my birthday! :D

[derien]

Well, tomorrow is actually my birthday, but I celebrated today with my Aunt S. by bouncing around Brunswick all day indulging myself in what's probably actually fairly mild consumerism. The smallest possible gelato, a $5 book ("Best Gay Love Stories, 2006"!), a couple of long, leisurely cups of coffee at two different places, a walk across the footbridge that spans the Androscoggin river from the Bruswick to the Topsham sides - beautiful day! Too hot, but actually I suppose I wouldn't have made such a leisurely time of it if it hadn't been so hot that we needed to jump from one air-conditioned place to the next. :)

Comments

[archersangel]

happy birthday

[derien]

Thank you! :D

[soda-and-capes.livejournal.com]

Happy early birthday! :D

[derien.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

[tronella.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday for tomorrow! Also, that is an excellent name for a river.

[derien.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :) And I think Maine has some of the best names for rivers (and other places) ever. When I was in high school I used to canoe on the Passagasawakeag, which means "Where sturgeon are speared by lamplight."

[tronella.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

The nearest river to me is the Avon, which just means "river".

[peak-in-darien.livejournal.com]

A very happy birthday to you (in advance)! :D And what an excellent book title, heh.

[derien.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D And I LOVE the book title! It actually caused me to come out to my Aunt as being addicted to gay love stories, and she picked it up and read the first story, and seemed to like it a lot. (My brother asked me how many gay love stories are written each year, and I said I couldn't imagine there were many... that aren't fan fiction.)

[peak-in-darien.livejournal.com]

XD Your aunt is cool.

There seems to be a market for gay erotica books, I don't know if that qualifies as "love stories" though.

[derien.livejournal.com]

Actually, these seem mostly to be mild erotica. I'm a little, um, weirded out that my Aunt liked them as much as she did!

[acanthaster.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! That sounds like a *lovely* way to spend a day. And I would say that's definitely *very* mild consumerism. :)

[derien.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :) I followed up by buying myself a pair of $15 sneakers today (I'm so in love with them - gray, black and white argyle!) and I'm going to get myself a library card. I may search more for new jeans and shorts, because honestly my decent shorts and jeans are completely worn out.

[acanthaster.livejournal.com]

Those sneakers sound so fantastic! But I can't believe you didn't already have a library card! :)

[derien.livejournal.com]

I have so many books that every time I considered visiting the library I would say to myself "Don't you already have enough to read?" But yesterday I was sorely tempted to buy an edition of "Fortune of War" which doesn't match the ones I already have for $15. So that make me think. Of course I'm still never going to be able to catch up to mandc_read, who are on #12, now, where I'm just about to start #6, "Fortune of War," but I can try.