Pumpkin Beer!? and Thanks!!!

[Ebony AKA AngieJ]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:
> ... it always tastes like beer rather than like the stuff it 
> was made out of.

I've noticed that too, Rita.  I guess fermented is fermented is 
fermented... or else you and I don't have very discriminating taste 
buds!  Even "dry cider" tastes like very weak lager with lemon or 
lime to me...

Congrats to Dee for your accomplishment!  ;-)  You must be 
feeling such an incredible *rush* right now... amazing!  As for 
naming Modes of Transportation, I absolutely stink.  I wanted to 
name my first car Isaac, but ended up realizing she was a girl 
when I first saw her and calling her the Blue Lady.  Good 
luck--you can always follow the example of lots of other listies 
and call him or her Draco.  <ec>  

A great big Great Lakes ***thanks!*** to all the thoughtful folks 
who sent birthday messages on list and off list!  It was a very 
weird one... no sleep at all, then in this zombie-like trance at the 
airport for 4 hours, flying for 8 1/2, then eating my first 
McDonald's in 7 weeks and sleeping for about 12 hours straight.  
I do think it's the very weirdest one I ever had... now I'm up at 3:30 
a.m. thinking "Wait a minute... first it was "tomorrow" and now it's 
"yesterday"?  Did I miss something?"  

So now I have a plot bunny for a short story called "The Lost 
Birthday", in which a guy or a girl falls asleep the day before and 
wakes up the day after every year... sort of like February 29 
babies... 

I'll be making up for lost time today as far as celebrating goes, 
which means that I'll miss chat tonight.  May it be merry and 
light... and nothing like the one last week.  (Rita, see what 
happens when you miss chat?  :-D)

Also--I know there are several people that I beta-read for that 
want replies ASAP who will see this flying message and wonder 
where their stuff is... sorry, not until at least the beginning of next 
week when I am back home in Michigan.  My aunt is one of those 
people who hates Harry Potter with a passion for religious 
reasons, and I daren't download anything to her computer.  

One last thing--I finally read the Abanes book, thanks to 
Catherine.  I think part of the problem is not religious at all, it's 
cultural (American vs. British).  Will post more thoughts later.

Smiles and hugs and schnoogles... oh my!

--Ebony AKA AngieJ (from Chicago's Gold Coast--*spectacular* 
view of the night lights on Lake Michigan--think I'll write.  ;-))