gwyn: (dom-brian Spasticat)
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Many thanks to all the wonderful people on my flist who wished me a happy birthday -- one of the things about a b-day around Thanksgiving here in the States is that you get used to people missing it, and so it was really, really nice to see so many people throwing wishes my way. And bigger thanks to [livejournal.com profile] morgandawn and [livejournal.com profile] sweet_ali for the lovely gifts, which you shouldn't have done, but I'm grateful and touched regardless. And many thanks to the people who responded to my post about my dad and the house -- it really touched me that so many of you responded to that story in the way that I did, and gave me seriously warm fuzzies.

I had a quiet day that I mostly spent cutting back things in the garden for winter, especially my giganimous silver rosemary bush and all the different lavenders and sages. I smelled like the inside of a Lush shop by the time I was done, I swear. And had some of my purple cake -- [livejournal.com profile] feochadn, who is an incredible cook, made me a Red Velvet Cake, but ran out of red food coloring (it usually takes a whole bottle) and substituted blue, and so I got me a Purple Velvet Cake. Few people can say they got a purple cake for their birthday, I'm betting.

Then I captured source for my LFN vid, reminding me why I hate the capture process so much. Why can't all the clips just be there? It's so time-consuming and boring when I just want to get started trying to figure out what the vid is going to say.

Now I need to get focused on writing my spec article and also the sex scene for the upcoming chapter of Ciudad de Estrellas that I had running through my head on the commute this morning. Dom and Brian getting frisky is really not a safe thing to be thinking of while you're driving. Really, really not. I'm like, why are all those brake lights on up ahead? Why is traffic smooshed up oh and then Brian could flip him over on the bed screeeeeeeech aaauuggghhh wipe sweat from forehead from near-miss ten-car pileup. Smut is unsafe.

Date: 2004-11-30 08:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maygra.livejournal.com
you write things like that just to torment me. I know you do.

Date: 2004-11-30 08:36 am (UTC)
ext_6909: (iamthree)
From: [identity profile] gem225.livejournal.com
I'm so sorry that I missed your birthday. Happy belated birthday! A purple cake sounds so cool. I'm going to have to try to make one. :-)

Date: 2004-11-30 09:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chrisleeoctaves.livejournal.com
I suck because I believe I missed your birthday!
Happy belated!

Date: 2004-11-30 10:37 am (UTC)
ext_9648: (vin's arms)
From: [identity profile] spasticat.livejournal.com
Smut is unsafe.

It is. It can also help one lose weight. How? By reading fic like yours and missing your train stop and then having to walk so very, very far to get home (because one is too impatient to wait for the return train).

Date: 2004-11-30 11:29 am (UTC)
ext_9063: (Vin plum by M'lyn)
From: [identity profile] mlyn.livejournal.com
At least you can read on the walk back!

Date: 2004-11-30 11:29 am (UTC)
ext_9063: (porn stars by M'lyn and gwyn_r)
From: [identity profile] mlyn.livejournal.com
also the sex scene for the upcoming chapter of Ciudad de Estrellas that I had running through my head on the commute this morning.

There are times that I really, really like being a beta. *G*

Date: 2004-11-30 12:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kadymae.livejournal.com
I just read the description of the Purple Velvet Cake to my co-worker who wants to know ... what color was the frosting?


Date: 2004-11-30 03:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
It was just a cream cheese frosting, so beigey-white. It never occurred to me, but I should have sent it back and demanded matching mauve frosting!

Date: 2004-11-30 03:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
Well, the worst part is that I have hardly anything down for the beginning of the chapter but now I've already written the end. Sigh. I just knew that if I didn't write it down today while i had it in my head, I'd forget everything in terms of angry sex dialog and then would never be able to get it back again.

Date: 2004-11-30 03:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
Yes. Mwa ha ha ha! And just to taunt you some more, it turned out pretty good -- very angry and almost kind of vicious, and then very lovey-dovey and kind of bittersweet. But now I have to go write the other 8,000 or so words to actually make, you know, a chapter.

Date: 2004-11-30 03:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
Just be sure you're not allergic to food coloring, because it's got a ton of it!

Date: 2004-11-30 03:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
Not at all! Of course you don't. And I can keep celebrating for as long as I like!

Date: 2004-11-30 04:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] onetwomany.livejournal.com
Okay, so I'm a day or so late, but HAPPY BIRTHDAY my dearest Gwyn.

I hoep you had a great day :)

Date: 2004-12-01 06:49 am (UTC)
ext_8787: (Alva Working)
From: [identity profile] deejay.livejournal.com
Hippy bird dye!

*raises breakfast honey bun in salute*

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Date: 2004-12-01 09:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ixchel55.livejournal.com
Happy birthday to (as you said) as fellow Novemberite whose birthday falls every seven years on Thanksgiving!

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