Party pooper LJ!

[wiseheart]

Well, folks, it seems that LJ has decided to crash our birthday party - the original post is no longer visible. But I still have most of the comments in my inbox, and will re-post the original entry and list the available comments with the simple mentioning of the names, if it's all right with you. If not, tell me, and I'll delete yours.

We won't allow LJ to crash our party!

Original post

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 56 on October 9, which means I'd have been retired for a year already, 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 have considered myself retired for the last year, blithley overlooking the fact that I'll have to work another 6 or 7 or only God knows how many years.

So, let's party! Last years virtual birthday party yielded 943 comments on 7 pages, which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! WE CAN BREAK THE 1000-COMMENT-BARRIER! 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 cake of your choice. If you want to post your favourite recipe in a comment, be my guest. If not, just drop by and say hello.

Cheers!

Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp.
Join us and have fun! Feel free to start any thread, any topic you want; we can discuss it, mock the general stupidity of life and laugh at it.

Last count was 1328 comments on 6 pages.

NB: Shoud the original party post mysteriously reappear, I'll delete this one.

Comments

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

solanpolarn:
I wish you were all here, because then you could help me eat the results
of my baking:

We have
three different sorts of biscuits, though two of them are the same dough
but with different jam. However, the majority of the flavour comes from
the jam so I am counting them as two different sorts. They are, very
imaginatively called jam biscuits or syltkakor in Swedish. The
other sort is called chess squares (Swedish: schackrutor). I am
sure you will all be surprised to learn that the brown squares are
flavoured with cocoa. ;-)

This is
all the biscuits, except for the ones I had to eat to make sure that they
tasted right. I could actually do with some help eating them all. I used
to bake for my family when I was a teenager; there were six of us then
and I somehow still bake and cook as if my brothers and sister and
parents all want a share too.

[sammydragoncat]

re-post:

Those look delicious