Birthday Party - The Second Coming

[wiseheart]

As you all know by now, LJ has decided to crash our birthday party - the original post is no longer visible. But some of us still had most of the comments in our inbox and decided to reconstruct the original party as well as we can, because we had great fun and the discussions were wonderful.

However, to avoid the same mishap occurring to us, we've decided to open up a second entry for further comments while working on rebuilding the original. We still have two days left, and we won't allow LJ to crash our party!

The original entry had 1328 comments, on 6 pages. The reconstructed party has now 500+ (all reposted within one day and a few new ones added), having reached Page 7 already.

Let's see what else can we come up with. New guests are welcome to share the fun. :)

Comments

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Another thread repost from the first post.
badly_knitted:
Okay, new thread needed! Ummmm.... Anyone know any good jokes?

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

espresso_addict:
I'm notorious for not knowing any good jokes. I once silenced an entire
room when pushed so hard to tell a joke, I actually told the single good
one I know, and it fell entirely flat.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

solanpolarn:
An atom walks into a bar and says "I think I have lost an electron." "Are
you sure?" "I am positive!"

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Yay p3 \o/
Go us!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

and over 1100 comments in total over the two posts... getting there!

[sammydragoncat]

the cactus in my yard was flowering today in honour of your birthday - I hope you enjoy the day!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

That's very spectacular!

[bk_forever]

I envy you! I love cacti but they wouldn't suvive outside in British weather. I have a few little ones on my windowsill, but nothing like yours. It's spectacular!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Stargate: Atlantis thread resurrected

Somebody somewhere said that while Season 1 of SGA was the best, they liked the later seasons, too, because of Major Lorne.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

jenn_calaelen replied to solanpolarn, I think:

I suppose it doesn't help that I generally identify with the person
> being laughed at, having spent a fair bit of my youth being on the
> outside of any social circle Me too!

> I might try those at some point (although my list of the things to watch
> seems to keep getting longer and longer).

> Oh, yes, Major Lorne is a good character, and I love the idea of the
> Travellers, but the show doesn't use them well... :S There are certainly
> good bits in the later seasons of Atlantis, but it also a lot of bad
> bits... I suppose the same can be said about SG:1, but I love the show
> more...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

In a new thread considering TV and fantasy, I said:

I watched Disney's version of The Black Cauldron tonight - an nimated film for children. It had nothing to do with the actual "Prydain Chronicles"... well, nothing save the names and a few basic situations, but it was kind of cute. I actually liked it, to my own surprise as I'm extremely vary about film adaptations as a rule. But since I didn't expect it to be any good, it was a pleasant surprise.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

To which jenn_calaelen answered:

:) Disney films seem really random - some are good, others are dreadful...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And then somehow the question came up what people had for dinner on October 6.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

rcfinch said:

My dinner consisted of a cordon bleu, baby potatoes and mixed vegetables. I'm only an average cook, but I liked it well enough (I did add a little mayonnaise, though). What did you have?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

We also discussed writing, starting a subthread by this comment of me:

3) I have not updated "Sleeping Dragons 04 - Atonement" b/c Chapter 10 is still under work. This was a hectic week and I haven't finished the chapter. *sighs*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

jenn_calaelen was encouraging:

*hugs* Better to write when you have time and nergy and not stress about gaps in the posting. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Before I'd go on with the reconstruction work - which is really hard on the wrist - let me tell you about my day.

On my first lesson, the girls of my 7th grade GErman class surprised me with having baked muffins for my birthday. We have a big, colourful piece of wand calendar where everyone has written his birthdays in half a year ago and then forgotten about it, but for some reason the girls have spotted the day.

Well, in any case, the first part of the lesson was spent consuming muffins. *g*

After I got home, Mum and I had coffee and ate some of my biscuits, just to keep up the direction. Then I got a shiny per post: "The Art of The Hobbit" by Tolkien - meaning a wonderful book with Tolkien's own drawing and paintings to "The Hobbit", with a beautiful card, all courtesy of the_wild_iris.

Then we went to the cemetery and afterwards ate out - which was excellent. I was so stuffed that sent Mum home by tram and walked all the way. *g*

In the afternoon I had a few birthday calls - mostly relatives, but also my ever-favourite ex-student, who called from a different city where she goes to unuiversity. Also, I called the_wild_iris to thank her for the shiny - it was great, hearing her voice again, after two years. Phone calls going abroad are ridiculously expensive, but hey, you don't get 56 twice, right?

Then I did some crossword puzzle, read some Sherlock fanfic and came back to the party. ;)

[sammydragoncat]

That does sound like a lovely day

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Birthday update!

Usually, I update "The Adventures of a Consulting Time Lord" once a week, usually on Fridays. But since this is my birthday, I decided to give my readers a reverse gift, hobbit-style and posted an extra chapter to FF.Net. Enjoy!

[sammydragoncat]

As a reader of your wonderful fic, I would like to thank you. I will have to read it tonight - my lunch hour is almost up.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Back to reconstruction work. We had another TV-thread on October 6:

So new thread.... tv What are you watching? Looking forward to?
Disappointed by?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

jenn_calaelen said:

Looking forward to: Dr Who (with trepidation), Once Upon a Time (s2)

Watching: Merlin...

There doesn't seem to be much good on at the moment

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Countdown: under an hour to go! (If I've got my time zones aright?)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Six more minutes left, in fact. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And then there was at some point a discussion about crafts.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

badly_knitted:

I got a wide variety of Christmassy die cut shapes for this year, I
> probably won't end up with two cards the same because I have so many
> ideas for combinations of the different bits I've bought. I'm looking
> forward to having fun, but I still want to get some gold and silver card
> blanks and I haven't had a chance to go to our only surviving local craft
> shop to see if they've got any, it's a bit off the beaten track and
> there's not really anywhere good to park. I looked on ebay, but they were
> so expensive with the postage. Never mind. I have green, red, white and
> cream cards, I can get started with those.

> Next year I might try some stamping - this year my stamps will probably
> only be used to put Happy Christmas or something inside the cards (I have
> several different Christmas greeting type stamps). Another of my ebay
> friends who has taught rubber stamping in the past, sent me a load of
> hints and tips on how to use them, but she didn't mention embossing
> powders. I've seen them on sale, but I dont know how they're used.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

There was some discussion about installing software, which I will add at a later time - I'm too tired right now, and want to answer a few nice greetings yet.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

badly_knitted said:

My printer has photo editing software with it, but unfortunately this is
> a relatively new compurer and I haven't installed my printer software yet.

> I used the only programme that I could find on here - Paint! It has
> resizing capabilities which worked well enough this time. My printer
> software allows cropping of pictures, which would have been helpful.
> Really must get that installed sometime soon!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Also, we discussed cats hunting buirds (or not hunting, respectively). I've got 2 comments for that topic... adding later.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

badly_knitted said:

I'm a bird lover myself, so I can understand that. There's a huge, fluffy
> ginger cat that roams our area and it's lethal to birds. No idea who it
> belongs to. One of our neighbour's cats used to massacre our frogs at
> breeding time but seems to have grown too slow and lazy to manage that
> anymore, thank goodness. Finding corpses littering the lawn and flower
> beds was unpleasant to say the least.

> I've got a rabbit at the moment. His name is Misty, but he mostly gets
> called Mischief or Monster, depending on how much of a menace he's being.
> He's on antibiotics at the moment for a tooth abscess, so he's a Monster twice a day.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And finally, biscuits with jam were discussed re: solanpolarn's recent baking spell, which also will be added later.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

rcfinch said:

I'll make do with a virtual one. Just as well, given my weight.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Just one more idea: if we're still around next year and still feel like partying excessively, I think we should make things a bit more manageable by making a new entry for every day. What do you think?

[bk_forever]

Sounds like a good plan! Hopefully it will mean the post doesn't vanish.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I shall have to leave now to go to bed because I have to give a lecture first thing tomorrow morning. Thank you dear wiseheart for a lovely as ever birthday party. It has been a really joy chatting with you all; I already look forward to next year's party!

[bk_forever]

I was so hoping we could reach 600 coments on this post before the end, but it still needs 12 more!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, I still have some old comments to repost, and s they've originally been posted at the beginning of he party, they technically still count. So we might be able to hit the 600-comment-mark here yet.

[trixieleitz]

Happy birthday!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I know someone has put up this particular comment already, but I can't find it, and I like the reply, so I'm re-posting it again. Consdiering taht quite a few comments have gone irreparably lost, I vindicate the right to have some doubles. So there! *g*

I said on October 6:

I know it isn't really a party topic, but since we're already sharing, I thought I'd point out that October 6 is a day of tragic historic ignificance for Hungarian people. It is the memory day of the 13 martyrs of Arad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_13_Martyrs_of_Arad). It is a national holiday if it doesn't fall on a Saturday anyway, and we all learn to recite those 13 names by heart at school.

Yeah, we're a strange people. We can celebrate our defeats and tragedies most splendidly. We still haven't quite figure out how to celebrate the *good* things, though.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

rcfinch said:

It's good to have such traditions, and not forgetting defeats seems a sign of strength to me.