estela's great all-american birthday!

here it still is!

have i told u lately that <3

aletse yadhtrib yppah

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http://www.caseyreddkennington.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lemonmeringuepie.jpg

tsk

it was a peace offering :(

a piece offering, if u will

i will dubiously okay that.

my actual irl pie is superb btw, i can't stop thinking about it.

sandbox taken out of context

i don't doubt it!!

encore tsk

jergins!!!

i thought it but i was just going to wait for jergins to say it ;-)

I am ashamed of all of you.

it's the i can't stop thinking about it part that mortifies most.

happy birthday

yes

happy birthday, estela

thank you max

& where are you

i think you will like this:

then you think right, because i do like it, thank you!

xo!

i like that too!

happy birthday btw

thank you! this has been my best birthday ever.

this is for you from america, where it is always your birthday.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3401/3533972260_b81db680db_o.jpg

"Thank you." My voice was squeaky.

http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_date/films_2008/dam_goods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRyj5cHIQA&hl=en

i think it's kind of brilliant

thank you lxy, my internet is too slow for me to watch it, we had a giant storm and the phone is hissing horribly and the internet is like dialup. but based on the stills i think i am going to love it.

happy birthday estela

lol

thank you harbl, so far it is going very well.

here's a little lol for your birthday, stela!

http://www.fubiz.net/2009/06/10/bad-food-bad-dog/

<3 tsk

i miss my little chien

i <3 my little chien even though he is a bit lazy.

does he eat jaffas in bed?

no, but only because chocolate is bad for dogs, so instead i bought him some tiny special peanut butter cookies in santa monica and yesterday he was eating them in bed and giving me sad frowns for going away. but today he has forgotten all about everything!

except that there are still tiny special peanut butter cookies left over, he remembers that.

lxy, do you like jaffas more than licorice bullets or do you like them equally?

esteladarling,

i ate every single jaffa you brought, except one. i put the bag in my room so jergins couldn't find them. i lay in bed eating jaffas like a lazy rotten princess.

when i had eaten all but the last, i put the bag in the kitchen and announced to jergins, "i saved that for you. if you don't eat it in the next half hour, i will."

this to illustrate of my deep love for jaffas AND my deep love for jergins.

i think it only fair to mention that jergins ate most of the licorice bullets. there are two left; i think they're for me.

isn't he grand? he didn't even put conditions on the eating of them.

i'm a little bit surprised you didn't put the last jaffa under your mattress and then weep to jergins about how it had bruised your delicate princess back as a way of exponentially increasing the dreadful lazy rotten badness* of your behaviour.

*<3

i found a piece of one of smoove's broken jaffas in the bottom of my suitcase when i unpacked, i didn't eat it because i am back in jaffaland and can go to the jaffa shop and buy some jaffas and eat the jaffas whenever i want to.

wow.

which egregiousness are you wowing, tehresa?

i'd just like to know should i feel further chastised or commiserated with.

or are you just really wanting some jaffas.

dear lxy, i hope you don't think i was chastising you because i was admiring you.

http://www.gelitin.net/albums144/album14/hase2.thumb.jpg

i think you like a dash of morbid with your sweet

Myxomatosis
Philip Larkin

Caught in the center of a soundless field
While hot inexplicable hours go by
What trap is this? Where were its teeth concealed?
You seem to ask.
I make a sharp reply,
Then clean my stick. I'm glad I can't explain
Just in what jaws you were to suppurate:
You may have thought things would come right again
If you could only keep quite still and wait.

hey, happy birthday, estela!

why thank you, tehersa! and lxy too, again.

i think it could not be cuter!

i think you are right<3

syn·es·the·sia syn·aes·the·sia (sĭn'ĭs-thē'zhə) n. A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color. A sensation felt in one part of the body as a result of stimulus applied to another, as in referred pain. The description of one kind of sense impression by using words that normally describe another.

Synesthesia from Terri Timely on Vimeo.

webcam in Szentgotthárd, Hungary

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ouxxa0eFam8/Sk18jUnhU3I/AAAAAAAADng/9qHwdn1WRqc/s1600/Fly.jpg

!!!!

i once attended a university lecture about synesthesia and afterwards an implausible percentage of the audience claimed to be 'sort-of' synesthetes. i believed two of them but i had a feeling the rest of them were attention-seeking fizzers.

tskgraceful

did you show it to harry!

i tried to but he was fixated on the box of beef jerky straps on my desk.

^okay i like this guy now cuz thats probly what i would have done

to be fair, they are his beef jerky straps, not mine.

mine

<3

i don't think i like that cat.

where ya at , sweetheart!?? every day you post on the sandbox it feels like MY birthday, it is such a gift

where is estela

has she abandoned us

<3

happy birthday!!!!!

thank you<3 now where is the cakes.

.jpg cakes won't get the job done.

are prodigal cakes a thing or

i hope they are a thing.

i heard prodigal cakes are no great shakes

i'd like a cake

estela, i would like very much to sit around and drink coffee with you some day.

i would like that too. luckily you chose a good activity for us. if you'd said, 'estela, i would very much like to kayak around a freezing lake with you some day,' or 'estela, i would very much like to train for a marathon with you some day,' i would have fobbed you off.

i decided i would very much like to do this after reading your coffee philosophies today and i think we have a lot of coffee things in common. except i don't even go to the extent of saying 'sorry your coffee's so dark i only have skim,' i just say 'yeah, i make strong coffee.'

what if i had said, 'i would very much like to kayak around a lukewarm lake with you some day'?

i would have parsed your subtext with a tsky look on my face.

good thing i played it safe!

it is lovely to have you back, estela.

You have tried to insert a duplicate message.

the message i tried to insert was "<3" which was very jesus of me. iirc he had a lot of trouble 'inserting' his message also.

happy birthday, estela! i'm off to find your lollies.

thank you little pop <3<3

:(:(:( i can't find them! darlingest ela, quick, can you guide me?!

they'll be at see's candies if there is one in your section of the airport, otherwise hudson's news might have a stand of them. lol<3

ok yay, thx hudson, i got em! <3<3<3

<3<3<3 see's little pops are extremely popular at my house.

happy birthday!

thank you, i love it.

i think we will have a lot of fun in sydney, despite sydney

yes!

do u think someone will ~~**hook up**~~

for this moment this thread become "lxy's great all-australian birthday!" thread what a happy collision of events!

also, hi from melbourne!

we now return to the previous program: happy birthday, estela!!! xox and <3<3<3

happy birthday!

♫♪♫♥♥♥♫♪♫ Happy 1st southern hemisphere birthday lxy!!!! ♫♪♫♥♥♥♫♪♫

Happy birthday estela!!!!

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Happy 420th Birthday, Estelle!!!

thank you everyone<3. it is actually f.'s birthday today so i have been out garnering cakes and flowers from the market.

happy birthday to f!

and to you, estela!

happiest of birthdays to dear f., my lovely birthday neighbor!

happy birthday, dear one.

if you want to see some funny cute videos to here http://www.lejo.nl/ and click on filmpjes. my favorites are the phonograph and the suitcase.

i love them. when the jaffa appeared i thought to myself that you are rotten.

just GUESS what i'm eating right now!

steel cut oats?

which is your favourite out of jaffas and bullets, i think it was jaffas before, is it still?

who's rotten now!

jaffas for sure but i would emigrate for either.

please do.

deariest, 2 hours 20 -- oh my <3 <3 <3 !!!

my favorite part to recollect is "the 'i love trouble' part of me just did a little dance."

i prefer bullets fyi

estela this picture reminded me of you

http://22.media.tumblr.com/yLHS3o6tJhs9sv4pEl7NSOK7o1_500.jpg

<3

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2657/3993383161_742a76bbc7.jpg

<3y

dear estela, the little video linked here is for f.

<3 it might console him.

dearestela,

if we were to go to the beach it would be like this, i think.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kkEpfLH52A0/SvHYSnXCgjI/AAAAAAAAIjA/LFO0TpUd5f4/s400/vogueitalia2.jpg

<3, lxy

yes.

seems ok

oh look, i found our beach.

http://www.cliffhouseproject.com/sv/sv2/The%20World-famous%20Cliff%20House%20on%20Point%20Lobos.JPG

yes you did.

my sepia friend.

are you working, darling?

a little bit.

but i also walked my dog and made dinner and did laundry and read some ilx.

i'm glad you have your priorities straight

i'm glad you're glad.

today for my birthday i'm eating a box of milk duds.

you deserve it! happy birthday!

wow wow wow!!!!! how did you come across that, lxy?

maurice gee is pretty good, but not my favourite nz writer

it came up on my reader <3

<3<3

ruby, there is a new documentary about the topp twins called untouchable girls, it's worth seeing especially if you're homesick, they are so kiwi and funny and joyful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtSDaOscM_I&feature=related

i loved the topp twins when i was little! they're the best <3

http://nothing-is-new.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/4227840990_e121d930cf.jpg

that fills me with utter joy.

XD <3<3<3

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Boomerang.jpg

welcome back estela! happy birthday!

oh thank you harbl, this has been one of the best birthdays ever.

i missed u.

!!!!!OH MY STARS IT'S HERE HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARLING ESTELA MANY HAPPY RETURNS I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!

thank you lxy<3, as you know i love you back very much!!!!

i've been eating cadbury marshmallow easter eggs to celebrate, they are a bit inappropriate but a lot delicious.

i just went to pilates and the instructor said 'you are powering away' and i didn't tell him my energy stemmed from eating a chocolate marshmallow egg in the car going there because i feared it would disappoint him.

happiest of birthdays to you, estela

aw thank you, tehresa!!

HB!!!!!!!!!

estela should get a whole month of birthday! happy birthday!

estela's birthday lasts the ENTIRE YEAR here in the sandbox!

happy birthday estela! come to nz in may for our wedding party!! it's gonna be greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeat!!

estela

aw, thank you all!

justin3!! tell us about your wedding party just in case there is a tiny chance i can go.

well, nothing is formally planned yet BUT i've been feeling super bummed that literally NO ONE is coming to my wedding this month (except my parents, which is nice but i'm really close to either of them, and not even my lil' sis can make it ;_:), so since we will have a little extra money soon (fingers crossed), i really really want to host a party at nicolini's as a kind of post-wedding celebration. i'm even going to send out proper invites! i'll probably organise something with the boys at the restaurant - book out the courtyard on the last saturday we're in wellington, have a bar tab set up, and have the kitchen send out big plates of food, buffet-style. nothing too formal or sit-down. it'll be a good way to meet up with all my friends at once, introduce jordan (poor boy!!) and have a good time!

but we haven't even booked our tickets to nz yet! but we'll looking to be there first 2 weeks of may: first couple of days in auckland to see my two BFs there, then 5 days or so in taranaki, then a week in welli (i can't wait!!!!).

estela i will just die if you can make it!

<3

dont go estela it would be tragic for justine to die during her wedding party

i don't care, i like parties.

ps. you are all welcome at our official wedding on march 27 & 28 in chicago. we literally couldn't get even one friend between the two of us to come!

we are such losers

<3 love this, thank you! <3

our internet was being horribly slow so i had to make quite a few attempts before i could watch it right through but today i finally succeeded.

from The Onion:

Man At Very Top Of Food Chain Chooses Bugles

SOUTH BEND, IN—Despite having no natural enemies and belonging to a species that completely dominates its ecosystem, local IT manager Reggie Atkinson opted to consume the processed corn snack Bugles Monday. "I was in the mood for something salty and crunchy, and it's a little early for dinner," said the ultimate predator, whose ancestors' bipedal locomotion, toolmaking abilities, and advanced spatial recognition developments allowed them to hunt animals 10 times their size. "These are original, but the other flavors are pretty good, too." Acting on an impulse from an incredibly complex forebrain that has evolved over millions of years, Atkinson then took note of the Bugles' amusing conical shape and placed one on each of his opposable thumbs like little wizard hats.

i like the cut of his jib.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkr0VYcZ-eY

<3 that is just about the rottenest thing i have seen in my whole life.

<3 !!!

http://producten.hema.nl/

<3<3<3 i couldn't view that at first, i was in a slow internets place.

omggggggg! in addition to it still being your birthday here, it is already your birthday there!!!!!!!!!!

what a wonderful terrific day for a wonderful terrific person.

i love you, dearestela!

hb, e!!

i never know when it's really her great all-american birthday

Happy birthday estela today and every day!

aw, thank you dear sandboxlors<3, my darlings.

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/photo-27.jpg

<3 that dog looks a lot like harry, but more bouffant and curly. the slightly dim but proud to be in the car facial expression is identical.

congratulations, estela, on your team's big win!

thank you, lxy, nz was very excited<3

i never cared a fig about rugby until i moved to australia and then i became deeply patriotic.

I dreamed last night estela was coming to Seattle in February to compete in a dance competition and I was so excited!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i choose to believe it was a premonition, not a dream.

aww

<3

i'd rather compete in a talking competition.

guess what, harry was finally allowed out of the playpen on tuesday and he's enjoying wandering around the house again but he'll only eat in there now and every night at 10pm he puts himself to bed in there, he is a ridiculous fluffy fool. right now he's getting his first haircut in weeks, he looked like a dirty old sheep when i dropped him off.

our dog (rip, not that his name was rip but he is dead) used to go in his crate when he was scared or tired, even though that's where he would go for punishment too. dogs are funny!

<3 the first thing harry did when he was free was go and lie under the coffee table, which is smaller than the pen. he is so happy to be free, and his leg is getting stronger and stronger but we still have to try to stop him from cavorting around too much.

Such good news, and such silliness :)

hooray for harry

I hope Harry has been bosthooning his little fluffy heart out.

<3 you know he has. he loved thanksgiving. i think his favourite things were pie crust with whipped cream and not being imprisoned in that baby pen.

estela u should be on facebook

estela deserves better than facebook

but in the absence of ilx?

no facebook for me.

estela u should be everywhere

at any rate happy birthday to u and harry

thank you mookie from us.

i think harry has developed a post-surgical fake limp. this morning he was holding his foot up pathetically with a poor little matchgirl look on his face and when i said 'aw' in a concerned voice he wagged his tail and set it back on the ground and then skipped across the room.

towards the biscuits. by then he had a markers look on his face.

\(^o^)/

loving the harry stories

ts: poor little matchgirl vs. markers

let's just hope it doesn't escalate to slurpees

no slurpees for harry.

you could call them harpies

i don't even recommend slurpees for humans tbh

O HAPPY DAY!

thank you my darling.

here it still is!

― lxy, Saturday, February 28, 2009

this calls for a drink! (for you, not me.)

i'll drink one for each of us. <3<3<3

is today your real b'day, estela???

p.s. i don't think jordan will be here when you are - his stupid job is making him go to georgia for stupid work stuff. :( :( :( :(

but i'll be here, which is the important thing

happiest of all the days, when estela arrived on our planet!

should have been the 29th, imo

j/k happy birthday!

birthday! happy! <3

sweetestela, i'm getting ready to make your lxydrink!

i <3 you and i <3 everyone here. so glad mookieproof is sticking around.

happy happy happy :)

thank you dear sandboxers<3

:( stupid ytth work stuff

i'm also very glad mookie is in the sandbox, i <3 mookie.

me too!

i wish you all could meet mookie. he is very dear.

MAYBE he will move here, and then you will all meet him when you visit in the future!!!

did you measure mookie for the door.

no, he wasn't at the house + i didn't know he was a sandboxer at that time.

also if he reads this he will probably be very confused about this measuring business.

!

<3

what did u get for yr birthday?

kind wishes
a terrible face licking from harry
flowers
chocolates
a scarf
an unconvincing but enjoyable promise of a parcel from my sister who is as post office averse as i am
a mosquito bite on my left hand

also i'll be getting a poang chair and footrest from ikea for my study but they don't have it in stock. i was there yesterday with my other sister for a couple of hours. it was fun, partly i think because i had let five years elapse since the last visit plus also my sister was in a fun mood and when she is good she is very very good.

does she have a little curl in the middle of her forehead?

mookie do you know about the measuring?

she most certainly does have a little curl in the middle of her forehead.

it's lucky the chair was out of stock because the section of my study it is going to go in has got stuff all over the floor.

won't someone spansplain the measuring business to mookie.

mookieproof, basically you have to read the entire thread: wd'ntyll

hopefully you don't mind squabbling and hyperbole.

best he sees our worst before he gets too embroiled.

ps estela, can you call me in one hour?

is two hours okay?

yes! <3

<3 okay

well i chose to read the first-n-last 50 rather than all 497 messages, so i don't yet understand the full importance of the matter . . .

i can tell you that of the ilxors i've met, only vic is taller than me, although i understand that strongo is also rather towering.

ps i have received an email from 'nic' re: jobs in seattle but i cannot speak with him now because germy washington state children have robbed me of my voice.

here's the upshot: some of are officially tall, one of us is officially short, and some of us are mysteries. but not many any more!

when you come back we'll mark you on the measuring post!

get your voice back soon so you can get a job here!!

it is weird; i could briefly see photos of the measuring stick but now i cannot.

anyway i am def. taller than estela which is all that counts.

ESTELA, today ytth officially accepted a job offer from that company!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh yay!!!!!! i have had my fingers crossed for you all week, congratulations ytth!! <3 u both.

i knew you were our lucky charm!!! and i PSYCHICALLY knew you were on the sandbox this very moment! <3

lol<3

hurray, ytth! wish you were here with us to celebrate.

me too!!!!!

i told estela she should move here when F. retires

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpHjMrbJJc8

it is very appropriate that i located this thread by using the search term "estela's great"

i always watch that altered images video on your birthday, since i'm here and it's there and i love it so much, but this time the video didn't work so i tried to fix it and it was a couple of different disasters but then i finally DID fix it and i'm so proud and happy!!

what a wonderful magical day! happy birthday!!!

thank you lovely<3<3<3

there is some very severe jetlag going on here so i am feeling suitably old, but also very happy after such a lovely vacation.

Happy!

happiest of happy days!

omg happy birthday

is harry excited to see u

thank you all <3

harry told us off for going away and then he showered us with kisses and was happy to come home but i think he is missing the two little dogs whose house he was staying at (and i'm told they are missing him), he has stayed there almost every time we've gone away for the last nine years and all the dogs always go into a slump for a day or so after their little pack is broken up. we are so lucky to know those lovely people, they love snd take superb care of harry, i never have any anxiety about him when i'm away.

Happy happy birthday

My best friend's bday is also today, his little sister chose today to announce her engagement to one of the great undesirables, he has not appreciated the present

harry, happy birthday

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8228/8516132175_df60a31909_n.jpg

my time in france has not dimmed my love for caramel.

another one!

i miss estela

so do i

Me 2

happiest of days, dearestels!!!

(i noticed that typo but i left it cuz i like it)

thank you sweetest, it was very nice. a queenstown bus driver called me and f. 'bloody aussies' and then said all these terrible other things to passengers and i whispered to f. that you would hate him even more than we did so then imagining your facial expression sustained me.

<3

I toast to your birthday with tonic water and homemade bitters, delightful and refreshing with a marvelous undercurrent - nearly as good as an estela post

happy!

it's true, i do not like bad behavior, even more so when it is completely off the mark. i am happy that thoughts of my stern nature helped you through, and i thank you for the compliment.

thank you friends<3

Oh idk that drivers sounds alright to me

happy birthday

thanks!

http://vimeo.com/m/100851656

<3

escaped llamas, color-shifting dresses, and estela's birthday: what a wonderful week!

<3<3<3

Happiest of days \^-^/

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<3

if ever someone was meant to be born on feb 29 . . .

thank you friends<3
thank you keoghs<3

haha i had always been thinking like, estela must have multiple bdays per year, because of this thread. but it's more because time goes by so fast and now i've been sandboxing so long that it was all in my brain.

soooooo hb

thank you harbly<3

here's your birthday video, finally:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBjLW5_dGAM

thank you lxy, i love it<3

Happy late birthday dear estela <3

aw thank you tza<3

a birthday song for you, lovely friend:

https://www.facebook.com/jus.wilson/videos/10153732068646295/

<3 thank you, i loved it

<3

Happiest

thank you boxlers<3

happy all american birthday

Estelle <3

^^^not my fault 😶

thank you both and lol<3

<3 ^ ∞

<3 same to you

estela's great all-american birthday

a birthday already? again? happiest birthday e!

Horrified to find out like this tbh

birthday <3

thank you dear sandboxlers<3

oh, estela

<3

thank you mookie<3

one of the best days tbh

happy birthday baby
it's also my cat's estimated birthday maybe tomorrow?

^_^

thank you dear ole boxlers and happy estimated birthday to the grand little cat

seeing as how this thread is 10 years old and i still have yet to meet several important boxlers perhaps we need a boxfap

west coast usa???

belated greetings to you, e.

best of days to best of women

am the mrs. patmore to your mrs. hughes

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and many morrrrrrreeeeeeee

thank you <3 so much

<3

was there a 29th the year you were born?

yes and i was born two weeks late at 10pm and as a child the thought of my close call was alarming to me

Belated birthday felicitations, dear e!

thank you <3

^_^

<3

happy birthday, star

<3

happiest birthday, dearest e!

thank you friends<3

omg

dearest!

hb!

thank you ❤️ sandboxling champions of the world

happy belated!

<3

what they said

happy very belated birthday estela!

thank you both <3

oi m8

happy day, dear one

happy birthday estelllaaaaaaaaa

happy birthday, e!

thank you all very much <3

<3

happy birthday estelllla

thank u harbly<3

hooray!

<3

happy birthday <3

thank you harbly<3