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You're bleaching your hair with colors from your dream

We spent the afternoon celebrating my niece's eighth birthday observed. There were bagels and lox and gleeful shrieking as she ran around with the twins in the featherily falling snow, which made a brief white Christmas of the yard.

spatch has photographic evidence of the Silurian present we gave her and the two-toned cake my father decorated with marzipan, fondant, and pretzel sticks. The twins had gone all out and gifted her with a menagerie of mythological figurines including a pegasus, a dragon, and a unicorn, plus a Lovecraftian sort of uranium-orange stretchy equine fidget and a black-and-white cat "squishmelon" which she immediately buried her face in. The evening was slightly marred by a plague-scare, but a couple of negative rapid results later we are watching the first half-hour of The Unsuspected (1947), a kind of Gothic radio noir hosted by the gentle sadism of Claude Rains. And we will keep on being careful, because there is nothing else to do.

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I am so glad the kiddo got a festive, surprise-filled, delightful birthday with marzipan animals. And that you are safe and okay.

I'm so tired of Everyone Else. *hugs*

I am so glad the kiddo got a festive, surprise-filled, delightful birthday with marzipan animals.

The cranky little pig is my favorite.

There was further joyous shrieking when the cake was unveiled.

And that you are safe and okay.

Thank you. Me, too. We are doing our best to stay that way.

I'm so tired of Everyone Else.

They are very tiring.

*hugs*

I'm glad your niece had such a delightful party! I am sorry about the plague-scare, but glad about the test results. The Unsuspected is quite enjoyable.

I'm glad your niece had such a delightful party!

It made her really happy. She was blown over by the menagerie. She liked our postcard! My father may be in the representational cake business for life.

I am sorry about the plague-scare, but glad about the test results.

Thank you. So are we! Fingers crossed for the repeat on Monday.

The Unsuspected is quite enjoyable.

Having previously seen Hurd Hatfield only as Dorian Gray, I was delighted by him as a classic drunken trash fire kept husband!

"hosted by the gentle sadism of Claude Rains" -- I just said out loud to my phone, "God, there's never been a better description," and I thought I might say it where you can hear. :-)

"hosted by the gentle sadism of Claude Rains" -- I just said out loud to my phone, "God, there's never been a better description," and I thought I might say it where you can hear.

Thank you!