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danceswithgaryMy flist is simply wonderful. I've had quite a day reading all the lovely thoughts and wishes and stories and looking at profile presents and ecards and pretty boys in collages and banners and picspams.
Wow. Just wow.
I hope I didn't miss thanking anyone for their post or comment, the number I received was incredible.
The remainder of my day was taken up by dinner and chocolate cake made by my beloved Gary and watching several SG-1 episodes with him and my daughter (we're on S8). Gary bought me Photoshop Elements 7, which I've installed and will be using for my next set of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
mcshep_icontest entries.
I also got a motorcycle for my birthday.
It's sort of a family joke around here. On my 40th, Gary found out his uncle was selling his '71 Corvette for an incredibly reduced price and I bought it for Gary since he'd coveted it for years. He and our daughter (14 at the time) flew out to Los Angeles to pick up the car and drive it back home (Rochester, NY). They took their time and made it quite a road trip - one she still tells stories about.
"Rachel, are we supposed to be in Idaho?"
"No."
"Well, the sign we just passed says we are. You want to get out a map?"
I've driven the Corvette once.
So, for my 52nd birthday, I bought Gary a 2003 Honda ST1300.
The story behind that is Gary won a 3-day cruise when he participated in a motorcycle tour last year. The cruise is on the west coast - leaves from Los Angeles and goes south to Mexico and back. He booked it for our anniversary, but there's no way I can handle the plane flight to and from, let alone the cruise, so he's taking my daughter. She'll be flying - he decided to ride cross-country on his PC800, something he's been planning on doing now that he's retired.
The problem is that although the PC800 has been a great motorcycle, it's showing its age (125,000 miles) and I'm not comfortable having him drive across the country and back on it with the problems it's been developing. In addition, he's planning on being gone for a month, so maintenance could be an issue. So, my birthday present is a new (to him) motorcycle that I'll never ride.
I wonder what I'll get next year. *rolls eyes*
Wow. Just wow.
I hope I didn't miss thanking anyone for their post or comment, the number I received was incredible.
The remainder of my day was taken up by dinner and chocolate cake made by my beloved Gary and watching several SG-1 episodes with him and my daughter (we're on S8). Gary bought me Photoshop Elements 7, which I've installed and will be using for my next set of
mcshep_icontest entries.I also got a motorcycle for my birthday.
It's sort of a family joke around here. On my 40th, Gary found out his uncle was selling his '71 Corvette for an incredibly reduced price and I bought it for Gary since he'd coveted it for years. He and our daughter (14 at the time) flew out to Los Angeles to pick up the car and drive it back home (Rochester, NY). They took their time and made it quite a road trip - one she still tells stories about.
"Rachel, are we supposed to be in Idaho?"
"No."
"Well, the sign we just passed says we are. You want to get out a map?"
I've driven the Corvette once.
So, for my 52nd birthday, I bought Gary a 2003 Honda ST1300.
The story behind that is Gary won a 3-day cruise when he participated in a motorcycle tour last year. The cruise is on the west coast - leaves from Los Angeles and goes south to Mexico and back. He booked it for our anniversary, but there's no way I can handle the plane flight to and from, let alone the cruise, so he's taking my daughter. She'll be flying - he decided to ride cross-country on his PC800, something he's been planning on doing now that he's retired.
The problem is that although the PC800 has been a great motorcycle, it's showing its age (125,000 miles) and I'm not comfortable having him drive across the country and back on it with the problems it's been developing. In addition, he's planning on being gone for a month, so maintenance could be an issue. So, my birthday present is a new (to him) motorcycle that I'll never ride.
I wonder what I'll get next year. *rolls eyes*