Well, yesterday was a pretty good birthday, as birthdays go. I've had better, I've had worse, but the fact that, around the middle of the day, all of the tooth pain left my body and went to torture some other poor sod, made it much more wonderful than I could have expected.

The day before, I went back to the dentist to get another prescription, I got up early on my birthday in order to get over to the pharmacy and get it filled, I took my last two pills from the old bottle, and then I didn't even need to open the new bottle! So now I have 30 Percocets for future emergency, not to mention the leftover Tylenol and codeine that didn't work last week.

I'm in Drugstore Cowboy heaven!

So, after the drugstore run, I called my Mom and opened presents while talking to her on the phone. She gave me a great stripey dress that is body hugging to a point, then it discreetly hangs over some of the nastier parts of my body, obscuring them to the bet of its abilities, a Jeffrey Archer book, some various toiletries, a Fox TV baseball cap (didn't I get one last year, too?), twenty AMC movie passes (yay!), new Birk sandals, a blank book with a faux snakeskin cover, and a $25 Barnes and Nobel gift certificate. Thanks Mom! Especially since my big gift was supposed to be the luggage that I got in February.

From friends I got The Complete Chronicles of Narnia from Beth, which I have been dying for since Melissa got it for her birthday, the new Pratchett from Lucy (I got the next newest one in London that I haven't read yet, so I have lots of Pratchett now!), some The Stuff of Dreams from Janet Egan, and then a bunch of secret gifts!

It seems that Amazon now doesn't tell you who it's from unless you check off the "It's a gift" box, though wrapping paper doesn't seem to make a difference. So I got the Stanley Brothers Old Country Church, Possession, The Wizard's Dilemma and Mixed Magics with no idea who to thank! I later discovered that Amanda got me the cd and Lisa got me Possession (or she says that she thinks she did, so if anyone out there has a greater claim to getting me Possession, please speak up!), but the other two books I haven't a clue who they are from.

And then I got a gorgeous birthday bouquet of flowers from someone who signs himself "David, just another reader," though I would beg to differ, because I'm sure I have plenty of readers named David who didn't get me flowers, so clearly he isn't "David, just another reader", but "David, a special flower-getting reader!"

After the present orgy, I had to run out of the house to meet Cynthia at the movies.

She wanted to see The Closet and The Deep End and I wanted to see The Others and The Deep End, so she saw the early showing of The Closet, and we met up for the 12.40p showing of The Deep End. I left the house at noon and was late for the movie, the traffic was so bad. On Thursday at noon? What was the big rush to get into the city?

So, we saw the movie, and it was quite good, but not as good as I expected, really. I do like movies where the people in it don't have all of the information--that one character thinks one thing and another thinks something else, but they don't realize that they each only have part of the information, I find that exciting. And the acting was excellent, of course, but the problem was that the story wasn't enough. It needed like two more twists, because I was left with kind of an "is that all there is?" feeling.

The Others I was just gasping for, ever since I saw the trailer I thought that it looked so scary and fun, and it was, and again the acting was swell, and those kids were spooky as all get out, but the problem was that I knew that there was a twist ending and, well, I guessed it about seven seconds into the film, and was left disappointed that I was right.

Afterwards, I went to the TKTS board to get Broadway tickets, and it was just pissing down rain, and there really wasn't anything up that I was all het up to see, so I got a ticket for Stones in His Pockets, which I saw in London in March (I know, I haven't written about it yet), but this was the original cast, and I really wanted to see them.

Then, since I was completely soaked, I went home and took a shower and dried off and changed into my new dress and sandals, then went back in at 7p, and it's a good thing that I started so early, because Kymm's Special Birthday Traffic was still in full force and I barely made it.

The show was just swell, again. It's a two actor piece where they play all of the roles, men and women, and it's about a Hollywood movie being made in an Irish village, and the two main characters are two extras on the film--a local guy and a Northerner just passing through.

These are amazing performances, just stunning, and actually quite easy to forget that it's just the two guys, and there is minimal costume changing, mostly just a coat on or a vest off. Both casts were tremendous, but I'd have to say that I preferred the round-faced Northerner in this cast and the tall, thin faced local boy in the London cast.

But either way, it's hilarious and moving and everything and I had a bang-up time.

Today's horoscope:
Both your work and an important relationships require time and attention. You'll have to balance taking care of physical and emotional tasks.

One year ago today:
If the real Jesus Christ were like the actor playing Jesus in this production then we'd all be Jews today. Christianity would never have caught on.

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