Birthday dinner

The actual birthday dinner was tonight--my brother's family took me to Crescent Moon (the new one at Northlake Mall). After being good (in a dietary way) with the grilled chicken caesar salad, chocolate was had: a big thick chocolate-mocha-pecan
brownie, warmed up and with ice cream on top. Maybe tomorrow I'll try to figure out how many points (WW way of tracking calories and fat) that was...or maybe not. It was my birthday celebration!

Thanks to all for the birthday wishes!

Filk addiction in the making, perhaps

I'm only a casual fan of filk--mostly connected to being a rabid fan of Bujold. Going to GaFilk every year is my only filk activity (though I may yet make it to a house filk...or if filkferengi has her way, even host one), and often my only FTF fan activity for the year unless there's a con with Bujold as GoH within reach.

But anyway, I do like folk music, and when a filker hits me right I even buy some filk recordings. Which accounts for me having 2 Chris Conway CDs, as he was a guest at GaFilk this year.

And this long prelude leads up this evening's phone call. It was 9 PM or so, and I assumed the caller would be my sister-in-law, coming to look at my smallest rolling suitcase to see if she wanted to use it for a carry-on. (She's taking the 3 kids to see her parents in Arizona tomorrow.)

No, it's my younger niece. "Aunt Nancy, Mom's coming over in five minutes, and can you get Alien Salad Abduction out so I can take it to Arizona?" She had asked a couple of weeks ago if she could borrow it for the trip, but I'd forgotten. Not she!