BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!

Subject: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: curmudgeon
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 08:37 AM

Let the celebrations begin!

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: MMario
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 09:02 AM

May the Birthday Squid bring you all joy and happiness on this special day!

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: olddude
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 09:54 AM

:-) LOTS AND LOTS OF CAKE !! HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 10:19 AM

Ah, cake! I haven't had a birthday cake in YEeeeeeeaaaars... The rhubarb/cream cheese oatmeal square I made last Saturday not only don't count, but they're almost gone. And I refuse to bake my own cake anyway.

Thanks for the BD greetings! The day has been starting out lovely and, since I took a half day off from work, I don't have to go to work until 4 pm.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: alanabit
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 10:29 AM

Happy Birthday Linn - a real Mudcat stalwart!

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 10:35 AM

Yes, happy birthday from me, too!

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 10:40 AM

Light up the sky with illuminations! Let the cannons fire and the church bells ring!

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: gnu
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 10:48 AM

Yo Linn. Happies at ya!

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 11:06 AM

I'd skip the cannons Linn. I sounded the cannons yesterday and I figure the smell will reach you by this evening so I want to apologize right now............

Happy Birthday anyway.............


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: maeve
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 12:34 PM

Happy happy, Linn. I'm glad to know you.

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 12:44 PM

Ditto maeve, Linn. Happy birthday. Best wishes to you both.

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 01:18 PM

Many happy returns.

Live long, die happy.

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 02:45 PM

Careful,Rapparee, Palin might quote you thinking it'ss another warning to the Brits! **BG**


Happy, Happy, Linn and may you have many bats in your belfry per usual. LOL AND, the WHOLE day off, next year!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: ClaireBear
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 03:52 PM

May you have a year of little happinesses punctuated by great ones. Happy birthday to you, my friend.

Claire

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: fat B****rd
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 04:01 PM

Happy Birthday from Charlie in Dunfermline, BG

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 08:03 PM

All best birthday wishes!

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: ranger1
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 09:08 PM

Happy birthday! Here, have some flowers.

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 09:09 PM

Thanks, everybody!

I had a delightful day. First off, Rufus (the cat) actually let me sleep until 7 a.m. (As near as I can figure out, he's "set" for 5:45...even on my day off, such as yesterday.) Sabine (the other cat) curled up in my lap and purred and let me read without stomping around stiff legged and not settling. Then Tom made me a wonderful breakfast sandwich with "too much" cheese (there's no such thing as too much cheese) and SAUSAGE!!!! (usually it's bacon, on breakfast sandwich mornings, which isn't every morning).

We went to Newick's for my birthday ten bucks off...and I had beautifully fried large shrimp. Alas, didn't find any squid, rubber or otherwise, in the gift shop. Didn't feel rushed driving Tom home afterwards because I didn't have to head back to Portsmouth for work until almost 3:30.

It was totally dead at work. And then there was a massive thunderstorm that hit us around 5 after crossing the state. My boss had left early and my co-worker and I talked until she left at 6. Then a young Sears associate (on straight commission, so she didn't worry about being out of her department for awhile; there were no customers there) and I talked until I closed at 8. Sure made the time go faster (and I'd already alphabetized the prescriptions for the week and tagged the one pair of readers that came in).

Came home and we had power! (All of Lee Circle appeared dark and I know there were a lot of outages.) So...I ate the leftover shrimp from lunch, landed here at Mudcat, and intend to have a cold gin and gin before retiring.

Kat, I had the whole day off last year. Maybe I'll have it off again year after next. Today's half day was fine.

My sister's promised packages (she's been sending them for over a year now; they grew from one to four, but they finally got shipped Monday or Tuesday) didn't arrive today, but that's okay. They'll probably be here tomorrow. They also include Tom's B.D. present from last September. And probably Christmas presents. And other stuff. I have to remind her what was in them when I call her on Saturday.

G'night, all!
Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 11:19 PM

I'm glad you had a good day, Linn!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 10 Jun 11 - 08:34 AM

Live long and prosper, Batty

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Jun 11 - 08:40 AM

Happy belated birthday. No margaritas?

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: Jeri
Date: 10 Jun 11 - 09:18 AM

I HB'd you elsewhere, but this is Friday. Happy Birthday, Linn!

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: SharonA
Date: 10 Jun 11 - 10:08 PM

Hey, Linn, happy birthday a day late, from your co-birthday 'Catter, me!

Oddly enough, a nasty thunderstorm rolled through my town for my birthday yesterday, too! No power outages, though the storm did make me decide to stay home and "eat in".

Many happy returns of the day!

Sharon
in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jun 12 - 12:59 PM

REFRESSH! For good reason. Happies atchya, Linn!

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Jun 12 - 01:09 PM

Happy Birthday, Linn
Celebrate!

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Jun 12 - 03:16 PM

May retirement smooth the road ahead.............or something...........However it goes, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Once again you should be getting a whiff of my cannon fire from yesterday by now......................



Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: gnu
Date: 09 Jun 12 - 03:19 PM

That was me refreshing... my cookie crumbled.

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: fat B****rd
Date: 09 Jun 12 - 03:49 PM

A very happy birthday to you.
Charlie.

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jun 12 - 03:57 PM

Oh, okay. Have another birthday. See if anyone cares, as long as it's happy.

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jun 12 - 04:42 PM

I also wished you HB on another site, but no harm in saying it again. Can't say it too often can you.


Happy birthday from a damp and cool Scotland.

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Jun 12 - 07:18 PM

Happy Birthday!!!
You sure had a beautiful day for it.

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 09 Jun 12 - 07:26 PM

Thanks, everyone! And, thanks, too, for all the birthday wishes on that other site as well.

Another year older... How did I get so old? I'm blaming my mother. (And she's accepted the responsibility.) But what I REALLY want to know is how did my knees get so much older than me?!?

Tom and I ate enough at my birthday lunch (ten bucks off for my B.D.) that supper is just going to be cake...and ice cream. (And maybe whipped cream and, if I find a jar while rummaging in the fridge, a maraschino cherry...I DESERVE a maraschino cherry!)

Thanks again for all the warm birthday wishes! Wish we could throw a huge party and have all of you here in person! (And I wish I had the energy to do that in reality rather than fantasy!)

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 09 Jun 12 - 07:27 PM

And I don't have to go to work on Sunday ever again!!!

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Jun 12 - 07:58 PM

So wadjya have for lunch, and did you sit by the window?

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Jun 12 - 09:01 PM

Enquiring minds want to know if you found a maraschino cherry..... but wishing you much joy and stronger knees, anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Jun 12 - 09:51 PM

Better late than not, right? Here I am just squeaking in...hope you continue to have a very happy b-day week and congrats on retiring! (I missed that in some other thread.)

Thanks for being here!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: ranger1
Date: 09 Jun 12 - 10:03 PM

Happy birthday here, happy birthday there, happy birthday everywhere!

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 10 Jun 12 - 06:47 AM

Happy birth WEEK (late to the party as usual)!

You deserve a long spell of rest an relaxation now! Enjoy!

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: maeve
Date: 10 Jun 12 - 07:07 AM

Dear Linn,

Imagine an exquisitely beautiful birthday card... I'd like to have sent you one. In its place, please accept hugs and good wishes for happy year spent with your own sweet Tom.

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 10 Jun 12 - 07:12 AM

Jeri, can no longer sit by the window as the glare is painful for Tom, but we sat one row in across the aisle and the view was still lovely.

Tom had native shrimp and I started with a small lobster stew (Newick's lobster stew is as good as Tom's -- that's high praise -- and full of lobster meat) because it's my birthday. Couldn't decide between fried squid and native shrimp, so got a combo plate and had both. And a baked potato because, quite honestly, their french fries are terminally mediocre.

Washed it down (took plenty home) with Guinness because stout is the most complementary drink for seafood that we've discovered.

Bill, didn't even look for the jar of cherries. We were both still stuffed from lunch that we didn't even sample the tiramisu cake. Tonight, perhaps...

I celebrate on high for at least a month, then kick it down a notch. So nobody is EVER late!

Thanks again for all the good wishes!

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Jun 12 - 10:34 AM

HB, BG!

S~

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: gnu
Date: 10 Jun 12 - 07:24 PM

Seafood heaven! I have dreams of good chowder. I make mean chowders too and various other seafood dishes. Learned when I was a lad... my uncles taught me how to get the best crabs and clams and mussels and such down at "the shore". Nowadays, I have to buy the ingredients... sigh.

So glad to hear youse had a good meal and a good time! Youse deserve it!

Subject: RE: BS: Bat Goddess' Birthday, Very Happy!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Jun 12 - 10:45 AM

a birthday month, how civilized! keep celebrating even after that, you deserve it

sandra