Happy birthday to the wonderful, smart, gorgeous, spectacularly energetic surrealestate! surrealestate, I am lucky to have you in my life.

All the rest of you, did you know that surrealestate is training for the Boston Marathon? (See “spectacularly energetic” above.) If you like, you can sponsor her at this link.

Happy birthday to eisa, whose friendship I cherish. I hope your day is full of joy and fuzzy dogs.

plumtreeblossom and I have been having a wonderful weekend so far, with a fun PMRP work day painting some big pieces of Foley equipment, good food, a bad movie but with wonderful company, discovering a new neighbourhood near plumtreeblossom’s place, and a fabulous birthday party with an utterly spectacular birthday cake¹, a lovely and charming birthday boy and girl with very good taste in friends, lots of people we knew, lots of new people to meet, and excellent conversation. And now we’re about to run out for a pleasant breakfast. It’s a good weekend, and even the rain is kind of cozy-seeming.

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¹ Flourless death-by-chocolate, topped with a layer of strawberries, a layer of tiramisù, and a layer of hard chocolate. I want to learn to make that. And then I want to become independently wealthy so I can hire people to make it for me and to cart me around in my wheelbarrow. It might have to be a double-wide.

Sorry I missed this yesterday, but happy birthday to zzbottom! I hope it was a fabulous day!

Happy birthday to the most wonderful mother anybody could wish for! I am so, so glad I was lucky enough to be born to somebody so amazing. I hope your birthday is fabulous and you have lots and lots of fun. Love and joy to you and ka9sqb.

Happy birthday, jasra! I hope you’re having a delightful day!

Happy birthday today to ifuonlyknew! Evidently late August is when lots of the cool people were born. :-)

Happy birthday to one of the most wonderful, awesome, and wise people I know, docorion!

Happy birthday to my wonderful sister bcat1! I’m lucky to have such a fabulous sister, and President Obama is lucky to have such illustrious company on his birthday.

Happy birthday to mzrowan! I hope your day and your year and the rest of your life are all fabulous!

And I’m afraid I’ve been falling down on the job lately; happy belated birthdays also to bbbsg and aroraborealis. Joy to you both!