Happy Birthday Lars! I hope you have a great day and enjoy shopping for your new stove!
Ellen

Happy Birthday Lars! Hope you have a great day!

Joanne

Lars, I hope today is fantastic!

Nancy

Bonne Fête Lars!!!

You share my daughter's Birthday weekend~

So I am saving a piece for you..
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Happy birthday Lars! A new stove, how cool. Tell us all bout how you celebrated it.
Sherry

Happy Birthday Lars!

Hope you have a great day and a great year!

Sharon

Happy Birthday!

: )
lyra

Happy Birthday, Lars! Hope it's a great one!

Sally

Happy Birthday Lars !

Happy Birthday, Lars.

Wishing you a very happy birthday, Lars! We're waiting to see what that DB of yours makes for your birthday dinner - ;o)

Teresa

Happy Birthday Lars, Hope you have a wonderful birthday weekend!

Maryanne

Hope you have the best birthday ever, Lars! I'm raising my cuppa joe to you this morning!

Linda

A Very Happy Birthday Wish To Lars !!! size=>color>size>color>color>color>color>color>Cathy

Hey Lars: I haven't been in here much lately but I saw you Birthday Post.

You can't have all these lovely's to yourself!!!
But then, it's not my Birthday.

I brought Kermit and his Little Brothers to sing.
Ready Kermit,?

OK LOU , Here we go !

Happy BIRRRRTHDAYYY!!! to YOUUU!!! Happy BIRTHDAYYY to YOUUUUUUUUUUuu~~~~~~~~~~~~
HAPPY BIRRRTHDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaa
Deaaarrrrrrrrrrrrr LLLAAAAAAAARRRRRRSSSSSSSS

Happy BIRTHDAYYYYYYYYYYYY !!! to youuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!

DOO WOPA DOOO OOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RAY ! WHOOOOO !!CHEAR! CHEAR ! CLAP! CLAP! HOOT! HOOT!!! BOOM ! BOOM !!!WOOOHIEEEEEEEEEE !!!!! YAE
DOOO WOPA DOO ! Haaaappyyyyy Birrrrrthdaaaaaaaaaay tooooooo youuuuuu

Tweeeeeeeeetttt!!!!! YAHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

LOU

Wuuuuuooooeeeeeee!!!

Happy Birthday, Lars!

Here is a link that might be useful:

Lars - I hope it's the best one ever!

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To one of the coolest, nicest guys I know:

Happy, Happy Birthday! Have a wonderful year!

Sue (AKA Mountain Esther :-)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LARS!

Hope you have a fantastic celebration all weekend long!

Happy BD to DD, Monique!

Happy Birthday, Lars!

I can't wait to hear about the first thing you made on your new stove.

Have the best day ever!

Lars, wishing you all the best on your birthday. i sure hope you and Kevin have something fun planned. Celebrate in style my friend.

Ann

Thanks for all the wishes! Monique, I have a lot of friends who have birthdays clustered around mine - we seem to have a lot in common.

This is turning out to be one of my best birthdays - partly because of the stove shopping. I like shopping for large appliances. I don't think I will get delivery for a couple of weeks, however.

I can't decide where to go out to eat, but I think we might have lunch at Natalie Thai Restaurant in Culver City, and then to Best Buy in CC for stove shopping - or maybe to Surfa's in CC. Culver City is great for shopping, and there is a large barbecue supply shop there as well.

I'll check back later and give details. I'm not sure I want to go out for dinner - I might go to Santa Monica Seafood Market and buy something extravagant to make at home instead.

I got lots of nice cards this year, and I'll need to call my parents, since today is also their anniversary. I think this will be a great year for me - partly because my work is going very well now (finally)!

Thanks again for all your thoughts! They are very much appreciated. BTW, DB will NOT be making dinner (or anything else)! He's buying the stove, and so that more than makes up for it. A stove might seem like a weird present, but it's what I want most. If it gets too confusing shopping, I might come back for help with that.

Lars

I'd like to wish you a very special Happy Birthday Lars!

Oh goodie! I love birthdays and I'm not late for your, Lars.

You are the very nicest person and you deserve to be feted! Enjoy every minute of this birthday. Can't wait to see what stove you choose and your dinner pix.

Bubbe (who can't sing worth a d@mn, so I'm humming Happy Birthday)

Happy Birthday to you, Lars! I hope it's a good one!

A very happy birthday to you Lars!!!!!

Tracey

Happy Birthday, Lars! A new stove...how cool. Anxious to hear all about it. Have a wonderful time on your special day.

/tricia

Happiest of birthdays to you, Lars! I hope your day has been filled with shopping for large appliances and good things to eat!
DONNA

Happy Birthday Lars! Enjoy! -maria

Thanks again! Yes, it was a wonderful birthday - one of the best ever because I did get a stove. I think I'll start a new thread for that, just to continue my self-indulgence a bit!

It's also extremely heartwarming to receive all the good messages and thoughts from people here. The more of you I meet in person, the happier I become, and so things have been going really great, considering that I got to meet Annie this month - something I'd wanted to do for a very long time! Now I just have to figure out how to meet more of you!

Thanks so much for the best birthday wishes and for helping make this the best birthday ever!!

Lars

What a treat for a cooking aficionado to get a new stove on his birthday -- congratulations and I wish you many happy returns of the day!

Here's your Happy Birthday thread! Happy Birthday my friend. It sounds as if you had a very productive day shopping for your new stove. Looking forward to pics!

A very happy birthday to you Lars! I just made hummus this morning with your recipe (of course) and thought of you with a smile! Enjoy the great gift from DB.

Here's a late and very ordinary, but sincere birthday wish. Stove shopping is lots of fun. Janet

Thanks, Petaloid, for the call last night!

As it turns out, the price for the stove I got actually went up after I bought it! I guess my timing was right on. Stove shopping was fun, but I was surprised at how little the sales staff knew. I asked them how hot the oven would get, and no one knew. There was no knob, and the dial was not plugged in and therefore unreadable.

As for my hummus recipe, thanks for letting me know that you used it! One of the main differences in my recipe is that I omit cumin. I find cumin overpowers the other flavors, and I like it better without. I didn't realize that most hummus recipes had it when I first made it. When I did that, I knew what ingredients I wanted, but I didn't know what proportions, and so I just adjusted it until I liked it. I didn't start with an existing recipe, which is why I didn't know about the cumin.

Lars

Oh my, so sorry I missed this! Lars, I hope you had an awesome birthday! Tomorrow, when the boys are awake and in good moods, I'll see if I can whip up a little video for you.

Happy Belated Birthday wishes , Lars.
Diane

Happy Birthday Lars -- I completely understand the excitement a new stove would generate -- Best wishes for a wonderful year ahead!

I'm sorry I've fallen so far behind too.
I hope your birthday was as wonderful as you are.

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Sol

Dontcha just hate it when you think you posted a Happy Birthday message and then it's not there?

Lars, please accept my apologies for being late to your party!

Hope it was a happy happy day for you.

I hope you are still celebrating!!

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Hope you are enjoying that cool new stove! Have a great Birthday!

Alexa

A very Happy Birthday to you Lars!

Happy B'day, Saturday Lars - did that new stove arrive today???

I'm definitely still celebrating, so no problem with being late to the party - it's still going on today!!

The stove is scheduled to arrive today between 2:45 and 4:45 PM Pacific Time, and so it's not due for another hour and a half at the very earliest. I cleared a path, and now all I have to do is finish cleaning the rest of the kitchen, which is not essential, but will be nice. We got most of the path cleared yesterday, but there really wasn't a whole lot we had to do. Everything I moved today is easily portable - a couple of things are on casters, and so they roll in and out of place. It might be too dark by the stove is in place to take pictures today, but I can always use a flash.

I think winter is over, however, as it is supposed to be 75° by tomorrow, but it will still be cool enough here for me to do some serious baking! Actually, it's usually not hot in the summer either - and anyway I have A/C.

I'm still excited about the stove!

Lars

How did I miss this thread?

Now I understand about the stove! How very thoughtful of your brother. I don't think it's a strange gift at all.

So belated birthday wishes. In fact, let's make it official that it's Lars Birthweek Celebration since the prsent arrives today. :)

I'm way late to the party too...

Happy Birthday Lars! I think a new stove is a great BD present and it's very cool of your DB to get you one.

David

I was wondering how you missed it too! No problem arriving late - in fact the stove just arrived 10 minutes ago. And of course there were issues, we got them resolved. First of all, the cord would not reach the outlet, and I just happened to have found the perfect 3-prong extension cord yesterday when I was moving things out of the way. There's more, but I think I'll post a picture on the gallery and discuss it there. I haven't looked at the picture yet, and so I might have to take another one.

Thanks for the belated thoughts, especially from the fellow Pisces! As for the present - I think it's one of the nicest things I've ever received. I can't think of anything that could have made me happier, and all I can say is that I'm just thrilled! I'm going to read the manual before I do anything, however, and I need a bit of rest after moving so much furniture around.

Lars