So, it is party time again, folks!

[wiseheart]

Each year this time, we launch my virtual birthday party, which starts on October 1 and ends on October 9 at midnight, sharp. The goals of the party are to post as many comments and collapse as many threads as possible, on as many new pages as we can. It is always great fun, as you can see if you check out the similar entries of the last few years.

This year, I'll also throw the real party at mid-time - and post the recipes of all the food that will be there for you, so that you can all participate if you want to. Virtual food has no calories.

Fandom-related discussions are as welcome as the ones about coffee or chocolate (just to name a few favourites from previous years), and, of course, pictures and recipes of birthday cakes. ;)

So, drop by, tell your story, post your pics or silly poems, ask questions you always wanted to ask and have a good time!

Soledad, in excited expectation




Oh, and by the way, to provide birthday gifts hobbit-style, I've got a revived story and a Kansas 2 update for you.

Enjoy!

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

When I was a child, children in the UK also got fed cordial -- or at least squash, which is much the same. (Never quite worked out the difference.) Most adults drank tea, not coffee -- my mother, who preferred black coffee to tea, was quite an exception.

I must get back to drinking herb/fruit teas -- I used to do it a lot but I've got out of the habit.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

All through my childhood my parents would have coffee with breakfast and tea with the evening meal, which consisted of sandwiches. They were the only people who I knew of who did drink tea, except my Mother's family in England.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Perhaps my equivalent of coffee as an adult drink is wine -- my parents often drank wine with the evening meal, but I've never really learned to like anything but the very sweet wines -- dessert wines & Gewurztraminer. I don't drink red wine at all.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Alcohol is another of those things I just never got around to learning how to drink. This was a bit more of an active decision on my part; I found I could have good fun without drinking, and having been brought up awkward by an awkward Mother, I figured I could be the difficult person who made sure there were non-alcoholic beverages on offer for me as well as those who might not be as comfortable being different. Sweden is a very conformist country, so not-normal is a very bad thing indeed to be and people will go to surprising lengths to avoid having that epithet levelled at them. I am already counted as weird, for having a non-Swedish born Mother, so I got used to it...

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I gave up alcohol almost entirely when I was in my twenties. It was quite difficult -- work colleagues were often very pushy and my parents were very hostile about it -- but I've never regretted it. I do drink occasionally now but rarely in group situations and only then when I feel totally comfortable. Most of Mr EA's family is teetotal for religious reasons, which does help.

I've never fitted in, so being the weird teetotaller didn't bother me too much, except for all those people who assumed I must be trying to get pregnant.