Belated Birthday Presents

[ratherastory]

There are times when I realize I am well and truly blessed in my friends. For six years now three of my friends and I who all have birthdays in late December and January get together to celebrate our birthdays. We do this by writing a radio play and then making our other friends perform it, because we're sadistic that way. Luckily, our friends enjoy our particular brand of sadism. ;)

This time around we made it a choose-your-own adventure format, because we thought it would be awesome, and it turned out beautifully. There was audience participation, filk, and by the end we were all laughing so hard we had tears pouring down our faces.

This year, there was an added bonus for me. My very good friend Lu presented me with a gift, and when I unwrapped it (driving her crazy in the process because I'm one of those people who has to unstick the scotch tape rather than tear the paper), there were two books inside:

In The Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural

and

The Supernatural Book of Monsters, Spirits, Demons, and Ghouls.

I love my friends. They are not only geeks of all kinds (writers, musicians, programmers, technical writers, librarians, anthropologists, archaeologists, knitters, spinners, artists, you name it), they ALSO totally and shamelessly enable me in my obsessions.

So when I admitted that I was massively obsessing about Supernatural, rather than just roll their eyes and just let me work through my phase, they jumped on board with glee and are now feeding my habit.

:D

Comments

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is SO cool! I wish I had mad baking skills like that!

My friends roll their eyes at me, but are very very patient when I witter on at length about SPN and just how awesome it is and "that reminds me of this bit in Supernatural when..."

Forbearance, thy name is friendship. ;)

I take it you play D&D?

[primrose-1.livejournal.com]

Yup! Every Saturday Night! Well, not ALWAYS D&D. Sometimes we play the Hero system, or White Wolf, or Call of Cthulhu, but you get the idea. It's my best friend that's good at the themed cakes. I'm good at cakes, but mine are more along the lines of a chocolate mint cake with drizzled white chocolate. They don't look like Rock Band drums.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I should have known there'd be gamers in the Supernatural fandom, I don't know why it didn't occur to me before.

My work schedule doesn't allow for much gaming these days, and I miss it like anything. :)