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.)

cailleuch

January 6 2012, 01:43:34 UTC 5 years ago

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Happy Birthday!

calico_reaction

January 6 2012, 01:43:48 UTC 5 years ago

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

hvideo

January 6 2012, 02:06:24 UTC 5 years ago

I join Halloweentown in celebrating our good fortune in having you among us for 34 years!

Meanwhile Ramesses (my Egyptian Mau) authorizes Thomas to feel better all the rest of today.

deire

January 6 2012, 02:20:43 UTC 5 years ago

happy Happy HAppy HAPPy HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

biguglymandoll

January 6 2012, 02:21:36 UTC 5 years ago

moonwalker

January 6 2012, 02:21:57 UTC 5 years ago

Happy birthday!

January 6 2012, 02:24:59 UTC 5 years ago

Also, you must have these for birthday prizes. I was going to make you one, but I think these are better.

http://libertyslastarmy.aowc.net/gfile/75r4!-!GHFLJG!-!zrzor45!-!GLJKJFHK-EOFR-HOMS-OHHO-HMFROPILPENH!-!72y1nq/capcom-bday-zombie.jpg
(Ignore the site, stick to the jpg.)

http://www.downloadmunkey.net/images6/botld-02.jpg

This is what happens when one tries to use Google images for inspiration with the search terms "happy zombie".

seanan_mcguire

January 6 2012, 16:26:22 UTC 5 years ago

HEE.

tezmilleroz

January 6 2012, 02:28:48 UTC 5 years ago

Ah, cat puke. Is that better or worse than the cats bringing you corpses of things they've killed? ;-)

January 6 2012, 16:26:31 UTC 5 years ago

Worse.

ambermoon

January 6 2012, 03:11:37 UTC 5 years ago

starmalachite

January 6 2012, 03:34:49 UTC 5 years ago

At least that left you birthday nowhere to go but up. Hope it was a totally shiny rocket ride.

paksenarrion2

January 6 2012, 03:39:08 UTC 5 years ago

Happy Birthday.

May the rest of your day and evening be filled with many cupcakes and no more cat presents of the unpleasant kind.

unnisarah

January 6 2012, 03:50:07 UTC 5 years ago

Happy Birthday Seanan.

alicetheowl

January 6 2012, 04:02:10 UTC 5 years ago

Happy birthday!

Aww. Cats are so thoughtful. He managed to produce a present for you, and a memorable one, at that. :/

January 6 2012, 16:26:51 UTC 5 years ago

Oh, yeah. I'mma remember THAT one...

nekosensei

January 6 2012, 04:12:46 UTC 5 years ago

Oh hey! You and my husband both share a birthday!

Have a happy birthday!!!!

January 6 2012, 16:27:13 UTC 5 years ago

Happy birthday, el husband de Neko!

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January 6 2012, 16:27:27 UTC 5 years ago

Yes!

tamingheadfauna

January 6 2012, 05:01:39 UTC 5 years ago

Happy Birthday! :)

priscellie

January 6 2012, 05:15:49 UTC 5 years ago

CHEESE AND CAKE!

January 6 2012, 05:16:27 UTC 5 years ago

Come to think of it, let's bring out the Firefly and Eddie Izzard.

billroper

January 6 2012, 05:44:05 UTC 5 years ago

And happy birthday from me and the rest of the folks at Windycon!

meggins

January 6 2012, 06:06:03 UTC 5 years ago

Happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday! omg! Another Capricorn--and a Twelfth Night baby to boot. (You'll now tell me you were born at 3 in the morning so you can't be a night anything.)

I'm sorry Thomas puked on your birthday. (I hope he is fully recovered.) I puked on my own birthday this year (Christmas). At least I hit the sink and not the floor, so there was minimal clean-up. The funniest/grossest cat puke thing I ever saw was the time one of mine (in the past) discovered spaghetti. Then he diescovered that small cats should limit their spaghetti intake. He puked all over the garage floor. Retreated to distance himself frm the scene of the crime. (And never ate spagehetti again.)

January 6 2012, 16:27:54 UTC 5 years ago

Oh, poor kitty!

And I am totally a Twelfth Night baby. :)

notalwaysweak

January 6 2012, 09:30:10 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations on making it through another cycle of the seasons without any of the monarchs deciding to do anything horrid to you (as if they would; the ghost-girls, on the other hand...). Your continued presence on this planet makes me very happy, on account of you being an awesome person.

Ruri sends her best to Thomas; she was gagging on a hairball last night and so can empathise with his sorry state. (She's fine now.) (Cedric and Toby would also send their best, but they're more the barf and run type.)

January 6 2012, 16:28:09 UTC 5 years ago

Poor baby! Hug Ruri for me.

aliciaaudrey

January 6 2012, 11:22:53 UTC 5 years ago

Ah, yes, a date you share with my husband. Who also got awakened yesterday morning by a cat, but it was one who was dropping toys on his face and attempting to encouraging The Petting To Happen by nosing his head under my husband's hand. Coincidence?

Hope you had a fantastic day and that there were cupcakes. :)

January 6 2012, 16:28:22 UTC 5 years ago

I did! There were! Hooray!

dormouse_in_tea

January 6 2012, 13:42:33 UTC 5 years ago

Happy birthday one day late, darling. I celebrated your birthday by scheduling an internet blackout. Ooops? I hope there were cupcakes!

January 6 2012, 16:28:37 UTC 5 years ago

There were! Hope you enjoyed your blackout!

scholarinexile

January 6 2012, 15:35:15 UTC 5 years ago

Argh, I'm a day late! So sorry! Happy birthday, Seanan!

hasufin

January 6 2012, 16:22:22 UTC 5 years ago

Happy (slightly belated, sorry) birthday.

I have to deal with cat puke all the time, courtesy of one of our cats who is exceptionally high-strung. thank the beneficent gods for swiffer.

Um. A normal gar can be pretty damned big. A giant gar is pretty damned terrifying.