Party time again!

[wiseheart]

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!

Comments

Re: Gundam Wing, Night Watch

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Carpe Jugulam! Oh! That reminds me, I need to finish that. I had started listening to the audio book when I was sick, but then I got better, life went back to being busy and I forgot. I usually don't have the patience for audio books, sitting still and doing nothing but listen to a tape is very hard for me. I loved the 2/3 of it that I listened to, though.
It is very good! You really should finish it ;)

I like audio books as I can put them on while I'm doing housework, embroidery, playing computer games etc. :) I couldn't just sit and listen to one without doing anything else, but then I'm very bad at doing on thing at a time...

Re: Gundam Wing, Night Watch

[artemis10002000]

I'm not that good with understanding spoken English yet that I can do other things while I listen to an audio book, sadly. With German ones, I don't have that problem, but I sometimes get annoyed that I can't read at my own pace. I might have to get used to audio books, though, since I don't seem to find the time for books anymore.

Re: Gundam Wing, Night Watch

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

I didn't realise that you weren't a native English speaker. I would have though that Discworld would be hard to follow in a foreign language!
I wish I were good enough at another language to read/listen to books in it - although I used to listen to French and Spanish language learning tapes while doing other things, in the hope that it would reinforce my learning of the languages in class.

Re: Gundam Wing, Night Watch

[artemis10002000]

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 ;)

Audio books

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

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!

Re: Audio books

[morethanpasta]

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.

Re: Gundam Wing, Night Watch

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

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)

Re: Gundam Wing, Night Watch

[artemis10002000]

*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!

Re: Gundam Wing, Night Watch

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

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