how do people live like this??

[electricalgwen]

I am so spoilt. Me in my uber-First World with more than enough food and water, clean air and clothes, all-present-and-accounted-for (albeit slightly insane) family, and oodles of books (which I am able to read, having been edumacated, despite being female.) And many, many other blessings of which I am not sufficiently conscious day to day.

But oh, man, I've missed my Internet connection!!

I have a brief time online here in which I want to say a huge THANK YOU for the super birthday wishes from iadorespike and quinntzadok, the e-card from entrenous88 who clearly has me pegged (omg dancing squirrels and multiple musical genres!!), the wonderful post to birthdayrecs by cordelianne (it made me blush and squee), and birthday fic from apreludetoanend here and madame_meretrix here. You are all so thoughtful, lovely and talented people, and you really made my week extra special. And, at some point when I have a few more minutes online, I hope to get back and comment properly and stuff, and catch up on the highlights I've already missed and will miss in the next couple of weeks. (Keep track of fics, yours or others, I need to know about when I get back! Oh, and if I missed anybody/thing in the above list - it wasn't intentional, I just have trouble with a skip=>300 kind of flist! Point me at anything I overlooked! *g*)

But I'm having a really good time, seeing a lot of people I haven't seen in far too long, cooking and eating good food, helping my sister clear out both physical and psychic junk, travelling and hiking and snuggling the baby and reading books and falling in water and drinking hundreds of cups of tea and...just generally living.

Yay Canada.

Also?
HOLY COW I GUESSED RIGHT.