You are cordially invited...

[wiseheart]

As in each year, I'm throwing a virtual birthday party, which starts today and ends on October 9 at midnight, sharp. The goal, as always, is to produce as many collapsing threads on as many pages as possible. You are welcome to joins, start threads, post pictures and participate on every discussion you want to.

To make the party more appealing, here are pics of the two cakes I baked for my real birthday party, which we had yesterday with a bunch of colleagues - a week too early because of school schedules.

Pineapple tart with vanilla pudding:



And a chocolate sponge cake, filled with whiskey-orange marmalade, which we bought in London about a century ago, and decorated with coconut shards:



So, I'm turning 61, soon, come and celebrate with me! Oh, and cake recipes and pictures totally count as threads, too.

Comments

[artemis10002000]

Yay! Party time!

[(Anonymous)]

Indeed! It's one of the great annual traditions of this place. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thread the first

So, what was your weekend like? Mine was fairly hectic. First, we had to work on Saturday, too (so that Christmas break could be a day longer), which is why I scheduled the party for yesterday. We live in close proximity to school, and since people were already there, they didn't have to travel across town for the party. Some of them live on the other side of it, and Budapest is a really big city.

We had 8 guests altogether and there was great fun. I made Quiche Lorraine, with mushroom fillings instead of bacon for the vegetarians among us, pancakes filled with spinach and layered like a cake, small, baked crescents filled with bacon, sour cream and grated cheese for those willing to eat meat, little bread baskets filled with a cream of tuna and cheese, topped with 1/4 coctail tomato, cheese buns and the two cakes on the pics above. Oh, and Mum made her famous salad de boeuf, but with chicken meat instead of beef. It is always a great success.

So, tell me about your weekend and what do you consider as mandatory party food!

[artemis10002000]

Woah, yes, sounds like you were busy!

I had father visiting from Wednesday till today, so my weekend was busy with family. Since I got home from taking him to the train station I have mostly just sat here with my laptop and caught up on internet things.

[disthrainsdotte.livejournal.com]

So you will become 61? Good grief. time sure flies.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Imagine that! And despite the fact that I don't feel a day older than 16 in the heart of my hearts, my rheumatic joints happen to disagree with me.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

It seems amazing that a whole year has gone by since last time! But yay, party!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yay indeed! Although it is true: the older I get, the faster time seems to go by.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Topic the second: What is your favourite cake?
Care to share with us the recipe or at least a photo?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Mine is the Dobos Cake. I never managed to make it myself, at least not the way my Granny used to make it - and never found anywhere the exact same version. I still haven't given up to bake it one day, but for that time and concentration is needed.

I found this image looking the most like Granny's special version, even though it is made with sponge cake, while Granny made it with some layered stuff that was similar yet much thinner and crispier:

(https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/07/b6/69/97/taste-hungary.jpg)

It is also the most famous Hungarian cake.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

The cakes look delicious.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

According to my guests they were delicious indeed. Some even asked for a piece to take home for their respective husbands. Can one expect more success? *g*

More food

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

I've brought you some more food.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, yum! That is very kind of you!

Reuben's wishes

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Reuben has brought a birthday cake and wants to help you blow out the candles.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That is very kind of him. :)

He appears to be a very sociable cat; not only makes he fanfic challenges, he also comes to birthday parties. Brava!

[artemis10002000]

Hope you're all having a good day, or as good a day as a Monday can be, anyway.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, considering that it is a Monday, it wasn't too bad. Some of my guests asked for the recipes of the various food items I'd made, and I brought some cake for the four kids who helped me on Saturday, so I made a couple of people happy. I call that success.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Ladies, we already have some collapsed threads! Now heading for Page 2!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Yay collapsing threads!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

New thread: Delights

We talked about hobbies and stuff during the previous virtual party, so I thought I'd ask you: has there been anything new in your lives since then that brought you joy?

Me, I've learned to make journals from the scratch, which I enjoy greatly, and it enabled me to give a lot of people small gifts they loved a lot.

What about you? A new hobby, a new love, a new pet? We hear so little from each other in these days, I'd love to catch up.

[sammydragoncat]

I got a new dog, she is sweet and gets along with my other dog - working on her getting along with the cats.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And what about the telly?

Did you get hooked on any new shows? Have you rediscovered old favourites?

I've discovered the series "Lucifer", and while I can't really digest everything in it, I find Tom Ellis in the starring role simply amazing. I already loved him as Tom Milligan in Doctor Who and as King Cenred in Merlin, but that was nothing compared with him as the retired Devil.

I also got back to an old favourite, namely Primeval. Unlike the first time, I realized that I like Series 4 and 5 - the revamped version with Alexander Siddig in the role of the adversary - a lot better than the earlier parts. Just FYI, my Primeval/Torchwood/Sherlock crossover (or what's written of it already) has been posted to otherworlds_lib. It will eventually go to AO3, but only when a good chunk of it is already done.

[bk_forever]

Hmmm, I quite enjoyed the first season of the Lethal Weapon TV show. I wasn't sure I would, because I like the movies, but it was pretty good, updated of course and with some differences to the movies but very well acted.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I seem to have run out of brain for proper comments tonight! Looking forward to rejoinning in the fun tomorrow.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's not an obligation! Comment only when you feel like, I'm just glad to have you here with us. It's been too long.

[bk_forever]

Hi there, Happy Birthday! I can't believe it's party time again!

Let's see if I can add a pic... On second thoughts, I can but it turns out massive, I'd better email that one to you. Have something a bit smaller.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, very pretty indeed! Thank you so much!

[songfire]

{{HAPPY BIRTHDAY}} <3

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Book thread

I know we do this every year, but have you read anything interesting lately? I mean real books, either printed or e-books, not fanfic. Which, to my eternal shame, I haven't. I don't even remember the last time I read something purely for delight, not something for research.

Does this make me a bad person?

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

It certainly doesn't make you a bad person! And reading for research can be fun as well!

I've been reading a lot of books recently, but I'll put things into separate comments for the sake of the numbers ;)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Fanfic thread

And since we are at reading anyway, have you read something interesting in any of your fandoms lately? Something that you'd recommend?

I mostly read Sherlock stories in the recent months, and Primeval and some Classic Battlestar Galactica. The most unique of them was an epic Omegaverse Sherlock story, complete with mpreg and poliamoury, but I'm not about to link it because I had some serious problems with the characterization. Fortunately, the Omegaverse part was only background (there are lots of things in that genre that put me off); if there haven't been a pregnant Mycroft, you'd have forgotten about the settings entirely. What I liked was someone trying to live with an asexual person, without making it easy in the cheesy and unbelievable "love conquers all" way.

[sammydragoncat]

I am soo behind in my fanfic - I haven't been on too much lately. The Omegaverse Sherlock story sounds interesting - but I don't generally read omegaverse stories.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Drat, I hoped we'd have enough top-level comments to get onto Page 2. Apparently, I was wrong. But perhaps we can knack the 100 comment border today? Even though there are very few of us this year, that says nothing about our wide-spread interests and determination, right? *g*

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Getting close to 100 comments!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

If I'm counting correctly this should be comment 100!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Yes - over 100 comments now! And I think that this is a good point at which to say goodnight!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Good night to you, too!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Ladies, we've reached 100 comments, thanks to the wonderful jenn_calaelen! So, following her lead, I think I'm going to bed, too. I had a long and exhausting day, including dragging Mum to osteoporose (sp?) control early in the morning, and I'm not getting any younger.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Hope you slept well and had a chance to recover a bit!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Picspam

Enjoy the wonderful photomanip my good friend archet made for my story, Crossroads (http://archiveofourown.org/works/11772045/chapters/26539425):

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e4/02/23/e40223305474b67067514ce8fe47d44b.jpg)

And with that, I'm gone for the night.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Very shiny!

[sammydragoncat]

Oh, I new I was missing something - sorry I am late to the party. I always enjoy attending your Birthday bash

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It doesn't matter that you're late. What matters is that you're here now.

[sammydragoncat]

I am such a bad girl - I should be working, but I wanted to catch up on all the fun I have missed.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

No, you really aren't. You have your priorities set just right. *g*

[sammydragoncat]

Well - I caught up, I have to get some work done.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Too bad - but tomorrow is another day!