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That was a lot of fun.

I decided to not actually spend all day cleaning the house, figuring that it was my birthday, dammit, and so long as it wasn't about to be condemned then people would be okay. Instead I went out and picked up a quarter-sheet birthday cake from Wegmans slathered in their addictive buttercream frosting (110% fat, 50% sugar, yum!). The lady helping train at the cash register pointed out that the bakery could've written something on it for me if I wanted, although I pointed out that I was going to be putting so many candles on this cake that there'd be no room for writing. =) (Conveniently, I did find a box of 36 candles at home.) I also hit up Total Wine to pick up various combinations of beer/cider/Mike's hard lemonade, being careful to only pick up things that I personally was willing to drink if it was left over; convenient that, since I think a total of maybe three bottles are gone out of 3 six-packs.

Then there was meat. Oh god, was there meat. And people! I'd reserved for 12, I think we ended up with 15. also_huey sums it up pretty well. Is it really crashing a party though when the original invitation was posted in an unlocked post? Hmmm. At any rate, it was indeed a fun group. Huey, you are hereby granted permission to bring folks to crash any and all future parties. If you bring a man in a kilt, so much the better.

Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes.

Today I shall do many loads of laundry so that I can pack for California tonight, put the salvia and catmint into planters, and generally be a slug.