Tommorow is my 28th birthday. I know you probably won't believe me when I say this, but I honestly kept forgetting that my birthday was on deck until two days or so, and even then I haven't given it a whole lot of thought.
I told the Modern Love Machine that I really wasn't feeling my birthday, and he said that was sad. Except that I've never been one to care a whole lot about my birthday.** I tried making a big to-do about it last year, figuring it had been an up-and-down year and I need to celebrate myself, but it just felt weird and awkward to me when it was all said and done.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the cards and Facebook messages. It's nice to be thought of, but I don't want anyone to go out of their way for a day that I really had nothing to do with. Credit the Modern Parents with that one. I didn't even decide to be born -- the docs had to C-section me out.
The MLM offered to cook me a really nice dinner or take me out to wherever I wanted. After a few days of forgetting to think about it, I eventually decided I just wanted pizza -- crispy thin crust pizza like the type that my favorite pizza place of all time serves. And strawberry cake from my favorite bakery.
This year I seem to care less than ever. When the Modern Mom asked me what I wanted for my birthday, I struggled to come up with something. I almost always have ideas for what to ask my parents for. I guess all I really want is for my house to be fully furnished and decorated in a way that I like, all the yet-unpacked boxes of stuff gone, the yard weed-eated and landscaped, the MLM and I to agree on paint colors and more time to enjoy it all.
And world peace.
Seriously on the world peace bit, though.
**The lone exception being my 21st birthday, naturally. Currer Bell and I had a party of epic proportions that still gets mentioned from time to time, thanks to Noodles and Modern Angie. We're talking all-day, moonwalk, drunkenly created homemade slip'n'slide epic.
Dude -- that party rocked. Happy birthday eve
ReplyDeleteWow, I wish I'd been there for your 21st birthday. :)
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a happy one! Low-key, but still happy.
For some reason I always remember that your birthday falls on Bastille Day. Isn't that weird?
ReplyDeleteHappy early birthday girl. I know you're not feeling it but I hope you guys go do something fun. Celebrate you coming out of the womb!
ReplyDeleteMy advice: Save up your b-day festivities for your 30th. Because 30 is the new 21...or that's how I plan to celebrate it! Happy B-day :)
ReplyDeleteI have to try to make a big, happy deal out of my birthday because it's either Be Happy! about it or have A Full-On Meltdown Of Epic Proportions at the thought of getting older. *sigh*
ReplyDeleteI usually end up spending time with friends and family (2 separate parties = more celebration of ME!), which almost always turns out to be exactly what I wanted.
I do know how the drunken homemade slip'n'slide goes.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday!