A happy birthday

[girlyswot]

I had a lovely day yesterday. I decided to take the day off, so I spent the morning doing a few chores at home and then a few errands (including posting PIF packages to gabrielladusult  and nundu_art ). I got one of my favourite things for lunch - a salad from Whole Foods, and I treated myself to a completely ridiculous 'Regency' romance by someone called Julia Quinn. It was laughably inaccurate (decimal currency in the early nineteenth century? Um, no. Nor tennis parties either. Nor calling your aunt by her first name. Nor...) but quite sweet and lots of fun. In the evening we had our weekly neighbourhood dinner here and all my friends came. It was a really fun time. We had a fabulous chocolate cake and I blew out candles for the first time in a very long time.

All this and the goings on on Ros's Island. The absolute highlight for me was writing two utterly fluffy scenes for poor moonette1  and Will Wood.  Though I think Will quite enjoyed it.  ;)  I've almost forgiven stmargarets for making me and Charlie break up on my birthday, since she wrote us such a nice, fluffy making up scene.  Plus he has a new tattoo...

Thanks to everyone who sent good wishes and who came to play (especially rhetoretician, whose appearance was an unexpected and utterly hilarious surprise).  My email doesn't seem to be working at the moment so I may have missed some things.  I'm going into the library later and hopefully I'll be able to connect properly there.

Comments

[stmargarets.livejournal.com]

For the record, I didn't *want* to break you guys up, but moonette had a busy day and wasn't able to get to it. Anyway, it was great for both of us to reverse are writing styles and try something out of our personas.

I'm glad you liked writing fluff for moonette! I enjoyed reading those scenes. (Just as much as I enjoy being anti-fluffy)

*hugs on the day after your birthday*

[moonette1.livejournal.com]

The funny thing here, and I'm serious now, is that my version of Ros' and Charlie's break-up wouldn't have been as rough. Really! LOL, I would have had more of a broodingly angry Charlie and a Ros trying to explain, not an out and out shouting match. So when Mary wants to do drama, she does it right! And I totally love Mary for filling in for me and for coordinating the party. Your introductory scene and your reconciliation scene were both wonderful! Loved the idea of a tatoo and an allergic reaction to the ink. Flavored ink, LOL.

[moonette1.livejournal.com]

Happy, happy birthday! It sounds like you had a wonderful day. I don't remember laughing as hard as I typed when I decided to have the lifeguards pull off their masks. I kept hoping you hadn't yet changed Will's eyes back to green so I could post it! Too funny. And your icons!! LOL again!

And now I might go and cause a little more trouble on the island. (If I don't get called into work.)

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had fun (real and virtual) and I hope your computer problems sort themselves out.

[gabrielladusult.livejournal.com]

I went on a Julia Quinn spree a about a year ago (I wanted to read all the Bridgerton novels). Which one were you reading?

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

How to Marry a Marquis. I thought she had a fun sense of humour and some nice characters, but no sense of period setting at all.

[gabrielladusult.livejournal.com]

Oh, what I know about the era I could fit in a child's thimble -- but I never read them for the history lesson. How to Marry a Marquis is about the fourth one I read.

The first one I read was The Viscount and I which had a very familiar tone to it as I was reading. I realized, when I looked at the title of her other books, it was because I had recently read, Romancing Mr. Potter (http://www.harrypotterfanfiction.com/viewstory.php?psid=41176), which is loosely based on her Romancing Mr. Bridgerton -- based on that title's waiting list at the public library, it is the most popular, but I didn't like it as well as Viscount -- probably because by the time I read it, I had read too many Julia Quinn books.