it's time for yet another...

[leedy]

...post of Good Things.

1. I bought myself a berry salad and a smoothie on the way to work as a breakfast treat after yoga. Which means I am currently snarfing down yummy strawberries and blueberries, and will wash them down with orangey carroty mangoey goodness. I heart fruit.
2. I watched last Saturday's Doctor Who last night! OMG!!1!!!, or whatever one is supposed to say in such circumstances. It was brilliant, and I'm only sorry that last week's trailer gave away the twist - if I hadn't known about it, it would have been the Best Twist Ever and I might have NEARLY DIED of excitement. We then reminded ourselves of just how far Dr. Who special effects have come by watching one of the Jon Pertwee stories (aka the series where the scriptwriters were in denial about the set and special effects budget), in which the Doctor and his friends were menaced by, er, some glove puppets. I also liked the fact that the sets looked like they would fall down in a strong wind.
3. It is my dad's birthday today, and also his retirement day. Which I have mixed feelings about, because, eek, that means that he is OLD, and if I have a retired father, perhaps I am also OLD, but overall I think it's a good thing. I'm sure he's going to enjoy his retirement, and I'm looking forward to going to hear all his colleagues say nice things about him later.

Comments

[jane-the-23rd.livejournal.com]

I wish I could make it to my dad's 72nd birthday party in a couple of weeks. Sometimes I feel some serious angst at not being able to be around my folks on a regular basis. I actually broke down into floods of tears on the phone to him last week, like a pathetic little baby, going, "I MISS YOU!" Then I booked a ticket to hang out with him in Rome.

By the time you forgive your parents for screwing you up, you realise that they are OLD, and you don't have forever.

PS: I LOVE BERRIES.

[leedy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I really appreciate the random day-to-day contact I have with my parents - I remember really missing it when they lived in the US. Also, Rome - cool! When?

Oh, and as further evidence that one Mr. P. W. of our acquaintance is a man of strange tastes, HE DOES NOT LIKE BERRIES. What kind of vegan is that? Nay, what kind of PERSON is that?

[jane-the-23rd.livejournal.com]

I will be going to Rome for a few days in October, so it's not for a while. He's going to Rome and Sicily for 10 days or so, and I'm going to the Rome bit.

Our friend Dr. P.W. is, as you know better than any of us, the pickiest of all eaters on the planet. How someone can NOT like BERRIES?

My own J.M., though, has NEVER EATEN A BLUEBERRY. I could have just resolved the situation by getting a punnet of them and shoving them in his gob, but I would like his introduction to the Divine Berry to be something more special than that. Never. Eaten. A. Blueberry. What kind of life is that?

[leedy.livejournal.com]

Not even in a muffin? The mind, it boggles.

[jane-the-23rd.livejournal.com]

I think he's had one in a muffin, but those things are dried, reconstituted, dried, soaked, and baked again so that they are beyond recognition. They are nothing like the true and perfect pleasure of One Single Fresh Blueberry*.



*Hopefully followed by 900 more Single Fresh Blueberries.

[leedy.livejournal.com]

Ah, blueberries. They're like Nature's little M&Ms. Only better.

Damn, now I'm hungry again.

[leedy.livejournal.com]

Mmm, but not hungry any more after a vast birthday lunch. During which I discovered that stellanova DOESN'T LIKE BLUEBERRIES EITHER! I am surrounded by FREAKS.

[jane-the-23rd.livejournal.com]

Hm. I think maybe we should do some sort of intervention. A carefrontation, if you will.

How can one not like blueberries?

stellanova, explain yourself!

[felinitykat]

Happy birthday your dad! Hurrah dad-birthdays! (And mine is much older, so you needn't worry.)

[leedy.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering should I tell my dad that the internet wishes him a happy birthday...

[skemogorilla.livejournal.com]

Meh, my father is retiring and I'm only 17. It doesn't really make you old!

[leedy.livejournal.com]

*dons hat of youthfulness*

[socmot.livejournal.com]

I remember feeling very strange when my father retired and I went to his retirement do a couple of years back.

Hope your Dad's goes well!

[jeejeen.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, am desiring berry salad and smoothie. i've been slacking so unbelievably on my smoothie-making this spring/summer! Who makes smoothies in the winter and not the summer? I ask you.

[leedy.livejournal.com]

Who makes smoothies in the winter and not the summer? I ask you.

Some kind of CRAZY PERSON, perhaps?

[jeejeen.livejournal.com]

ME CRAZY.

[leedy.livejournal.com]

JUST AS I SUSPECTED.

[jeejeen.livejournal.com]

*dances like monkey*

[jane-the-23rd.livejournal.com]

No wonder I've developed such a high opinion of you. Must be the monkeys.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday to your dad, and a happy retirement, too! I hope it was a good retirement party.

I know, I find it weird, thinking of my parents as retired. Old is something that other people's parents get.

[leedy.livejournal.com]

It was a great party, with lots of people saying nice things about him. And we are having a surprise birthday party for him tonight (though I think he suspects that something is up)! Shhh, don't tell him...