Bits and Pieces

[featherxquill]

i. I just signed up for fem_exchange. Yay for femslash! Go sign up, fellow femslashers!

ii. Thank God, work was SO much better today.

iii. New Rita pr0n is coming along well (*winks at millieweasley*)

iv. My legs are sore from the ten hour shift, despite it being good.

v. I want to go see Snakes on a Plane. NOW.

vi. I listened to Kate Bush cd at work today and it made me think of Belfast and Dublin where I listened to it lots and made me want to wander the streets of a foreign city in a wonderful, free, anonymous fashion where I felt like I was observing and feeling everything about the place and living. I miss being overseas ever so much.

vii. My mother keeps going on about my 21st which is seven months away and wanting me to think about what I want to do. Is it weird that a large part of me doesn't want a party, because the truth is I don't have that many close friends here and I have no desire to fill a space with a few people I care about and a whole bunch I'm kind of indifferent to, when there are so many people all over the world from intarwebs and travels that couldn't be there, but that I love more? It just feels a bit fake. I don't know.

viii. This post is brought to you by sudden bout of random thoughtfulness. I have no idea why I numbered my paragraphs.

ETA: ix: My mother brought home a box of busciut cakes akin to Jaffa cakes today. She found them, here in Australia. They don't have quite the spongy texture or the amount of orangey goodness as real Jaffa cakes, but they are most definitely good. Perhaps I should ship you some, Marina? Has Alan followed through on his promise?

Comments

[princesslucia.livejournal.com]

My mother asked me once what I was doing to celebrate my 21st. I replied, "Doing? What do you mean?" at the conclusion of rather a chilly letter, and the subject never arose again. ;) But I suppose living in the same house as her makes the subject difficult to avoid.

Don't let yourself get talked into a giant extravaganza you don't want. Why not a quiet but lovely dinner at a good restaurant with those few people you really do care about? That would make quite a fine memory. :)

[featherxquill.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* It does rather. And that is a fine idea, really. The dinner. It's more me than a big party, most definitely. I think my mother really wants me to have a party so she can control it and organise it and invite a large number of her own friends who've known me forever, and although I do love them in their own way, they're her friends, not mine, and they're not who I'd choose to celebrate my birthday with.

Also, I don't think there's any way that my 21st could be more spectacular than my 20th, and even it it could be I'm not sure I'd want it to be, because I rather like to imagine that that particular evening will remain in my memory as superior forever.

[princesslucia.livejournal.com]

Then you have a plan. :) And plenty of time to talk your mother around to it without triggering any disasters!

[modernpirates.livejournal.com]

Ugh I understand. I have met some of my bestest friends on the net and there are heaps of people I love more on the internet then I do my real life friends. I remember an English friend of mine used to be OBSESSED with Jaffa Cakes and I found one in a nice old chocolate store in Brisbane and almost fainted. But it cost a ridiculous amount of money so never bought it :/ ok im sounding like an old lady

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[velmaneuwirth.livejournal.com]

I totally feel the same on 'vii'. Maybe you can say, 'You want me to do something big for my 21st? Pay for me to go back overseas for a trip.' Then you can see more people.

And Mmmm jaffa cakes.

[featherxquill.livejournal.com]

Seriously tempted. I actually looked up prices for flights to the US. I'd love to go and visit Marina and Brian and Dan but... geh... I think it's just too expensive.

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

Ooh, which Kate Bush cd?

Also: Yay for Jaffa Cakes, not so yay for aching legs.

[featherxquill.livejournal.com]

The Red Shoes. I only have that and Hounds of Love but I want moooorreeeee...

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

My mother has The Red Shoes. I've not heard it for aaaaaaages. I have Hounds of Love, The Whole Story, Never For Ever and Aerial. Never For Ever is a whole lot of 'buy it now' because all the tracks are kind of ghostly/dark/ranty and Aerial is just a gorgeous piece of music.

...if that in any way made you decide to have a little bit more debt and two more cds, I am proud ;)

[ariangi.livejournal.com]

vii. For my 21st, all we did was go to the movies/cinema. My parents, my sister and a friend of hers, some old friends from the neighborhood that we invited at the last minute, and maybe one or two of my friends who sat with me. Then home for cake and icecream for whoever wanted to stop up.

Meanwhile, most normal Americans would have gone drinking on their 21st, so I'm odd. But hey, if you don't want a big party, it's no huge deal.