Happy birthday mizarchivist! I hope you have a fabulous birthday!

Happy birthday to chienne_folle! You’re a wonderful friend, a delightful and interesting conversationalist, and an all-round marvellous person, and I hope you’re having an excellent birthday.

Happy birthday to weegoddess, who, along with J. her J., I am very pleased to have back on this continent, albeit far too briefly.

weegoddess, you bring curly red sunshine into lots of people’s lives, mine most definitely among them.

Happy birthday to one of the most wonderful people in my life, my stepfather ka9sqb! You’re awesome and wonderful, and I hope you have an awesome and wonderful birthday full of love and joy.

(I mean to post this a long time ago!)

Sweet plumtreeblossom’s birthday is coming up, on December 27, and she’d like a sewing machine. I would love to get her one, but it seems to me that maybe some of you would like to help get her one, too, and then she can get a really kick-ass sewing machine, like one that turns into a spaceship in case of alien invasion. (I am still squeeing over the Utilikilt many of you got me in this fashion.) So, if you feel like contributing towards a sewing machine for my wonderful girlfriend, you can do so with this PayPal button:

(You don't need a PayPal account; you can use a credit or debit card. But if you want to contribute but don’t want to use PayPal, you’re welcome to get a contribution to me in another way.)

I strongly suspect that this will be my last posting shilling for a group gift for several months.

In other plumtreeblossom-related news, we had a lovely impromptu dinner near my work this evening. Yay!

And in other beowabbit-related news, I have a truly dreadful cough, and correspondingly raw throat and hoarse voice, but other than that I’m doing a lot better. And I think the cough is slowly receding.

Happy birthday to the delightful and fun surrealestate! I’m so glad you’re my friend!

Happy birthday golux_org! I hope your life is full of joy today and every day.

Happy birthday eisa! You’re one of my favourite people, and I hope your birthday is full of joy and warmth and delight.

Happy birthday zzbottom! I hope the next year is full of joy.

(I’ve been sadly lax about posting these in the last few months; apologies to those of you whose birthdays I’ve missed.)

Happy birthday to my wonderful mother, silverlibre! If there’s anything you like about me, it’s probably her fault. :-)

(BTW, I have been remiss about posting birthday wishes lately -- sorry about that! It doesn’t mean I don’t love you, it just means I haven’t been good about checking my birthday calendar.)