Many thanks!

Thank you to all my Facebook and LiveJournal friends who sent me birthday greetings this morning! I'm extremely touched. It's lovely reading the names on the greetings. A lot of you I've never met - or met only glancingly at a convention. Many others, I see your names (like Stephen in Australia, and Robert and the gang in New Orleans) and see you in front of me, and hope you're well. My parents phoned and sang Happy Birthday over the phone (as they always do), and I now get to go out (while it's still cool) and do a little prep for a few friends who're coming over for dinner tonight.

Birthdays have always been extremely special to me, since my fifth, when I a) was given a book called "The Tall Book of Make-Believe" which I'd loved from checking it out of the library and b) was taken to Disneyland for I think the second or third time (so even in the parking-lot I knew how marvelous it was going to be. This was when they still had a real mule-train ride, and every store in the park wasn't The Disney Store).(In fact, I realize this was probably the year after it opened, so there wasn't a lot there. It was still magical.)

Thank you all for making this birthday lovely.