I must just take a moment and giggle that my title quote is something that Xander says to Giles. That cracks me up every time!!!

My 29th birthday has started much much better than Valancy's in L.M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle. Here's an excerpt from the beginning of the book:

One does not sleep well, sometimes, when one is twenty-nine on the morrow, and unmarried, in a community and connection where the unmarried are simply those who have failed to get a man.

Deerwood [her town] and the Stirlings [her family] had long since relegated Valancy to hopeless old maidenhood. But Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yet - never, until this wet, horrible morning, when she wakened to the fact that she was twenty-nine and unsought by any man.

Even though I'm 29, unmarried and it's raining I can reassure you all that I'm already having a wonderful birthday!!! I'm very thankful that I don't live in Valancy's time, in her town or have her family! (And yes, I am using my birthday as an excuse to quote from L.M. Montgomery!!! *g*)

I'm heading out in a few minutes to go and pick up last minute supplies - I'm having a few close friends over and we're going to celebrate by drinking Buffytinis (ie. chocolate raspberry martinis) and other chocolate-y martinis.

Before I run off I wanted to say some thank yous. ( I heart my f-list )

I hope to be back in a little while so I can celebrate the birthday of someone else on my flist *is mysterious* by posting the first chapter (yes, you read that right - there are chapters!) of a new fic.

*flails about happily*

My birthday continues to be excellent!! I'm catching a few minutes before my friends come to drink Buffytinis, to celebrate the birthday of a wonderful woman:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY lillianmorgan!!!!!!!!!! Even though lillianmorgan's birthday is actually on September 3rd, it's already the 3rd in New Zealand. Lilliamorgan is such a joyous and wonderful presence on LJ. Her posts and comments always make me smile and giggle. She's also an amazing writer, who can write all the characters so well! And she's a funny, fun and cool gal with kick ass taste in music! It's very wonderful to have basically the same birthday as Lillianmorgan - I'm not kidding about the same birthday thing, we were also born in the same year!!

In honour of her birthday I've written a BtVS/Veronica Mars crossover fic. I'm posting the first chapter today and the second chapter will be posted on Tuesday. I'm anticipating posting the following chapters weekly on Tuesdays.

Title: Murder at the Neptune Express
Author: cordelianne
Chapter: 1/8
Pairing: Spike/Xander, Logan/Weevil (eventually)
Rating: R
Word Count: 823
Feedback: Yes please! Concrit is very welcome by email.
Disclaimer: Not mine, Joss and Rob Thomas own them.
Summary: This is set in the summer of 2005, after season one of Veronica Mars and 2 years after BtVS ended (one year after AtS ended). Everything that happened in canon on BtVS & AtS happened. Everything that we learn happened in the summer between seasons 1 & 2 of VM happened - the only new stuff is what happens in this story, obviously - hee!

Spike and Xander are a couple when the story starts and are both working with Buffy, Giles and the other slayers and watchers, etc. They go to Neptune to investigate some suspicious reports.

A/N: Thanks to the completely awesome and wonderful savoytruffle and spookymonkey for the betas. Any mistakes are mine.


( BtVS/VM FIC: Murder at the Neptune Express (Spike/Xander & Logan/Weevil, R, 1/8) )