like if I visited Budapest. You'd show me the main sites that tourists want to see, and I'd be curious to see how you live, the interior design and amount of space you can get for how many euros. I'd look curiously at your walk and stop signs to see if it had red and green men or if the green man meant walk but a red hand meant stop. It's so true. So many little things that are lost just by not being together.

I wish you'd had the chance to visit Budapest. I could have showed you places tourists usually don't get to see. But we're still both young (cough), so we might get the chance yet.

We are, it's true. Just read this love story that they posted on a airline website. It's kind of cute. We'll still have a chance to meet.

But seriously, my Granny was still a beautiful woman at the age of 90! At 95, she still looked reasonably well, actually. Of course, no other woman in the family had half her looks, so when we met at the age of 80 (your 80th, I mean), you'd be probably disappointed. *g*

I'm getting 50 next Monday!

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You really should come one day!

Re: You really should come one day!

Awww, sweet!