Magicians 1x08 + Weekend wrap-up

[sabotabby]

My latest review is up!

In other news, I did birthday festivities this weekend. It involved Ethiopian food and fancy drinks at Shore Leave. Here is a punch bowl that is on fire:



Okay, it's not a lot of fire. But it was still on fire.

The despair about aging lifted a bit in the presence of good friends, a number of whom I hadn't seen in ages. So that was lovely. Also I got incredibly drunk.

Did a bunch of gardening. I now have almost all of my vegetables in. I'm keeping it simple this year: lots of tomatoes, basil, scotch bonnet peppers, and one experimental ghost pepper. Planted marigolds to help the tomatoes along. Going to pick up some pickling cucumbers tomorrow. The kitten frolicking through the periwinkles is Merlin, one of the tinykittens. Both the two remaining tinykittens and their tinycat mom have claimed my backyard as their territory.




Bonus pictures of my cats, taken with my portrait lens.



And I got boots! They are like this but more black than red, so essentially the same finish as the boots they are replacing, except that a) they are Docs, not Fluevogs, and b) they do not have massive holes in them. So that's good, too.

The best thing of all is that it's a long weekend and I can actually catch up on my sleep and such!

Comments

[marrythebed.livejournal.com]

Hurray for feeling better! I know it's hard to feel this way because you have so many brilliant and accomplished friends (which is because you are brilliant and accomplished, btw) but you have done SO MUCH and are doing SO MUCH. That's not even to mention the profundity of your connection with your students and what effect that has on them. And you just got a ridiculously cool article published! So, hurray again for feeling better :) For what it's worth, I was shocked to find out that I'm five years younger than you because I always thought that we were the same age and you just happened to look younger than me. Damn you look good!

Those pictures are also fucking amazing. One of your millions of talents. xoxoxo!

[umadoshi.livejournal.com]

Yay for birthday festivities with good friends! *^^*

Hmm ... ghost peppers

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

And also, if I missed saying it over at the other place, many happy returns. I won't lie and say that aging doesn't suck, because the deterioration of the corpus surely does, but the wisdom that comes of experience is actually kind of cool.

It's only a rough balance and, like a generation starship it always ends in death, but on the whole, not such a bad deal.

I hope the tinykittens don't turn into monstercats who destroy your gardens in search of worms.

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

Have you not had the consequence of aging where drinking makes the next day MUCH harder than it used to or do you just not mind feeling like steaming death?

[ironed_orchid]

I'm glad there was food and drink and to celebrate your existence.

Those boots are very you.

[coconuthead.livejournal.com]

Ethiopian food and fire? So jealous! I'm glad it was a good birthday weekend.