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

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I replied:

Oh this is definitely a thread dear to my heart! I collect fridge magnets and a good proportion of them are about or depicting chocolate. The real thing is obviously better though, and I used to stock emergency chocolate in drawers in the lab at my previous job.

My favourite chocolate is a raspberry dark chocolate truffle from a chocolatier called Anneli K in my former home town of Uppsala. Whenever I go back to visit I always make sure to stop by that shop and pick some of their chocolate pieces up; they generally have a good selection and I vary what I get; the raspberry truffle is always in the mix though. Out of more main stream chocolate my favourite is probably a tie between Green & Black's dark chocolate with currants and hazelnuts and Divine's dark chocolate with raspberries. I also love pretty much everything I have bought from Hotel Chocolat; their chocolate logs for example are a fantastic treat.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

To which wiseheart replied:

A few years ago, when eye_of_a_cat and I were working on our Minbari Sue, I allowed myself the joke to create Catholic cardinals that were all named after different types of chocolate: Cardinal Rocher, Cardinal Ferrero, Cardinal Raffaello and so on. I think I even had a Cardinal Cadbury - or was that the Archbishop of Canterbury? I'm no longer sure. Someone then suggested a pair of cardinals that would always appear together, by the name of Cardinal Black and Cardinal Green. Were that person probably you?

Hotel Chocolat are fantastic. I was in their shop in Cambridge, six years ago. *sighs dreamily*

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I am not sure if I actually responded to this the first time around, but having re-read it I want to say:

I definitely remember discussion the chocolate named cardinals with you, but I think it was a case of you telling me about them. I do love the idea of Cardinals Green and Black always appearing together, but I don't think I can take credit for them.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, in the end it doesn't really matter. One day the cardinals might even make an appearance.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Do you have a favourite Green & Black's chocolate? And completely unrelatedly -- honest! -- could you possibly send me your postal address, in for example a private message?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Will do. As to your question, I've never actually had any Green & Black chocolate.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I guess then the question multiplies and becomes: Are you a dark or milk chocolate person? (Actually Green & Black's milk chocolate is quite a dark chocolate with over 40% cocoa in it.) Do you prefer your chocolate pure, or do you like it with things such as dried fruit and/or nuts in it? Do you like coffee flavoured chocolate? Actually you could just go to their webpage and tell me which bars you find most intriguing...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I like milk chocolate with a high percentage of cocoa. I'm a purist where chocolate is concerned, and I don't like nuts in general, except in cookies. Coffee flavoured chocolate, OTOH, is a fantastic thing.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I shall make a mental note of that for future reference. I myself quite like fruit and nuts in my chocolate, but not coffee. That is probably because I don't actually like coffee by itself either.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I definitely remember commenting that I love that icon at some point, so consider this a restoration of that comment!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Which icon do you mean?

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

The one with the red planet in it.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You mean this one. :)

A friend from the Tolkien fandom made it for me. Alas, we've lost contact since then.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

That is the one!

Sometimes people come and go from our lives, which is sad. On the other hand, we can still enjoy the memories of the fun we had together and it isn't generally worth trying to keep in touch with people you in some cases have developed in different directions from to the point were you no longer really have much to say to each other.