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[tarotgal]

*catching my breath* 10 hours of sleep in 3 days... I came home from the training today and crashed for a few hours. I could fall back to sleep at any second now, but I want to stay awake a little longer. I need to watch Good Night and Good Luck because it's due back at Blockbuster yesterday ;-) I've been working my ARSE off... but hopefully I'll be able to pay the bills this month because of that. Have a dentist appointment and website and LJ renewal coming up in May as well.

But I wanted to mention a couple of things. First, yesterday was Shakespeare Day (date he died and considered to be the day he was born as that date is unknown) and I released 3 Shakespeare books for BookCrossing. One of them was found and journaled and the person joined! My first (stranger) referral! WHOOHOO! *spreads the happiness of books around*

Easter- did everyone have a good one?? I got nummy candy and a bird book and the CON: LWW DVD. Yayness :-)

My birthday- didn't celebrate it until Sat (I set aside a few hours between working) but I had a nice one. My aunt sent me two Lord of the Rings: Return of the King posters (the same poster, just two of them) that were from the movie theater! My cousin worked at the theater for a while and got them (as well as some others) and didn't want them any more as they're moving. So they sent them to me. They're HUGE and gorgeous and have fronts AND backs- I've never seen that before! But I was thrilled to get actual theater posters!!

I got:

• BookCrossing supplies from a certain wonderful online friend (I used some today!) *huge hugs*
  
• a nice shirt from a location a friend went to on a trip
  
• tons of lovely incense
  
• shortbread cookies (my birthday dessert was a recipe from Real Simple magazine- shortbread, vanilla ice cream, oranges, and honey drizzled on top)
  
• the Narnia soundtrack CD
  
• Gift card to Borders
  
• a silver chain/necklace (I don't usually do jewelry but asked for this because I can't find mine and I have some pendants I've been wanting to wear)
  
• plastic lifts to go under the fetof my bed to raise it a little so I can fit my storage bins beneath (I've been wanting these for months)
  
• paper clips (yes, I asked for paper clips- I'm an idiot LOL!)
  
• Brokeback Mountain on DVD (SQUEE!)
  
• Hardback 25th anniversary edition book of The Princess Bride
  and (last but NOT least)...
  
• Horatio Hornblower on DVD! The whole series! SQUEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! So now I can finally finish the series!!!! Blockbuster misplaced the last disk so I haven't been able to finish it... but now I can watch Hornblower goodness whenever I want without sending away for it one disk at a time! I was so surprised to get it... and so happy! Squeee!

So, yes. Much wonderfulness where presents are concerned. And now I have a little money to finally buy Harry Potter: GOF on DVD. I still need to buy Stay as well.
Oh! And Alexis guest starring on How I met Your Mother tonight- priceless! Suddenly soooo freaky not hearing the accent :-) I didn't have a problem when he was on Highlander but tonight it kept freaking me out. LOL

Anyway, I'm taking the night off from work. And tomorrow I'm staying over for the business meeting after the training and then training on Wed.
I've also been inspired to think about writing a new sub-series of Strokes called 'Beginnings' which explores how all the boys met each other. So far I've got Nick & Sweetie's meeting worked out, as well as Turbo, and Olly's hit me yesterday and is good. Haven't thought of anyone else's yet. Coyote's seems kind of obvious but I don't want to make it obvious... Anyway, I'm excited about it, but I've got another 15 stories at least in the series to write before I get to these.

Comments

[smokeycat-430.livejournal.com]

It sounds like you had a nice late birthday. ;-) People who know you seem to know what you like and want. I've given up in recent years to expect anyone in my family to buy me anything specific as no one seems to know what I like. I don't even remember getting anything from my family or friend (yes, I only have one friend left in town I see on a some what regular basis) last year. Oh well. Worked out well for you though, which is good, you deserve it!

I hope you get to take it easy while you're on your business trip. Catch up on sleep and all that. Enjoy all your new DVDs and books and paper clips and other fun things. ;-)

[brigidmn.livejournal.com]

Snuck in a late present for you with your journal (hopefully it worked lol). Hope you don't mind, but considering writing has been a no go for the past few months and you've written a bunch of great fics for me, I figured it was something I could do.
Brig

[ladykorana.livejournal.com]

I think I've had about as much sleep as you lately. I only have one night left of my 7 day in a row/11 hours a day stretch of work, and I've been getting an average of 4 hours of sleep a night for the last 5 nights. I can't wait until I get to my 7 days off, though I have a TON of housework that must be done, so it's not totally party time.

Anyway, how this relates to you, is that I haven't been able to mail your gift yet, as the post office is never open when I'm awake and not at work. I promise, it's at the top of my list of things to do when I'm off work. I'm glad you got plenty of lovely gifts from others not quite so procrastinating as me.

Oh, and I have one of those double-sided movie posters from Fellowship of the Ring, and it's really awesome! I plan on eventually getting it framed nicely to hang in my living room area. Of course, I've been planning that for the last 3 years, so who knows when I'll actually do it. *G*

[symphonyflute.livejournal.com]

HAve you ever read the Princess Bride? It's so different then the movie.