Spontaneous Musings

Thanks for the birthday wishes, everyone! Really appreciated them - even though I didn't see many of them until today - because was offline the last two days.

Birthday went well. Was pleasantly surprised by a birthday cake at work. It had pineapple filling and was actually quite good. And had a lovely dinner with my pal Wales, who surprised me with the DVD "The Triplets of Belleville" which I'd been hunting for. She also celebrated my birthday with a candle in a creme brulee that was delivered to our table. So yes, I got to make two wishes that day. Also a private thank you to angejya who is the reason I have a live journal at all. She gave me one of her free passes way back in 2003 and persuaded me to try it out, that it would provide me with a bigger canvas for my online writing, sans the conflict which often erupts around posts on public discussion boards. [Confession time - assuming you haven't already figured it out by now, conflict makes me physically ill. It's the reason I realized early on that I could not be a lawyer. There are people out there who love conflict, (obviously, or we wouldn't have lawyers and debators, would we?) they love nothing better than a good argument or fight. The more intense, the better. They will go out of their way to instigate it. While, I, on the other hand, despise it. My flist is carefully chosen to avoid conflict, no one on it causes my blood pressure to spike or makes me unravel. They are all supportive folks, that may disagree with me on many of my views, but are adult enough to respect the fact that we may just see things differently and not attack me for them or attempt to aggressively change them. I enjoy reading opinions different than mine - and I enjoy a good, well-balanced, debate - I've had few good ones and I can change my mind. What I can't deal with is fights or conflict. Not sure that makes sense or not.] Angejya also kindly gave me two months paid lj. I haven't a clue what to do with it. But thanks for it, angejya. Your support and kindness over the past three years that we've interacted online, has meant a lot to me.

The massage. Ah. I don't do massages well. ( the massage deal )

At any rate, I took today off, to chill. May go shopping later - for night stand and jeans. Then again, maybe not. Tomorrow night, dinner and Spamalot with cjlasky. Yeah, I know Spamalot has gotten mixed reviews, but it is starring David Hyde Pierce, Hank Azira, and Tim Curry - I could watch those three sing the phone book. My boss is going to it, next weekend.

Thanks again. Off to ice my back some more.