last day as a 30-something

Jeff has asked me if he can do a Guest Blathering tomorrow (it's my birthday, eh? Katy's, too!)...don't know if I should be scared or delighted. :-) Jeff and I are both taking tomorrow off and spending the day together.

I'm getting such a kick out of my virtual birthday party. Many thanks to those who have visited. I know it's only a virtual party, but I can't tell you how cool (and touching) it is to see friends from different areas of my life all dropping by. Sometimes I'll pop over to see what's happening at the party, and get all teary-eyed when I see the people who have visited (I'm such a sap). Or something someone posts will make me laugh out loud (like when Luisa said she was shy). :-) Thanks so much, everyone.



Had fun at Allison's with Allison and Jodi last night in Richmond Hill. Aftering ordering in from an Italian place, we had chocolate cake (see picture at top; I'm holding the cake with lit "40" candles) and Allison and Jodi gave me cards and presents. Allison's card made me laugh out loud (see left and below). She only got away with it, of course, because she's already past the 40-year mark. :-) Jodi gave me some wonderful-smelling Body Shop stuff and a veryvery cool wooden recorder with carvings and polished stones all over it (photo in a future Blathering). Allison gave me some purple stone earrings, a shimmery purple short-sleeved top, a purple Party Glowstick (which I plan to use to keep Allison and Jodi up at night in our hotel room at FKO, woohoo!), a photo bookmark, and some chocolate bunnies.

After some appropriately decadent chocolate cake, we did practising for FilKONtario, and recorded some more songs for Interfilk donation tape. So far, it looks like the following songs are going to be on the tape:

Our Secret Song: song by me (title to be revealed at FKO when we debut it in open filk)

Lullaby For Gustavo: song by me, written for Diana Huey's son.



All The King's Men: our cover of the Tom Cochrane song

I Would I Were: our cover of the James Keelaghan song

Life Is A Bowl Of Oreo Cookies: song by me, written for Lissa Allcock.

May It Be: our cover of the Enya song from Lord of the Rings.

The Road Home: song by me, a love song. Counterpoint by Allison.

Hockey Monkey Song: our cover of the James Kochalka song. Vastly different from Ookla the Mok's version! :-)

Waiting For Frodo: song by me, chorus counterpoint by Allison. Inspired by Waiting For Frodo.

Obsession: song by me. Inspired by Harry Potter books.

Unforgotten: our cover of a Lawrence Dean song.

All songs will come with lyrics and chords. I'm probably going to add some harpstuff, maybe be brave enough to record a harp piece I wrote. If you're at FKO, please do bid at the Interfilk auction (if not for our package, for something else). Interfilk's a great organization; Urban Tapestry was sent to California years back as Interfilk guests at Conchord. So cool to be going back to Conchord again this August! (and this time as the Guests of Honour!) We've heard many wonderful musicians and made new friends as a result of Interfilk.

Forgot to mention in yesterday's Oscar score tabulation: I noticed that several people voted more than once in some categories. In those cases, I counted only the first vote.