Birthday-Related Thank Yous!

[sariagray]

OMG YOU GUYS.

You all made me happy-teary and just wonderful and I love you all. 

Below are some serious thank yous. But FIRST!

So my best friend Kerri took me to the bar where we met up with a bizarre conglomeration of my friends. She invited her boyfriend along who invited his friend. First, I want to say that her boyfriend is absolutely lovely and he and I get along well and I hope they stay together  so that he and I can talk about James Marsters all of the time. And because he said that he appreciates fan fiction as a literary art. 

BUT MOST IMPORTANT. Her boyfriend brought a friend. Yes he did. His name is Gareth and he is Welsh. It is not the same Gareth, of course, but drunk!Saria totally proceeded to ramble on about Torchwood and Doctor Who for the remaining hours. But Welsh Gareth left soon after arriving to go to a club. Still, it made me giggle. Because, well...duh. I mean, seriously, TW? Stop stalking my life. No, wait, don't. Please don't.

Anyway, THANK YOUS!

This part is comprised entirely of thank yous. Think of it as my Nobel Prize for Literature Speech (and I am most definitely kidding). And seriously, I have a lot of people to thank. So. Yes. Turn back now or forever hold your peace (or your piece, if you’re that way inclined).

Thank you to analineblue for the Japan donation gift and to sassysailorgirl  for the headphones (that I didn’t see until recently – stupid lack of LJ notifications! Sorry, hun!)

Thank you to siobhan_jane  for the rec on jackxianto. I really appreciated it and it made me blush a whole heckuva lot.

Thank you to thebuttonontop  and xrai_namere  (and Bene!) for celebrating my birthday approximately 2 weeks early, so we could all get together. And thanks, Button, for dinner-that-was-actually-lunch-but-not-quite. :-D

Thank you to sassysailorgirl for the lovely dragon card and sweet sentiments. Like I said earlier, they made me a bit teary. :) I love getting mail, so it was fun to find something in my mailbox!

For special posts, I must thank badly_knitted, beesandbrews, jedi_harkness, and sassysailorgirl.

Thank you to analineblue for the fic and to zazajb for the mention on her fic!

Also, thank you to toshiani007 and cwitch for the v-gifts and toshiani007 and too_beauty for the messages.

Apologies if I forgot anyone. OH! And usakiwigirl, I totes had at least one drink (if not multiple!) in your honor. Which explains why the screen is so damn blurry....

 

But yes - thanks for making my birthday one of the most special I've had in a long while. <3


Non-LJ thank yous, just to send the good vibes out into the world via the intertubes.

Thank you to my coworkers for the card and gifts, specifically “Gwen” for donuts and lunch, and “Tosh” for the Starbucks gift card.

Thank you to Splash Car Wash for the free birthday cleansing procedure and the half-price interior work. My car is especially grateful. As is my wallet.

Thank you to the ladies at Coco Nails for the massage and the tea and the general loveliness.

Thank you to Richard at Radio Shack for getting the WHOLE BLOODY STORE to sing Happy Birthday to me and making me feel better about my dumb clumsiness and just being an excellent employee all around. You seriously brightened my day.

Thank you to Kerri for dinner and for the alcohol. Apologies if I said anything untoward or behaved in an inappropriate manner, but really, what did you expect? ;) And thanks, too, for all of the people who live in my Facebook for sending lovely messages.

Thank you to my brother for the card and for tolerating my teasing, “I bet I can make this card relate to Torchwood.” And to my father for the $50 that was used on total random crap that I didn’t need.

Thank you to the 754796887 people who said “I tried to get you a pony, but…” for making me laugh, and letting me know that you pay attention even when I say idiotic, pointless things.

Thank you Amazon for shipping out the TW audiobooks 2+ weeks early AND for letting me get August Rush and the Alexander Directors Cut for “free.”

Annnd....I think that's all. Again, apologies if I've forgotten anyone.

 

Comments

[xrai-namere.livejournal.com]

ILU. Now go to sleep. <3

[sariagray.livejournal.com]

I think Jack disagrees with your icon.

Right. Bed. :) <3

[sariagray.livejournal.com]

ALSO. ILU too. :-D

[fiwen1010.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday! Sorry I wasn't around yesterday, but you get double glomps and hugs and cuddles today.

And I'm still working on that portal.

[sariagray.livejournal.com]

*Hugs* Thank you! And no worries! :) Yay portal! :)

[jedi-harkness.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you had such a wonderful day! And you met a Welshman named Gareth? What a trip! :D

[sariagray.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :) I did...he was not nearly as attractive, but it amused me ALL NIGHT. In my head, it's a sign. Too bad I can't interpret it. ;)

[bk_forever]

*hugs* Glad you had a happy time! Shame that Welsh Gareth didn't stick around - bet he wasn't as gorgeous as GDL anyway!

[sariagray.livejournal.com]

No where NEAR, unfortunately. Nor was he particularly interesting. But it still amused me somewhat. :) Thanks hun! *hugs*

[sassysailorgirl.livejournal.com]

Aww. Sounds like you had a lovely birthday! I'm glad that I could add to the happy :) And you're welcome for the headphones! LJ has been a right tricky bugger with its notifications, so I'm not surprised that you didn't notice straightaway ;p

Gareth is a very common Welsh name, but that being said, I'd have acted all daft, too ;p I do love those Welsh boys! Can't wait to get to Cardiff and find one of my very own ;p

[sariagray.livejournal.com]

I did have a lovely time. Now, not so much. *Rubs head* And you're right, it is common. I just...didn't expect it to appear in the local dive bar of my tiny town. :) It made me giggle.

Send one back to me? :-D I'll pay shipping and handling!

[sassysailorgirl.livejournal.com]

Ah, the hangover ;p The worse one is, the better the time that was had! At least in my experience ;p

If I find a willing Welsh lad for ya, I'll just take out my trusty Weevil spray and haul him to the nearest Fedex office ;p I'll let you know the going shipping rate. If I'm not arrested for human-trafficking, that is ;p

[thebuttonontop.livejournal.com]

Love you hun. sorry i could't be around for your actual b-day. *hugs* we'll see each other soon. promise. and we'll steal xrai too. *hugs again*

[sariagray.livejournal.com]

HEY! You weren't here a second ago! :) *Hugs* No worries! Hope you're having a good time with the boy!

[usakiwigirl.livejournal.com]

I is bad - I didn't say anything yesterday, I didn't put up a nice big post, I didn't even send you a PM. I'm so, so, sorry *slaps self hard*

That said, not sure you would have been in any condition to notice it anyway! Sounds like you had a real blast. I'm glad that your birthday was good, sweetheart. Sorry that Welsh Gareth wasn't as interesting as he could have been, or as cute as he should have been!

So this is me, wishing you a belated Happy Birthday. *smooches and hugs*

[sariagray.livejournal.com]

You is not bad. :) *Hugs* And it was wonderful in a "I still have a throbbing headache" kind of way. *Slinks back into bed* :-D <3

[siobhan-jane.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Hope you had a great birthday!

[sariagray.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-D *Hugs* I definitely did!

[cwitch.livejournal.com]

I'm very quietly glad that you had such a great birthday. Even if other Welsh Gareth wasn't cute or interesting, at least you got to listen to a few sets of gorgeous vowels. Go sleep it off, Cutie. xo

[sariagray.livejournal.com]

Haha Thank you for the quiet. My family has yet to figure out that silence is golden today. If they scrunch up one more thing of newsprint, I'm going to go through the roof! :) As for the Welshman, it was too loud to distinguish any vowels. *Sigh* It took me ten minutes to decipher that his name was Gareth, as it was. :)

[chamilet]

Oops. I was away and forgot to leave behind birthday wishes. Here, have a Janto.

[sariagray.livejournal.com]

No worries! It wasn't required! But thank you for the Janto! lol