I'm getting 50 next Monday!

[wiseheart]

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*

Comments

[nerwen-calaelen.livejournal.com]

*waves*

I can't really thing of anything to say, as I'm mostly asleep at the moment - due to having been very stupid this morning and not eaten proper breakfast before spending the day walking around... until I finally realised that I needed to eat as the world was goign far away and vague...

Not a very interesting comment I know - I'll make you a better one later, but it is a random one to start off your thing for lots of comments. :) I think the length of comments helps as well... I think there is a maximum page length or something...

Anyway, I'll stop writing randomly here for now. ;)

Hope you didn't expect this comment to be actually interesting or anything.

[larian.livejournal.com]

Does this mean you're finally coming of age? *hee* You're almost at your majority! Woot!

[larian.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...my second one didn't post.

I just mentioned that I have some new Kavanaugh/Lorne entries in my memories. One author took that pairing for fanfic 100 challenge and has been writing them again.

[brinian.livejournal.com]

Well, Happy Birthday in advance. By the time Monday rolls around, this will have completely escaped my short term memory, which (at the ripe old age of 43) is waning rapidly....beware, it'll happen to you too!

Glad fodelsedag!

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

Tell me about your birthday dream date with the fictional character of your choice.

[skyfiery.livejournal.com]

I feel like I've gone mentally retarded and senile. I-am-supposed-to-remember-your-birthday, dammit! >.< Beh.

I know you put up your wishlist for the Star Trek books. You know...you should really create an account and a wishlist on Amazon.com, so I can get one for you! =D

[cirdan-havens.livejournal.com]

Hm, I don't think it's an entirely silly request. There is a certain amount of envy in the youthful cliques and their ephemeral but insistent friendships. I still can't help but to sometimes wish that someone would have this and that interest in common with me, but there's no reason that any one friend should have to like everything that I do. Variety's the spice of life. Unfortunately, I then turn into a recluse and can't seem to talk at all to anyone about anything. Whatever does come to mind seems like "whining." Hungarian riots. Parental health problems. I have my downs, and I'm still in one of them, but I can't say that my problems are important. If I were to repeat them to myself as an entirely different person, I might even say, "What's wrong with this person? C'est la vie. That's life. Deal with it." So then I go on in my little world, sometimes communicating with others, sometimes not. I used to think that it was stupid that my mom thought that thinking too much was what led to my depressions. Well, to some degree that's true. Amazing how a movie can sometimes improve my mood. I need to remember that more. I need to allow myself to be immersed in a fandom. Now if only I could find a new fandom... Sorry they don't seem to cross paths with yours.

Actually, you know what does cross? Our desire to write personal narratives. Not full memoirs all the time but just sharing thoughts, and if we were more talented than just simple bloggers or maybe more popular or luckier, then we'd be making money as nonfiction writers. Think of it this way: you are my primary news on Hungary. What you say makes a big difference in how I perceive the country. It's like being a reporter but less scummy and not doing it for money or to further a political agenda. It's just your own honest opinions. I was just reading about creative nonfiction and the person said that it was one of the unspoken promises in the genre. The dialogue may not be word for word what happened at that time, but there is an attempt to create the truth and reflect on it. So tell me a story of your childhood in Hungary. Here I am emailing you and taking it for granted that you know English, almost forgetting that the internet was new for all of us just a few years ago and that the WWW wasn't really released until 1994, only a dozen years ago!! Before that, email correspondences were in text only and we even made little text pictures that got forwarded. But that was only the realm of primarily college students who had access to email and computer facilities. I heard someone read his work-in-progress, and he was talking about dot matrix printers and text-based computer games. Ah yes! All that, so long ago and yet not at all. The kids of today will never remember a time without CDs and DVDs, when tapes were all we had if even that. I remember our little PC junior computer, state of the art at the time and a very expensive investment, but our father wanted us to have the best education possible because that's the only way to get ahead. I'm sure there are other ways, maybe marrying rich and then divorcing to get half, but we were pushed to get the education that wasn't previously possible in our family so that we could get decent jobs. I feel a little guilty that I'm not entirely doing that right now, that I'm not making as much money as I could be, but I have in the past and helped to support the family so I'll count that as paying my dues in part.

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

You're turning 50 on Monday? Happy Birthday! (I figure I'd better say it now, as knowing my luck, I won't be able to log on from my parents' creaky machine on the actual day.)

So what other virtual gifts would you like this year (besides the collapsing comments)? Virtual chanpagne? Drabbles? Interesting conversation? Come on, be bold. Make some demands of your friends! You only turn 50 once!

Birthday Wishes from Maeglin

[sharp-glance.livejournal.com]

Normally I don't deign to notice mortals, but on this occasion I am grudgingly making an exception and am acknowledging your miserable existance. Don't bother to grovel; your gratitude means nothing to me in any case, and I certainly don't want to have to help you back onto your feet in the event your sickly mortal back should give out.

[feanorian-smith.livejournal.com]

I understand it is your people's custom to receive gifts on your day of borth. Care for a ring or three?

[elvses.livejournal.com]

Merin Nostalë!

[maggiehoneybite.livejournal.com]

Happy begetting day. :)

[sinneahtes.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday! (I followed ithilwen's link here) :))

So, what to say... do you think Gil-galad's really shouting "FREE BEER IN MOUNT DOOM!" in this picture (http://pics.livejournal.com/delphinoidea/pic/000096fp/g4)? ;)

[deborah-judge.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!

[lord-glorfindel.livejournal.com]

Ah. In that case, happy birthday. I hope you meet your goal.

[greensword.livejournal.com]

Hello there! I'm a friend of Ithilwen's. I just wanted to wish you a happy 50th birthday. :)

[archet.livejournal.com]

*wail!* Why do I *always* think your birthday is in November? For whatever reason, I do. I'm going to use my McKay icon on you because I think he's so cute. ;P Wish I had something witty and clever to say, but I'm too sleepy and not particularly clever or witty normally, *g*.

By the way, I've not forgotten about the coat of arms design! It's been a weird week. I have almost finished up a couple of the color schemes that you wanted. And I was able to find a larger clearer pic of a dragon, very close to the one you favored and I think it looks really good. Will send you copies soon!

Have a great Friday! *hugs*

[archet.livejournal.com]

Oh! Happy (early) Birthday! :D

[nienna-weeper.livejournal.com]

I turned 50 already, so no worries---it's weird, but not so bad!

Happy Birthday!

[galadhir.livejournal.com]

Happy pre-birthday! *g* I think I've stopped counting how old I am now, I tell people 40 because it's a good round number. Do things get better from 40 on, I must admit to being a bit worried because I never thought I'd be this age and now I don't know what to think about it :)

Sorry! What a downer of a message, but I can't think of anything more positive to say (except that I adore your icon!)

[tehta.livejournal.com]

Hey there. I think the key to lots of comments is 1) bribing a small group of friends to help one make a few really long and frivolous threads and 2) posting about topics that interest many people, and then at the end asking several open-ended questions. I think the most comment-generating 2) would probably be some sort of crazy gossip/accusation aimed at a famous fandom figure, with the names of several others dropped in.

Also, happy birthday.

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

Getting fifty ought to be prohibited, but Happy Birthday all the same!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Happy (early) birthday!

[communicator.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday and have a fantastic time. I just read that Annie Proulx published her first novel when she was 56. Don't know if writing's your thing, but whatever your thing is, hope you succeed at it

[makamu]

Happy Birthday from me and Gildor! I might just have the fic ready for your birthday :) Rock on :)