Flowery Words
October 30th, 2009
Joey thanks everybody who remembered her birthday last Thursday, October 22 – and thanks Facebook’s birthday alarm, too, or she wouldn’t have remembered it herself. Old age can take a toll on one’s memory, and Joey never had a good one to start off with.
This year, the first person to greet her at the stroke of 12 was Krishna – and she was also first last year. (Thank you, Krishna!) Rey has been disqualified on the basis of affinity, even if he started greeting Joey every single day for an entire week before her birthday. (Thank you, Rey. Sigh.)
Recently, Joey has grown to love gardening as old people are wont to. She claims to derive so much wisdom from planting seeds, trimming hedges and occasionally screaming at the sight of earthworms (which she is deathly afraid of). From gardening, she has learned that ‘a flower is a plant that rises above the weeds’ and ‘a coffee bean, when planted on a magnet mushroom, will disarm all the zombies’.*
Her birthday gift from Rey is a quiet, lovely lunch at Antonio’s in Tagaytay and new flowering plants for her garden. On her next birthday, Joey hopes he will give her a garden. With fireflies and fire trees, preferably.
Joey’s pretty gardening hat is a gift from Gabie. Behind her is the once-small thumbergia called Crawly, who is now plotting to devour our house.
To Rey, she will always be the little bully in pigtails – and that won’t change in a long, long time.
Rey bought the cake and ate it, too.
* We refuse to believe that the only reason Joey is into plants is so she can protect our home from zombies, which Rey has reportedly seen lurching on Marcos Highway. He was not kidding when he said this.
Entry Filed under: Joey and Rey
Happy belated birthday, Joey! Glad that you had fun on your birthday. And that gardening hat is so cute!
Thank you, Nadia! I miss you! The birthday was fun in a grandmotherly sort of way. And yes, I love my gardening hat; it brings it own sunshine.
Awwww, darling photographs! Happy Belated Birthday!
I wanna be three too!
Thank you, Julie and the gang! Who says you can’t be 3? Certainly not me!
Happy late birthday, pretty Joey! May your flowers bloom and keep all zombies far away!
Thank you very much, dear Janne! Yes, let us hope zombies never trample on my flowers. Maybe I should plant venus fly traps, too?
Happy belated Birthday!! Your cake looks really yummy ^-^
Thank you very much, Claudia!
They cake was yummy; Rey ate lots of it!
Oh no I missed it! Happy Belated Birthday! You look mahvolous in the hat
Oh, thank you, Annie! Because you said so, I will wear it to work tomorrow.
Happy belated birthday, Joey. =3
I’m gonna try that coffee bean trick… The zombies are getting pretty crazy around where I live. *nodnod*
Thank you, Teru! ♥
A well-placed jalapeño should eliminate an entire lane of zombies in an instant.
Jalapeños? Really? o:
I have much to learn, master. *bows*
That cake looks delicious! And that first picture is adorable! hahah
Thank you, Hanna!
A belated Happy Birthday to you Joey!
I wanna have a cute little magnetshroom from you in case you were able to grow a whole bunch on them in your garden (j/k!) (mine’s already populated with them red-eyed doomshrooms O.o””).
Thank you, Jen!
Doomshrooms leave crates that ruin the landscape! I’m going to plant you some gloomshrooms; Reiaiah might like them.
belated happy birthday Ms. Joey
Thank you, Robina!
Once again, happy birthday Joey!
My, my, what a nice garden you have there. I hope for one too, but that’s technically–if not virtually–impossibe to achieve here in the metro for normal city folk. Hey, got Mums and Zinnias? Oh, that would be so wonderful. Freya just loves gardening too, as her tita is a florist.
OMG, good plan Joey!
The zombies will never get to your house so long as you have enough sunflowers and pea-shooters! 
Thanks for the birthday greeting and compliments to the garden, Andy – even if you can hardly see my garden!
Is Freya’s tita a real person or is she a doll concept? (What an odd question.) I don’t have zinnias, only Malaysian mums and some tropical flowers. I’m planning to grow some lilies and maybe some shrooms should the zombies decide to attack at night.
Oh, her Tita Petrushka is a doll concept.
…ohgod. ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE BEGINS ON MARCOS HIGHWAY. XDDDDD
…oh Rey. 8D;
Belated happy bday, Joeyyyy. <3 Though I already greeted you. :3
Uno my neighbor. Hope to see you soon!!!
I’ll try to bring Uno to see you on Thursday, Nix. He misses you, too.
8D Yayyyyyyyyyyyy! <3
Damn! My comment didn’t appear.
Ah well…
Once again, I greet you the happiest happy birthday, Joey! My, what a lovely garden.
I really hope to have one of those someday, but it would be technically–if not virtually–impossible to achieve here in the Metro for normal city folk like me. Freya loves gardening and flowers too, as her tita is a florist.
YES!
Keep up the gardening and the zombies won’t even come close! 
I take you’ve planted just about enough sunflowers and peashooters? (Sorry, just think this might be a real-life version of Plants vs. Zombies! XDXDXDXDXDXD)
Your comment was held by our moderation Hitler, Andy. Our apologies.
Happy Birthday Joey!
Aw, Rey is so sweet
And the 1st pic is so cute and funny XD
Thank you, Kishi. Let’s hope the zombies don’t like sweet meat.
happy birthday po
Salamat po!
On the bright side, at least in the event of a zombie apocalypse you all will be prepared ^^
Happy birthday once again!
Thanks very much, Mina! Gardening against zombies is a crazy idea – it just might work!
How strange, my comment didn’t appear…
Well, if you didn’t get to see it, happy birthday once again, Joey!
I hope you have zinnias over there, and I take you’ve planted enough sunflowers and peashooters?
Joey, belated happy birthday! <3 Did you receive my message in LJ? I lost my phone so I wasn’t able to text you. ;A; Anyway, I hope you had an awesome birthday, you deserve no less.
I think your house is gonna be zombie-free for a long time.
Chin! Eek, I haven’t seen your LJ message. But I’m sure it’s there. Thank you so much. I really hope to see you soon! *hugs*
Oh. Plants VS Zombies? Big fan also, Miss Joey?
GINORMOUS fan, if I may say so myself.
Belated!
Those flowers are pretty!
Nice hat. It really suits you. =)
Thanks very much, Gemma!
A Joey post! So adorable <3 Although I was the first to greet you, I guess I’m probably the last to post a comment. Oh my.
Anyway, you must have such a well-protected house with all those lovely plants you’ve got! XD It must have lots of sunlight and coins, too, since I see lots of flowers there. Must be a Zen garden?
Hey, you are not the last to comment.
Thank you again, Krishna. The fates must’ve sent Ulalume on my birthday so that you don’t ever forget to greet me on time. &heart;
yiiiih! haberday… belated…
XD
let’s hold a plants vs zombies tournament some time… ahaha! kidding..
I ACCEPT YOUR CHALLENGE!
Aw, Joey, I totally missed your birthday! I hope it was as sunny as your photos above. ♥
hmm…what kind of monsters? BeeLAAAAATTTTEEED HAPPEEE BIRFDAY MRS. JOEY!
my favorite character on the Plants Vs. Zombies game is none other than the Michael Jackson zombie..:”