Happy Birthday, Happy Anniversary, or any other Happy News

If you have birthday or anniversary greetings or just want to share something with us...you have a place to do that here.

Today is April 22 and it's mnloena's birthday!



Happy Birthday mnleona. Have a great day. Watch the book worm...he loves birthday cake:)

Hope you have a Happy Birthday, mnleona 😀

Today ...April 24th is mrnay's birthday!!!



Happy Birthday mrmay. Have a great day and read lots of good books!

Happy Birthday, nrmay, 😀

Happy April birthdays, everyone!

My good news is that DH is home from his third hospital stay (non-COVID). And I'm still employed and we have good neighbors and friends who are looking out for us.

And I'm learning new technology during this time and Sir Patrick Stewart is reading Shakespeare's Sonnets on Instagram.

Bits of good news from here in the ATL-area.

>6 threadnsong:



That is good news. We can all use a little of that.

HAPPY 244th BIRTHDAY, AMERICA!

Happy 4th of July!

JULY 21 - IT"S LYNDA"S ANNIVERSARY!!!



Happy Anniversary! Have a special day.

My daughter is going to have a new grandchild for us in December.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, LYNDA & HUSBAND, 🍾

>11 JulieLill: Congratulations, Julie, 🍼

>11 JulieLill: Yeah! Congratulations Grandma!!!

Congratulations Lynda and DH!

Congratulations to a new addition to your family, Julie!

Thanks everyone!

Just saw this thread for the first time.
What a nice idea to recognize our celebrations big and small.
Belated thanks for the BD greetings!

My granddaughter turned 4 last week. We celebrated via FaceTime.
Haven't seen her in person since Feb. :(

>17 nrmay: It's times like these that we are grateful for all the technology that allows us to see/visit with friends and family. I do the birthday/anniversary thing for all the sites that I belong to. We started doing it on Shelfari and just brought it with us to Leafmarks and now to LibrayThing. I hope that this is a permanent home for us here.

OK, I'll post: I finished two, not one, but TWO books by Juliet Marillier. I had started the first of these in March, but it was too deeply written and too intricate for dealing with all that was going on. So when I picked it back up late this month, I finished it in probably 10 days.

And the second I started right after the first (something I never do, since I like to savor good writing and good books). But this month, I was a glutton and I didn't gain a pound from this gluttony!

The Blade of Fortriu is 588 pages, The Well of Shades is 621. In one month. Me.

I consider that a major accomplishment and just wanted to share it with my LT friends!

>19 threadnsong: 🙂👍👏👏👏

>19 threadnsong:



Thank you for sharing and congratulations on your huge accomplishment.

>11 JulieLill: Congratulations, Julie! Grandbabies are the best!

>20 Sergeirocks: and >21 Carol420: Thank you both!

So my happy news for September is that with DragonCon going virtual this year, I got to see John Scalzi's kitchen (during his interview a burrito making contest ensued), and I decided to try some of the novels by Jim Butcher. I was able to find a Dresden Files book at my local used book store - several of my friends here have read and recommended him so I thought I would share this good news.

And also Jack Chalker - I bought Lords of the Middle Dark last Monday and I am looking forward to delving into this world.

Oh, and if any of my sci-fi enthusiast friends would like, with DragonCon being virtual this year, they have a one-year streaming service to watch all of the panels at any time you would like. If you are interested, please PM me and I will pass you along the information.

One of the panels I attended/watched was on the 35th anniversary of "Live Aid." Yes, I remember that concert and the record that got it all started, and it was wonderful watching others who were relaying their memories of that concert. 35 years!! Wow. Hard to believe.

>24 threadnsong: I'm quite fond the the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, and am very much looking forward to the new installment out on the 29th!

I remember watching Live Aid as well as I was a huge Duranie (i.e. fan of Duran Duran) back then. Quite a huge thing. Also really liked the "Do They know It's Christmas" video and had it on both VHS and LP.

September 25 Today is Threadsong's Birthday!!!



Happy Birthday Threadsong!!!

>26 Carol420: Thank you Carol! Yes, it has been a birthday weekend, complete with a mini birthday cake and friends near and far wishing me well. And a weekend to spend time posting completed books to LT and catching up with what everyone has read.

>25 Jenson_AKA_DL: I remember that video!! Where they had all of the singers and the bits they sang as they were putting down their vocal track! Do you remember Sting's sideways glance when he had to sing "The bitter sting of tears"???

I bought friends the LP for Christmas that year. David Bowie couldn't be at the recording, and he (along with other musicians) did some spoken bits on the B side of the LP. Bowie's words have stayed with me for all those years: "Do whatever you can, however small, to help them live."

NOVEMBER 18 ANDREW's BIRTHDAY



Andrew...I didn't forget your birthday but I was away from a way to say HAPPY BITHDAY! Hope your day was special and that you ate lots of ice cream and cake while reading a really good book. Be safe and stay well. Things HAVE to get better soon.

>29 Carol420: Happy belated birthday, dear Andrew!!

NOVEMBER 30 - TODAY IS BRENDA"S BIRTHDAY!!!



Happy Birthday, Brenda Hope you have a great one.

DECEMBER 1 - TODAY IS CINDY'S BIRTHDAY!!!



Happy Birthday, Cindy…Hope it’s a very special day for you.

DECEMBER 1 - TODAY IS LITTLE OLIVER'S BIRTHDAY, "ARF, ARF, WOOF"



I got an entire choir to sing for you. Everyone can join in. Make Mom do everything that you want to do today and give you lots of treats. Happy Birthday, little Furry Guy.

>31 Carol420: >32 Carol420: >33 Carol420:

Have posted birthday greetings elsewhere, but what the heck...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL THREE OF YOU! 😉🎂🎉

Happy Birthday everyone! Hope your celebrations were happy ones. Glad to know you on this site.

Our daughter and husband have a brand new baby boy named Jack!

>36 JulieLill:
Welcome to the world little Jack!

>37 Carol420: Thanks! We are going to try and see him but between their living out of state and covid it is complicating things.

>38 JulieLill: Hope you can see your family soon. This may be better soon now that there's some hope that the vaccine will work.

A belated happy Birthday to Library Cin!

>36 JulieLill: Congratulations 'Grandma', 🙂.

Happy New Year to all my special LibraryThing friends. Wishing you 12 months of success, 52 weeks of laughter, 365 days of fun, 8,760 hours of joy, 525,600 minutes of good luck, and 31,536,000 seconds of happiness, and enough good books to fill the Library of Congress ten times over. That's 248,631,770 individual cataloged editions. Guess the place you store your tbr pile will need to be slightly enlarged:)

I saw this on a card that I got from a friend and thought it was perfect for all of my special friends here.

I'll take 31,536,000 seconds of happiness anytime!
Best Wishes for the New Year, Carol, 🙂.

>43 Sergeirocks: You are so right my friend. Happiness in any amount is a good thing. Have a great 2021. You get to have it about 6 hours before I do so don't use it all up. Save me some:)

>44 Carol420: I might not even see it coming, Carol - no firework display from London at midnight this year. Nothing to mark the start of 2021! I was extremely disappointed when I found that out 🙁...

>45 Sergeirocks: The ball is going to drop in Time Square in New York City but no people in the park or on the streets. What a strange world we've found ourselves in. Hope it gets better soon.

JANUARY 1 - Today is our Sergei's Birthday!!!


Happy Birthday! Hope you have a really great day and do everything that you want to do. Just don’t get arrested :)

Thought I'd send it a little early since it will be January 1 where you are before it is here. Happy Birthday...my friend.

>47 Carol420: Ooh, prezzies.

"Hey, guys, this pink one smells like cake...". "Where? Let me at it...".

😀 Thanks, Carol!

>47 Carol420: Sergei! Happy Belated Birthday! Hope it was a good one for you, and many blessings for 2021.

>42 Carol420: Thank you Carol! I will take those minutes and seconds of happiness. It is a year to be grateful for so much that I take for granted, and to show my appreciation.

And I managed to finish a book on NYE so while I didn't make it to my goal of 45 books, I did read 43, some of them large books, and feel very, very accomplished. Plus, it was great to see our world tour and all the places we visited as a group.

>49 threadnsong: Thank you, threadnsong, 🙂.

February 14 - Today is Lynda's Birthday!!!



I thought you might like to see what the cake looked like before Oliver invited his friends over for the party. Hope your day is very special for you.

To Mom from Oliver.



I asked Aunt Carol to send you a birthday card from me since my paws are not designed to type. Happy Birthday. You are the best dog Mom in the whole world!!!! Can we go for a walk now?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LYNDA! 🎉

A very Happy Birthday to 2 friends on this site. I'm sorry that I'm a little late with one of them...but I hope your day was very special. I will try to do better next year.

HAPPY BIRTDAY WISHES to mnloena - April 22 , & mrnay - April 24.

Carol, thank you for the birthday greeting!
I'm having a fine day.
My husband made my favorite Dutch Baby pancake for breakfast.
Now he's putting a pot roast together for a family dinner party.
I'm on my sun porch watching the rain. """""

>55 nrmay: Have a great day.

🎉Birthday Wishes to Nancy.
And belated Birthday Wishes to Leona.🎉

Happy April Birthdays, mnleona and nrmay!

What, pray tell, are Dutch Baby pancakes??

>58 threadnsong: Young pancakes from Holland????:(

Here's a picture. Looks like apple pie to me. Maybe she'll send us some:)

>59 Carol420: Mmmmm - one can only hope!

September 25 - Today is Threadsong's Birthday!!! Happy Birthday!!!!

We got to see our two grandsons yesterday from out of state. They came in for a few days!

A little late, but I hope you had a good birthday, threadnsong. 🎂

>61 Carol420: >63 Sergeirocks: Thank you thank you thank you, Carol and Sergeirocks! It is odd being a year older and something for which I am most especially grateful.

We celebrated with a bit of live music then dinner from our favorite local restaurant on the back deck. With candles. And Tiramisu for my birthday cake.

Not quite Dutch Baby Pancakes but delish nonethless!

>64 threadnsong: Remember you have friends here that also like Tiramisu:) (hint, hint) I suppose you ate it all:(

>65 Carol420: Why yes, yes I did. However, if we ever are able to coordinate locales and schedules and all, I will happily buy you a piece of Tiramisu for your very own!!! To enjoy fully and with all its deliciousness.

<66 Thank you. You might have alot of us showing up on your doorstep:)

>67 Carol420: Well, yes, there is that!

And now we're on to Thanksgiving here in the States. I still don't know what my plans are, since restaurants are opening up. I did enjoy cooking Rock Cornish Game Hens in lieu of turkey last year.

Anyone else?

>68 threadnsong: My two friends that bring me books came last year for Thanksgiving and brought a standing rib roast that was so tender it almost fell apart when you looked at it. My husband and I furnished the rest of the trimmings. Turkey's tend to be too big if you don't have a large group and we don't. Our son is in Louisiana and our daughter is in Arizona. I guess the guys are working on something for this year. Conner loves to cook and is very good at it... and Luke is more than happy to let him. Luke says that letting Conner do whatever his heart desires reduces HIS stress and he gets great food in the bargain.

November 20th was Heather's Birthday!!!



Heather, I am so sorry that I'm late for your birthday:( I hope it was a great day for you. I will try to do better next year. Happy Birthday even if it is 2 days late.

>70 Carol420: thank you! The timing certainly doesn't matter; I didn't even check this thread until today :)

>71 Darth-Heather: I guess "better late than never" does apply here.

I’ll join the better-late-than-never train, “MANY HAPPY RETURNS, Darth-H”, 🙂.

Happy Birthday, Brenda. Have a great one and send us all some cake, please.

Happy Birthday, Cindy. Have a really good one.

Today is the day that we remember that Oliver came into this world. He will forever live in our memories and our hearts.

>77 deaflower: That is one very happy looking frog:)



Wishing all my LT friends the very best of everything in 2022.

🎉 HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE! 🎊

Yes! Happy, Happy New Year. Here's to a great 2022 for us all!!

Today, January 1, is Sergei's Birthday!!! Have a great one, friend. If there wasn't a 6-hour time difference, I would have said it earlier:)

>81 Carol420: Happy Birthday, our favorite Meer-Kat!

>81 Carol420: >82 threadnsong: 👍😀

June 26 Is Heather's Anniversary. I'm doing it a little early because I'm going to be gone some tomorrow. Happy Anniversaty Heather and Mr. Heather. have a great one.

>85 Carol420: thank you dear Carol! it is the 23rd anniversary of our wedding, but we have been together for 28 years which is more than half of our lives. we were so young when we got together - its amazing we made it work. we didn't know anything then... :)

>86 Darth-Heather: You are so very welcome. I know all about being young and having no idea what you're doing:). When my husband and I got married I was 16 and he was 18. Both of us were still in school, and every day I thank whatever, or whoever, rules the universe that allowed us to not only finish school but finish 4 years of university with degrees that we could actually use to keep from starving to death. Marriage isn't easy but you are proof that it absolutely can work. Have a great day.

Happy Anniversary!!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, HEATHER! 🥂🍾

Happy Anniversary to Heather & Mr. Heather!! Twenty-eight years - my how time flies :)!!

SEPTEMBER 25 - Today is Threadsong's Birthday!!!



Happy Birthday, Threadsong. Hope it's a good day for you.

Belated Birthday Wishes, threadnsong! 🎂

>91 Carol420: Happy (belated) Birthday!! :)

Thank you! It was an amazing birthday *weekend* for me - the Muses must have smiled on me!

I had my first public solo performance on the Saturday before, then went to an annual event at Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta called "Tunes from the Tombs." It features different bands from different genres, including a Dad with Sons jamming to dad's fave rock tunes. No kidding! Drummer was about 9, bassist around 12, and the guitarist/lead singer was probably a teenager. And dad was playing rhythm guitar right along with them.

Thank you again Carol for remembering and thanks for all the good birthday wishes to my (neglected) LT friends! Always find inspiration from y'all.

>24 threadnsong: I’ve just noticed we’re not ‘friends’, threadnsong. What an oversight! So I’ve just sent you a friends request, 🙂.

>94 threadnsong: It sounds like you had a great time. Congratulations on your solo performance. I think I would have liked that event.

>95 Sergeirocks: Yes! I was so surprised that we weren't "friends" on LT myself. So I accepted your request. Thank you for noticing and making the request!

>96 Carol420: I think you would have liked it. The event happens in a cemetery, and I know you love your ghost stories Carol. It also has an air of calmness to it, almost sanctity, and there are guided tours of the cemetery as well.

>97 threadnsong: Sounds like my type of fun. The little town in Florida I grew up in had a cemetery that was 220 years old at that time. My cousins and our friends used to go into it at night and tell ghost stories. We never did anything destructive...just tried to scare each other. There was almost more of us that were living that there was those that were dead anyway:) One night two of my uncles hid out in the bushes and made some ungodly noises thinking they were going to scare us but they badly unintimated how much we loved being scared out of our minds.

>98 Carol420: Soooo, is this how you became so interested in ghost stories???

>99 threadnsong: I can't remember NOT being interested. My Grandmother, who was from Ireland, used to tell all of us ghost stories and she swore that most of them were true or had some element of truth in them. She had some real whoopers too!!!

>100 Carol420: If Grandmas tell them, they must be true, Carol, ☺️.

>101 Sergeirocks: I thought for several years that she could walk on water.

Happy Birthday to Andrew whose birthday was yesterday. I'll do better next year.

🥳

Belated Birthday Wishes, Andrew 🎉
Have some cake, 🎂🙂.

HAPPY BIRTDAY, HEATHER!!!
Have a great day.

(More belated wishes, this time for Heather, 🎂🙂)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HEATHER! 🎉

Happy belated birthdays, Andrew and Heather! Hope you have had some great celebrations.

Happy Valentine's Day, Everyone!

February 14



Wishing Lynda a very Happy Birthday She's out enjoying a cruise. Good way to celebrate.

>109 Carol420: Thank you Carol! It was lovely. Dinner at a local French restaurant with plenty of amazing little touches.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BETTE! HAVE A GREAT ONE.

>112 Carol420: And belated birthday wishes from me, too Bette!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EADIE! HAVE A GREAT DAY.

>114 Carol420: 🥳

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EADIE! 🎉

Yes!! Happy Birthday, Eadie!!

>117 threadnsong:


HAPPY BIRTDAY, THREADSONG. HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY. (SEND CAKE PLEASE)

I know I'm a day late...but the wish is just as warm...have a happy Yom Kippur to all our friends who celebrate.

>118 Carol420: Thank you Carol! It was a lovely day, weekend really, with a music festival on Sunday and some specialty coffee from a niece's coffee shop (out of state), flowers, and general good vibe.

Oh, and my messengers to bring the cake to you (pictured above), were licking their chops when I tried to give them the cake. I decided it would not be safe in their, um, paws.

>119 Carol420: Joining in your wishes for a blessed Yom Kippur to all who celebrate.

>120 threadnsong: They could have had some cake. I would have gladly share:)

Sorry I missed the day, threadnsong; so glad you had a lovely weekend.
HAPPY (BELATED) BIRTHDAY! 🎉

>122 Sergeirocks: Oh, I missed the post as well!

Hope it was a very happy birthday, Threadnsong!!

>122 Sergeirocks:, >123 genesisdiem: No worries! Thank you all. It just means that my birthday amongst my LT book loving friends got spread out a bit more.

More cake, more fur babies, more books!

Andrew...I am so sorry that I missed your birthday on the 19th. I hope it was perfect and lease don't fire me:(

Heather - I also missed yours on the 20th. Hope yours was also perfect. I promise to try to do better if you both will have another one:)

>125 Carol420: thank you Carol! I will certainly try my best to have another one...

>126 Darth-Heather: I at least got your date right. Poor Andrew...I not only missed the date I thought that was his birthday...I missed his actual date also. It's the 18th not the 19th that I have been wishing him Happy Birthday on for 7 years now. I think I should retire...but I just found out that none of you are going to pay me social security:)

Any day’s a good day to celebrate a birthday, ☺️!

Andrew and Heather, hope you each had a Happy Birthday…🎉

Happy Birthday, Brenda!!!

Happy Birthday, Brenda, 🎂.

🎂

What a wonderful list of birthdays for November! Andrew (the 18th, although it could be the 19th in some parts of the world 😉), dear Heather from Shelfari days 🦄, and Brenda 🎂! 🎁🎁🎁

Thank you for remembering all our birthdays, Carol 🥰. We are indebted to you as always (even without the whole social security thing!).

>132 threadnsong: You are welcome....I try. At least Andrew isn't going to fire me. I did get the right week:) I think 'm going to start doing them by the month instead of the day. That way I will post them when I change the other threads,

CINDY


So sorry Cindy. Hope you had a wonderful birthday!

>133 Carol420: I am a July baby :)

>135 genesisdiem:
Thank you. I hope this once-a-month thing works better than I've been doing with these birthdays. (sigh) I do try hard though:)

>136 Carol420: I appreciate that you keep all of this up for us. I just hope that one day I will be as well read as you. 😉

Out of 3 toliets in our home - two were broken and now are fixed! Hurray!

>137 genesisdiem: I didn't used to have the time to read even half of what I can now. Work seemed to get in the way and my director seemed to frown on people holding books in front of their faces. Whatever was wrong with the man??? I would have brought him a book if he'd asked nice:)

>138 JulieLill: Is it proper and correct to say congratulations on being able to use your toilets??? Who wants to be correct anyway?? Congratulations!!!

So this year, when Christmas celebrations (and performances) snuck up on us, we decided against a tree and went for garlands and a wreath. And DH even made a Yule log with space for candles that we've put (unlit) in our window. It's on a table with a flammable cloth, so for the time being it's for tradition.

The presents, even the ones for the fur babies, are wrapped and on a table and ready for tomorrow.

And I'm finally getting caught up on my book reviews!! Made it past my goal of 45 to *48* books read this year. I've only just started Geddy Lee's autobiography, so it may soon be 49 🥳