recipe for contentment

[cimorene]

you know what i realized?  that yesterday's birthday was the best birthday i've had in years. 

i bustled about all afternoon, humming to myself and feeling competent like my mom while fixing food, even though i didn't do such a great job.  wax was asleep in the bedroom and it was all cosy.  then my bitches slasha buddies came over, anglepoiselamp, shiroi_chi and mace_m.  we stuffed ourselves on lukewarm leftovers and maija's delicious cookies and an entire packet of vispgrädde*, watched king arthur (the extended version) without the sad ending but with much slash commentary and references to the m15m version.  then we watched e's copy of the professional/león, and e and k and i frightened maija with our 'gary gary gary!'-type comments, when she is a jean reno fangirl.  i drank a mug of warm wassail and read the pros slash until pleasantly sleepy, then collapsed into bed and buried my nose in wax_jism's shoulder. 

*whipped cream--applied over half a pie.