wiseheart | Party time again!

Hi folks! *waves*

Time is flying by, isn't it? It's that time of a year again - I'm getting older. In this case, I'm turning 55 on October 9, which used to be an important thing, back under the old regime. Women could retire at the age of 55 back then. So I've decided to ignore all that fantastic headway we've supposedly made towards democracy in the last two decades and enter my virtual retirement, blithley overlooking the fact that I'll have to work another 7 or 8 or only God knows how many years.

So, let's party! Last years virtual birthday party yielded 742 comments on 6 pages, which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! So, let's give it a try! In the recent years, it has always been great fun, so let's have fun again!

You're all cordially invited to help yourself to a slice of virtual Dobos Cake recipe - it's my absolute favourite, although I never managed to get it as good as my Garnny used to.

Cheers!

Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp. Join us and have fun!

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It's alright, but I have to focus on it. I think the books would be far easier to follow, but I read them in German. After having a read a dozen books from the public library in German and gotten used to the different names, it seemed too much trouble to switch.

Well, I can neither speak French nor Spanish, you have me on that ;)

I've got a couple of them (very, very few) for the Original Star Trek, but I haven't listened to them for, oh, about a decade or so. Perhaps I should. I found that it's sometimes easier for me to understand spoken English when I have nothing else (ec moving pictures and stuff) to distract me.

Of course, there's always the danger of falling asleep...

Drat, it was the wrong userpic again!

Edited 2011-10-03 20:17 (UTC)

Hm, I've never really thought about the pictures being a distraction. That's quite true, though. It's annoying when the speakers talk too fast and you have to rewind, though.

I know - translated names make talking about books confusing, I read most of the Asterix books in French and still don't know all the English character names (although I don't remember the French names very well any more).

Well, I don't actually speak French or Spanish, but I have nice pieces of paper to say that I used to (well, to some extent)

*laughs* Doesn't that happen to most of the old school knowledge? It's scary how quickly we forget things it took us years to learn!

Sadly very true! I realised lately how much of the stuff that researched for my dissertation had gone.

Party time again!

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