Birthday cheer

[liv]

I turned 28 yesterday. I was expecting a quiet, dull day, since nobody much is around on my birthday, and I had some work I was just going to get on with. But in fact my colleague RS spontaneously invited me to dinner, and I had a great evening at her place.

Also, I got birthday messages in various formats from my family (emails and ecards), lethargic_man (a physical birthday card in Arabic which actually arrived on the correct day, amazingly, as well as a text message), rysmiel (birthday card), ploni_bat_ploni (funky multi-coloured email), pseudomonas (email) and darcydodo (phonecall). lethargic_man and rysmiel even gave me bookies as well, so I've done exceedingly well this birthday. Yay for telecommunications, and yay for friends getting in touch with me.

Comments

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

Many happy returns of yesterday :)

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the Small World Phenomenon on my lj was caused by pseudomonas :)

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry. I did not know that you had birthday. I should have checked on my profile.
Happy birthday! I hope you had a joyful day.

I am just ill again. I have my usual sinusitis which I always get when it is getting cold.

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

I could not know it. You did not register your birthday on LJ. I don't care so much about birthdays. I did not put on my LJ either.

[redbird]

Happy (slightly belated) birthday; may you have a perfect year!

[habitkicker.livejournal.com]

Happy belated Birthday!

[nameandnature]

Happy (belated) Birthday!

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

Oops, I thought it was today. Big hugs and lots of shiny tea.

[ploni-bat-ploni.livejournal.com]

Glad your birthday was enjoyable and that you received my email. What did you do for the rest of the day?

But there's more: this Shabbos I will have a gift waiting for you at the Shabbos tish...*

(*Halachic geekery note: I learnt halachot with my friend Hillel in Israel and found out I was being too machmir on the not-tearing thing. Apparently, I learnt, one is allowed to tear for the specific purpose of opening a package and using its content (provided it ain't muktzah). Duh. I never knew that. Anyway, to make a long story short: I, therefore, am quite happy to give you your birthday present this Shabbos and see you unwrap it! :-D)

*Hugs*

[snjstar.livejournal.com]

Happy late bday!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

I hope you liked the book. I came across it (a single photocopied page) in a Marom Beit Midrash session, and instantly knew I had to read the rest. You can read my review of it here (http://lethargic-man.livejournal.com/82959.html), which until now was locked specifically to stop you from reading it. (I had to keep removing it from my bookshelf too in between getting it and giving a copy to my brother for his birthday, every time he came around.)

[darcydodo]

How could it be on an even day of the month? She's just entirely odd! :P

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

Because the 28th is the Feast of the Holy Innocents, which seems awfully appropriate.

[darcydodo]

*cough*

[doseybat.livejournal.com]

Pants pants pants I remembered on the 24th! Can I phone you sometime?

[(Anonymous)]

You don't know me, but I hope you had a Happy Birthday. I am a friend of lethargic_man.

It was my friend's birthday on 26th December and my other friend's yesterday.

SW