Originally posted by electricdruid at The fiasco continues

To all of you, sweet people, who wished me a happy birthday. Hugs to all of you!

Special thanks to lama_not_llama and skyroom80 for these:





How awesome?!! :)

I hope you know, guys, how much I appreciate this.

Look! Mr. Firth has some suggestions for you:



So the marching band idea might not be for everyone, but I think drinking tea and dressing up a bit can go a long way to make a birthday a fun one. And if Mr. Firth wants to share in the festivities, I am sure you wouldn't mind. :)

Happy birthday, dear! Here's to a good year that is calm, cozy, warm, and drama-free!

I seldom do memes, but I saw this, and I just couldn't pass it up. :)

President Josiah Bartlet: Sweden has a 100% literacy rate, Leo. 100%! How do they do that?
Leo McGarry: Well, maybe they don't and they also can't count.

Leo McGarry: We spent millions of dollars developing a pen for the astronauts that would work in zero gravity. Know what the Russians did?
Toby Ziegler: Used a pencil?
Leo McGarry: They used a pencil.

Leo McGarry: The Citizen's Stamp Advisory Committee has a...
Josh Lyman: There's a Citizen's Stamp Advisory Committee?
Leo McGarry: Yes.
Josh Lyman: Made up of members of the "There But For the Grace of God Go I" club.
Leo McGarry: You wanna mock people or you wanna let me talk to Toby?
Josh Lyman: I wanna mock people.

Sam Seaborn: Leo, did you know that there's a town in Alabama that wants to make the Ten Commandments into law.
Leo McGarry: Yes.
Sam Seaborn: What do you think about that?
Leo McGarry: Coveting thy neighbor's wife is going to cause some problems.
Sam Seaborn: That's what I said. Plus, if I were arrested for coveting my neighbor's wife, when asked about it, I'd probably bear false witness.

Leo McGarry: And do you think ratcheting up the body count is going to act as a deterrent?
President Josiah Bartlet: You're damn right I do.
Leo McGarry: Oh, well then you're just as stupid as these guys who think that capital punishment is going to be a deterrent for drug kingpins. As if drug kingpins didn't live their day-to-day lives under the possibility of execution. And their executions are a lot less dainty than ours, and tend to take place without the bother and expense of due process. So, my friend, if you want to start using American military strength as the arm of the Lord, you can do that. We're the only superpower left. You can conquer the world, like Charlemagne. But you'd better be prepared to kill everyone. And you had better start with me because I will raise up an army against you and *I* will beat you.

Leo McGarry: [after Josh finishes an intensive therapy session set up by Leo with a trauma therapist, Josh walks past Leo in a nearby hallway of the White House] How'd it go?
Josh Lyman: Did you wait around for me?
Leo McGarry: How'd it go?
Josh Lyman: He thinks I may have an eating disorder...
Leo McGarry: [bemused] Josh...
Josh Lyman: ...and a fear of rectangles. That's not weird, is it?
[pause]
Josh Lyman: I didn't cut my hand on a glass. I broke a window in my apartment.
Leo McGarry: This guy's walking down a street when he falls in a hole. The walls are so steep, he can't get out. A doctor passes by, and the guy shouts up, "Hey you, can you help me out?" The doctor writes a prescription, throws it down in the hole and moves on. Then a priest comes along, and the guy shouts up "Father, I'm down in this hole, can you help me out?" The priest writes out a prayer, throws it down in the hole and moves on. Then a friend walks by. "Hey Joe, it's me, can you help me out?" And the friend jumps in the hole. Our guy says, "Are you stupid? Now we're both down here." The friend says, "Yeah, but I've been down here before, and I know the way out." [pause] Long as I got a job, you got a job, you understand?

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So, yeah, I couldn't stop at just one. Sigh. RIP Leo McGarry. RIP John Spencer. Class acts, both.

Okay, this is REALLY long, and REALLY rambly. And I didn’t even edit it, because I didn’t have enough time to process everything, let alone organize it neatly. Please, forgive me. ( True Blood thoughts. Long and rambly. )

Sorry for the delay. Work. Life. Responsibilities... I want to be a kid again!

( True Blood thoughts. Long and rambly. )

This is the second attempt at posting. My first post got eaten by a hungry browser that crashed. This, along with a few choice words, is dedicated to LiveJournal and it's mysteriously vanishing Autosave system. :)

( True Blood thoughts. Long and rambly. )

I spent hours writing the True Blood post for the last episode. And my browser crashed, and freaking Autosave didn't do the job. Nothing was saved. Nothing.

I am too exhausted, and buried under too much work to devote another bunch of hours. And I'm going out of town soon. It's just so frustrating, I could cry.

ETA: Thank you! All of you who commiserated with me. :) I am definitely posting today. No browser will take me down! lol

For Jennifer, who has never, ever had a birthday party!




Conga line starts to the left! :)

Happy birthday, Jen! You deserve to have parties every day from now on. Be well, be healthy, be happy!