Ghost World - SCN
Jun. 21st, 2003 04:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morrigirlI've been dancing around the internet for hours. I think I'm finally feeling ready to write about my birthday. Not that writing about it requires any great amount of "feeling," rather it requires a level of commitment and motivation that I hadn't been able to summon up till now.
With Deepa backing out of dinner because she doesn't like Mexican, and Josh cancellling because he was wigging out over the idea of spending a whole evening with my family, the day didn't get off to a very chipper start. That put me in a bad mood right off the bat. Seems that is becoming a pretty frequent occurrence the older I get, me getting upset on my birthday.
I'm beginnig to realize why people begin to dislike their birthdays as they age. You don't like having people make a big fuss over you. You just want to pass the day quietly and not have anyone get excited because excitement equals plans, and plans equal expectations, and no one wants to have people EXPECTING specific things of them on their birthday.
That little rant out of the way, besides the cancellations, the night turned out quite well. Mom, Mike, Danielle and I ate dinner at Nacho Mama's, my favorite Mexican restaurant here in the city. Mom gave me a thirty dollar gift card to Barnes and Noble, and the Best of Laura Nyro double CD. Mike and Danielle gave me the Let it Bleed reissue and the newest Walter Kirn novel “Up in the Air.” I got an e-card from Heather, a snail mail card from Katie, an e-card AND a 20 dollar B & N gift card from Gayley, and I got twenty bucks from Bonnie and David. The meal was great and we all just talked and looked at the graduation photos and had a grand old time.
On the way home Mom bought me some vanilla fudge ice cream, which we all ate while watching Ghost World because the video store didn’t have Tuck Everlasting. Laura gave me a bouquet of flowers. After Ghost World, which I thoroughly enjoyed by the way, I made everyone sit through the Wild Things video.
And now, I’m here. Since she didn’t have time today Mom is making my birthday cake tomorrow. Deepa will probably come by at some point for a piece. I need to give her the tapes I made her while I was still in Galesburg. Josh says he’ll call me some time next week and we’ll get together and celebrate. I guess that’ll work, after all, his birthday is next Saturday. Gotta get him something. Don’t know what though.
Really sad that he cancelled tonight though. I understand why he did it, but I was just hoping to have a friend at the birthday table. It’s been years since I’ve celebrated my birthday with friends instead of just my family. It would’ve been nice to have both.
With Deepa backing out of dinner because she doesn't like Mexican, and Josh cancellling because he was wigging out over the idea of spending a whole evening with my family, the day didn't get off to a very chipper start. That put me in a bad mood right off the bat. Seems that is becoming a pretty frequent occurrence the older I get, me getting upset on my birthday.
I'm beginnig to realize why people begin to dislike their birthdays as they age. You don't like having people make a big fuss over you. You just want to pass the day quietly and not have anyone get excited because excitement equals plans, and plans equal expectations, and no one wants to have people EXPECTING specific things of them on their birthday.
That little rant out of the way, besides the cancellations, the night turned out quite well. Mom, Mike, Danielle and I ate dinner at Nacho Mama's, my favorite Mexican restaurant here in the city. Mom gave me a thirty dollar gift card to Barnes and Noble, and the Best of Laura Nyro double CD. Mike and Danielle gave me the Let it Bleed reissue and the newest Walter Kirn novel “Up in the Air.” I got an e-card from Heather, a snail mail card from Katie, an e-card AND a 20 dollar B & N gift card from Gayley, and I got twenty bucks from Bonnie and David. The meal was great and we all just talked and looked at the graduation photos and had a grand old time.
On the way home Mom bought me some vanilla fudge ice cream, which we all ate while watching Ghost World because the video store didn’t have Tuck Everlasting. Laura gave me a bouquet of flowers. After Ghost World, which I thoroughly enjoyed by the way, I made everyone sit through the Wild Things video.
And now, I’m here. Since she didn’t have time today Mom is making my birthday cake tomorrow. Deepa will probably come by at some point for a piece. I need to give her the tapes I made her while I was still in Galesburg. Josh says he’ll call me some time next week and we’ll get together and celebrate. I guess that’ll work, after all, his birthday is next Saturday. Gotta get him something. Don’t know what though.
Really sad that he cancelled tonight though. I understand why he did it, but I was just hoping to have a friend at the birthday table. It’s been years since I’ve celebrated my birthday with friends instead of just my family. It would’ve been nice to have both.
