Shinies, books, general gluttony and minor steaminess

[susie_flo]

Oh, fiends.  I'd like to say je ne regrette rien...  but sadly je regrette deux.

First of all, je regrette starting yesterday evening with the cocktail du soir, cos it gave me "the taste"...
Secondly, je regrette spending today nursing my hangover in the grey, shivery cavern of air-con. 

If only I'd thought to book the day off work, I could have spent the day:

• Polishing my tiny-shiny new gadge
• Poring over a whole new load of chocolate recipes (from Greweling and Paul A Young)
• Running around Renaissance Italy, assassinating people with flair and panache
• Finding out whether the Buffy comics afford any compensation for the Joss-less wasteland of the telly schedules
• Lying motionless with cups of tea while G reads Father Brown stories to me
• Finding out whether the new Scarlett Thomas novel is as promising as The End of Mr Y
• Deciding which petit fours I will make first from my new recipe book
• Visualising how they will look on my gloriously decadent new V&A cake stand (seen modelling 3 balls of lovely Amy Butler yarn)

Another reason to have stayed home is that I could have witnessed the exciting delivery of a dinky little 'Arts and Crafts' bureau that G ordered from Auntie Ebay.  He's spent the rest of the day being MANLY and customising it to accommodate sockets and computers and become a charging station for our relentless gadge.  (Yay for the steam!!)

I am rewarding him with fish and chips before he goes and nerds it up at the local pub quiz with his man-fiends.

I, on the other hand, shall stay home and ponder:
a) how lucky I am for the lovely people, near and far, who made my birthday such a treat. 
b) whether hair of the dog might have any bearing on regrette #trois... 

Comments

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I can't do 'hair of the dog' if I've had a hangover then it is usually a good three or four days til I can go near the demon drink again but I hope it works for you.

I have cake stand and bureau envy :-)

Might knit a 'goth' cake tonight - am thinking black base, red icing and white cherry, or maybe white icing and red cherry.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I say white icing and red cherry!
I haven't gone near the dog yet...
;-)

[steer.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Sometimes hair of the dog works -- when it doesn't it's really disspiriting. The worst for me was being at a Therapy? gig and trying it with what I thought was the tail end of a hangover but which was in fact the opening part of Norrovirus.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Ooh, nasty. A gig is SO not a good place to be when you're ill. (I might wait another hour or so before trying the hair).

[gylfinir.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness! That's all so lovely (except the hangover, of course)! Going all LA here, but you so totally deserve it all :)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's nice of you. I just wish I had enough free time to actually USE the lovely stuff. (Tsk for not being a lady of leisure. My lottery tickets are not serving me well!)

[lebeautemps.livejournal.com]

Oh total envy, esp your bureau. Sorry about your sore head!

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Good old Auntie Ebay ;-)

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

Lovely shiny Things!!

Mine will be on its way to you soon hopefully, it's still winging its way to me from Texas... :-)

Definitely recommend hair of the dog, especially if it's a nice cocktail.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Texas!
Am intrigued :-)

[tvted.livejournal.com]

My friend Richard who is possibly the biggest Joss fannerd loves the Buffy comics (actually graphic novels or so I have been told). I have read the first 3...they are OK. I have never been a big comic fan really.

I love the bureau..its so CUTE...but of course don't tell G I said that...its very macho...of course.

I also ADORE ...or should that be j'adore your floors...the colour is so gorg.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Sadly my floor is totally fake... (though it did once fool a flooring man into thinking it was proper hardwood!)

I was thinking of having a weekend of serious nerdy hibernation with Buffy and Assassins Creed... but have just remembered that we have sprog-shaped chaos coming over to stay.