Happy Birthday To Me!
I am thirty three!
But I only have one candle…
I’m asthmatic, you see!
(I wouldn’t have the puff for a full set of candles… geddit? Never mind…)
Technically, this should have been posted yesterday. On my actual birthday. Except for the slight technical difficulty that I was currently between computers.
Yes, Pewari’s Prattle is now brought to you by a brand new and shiny computer with a graphics card that has go faster stripes (yay, can play Oblivion at last!) and with Vista as its operating system.
The technical difficulty? Vista is a right bugger to install things on. I managed to cock up the installation of at least 8 programs, all of them vital – partly because I didn’t realise about running as an administrator, partly because several of them weren’t properly Vista compatible and partly because – hey it’s Microsoft, you expect things to go smoothly?
It was particularly fraught and rushed, because Akra needed my old laptop for work today (his laptop has had a broken screen for a long while now, so the situation was desperate), but we got there in the end – with quite a lot of fudging, hacking and dubious voodoo practices to get the damn programs to run and give me back my data. All in all, a nice stress-free and calm birthday!
But hey – go faster stripes!
23 responses so far ↓
1 zip // 6th Feb 2007 at 6:46 pm
and why didn’t you tell me it was your Birthday??!
Happy Birthday old girl :)
2 Kaptain Kobold // 6th Feb 2007 at 6:50 pm
Happy Birthday. And a day well spent, by the sound of it :-)
3 Alley Katt // 6th Feb 2007 at 7:33 pm
Happy birthday! I take it you are going to get lost in Tamriel now. :D
4 TigerFeet // 6th Feb 2007 at 8:33 pm
Happy birthday hon – what a fab present (Microsoft notwithstanding) – I am expecting something rather less flashy when it’s my turn on Saturday but I may have more candles on my cake!
I am now busy thinking of a TigerFeet version of your rhyme – Happy Birthday to me, I am thirty-three, but I only have three candles, I’m lazy (poorly/drunk/not fireproof) you see
5 cassie-b // 7th Feb 2007 at 1:05 pm
Happy Belated Birthday!
6 Pewari // 7th Feb 2007 at 1:48 pm
Thank you all :)
zip: you didn’t ask!
Alley Katt: Would I? I resemble that remark…
TigerFeet: it’s a very fab present – I’m still in squeeling girly delight mode. Careful you don’t cause a fire with all those candles ;) Hmm… “not fireproof” would have been a MUCH better line… damn.
7 Angela Giles Klocke // 7th Feb 2007 at 1:55 pm
Happy Birthday!!!
8 Tami // 7th Feb 2007 at 3:26 pm
Happy belated birthday! What a pretty cake!
9 Jane // 7th Feb 2007 at 5:08 pm
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag! (just to be different!)
10 Lisa // 7th Feb 2007 at 5:27 pm
‘S not old, 33. Happy birthday though!
11 Miss L // 7th Feb 2007 at 11:23 pm
33 was a fabulous year – belated greetings!
12 Paula // 8th Feb 2007 at 10:45 pm
Belated birthday greetings!
And I’m 35, so don’t feel so bad at being 33!
13 Pewari // 9th Feb 2007 at 8:58 am
Thank you all :)
14 valb // 9th Feb 2007 at 5:46 pm
Sorry it’s very belated Pewari, but Happy Birthday anyway! Sounds like it was a good one…
15 Daisy // 9th Feb 2007 at 8:46 pm
Another straggler at the back, glad to hear you had such a lovely day (and what a cake!) – may the coming year bring you much health, wealth and ‘appiness :-)
16 Linda // 9th Feb 2007 at 9:39 pm
Happy birthday – belatedly, mine was Feb 7 and I could tell you how old I am but then I would have to kill you. :)
17 Elle // 11th Feb 2007 at 11:49 am
Happy Belated Birthday. Many, many happy returns of the day :)
18 Jag // 12th Feb 2007 at 6:00 pm
Oops! Happy belated birthday Pewari!
19 Pewari // 12th Feb 2007 at 6:20 pm
Ooo … all these comments! It must be my birthday or som… oh … wait…. ;)
20 Alley Katt // 12th Feb 2007 at 7:16 pm
You really are quite mad, you know that?
:D
21 Kathy // 17th Feb 2007 at 6:33 pm
I should remember that you’re also a Feb. birthday, oh, but a bit younger! I remember 33, I was just pregnant with my first baby..and working a lot. Too much. I had so many birthday celebrations, but realize now that I had no cake! Wow. Hope you survive the holidays! Here we’ve had barely any snow, just blistering cold. Spring is just around the corner, it would be nice to have the kids play outside without freezing their fingers off.
22 Pewari // 19th Feb 2007 at 9:37 pm
Alley Katt: yup :)
Kathy: A birthday without cake?!! That’s sacrilege! Survived the holidays, but just not been able to do much else in the process :)
23 Pewari Does The “I Told You So” Dance // 19th Feb 2009 at 10:10 pm
[...] done, Akra has resurrected my old Vista computer. Now, long term readers will remember that I had one or two or more issues with Vista. In fact, they were the major reason that I threw in the towel and [...]
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