Fun stuff

Thank you to everyone who sent me birthday greetings/ecards/tweets/wall comments, etc. It was great fun at John's yesterday, checking on his computer every few hours for the various greetings. Wanted to share a couple of the fun things I received.

It wouldn't be a birthday without some sort of treat from my dear friend Dave Wolfe. He created a Dark Shadows card for me this time, with some clever Photoshopping and funny verbiage. So here I am in a compromising position with my heart-throb, in THE LOST EPISODE:

Here's the copy, since it's hard to read:

(OPENING NARRATION MUSIC)

NARRATOR:

The master of the great house of Collinwood is both disturbed and thrilled this night; for he is the solitary witness of an eerie tableau that no one else can see nor hear. Barnabas Collins, for reasons unknown and unknowable, has been watching a couple from the future, yet-unborn ghosts living one hundred years hence of the quieter world of 1870.

They are Quentin Collins and his lover Erica Scott, and, unaware that their drama has an invisible audience, Quentin sternly but lovingly punishes Erica for meddling with things a woman ought to leave alone. Erica protests that she only scraped a bit of paint away from the magical portrait of her paramour that he had hidden away in the locked upper room of the mansion, hoping to discover the truth of the Curse of the Full Moon, and was curious to see Quentin with a snout and pointed ears, because wolves are really, really cute.

ANNOUNCER:

Our story continues after these words from Palmolive Paddles, as gentle to Tops' hands as they are tough on Bottoms.

LOL! I love you, Wolfie. Thank you.

And here's a fun image I found yesterday on my Facebook wall (I'm reasonably discreet there, but people seem to know my proclivities anyway):

I'm not even a Star Wars fan, but this made me laugh. Particularly when a friend commented: "The Empire Strikes Backsides." Thank you to the creator!

I wish I'd taken a picture of last night's cake. They were out of German chocolate cake, so, since they had several shelves of wonderful-looking cakes and cupcakes and cookies and so forth, I asked the guy behind the counter to recommend a really good chocolate choice. He pointed out an enormous Bundt cake topped with thick frosting and large slabs of solid chocolate and said, "This is one of our best-sellers, our See's Candy cake." Oh, that's all I needed to hear -- y'all know how much I love See's Candy. (It was either that or the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup cake, but John doesn't like peanut butter.) You should have seen the size of the hunk he put on the plate for us. I cut it in half and we had two normal-to-large pieces! I thought, I can't eat all this. I just put away a plate of fettucini with grilled vegetables. But I ate every damn crumb of it. :-D

Birthday spanking tomorrow...