The Cake Nazi & other birthday tales

Thank you to my wonderful friends both far & near who commented, emailed & called to wish me a happy birthday, for I truly did even though my team lost. Again. *sigh*

I have a 40 minute window between when I get home from work & I have to commute to class twice a week, and of course last night was one of them. I briefly entertained the idea of skipping class (a rarity for me now), but it was a good thing I didn't because we had a pop quiz worth 10% of our grade. We'll see if my BS essay writing skills spare me, I only managed to finish this week's reading in one of our two texts.

( It's all about the cake )

My mother-in-law bought me something I have wanted for many years and never told anyone about: a May bone china teacup & saucer with lilies of the valley painted on it. I was so touched & really enjoyed my morning tea today, I'm going to make it a habit to pick out one of my (non antique) teacups to have at least some tea in instead of automatically pouring it all into a commuter mug.

LA, baby!!

(really, I promise I'll quit posting all the time now)

My aunt sent Kieran a Madagascar book that reminds me of Colorforms with the plastic removable stickers & glossy pages. I took a picture of him playing with it this morning and emailled her a thank you. ( rearranging the animals )

Then in the afternoon I got this:

Re: Kierans Pic
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 22:59:07 +0000


Of course. I am a very good customer. And Kieran is a very cute kid!!!

[I] wrote:

They're actually displaying it? How cool!

-------------- Original message (from my aunt)------------

Is up in the DreamWorks Studio Store!!!!

Of course they might have taken it back down as soon as she left, but DreamWorks is also one of her clients so who knows.

Speaking of pictures, here's one more
( CHOCOLATE CAKE )