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.

Thank you to everyone who's already given me birthday wishes, I'm so touched by all of them!! *hugs and squishes*

Thank you to crazydiamondsue for the LJ time!! Yay!! You must give a prompt so I can write you a story!

Thank you to entrenous88 for the dozen (virtual) roses, they are so pretty!

Thank you to savoytruffle for the (virtual) chocolates - no guilt chocolate!!

I have much love for poetry so it's especially cool that:

vampirefever wrote the limerick Just Rewards (Angel/Spike/Giles/Wes), which I get to share with some awesome women on LJ who are born at an excellent time. *g*
AND
electricalgwen wrote the poem Reason (insane in the basement Spike), which wonderfully captures Spike during that time.

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*