Well, I had a very fine birthday. Mom and Dad came over for dinner, which was deep fried halibut and homemade french fries and corn on the cob (yum!) and cake and ice cream, and everybody brought me good l00t. Mostly completely unexpected l00t, too! The only thing I expected was the latest Luna book, SILVER’S EDGE. Ted also got me a really cool history book about the history of the queen piece in chess (I forget the exact title, I’ll get it when I go back downstairs) (ah, it’s BIRTH OF THE CHESS QUEEN), the next several Ultimate X-Men graphic novels that I hadn’t had, and a GREAT BIG SWORD! *laugh* A quite terrific 2-handed wooden practice sword, which I’d been staring at for *ages* at Bosco’s but never bought myself. Now we’ll have to get him one. :) Mom and Dad brought me a gorgeous flower bouquet and some gold hoop earrings that are *really* lovely, and Shaun got me a really cool wild berry cookbook because Dad and I go berry picking every summer and he thought that’d be neat (and he was RIGHT!) and a copy of the CBC Anne of Green Gables, which is another one of those things I’ve been wanting forever but never quite got around to getting, and a Blaine’s gift certificate, and I think that was everything. It was quite enough! I thought I cleaned right up. :)
Then we stayed up way too late playing City of Heroes. *sheepish look*
It was a really nice day. Did I mention–no, I didn’t. I had a semi-cleaning-frenzy and we decided to remove the papasan, because we got new furniture (which I didn’t know we’d been going to do, when I Santa brought the papasan!) and I put a little bookshelf where it had been, and moved all the (gaming and manuscript) stuff off the hearth and onto the bookshelf, and moved the cat tree from over by the back door to by the big bookshelves, and now the back half of the living room looks much, much prettier and more open. Of course, you still can’t sit there, but nothing’s perfect. :) I’m in a good mood. :)
Today I will do the following things that are good for me: walk 2 miles, eat 1 or 2 pieces of fruit.
What character do you play most in CoH? :) Also, I sent Risqe email in game, but I keep forgetting to check to see if I got any back. :)
I don’t think I even knew you could *send* email in game. I’ll look for it. :)