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What I got for my birthday
I decided to splurge and treat myself, so before meeting up with people for lunch, I decided to go shopping for myself on Newbury St. in Boston.
I bought

• a chocolate filled pastry, and a cherry-hot chocolate chai at Tealux.


• a book FANTASY The best of the Year 2007 at Trident Bookstore


• 2 shirts, a matching tie, and some collar stays at Filene’s Basement


• “Helping Hands” hand cream, and aluminum free deodorant at LUSH


• A couple of shirt collar enhancers at Classic Tuxedo


• and a new wallet at Hempist

I visited my brother at Formaggio Kitchen where he works; he gave me some gourmet chocolates. It was a beautiful day and they were grilling outside the store, but I had to meet up with people. I got to Uno’s in Harvard Square a couple of minutes after 2:00pm. They had no trouble seating a party of twelve (apparently business was slow because there is some kind of sporting event today). Joining me were fiddledragon, orawnzva, pezzonovante, Holly, Eddy, ultimatepsi, maedbh7, Brian, theloriest, bercilakslady, & dvtune.

As people were looking at the menus I pulled out the 3x5 cards and colored pencils, so we could play “1000 blank white cards” well 100 actually, and we didn’t use all of them (I premade 16 cards, had each player make 2 cards, and mixed in 1 blank for every 2 made cards, so roughly 52). When I mentioned my plan the reaction ranged from “Cool I never get play that”, to “I’ve heard of it but never got a chance to play” to “What’s that?” The game went well with admiring of art and cleverness.

From my friends at the party I got; a lovely meal, lots of hugs, a Giant Microbes: Brain Cell from bercilakslady, the game Hex Hex from ultimatepsi, and a ride home from dvtune.

I also got chaoticgoodchic singing "Happy Birthday" as well as birthday wishes from many friends near and far.