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Subversa
09 August 2019 @ 06:44 am

Has anyone heard from mscoco62? It's been a long time since I've seen anything from her.

 
 
Subversa
22 August 2016 @ 10:47 am
Happiest of Birthdays to the inimitable Imagedrinkingcocoa! May your day be filled with all your favorite people and activities.
By the way, the Potions master would like a word.



Oh I like this, very cheeky look.
 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: goodgood
Music of the Spheres: You Say It's You Birthday - The Beatles
 
 
 
Subversa
14 April 2016 @ 04:25 am
I was 24 years old before I realized that every time I stood up and walked away from my desk, my mind was whispering, "And then she mounted her horse and rode away."

I'm not joking. I may not have the wording precisely right, but that's what was going on in my head, any time that I wasn't otherwise engaged: working, reading, watching TV, driving, being with SubHub. I wish I could tell you that I took the hint and began trying to write from that moment on.

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Floating in the Cosmos: work
How are we today?: thoughtfulthoughtful
Music of the Spheres: none
 
 
Subversa
04 April 2016 @ 08:37 am
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Happiest of birthdays to Imageshiv5468
May there be blondes and chocolates!
May there be SHOES.
 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: chipperchipper
Music of the Spheres: You Say It's You Birthday - The Beatles
 
 
 
Subversa
02 April 2016 @ 06:09 am
Congratulations to Story Spring Publishing and to editor J.L. Aldis on the publication of a new short story anthology, called Immanence.
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As you know, Story Spring Publishing was founded by fandom friends and many of the stories in the book were written by fandom friends. My alter ego, Murphy McCall, has a story within called Reboot.

It's an absolute bargain at $2.99, so I encourage you to support your friends (and new authors whose stories are amazing) and spring for a copy. I am gobbling mine up like candy.

And if you read something that strikes a chord, don't be shy - write a review on Amazon. ☺
 
 
 
Subversa
05 March 2016 @ 06:18 am
From a thirteen hour sleeping binge.

I tried to get up after 8 hours, but fell asleep on the sofa and slept another five (with interruptions to go pee because I took a pee pill).

Perhaps it was due to the trauma of finishing my dental implant on Thursday, but aside from some soreness and swelling, that was nuffin' compared to the first two stages of putting it in place.

I feel like I lost a night of writing, but hopefully I'll get plenty done the rest of the weekend.

*fingers crossed*

At least we don't have Daylight Savings Time beginning until next weekend. And that *always* pisses me off.

~Cranky Subversa is Cranky~
 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: crankycranky
Music of the Spheres: none
 
 
 
Subversa
05 March 2016 @ 06:12 am
I loved Pat Conroy's writing. I can't say I loved all of his books equally, but I did love many of them. He could tell a story.

He had recently posted about his cancer (another point of light lost to pancreatic cancer, as was Alan Rickman), so the news was not a surprise.

Even so, I recognize his passing with sadness.

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Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: moodymoody
Music of the Spheres: none
 
 
Subversa
12 February 2016 @ 08:05 am
I found out last night that SubHub has made reservations for us to see the new Star Wars movie on Saturday and have lunch at a favorite restaurant. He really doesn't like to go to movies, so this is a special treat and a lovely surprise! I have wanted to share the experience with him.

Work is ... well, it's tax season, so work is busy. 'Nuff said.

For today, we are off to our quarterly diabetes check-ups. At least there is a decent Indian buffet close by where we can recoup over lunch.

And when I'm not partying with my sweetie, I hope to get some writing done this weekend.

Wishing everyone a lovely weekend, whether you celebrate the "holiday" or not.
 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: my
How are we today?: cheerfulcheerful
Music of the Spheres: none
 
 
 
Subversa
28 January 2016 @ 11:47 pm
Barely sliding in under the wire to wish the happiest of birthdays to the incomparable Imagedroxy, whose cos-playing brilliance has brought me closer than I'd ever have otherwise come to Professor Snape.

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You've given us all more than we can ever repay, Drox. Hope your birthday was divine.
 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: work
How are we today?: goodgood
Music of the Spheres: You Say It's Your Birthday - The Beatles
 
 
Subversa
From geekmom.com, author Anika Dane
http://geekmom.com/2016/01/dont-be-afraid-to-grieve-for-professor-snape/


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Don’t Be Afraid to Grieve for Professor Snape

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Subversa
15 January 2016 @ 06:08 am
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ALAN RICKMAN (1946-2016)

There is so much that is matchless to remember about Alan Rickman. His career was at the highest level, as actor on stage and screen and as director ditto. His last bequest of his film “A Little Chaos” and his indelible performance as Louis 14th, should now reach the wider audience they deserve.

Beyond a career which the world is indebted to, he was a constant agent for helping others. Whether to institutions like RADA or to individuals and certainly to me, his advice was always spot-on. He put liberal philanthropy at the heart of his life. He and Rima Horton (50 years together) were always top of my dream-list dinner guests. Alan would by turns be hilarious and indignant and gossipy and generous. All this delivered sotto, in that convoluted voice, as distinctive as Edith Evans, John Gielgud, Paul Scofield, Alec Guinness, Alastair Sim or Bowie, company beyond compare.

When he played Rasputin, I was the Tzar Nicholas. Filming had started before I arrived in St Petersburg. Precisely as I walked into the hotel-room, the phone rang. Alan, to say welcome, hope the flight was tolerable and would I like to join him and Greta Scacchi and others in the restaurant in 30 minutes? Alan, the concerned leading man. On that film, he discovered that the local Russian crew was getting an even worse lunch than the rest of us. So he successfully protested. On my first day before the camera, he didn’t like the patronising, bullying tone of a note which the director gave me. Alan, seeing I was a little crestfallen, delivered a quiet, concise resumé of my career and loudly demanded that the director up his game.

Behind his starry insouciance and careless elegance, behind that mournful face, which was just as beautiful when wracked with mirth, there was a super-active spirit, questing and achieving, a super-hero, unassuming but deadly effective.

I so wish he’d played King Lear and a few other classical challenges but that’s to be greedy. He leaves a multitude of fans and friends, grateful and bereft.

-- Ian McKellen, London, 14 January 2016

Photo: Ian McKellen, Greta Scacchi and Alan Rickman at the Golden Globe Awards, 1997
 
 
How are we today?: sadsad
 
 
 
Subversa
14 January 2016 @ 10:40 pm
Have loaded up my Kindle with sshg fanfic and am off for a long nap. Big hugs to all my fellow grief-stricken Rickman lovers.
 
 
 
Subversa
Lovely Comments From Alan's Friends & Colleagues, from Mugglenet.
 
 
How are we today?: grieving
 
 
Subversa
14 January 2016 @ 09:49 pm
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Subversa
14 January 2016 @ 09:36 pm
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'Alan was my friend and so this is hard to write because I have just kissed him goodbye. What I remember most in this moment of painful leave-taking is his humour, intelligence, wisdom, and kindness. His capacity to fell you with a look or lift you with a word. The intransigence which made him the great artist he was — his ineffable and cynical wit, the clarity with which he saw most things, including me, and the fact that he never spared me the view. I learned a lot from him.

He was the finest of actors and directors. I couldn’t wait to see what he was going to do with his face next. I consider myself hugely privileged to have worked with him so many times and to have been directed by him.

He was the ultimate ally. In life, art and politics. I trusted him absolutely.

He was, above all things, a rare and unique human being and we shall not see his like again' - Emma Thompson on the death of Alan Rickman
 
 
How are we today?: grieving
 
 
Subversa
14 January 2016 @ 08:02 pm
I haz a sad. Sick Day.

SubHub has gone out to bring in Subway sammiches.

I'm with you in spirit, and taking comfort from my people.
 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: sadsad
Music of the Spheres: watching Sorceror's Stone
 
 
 
Subversa
14 January 2016 @ 08:32 am
I left work just before the CNN alert hit my inbox. So I was on the road and clueless until I walked in the house. SubHub met at the door and held me as he told me. What a good, loving, understanding husband he is.

He also prepared a hot toddy for me, dear man.

And I just keep having little bouts of crying.

*group hug*
 
 
How are we today?: sadsad
 
 
 
Subversa
14 January 2016 @ 08:10 am
At least we learned the subtle science and exact art of potion making ... bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses.

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Floating in the Cosmos: the vale of tears
How are we today?: crushedcrushed
Music of the Spheres: Pretty Women - Alan Rickman, Johnny Depp
 
 
 
Subversa
11 January 2016 @ 02:17 am
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David Bowie, whose ground-breaking sound and chameleon-like ability to reinvent himself made him a pop music fixture for more than four decades, has died. He had just turned 69 last week. Bowie died Sunday after an 18-month battle with cancer, his publicist Steve Martin told CNN.

"David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer."


Many hugs to all my friends who were staunch Bowie fans.
 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: sadsad
Music of the Spheres: Space Oddity - David Bowie
 
 
Subversa
01 January 2016 @ 09:46 am
Well, I worked the New Year in last night, but now I'm home, there's a ham in the oven, and my son and his wife (and dog!) are driving south from Iowa to spend a week in Texas. It will only be the second time we've seen him since he went off to the Iowa Writer's Workshop in 2014. AND he's taking me to see Star Wars (for the first time for me) at the 3-D Imax theater.

SO. Happy New Year, y'all!
 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: goodgood
Music of the Spheres: I Dare You - Shinedown
 
 
 
Subversa
And I'm sitting here after a hard night's work, watching one of my favorite Christmas movies: Die Hard.

That's 2 Rickman Christmas movies on my list. We saw Love, Actually last week.

Hope most of your preparations are complete (if you are celebrating). As for me, I have one more night of work, then four days off for Christmas weekend.

Hugs and kisses to all!
 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: my laptop lair
How are we today?: amusedamused
Music of the Spheres: Hans Gruber
 
 
Subversa
12 December 2015 @ 03:52 am
Meme  
These are suppoesd to be the 100 greatest books in the English language, and you bold the one's you've read.

I am sadly under-read where greatness is concerned. Apparently.

Nicked from Imagedickgloucester

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Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: amusedamused
Music of the Spheres: Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid
 
 
 
Subversa
12 December 2015 @ 03:13 am
If you're like me, you enjoy reading favorite old fanfics at Christmas. In my busiest fanfic writing days, I delighted in putting Severus and Hermione into situations at Christmas and plotting the tale with SubHub. In fact, he brought a new plot bunny to me Thursday for an SSHG Christmas story, and I actually sat down at work and wrote 500 or so words of it. So I'll keep after that and see if I can produce a little something to post as Christmas reading.

But for now, I thought I'd list a few of my Christmas stories of those who might be looking for Christmas stories to read. All are posted at TPP, Ashwinder, and ff.net, but I'm only including links to TPP because that's how lazy I am.
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As for me, my Christmas shopping (such as it was) is complete. SubHub and I have put up our little tree and my Christmas village, and we are enjoying the season with holiday nummies and beverages, while we watch our favorite holiday shows. I hope your holiday preparations, if you celebrate, are well underway.

Jingle Bells. ♥♥♥
 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: happyhappy
Music of the Spheres: It Must Have Been the Mistletoe - Barbara Mandrell
 
 
 
Subversa
29 November 2015 @ 03:02 am
Just finished a lovely "dinner and movie" date with SubHub. We've been having trouble syncing our schedules, so we made a specific date for tonight and he woke me up in time for it. Of course, dinner was at home and movie was a DVD from our collection. Tonight we watched Bridget Jones' Diary, which begins and ends at Christmas, and is therefore one our holiday movies. While we watched, I colored in my adult coloring book and drank coffee with the Cinnabon flavored creamer SubHub bought for me for our holiday. It was super sweet, when he caught my eye and echoed Mark Darcy's comment about Bridget - "I love you just the way you are. You know that, right?"

*melt*

In other news, it's been raining like a mother for three days, there are flash flood warnings all over the place, and we're very thankful that we do our shopping online. No need to venture out in the ark to accomplish holiday things.

And now I need to buckle down to some writing. I've put 30,000 words in the copy-edit folder this NaNoWriMo. I won't make 50k, but hey-when you only write on the weekends, 50k is hard to accomplish. I am very happy with my progress.

Love to all!
 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: lovedloved
Music of the Spheres: Have You Met Miss Jones - Robbie Williams
 
 
 
Subversa
26 November 2015 @ 08:06 am
To all my American friends. To all my other friends, Happy Thursday! It's the same to me - I'm working today.

Tomorrow SubHub and I will carry in a Thanksgiving feast from a favorite restaurant and burrow in to eat it all weekend while we decorate for Christmas.

I love the holidays.
 
 
Subversa
06 July 2015 @ 06:20 am
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Happiest of birthdays to the incomparable Imageshefa. I hope your day is full of all the people and things you love the most, dearest. ♥♥♥
 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: busybusy
Music of the Spheres: You Say It's Your Birthday - The Beatles
 
 
 
Subversa
04 July 2015 @ 04:44 am
hmmm
 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: goodgood
Music of the Spheres: Push - Matchbox Twenty
 
 
Subversa
28 June 2015 @ 03:35 am
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May each day bring you one step close to Elvisness, dear one. You are an inspiration to many.
Have a lovely day, full of your favorite things and people. ♥♥

 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: goodgood
Music of the Spheres: You Say It's Your Birthday - The Beatles
 
 
 
Subversa
27 June 2015 @ 02:39 am
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Happy Birthday to you, dear Irish. May your day be full of your favorite people, kitties, and activities. May there be many, *many* more!
 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: goodgood
Music of the Spheres: You Say It's Your Birthday - The Beatles
 
 
 
Subversa
06 June 2015 @ 12:53 pm
What is Severus Snape's middle name?

I've got reviewers over on fanfic.net wanting to know why I changed Severus Snape's middle name in Improbable Felicity. (Felicity was written before book 7 came out, and I made up the middle name "Xerxes" for him.) I am unaware of what his proper middle name is and none of the reference places I trust shows me this information.

Has JKR revealed Snape's middle name? What do my canon knowledgable friends say?
 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: curiouscurious
Music of the Spheres: none
 
 
 
 
Subversa
04 May 2015 @ 02:34 am
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Subhub went to the Faire this weekend. He brought home for me:

•a scent called Black Arabian Musk, as inspiration for the cologne the hero of my new novel wears

•a cyan seafoam seahorse stuffie with glitter on her skin and pale magenta satin tummy

•and a wooden sign with the quote above carved into it

I ❤ my SubHub.

 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: happyhappy
Music of the Spheres: Only - Sunrise Avenue
 
 
 
Subversa
02 May 2015 @ 07:45 am
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Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: Creative
Music of the Spheres: Nothing Is Over - Sunrise Avenue
 
 
Subversa
26 April 2015 @ 01:41 am
Happy Birthday, Honey dear! I hope you have a lovely day!

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Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: happyhappy
Music of the Spheres: You Say It's Your Birthday - The Beatles
 
 
 
Subversa
24 April 2015 @ 10:50 am

thanks to Imagesavine_snape for the head's up

Alan Rickman and Longtime Love Rima Horton Secretly Wed 3 Years Ago

By Melody Chiu

@chiumelo

04/23/2015 AT 09:05 PM EDT

After 40 years together, Alan Rickman and Rima Horton are officially husband and wife.

The longtime couple tied the knot three years ago in a secret ceremony, his rep confirms to PEOPLE.

"We are married, just recently," the Harry Potter star, 69, revealed in an interview with Germany's Bild newspaper. "It was great because no one was there. After the wedding in New York, we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and ate lunch."

According to the paper, Rickman presented his new wife, 68, with a simple $200 band that "she never wears," he said.

The actor is currently promoting A Little Chaos, a film he both directed and starred in.

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Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: happyhappy
Music of the Spheres: Raindrops
 
 
 
Subversa
24 April 2015 @ 10:31 am
TGIF  
Lovely, rainy Friday. Tax Season is done, I have a glass of wine, SubHub is out to pick up a nice lunch, and we're planning to watch HP 3 while we eat. I haven't see that movie in a long time.

This week I celebrated my ten year anniversary of the first fanfic I ever read - I know, because my membership at Ashwinder dates from 4/22/2005.

So many years, so many friends, so much love.

TGIF, y'all. ♥♥♥♥
 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: euphoric
Music of the Spheres: Raindrops
 
 
 
Subversa
22 March 2015 @ 06:48 am
... but thought I would share it.

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Subversa
12 February 2015 @ 10:56 pm
Thinking of my friends on Valentine's Day. I have nothing new, but I'm reposting a 750 word drabble from February, 2008. It was originally written for the Romancing the Wizard community on Live Journal. The prompt was "scorched parchment scroll".

Summary: While Hermione daydreams, Snape plots.
Rating: PG-13

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Floating in the Cosmos: Work
How are we today?: reminiscent
Music of the Spheres: Witchcraft - Frank Sinatra
 
 
 
Subversa
04 February 2015 @ 02:54 am
Harper Lee to publish new book, sequel to 'Mockingbird'

Wow. This is just ENORMOUS.
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Subversa
17 January 2015 @ 10:23 am
Yeah, I've gotten to that latter point.
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Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: awakeawake
Music of the Spheres: none
 
 
 
Subversa
09 January 2015 @ 02:05 am
Making 55 look good, Severus.

XOXOXOXOX

~Subversa

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Floating in the Cosmos: work
How are we today?: sillysilly
Music of the Spheres: You Say It's Your Birthday - The Beatles
 
 
 
Subversa
06 January 2015 @ 03:22 am
The reveal is up for Imagesshg_giftfest, for which I wrote Before I Saw Your Face for one of the admins, Imageamorette. It is NC-17 with a bit of spanking and BDSM mixed in, so please be aware it's a bit on the kinky side. Otherwise, it's a fairly typical Subversa romance.
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My gifter was Imagehelenarickman, who wrote The Angel in the Gutter for me. It was written right to my prompt, a dystopian fic with a bit of bdsm for flavor. Hop on over and give it a read. Catch up on your SSHG fanfic reading!
 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: work
How are we today?: happyhappy
Music of the Spheres: none
 
 
 
Subversa
31 December 2014 @ 07:19 pm
Well, the windchill is in the low 20s and there's freezing rain in the forecast, so it might be winter (even in Texas).

I have been a less than faithful poster to LJ this year, but my fandom friends remain very dear to me. I wish you all a very happy new year.

Now I'm off to work the holiday. Gotta love that holiday worked pay!
 
 
Subversa
24 December 2014 @ 10:20 am
Came home from working all night to find Subhub stayed up all night making everything clean and lovely for me, right down to clean sheets on the bed. Hope I can sleep while he does so we can wake up to cook Christmas Eve dinner together. Hope those of you who celebrate are in a good place tonight.

Mondo love from Subversa and Subhub!
 
 
 
Subversa
02 November 2014 @ 05:15 am
Happy birthday, dearest. May your day be filled with the people and activities you love. I believe the Professor has a birthday hug for you, providing you weren't planning on breathing today ...
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Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: goodgood
Music of the Spheres: You Say It's Your Birthday - The Beatles
 
 
Subversa
02 November 2014 @ 05:00 am
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May I just say my story for the Imagesshg_giftfest is completed, all shiny, and in the hands of my beta reader? Even Dumbledore is relieved.
 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: between giddy and exhausted
Music of the Spheres: Hallelujah Chorus - internal angels
 
 
 
Subversa
30 October 2014 @ 02:33 am
Is this already all over LJ?

 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: work
How are we today?: sillysilly
Music of the Spheres: "Alphabet Aerobics" by Daniel Radcliffe
 
 
 
Subversa
18 October 2014 @ 05:36 am


Happiest of birthdays to you, dear Cori! May your day be filled with the people, places, and things that delight you most.
(As for me, I'll probably just re-read Caramel to celebrate your day!)

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Floating in the Cosmos: My Writing Nook
How are we today?: goodgood
Music of the Spheres: You Say It's Your Birthday - The Beatles
 
 
 
Subversa
17 October 2014 @ 06:05 am
Get a notice of Imagemischievous_t's birthday today?

All my best thoughts go to her husband, her daughter, and the friends who loved her as fiercely as she lived and loved.


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Floating in the Cosmos: work
How are we today?: sadsad
Music of the Spheres: none
 
 
Subversa
17 September 2014 @ 06:09 am


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Happiest of birthdays to you, my love. May your day be full of kitty purrs and kind wishes, good people and good food. (Joe's Crab Shack, anyone??) Many hugs, sweetheart. I am a lucky girl to be your friend.

 
 
Floating in the Cosmos: Work
How are we today?: okayokay
Music of the Spheres: You Say It's Your Birthday - The Beatles
 
 
 
 
 
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