Happy birthday to me, now with bonus cats.: seanan

Happy birthday to me, now with bonus cats.

ME: *asleep*
ALICE: *asleep*
LILLY: *asleep*
THOMAS: "Bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh hack hack hack blurgh bleah puke puke puke."
ALICE AND LILLY: "MONKEY MAKE HIM STOP."
ME: "Huh wha' is it time for school yet?"
CLOCK: *1:45 AM*
ME: "...oh I am going to make slippers."

So that happened. Poor Thomas decided to celebrate my birthday by throwing up all over the hallway shortly after midnight, resulting in my first birthday activity being "mop up all the cat puke." Also, ew. He seems fine, just unhappy, and got snuggles before I went back to bed and dreamt* about being eaten by a giant gar.**

ME: *asleep*
ALICE: *asleep*
LILLY: *asleep*
THOMAS: *sulking*
ALARM: "Good morning good morning good morning GOOD MOOOOOOORNING!"
CATS: "MONKEY MAKE IT STOP."
ME: "I hate everything."
FACEBOOK: "HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM THE POPULATION OF HALLOWEENTOWN! LIKE, REALLY, THE WHOLE POPULATION!!!!!!"
ME: "...okay, maybe not everything."

Today is my thirty-fourth birthday! Which is pretty awesome, since I, like most nihilistic teenagers, never really expected to live past the age of twenty. I definitely didn't expect to be writing books and snuggling cats and going to Disney World and having amazing friends and basically getting a pretty good score at the game of Life. Even if my little car lacks other pegs (which I never really wanted anyway). Mom is checking up on Thomas throughout the day, but he really does seem to have just eaten a bug that didn't agree with him.

Tonight, there will be writing, and maybe cupcakes, if I'm feeling ambitious and like walking down to the bakery before I go home. And this weekend, there will be blessedly nothing. I will rest, and it will be glorious.

Happy birthday to me.

(*Dear spellcheck: screw you, that is the correct past tense of the word "dream.")
(**It's a kind of fish. With bonus teeth.)

sillylilly_bird

January 5 2012, 19:46:38 UTC 5 years ago

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Happy Birthday!!

newroticgirl

January 5 2012, 19:52:32 UTC 5 years ago

Ahhh, the gift of hork.

I hope the rest of your birthday is fabulous and totally barf-free!

damedini

January 5 2012, 19:56:21 UTC 5 years ago

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And actually, the cat puke in the hallway is kind of a bonus. It could have been on your pillow...

seanan_mcguire

January 6 2012, 16:25:18 UTC 5 years ago

Agreed.

vettecat

January 5 2012, 19:56:43 UTC 5 years ago

Yay! Happy birthday! (And I hope Thomas' tummy is OK.)

tuftears

January 5 2012, 20:12:59 UTC 5 years ago

Happy Birthday! ^_^

martianmooncrab

January 5 2012, 20:19:23 UTC 5 years ago

frosting, lots n lots of frosting...

cleothyla

January 5 2012, 20:37:20 UTC 5 years ago

I sent you birthday wishes on FB but here they are here. Happy Birthday and hope your year goes wonderfully!

morvab

January 5 2012, 20:44:02 UTC 5 years ago

I'm always grateful when the cats get OFF the bed before upchucking - so perhaps that was his gift and he just wanted to be first?
Would totally send pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting if lived closer!
Re pegs - stick with cats, despite puke. As my youngest sister, also single & sans offspring, said to me at our nephew's 4th birthday party, "My life choices are SO validated!"
May this be the year you need to come up with new dreams, as you fulfill all the old ones.

January 6 2012, 16:25:39 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you!

xjenavivex

January 5 2012, 21:13:26 UTC 5 years ago

Happy Birthday!!!!!!

yellowblackhaze

January 5 2012, 21:23:18 UTC 5 years ago

Happy Birthday! I hope you get ALL of the things! Cats, and dogs for that matter, seem to have this incredible knack of eating things they shouldn't and then paying the price later. Once Thomas has gotten it out of his system he'll be sleeping just like Alice and Lily.

gorgeousgary

January 5 2012, 22:19:15 UTC 5 years ago

Happy Birthday!

tekalynn

January 5 2012, 22:42:19 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations and happy birthday!

(Sorry about the cat puke. I've been there.)

judifilksign

January 5 2012, 22:43:12 UTC 5 years ago

Happy birthday! May this year be full of even more win for you than last year!

And no wonder Thomas is sulking; you threw away his birthday present to you!

spectralbovine

January 5 2012, 23:15:06 UTC 5 years ago

I do not reside anywhere NEAR Halloweentown! But happy birthday anyway. Congratulations on not being eaten by your cats for another year.

January 6 2012, 16:25:57 UTC 5 years ago

They'll succeed in 2012, I'm sure.

ladymurmur

January 5 2012, 23:27:42 UTC 5 years ago

Happiest of birthdays to you! :-)

mickanick

January 5 2012, 23:41:28 UTC 5 years ago

melissajm

January 5 2012, 23:41:56 UTC 5 years ago

Happy birthday!

dragonsally

January 5 2012, 23:44:50 UTC 5 years ago

Tis one of the things I love about Facebook - we get to say Happy Birthday to everyone, and because I'm in your tomorrow-land I get to say it early!

dulcinbradbury

January 5 2012, 23:46:29 UTC 5 years ago

Happy birthday! :)

cgbookcat1

January 6 2012, 00:08:18 UTC 5 years ago

tiferet

January 6 2012, 00:13:34 UTC 5 years ago

Happy birthday to you!

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archangelbeth

January 6 2012, 00:40:12 UTC 5 years ago

Thomas sounds like our Ivan. Except he tends to go more of a "*wheeze* *wheeze* *wheeze* *huyourghallllrghbletch*"

There is a reason we have to buy the no-hairball formula of cat-food. Cuts down on the horrible things on the carpet. (Baxter, the Pumpkin That Walks Like a Cat, is the reason we have to get the light no-hairball formula.)

Nevertheless, I am continually delighted that we chose the cheaper carpet for the house. Much less pain when contemplating disgusting cat presents that won't come up.

In the meantime, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! (I don't feel older when I have birthdays; why do I feel old when other people have birthdays??) Go have fun!