BTW I'm not going to try to name everybody who was there because I'll only miss somebody and offend them!
I'm feeling completely incapable of giving a blow-by-blow account of the weekend, so instead I'll just give edited highlights.
ox.meet
Bits of Friday accidentally turned into an ox.meet -- especially the first bit of the evening which ended up being exclusively ox.* folk, with
Stupidity
Completely failed to give
Shiny things
Thank you to everybody who gave me shiny things (both metaphorically shiny and actually shiny)! Lots of fab books and DVDs, and SHARP KNIVES, and shiny kitchen stuff, and NEATO SHINY TECH, and lovely happy-smelling Lush stuff, and booze, and, er, bonsai. What more could a girl want? :-)
Oh, and I was wearing my gorgeous birthday present from
Glitter & cake
Everything, but everything, got covered in glitter. (And quite a lot of things got covered in eyeliner...) I already had glitter all over me, but then proceeded to spray it in people's hair. Sorry folks! And I gather Kate glittered all the people I missed. The cake was already glittery, and hopefully escaped most of the hairspray glitter; everybody ate it, anyway, though two badgers survived. I saw
Video madness
At about 4:30am on Sunday morning, somebody decided it would be a really good idea to watch "Breakfast at Tiffany's". I managed to fall asleep slightly before the end, which was probably just as well as I'd have only got weepy. However I then proceeded to stay awake through most of the two subsequent videos (both Eddie Izzard)...
Breakfast (not at Tiffany's)
Thanks to
Wibbles
I kind of feel like I didn't do a very good job of actually spending any time with anybody. This is always the problem with huge gatherings, more so when I'm drinking & thus not keeping track very well. Apologies especially to
Sleep
By Sunday evening I was literally asleep on my feet; eventually gave up and went to bed at about 6pm, and managed to sleep till 10am the next day.
Today is my actual birthday, though it doesn't really feel like it. Have spent it pottering around the house doing very little, and wandering round town buying clothes (with vouchers, so it doesn't count as spending money). Going out for dinner with