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Birthdays, Groceries, INXS
Mar. 10th, 2002 01:58 pmFirst off, thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday, either in their own journal posts or in follow-ups to mine. I appreciate it.
What is it with birthdays, anyway? We--well, okay, I'll be honest here, I can only speak from my own experience, so...I get upset if people don't wish me a happy birthday. Why is that? Hmm. Well, I suppose that it's because a birthday is one of the more private of the public things about a person; you typically have to know a person really well to know when their birthday is. (Unless they link it to their ICQ, or their livejournal, or what-have-you--but even so, you still have to bother to look it up.)
I guess that it makes me feel like these people think I'm important enough to bother to look it up and then to remember to let me know about it at the right time--even if, let's be honest here, the LiveJournal told them, or the ICQ told them, or their organizer told them...or, for that matter, I told them. My ego being what it is, I can use all of that I can get.
Every year, I sort of hope that the group of people I hang around with on-line most of the time will remember that it's my birthday without me telling them, and wish me a happy birthday on the stroke of midnight. Maybe someday...
As for today, I'll be heading over to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
blacknumber01's place for dinner, movies, and birthday cake. Joe says he's making me one. Isn't that nice of him? I need to figure out what DVDs to take along. I'll be bringing some bread machine bread that's due out in about an hour, and the fixings for spaghetti. And some other stuff that I picked up at the Oriental grocery store a bit ago.
Oriental grocery stores are neat. I wanted to get some more Sriracha sauce, as I had run out of it, so I checked the phone book to see if there were any nearby. As it happened, there was one quite close (Binh Tay restaurant and grocery on North Boonville, just south of Hamby's, for those of you also in Springfield)--and a quick phone call confirmed that they were indeed open, and they did have the sauce. So I high-tailed it up there, bought the sauce, some bowl-ramen, pocky (yay pocky!), some canned beverages I'll surprise Joe with, and some kim chee. I love kim chee; it's delicious stuff, and makes me glad I can't smell. Now I'll be able to make fried spam and kim chee sandwiches; that's gonna be some gooood eating.
(More on Oriental groceries, plus my current music, after the cut.) ( Read more... )
What is it with birthdays, anyway? We--well, okay, I'll be honest here, I can only speak from my own experience, so...I get upset if people don't wish me a happy birthday. Why is that? Hmm. Well, I suppose that it's because a birthday is one of the more private of the public things about a person; you typically have to know a person really well to know when their birthday is. (Unless they link it to their ICQ, or their livejournal, or what-have-you--but even so, you still have to bother to look it up.)
I guess that it makes me feel like these people think I'm important enough to bother to look it up and then to remember to let me know about it at the right time--even if, let's be honest here, the LiveJournal told them, or the ICQ told them, or their organizer told them...or, for that matter, I told them. My ego being what it is, I can use all of that I can get.
Every year, I sort of hope that the group of people I hang around with on-line most of the time will remember that it's my birthday without me telling them, and wish me a happy birthday on the stroke of midnight. Maybe someday...
As for today, I'll be heading over to
blacknumber01's place for dinner, movies, and birthday cake. Joe says he's making me one. Isn't that nice of him? I need to figure out what DVDs to take along. I'll be bringing some bread machine bread that's due out in about an hour, and the fixings for spaghetti. And some other stuff that I picked up at the Oriental grocery store a bit ago.Oriental grocery stores are neat. I wanted to get some more Sriracha sauce, as I had run out of it, so I checked the phone book to see if there were any nearby. As it happened, there was one quite close (Binh Tay restaurant and grocery on North Boonville, just south of Hamby's, for those of you also in Springfield)--and a quick phone call confirmed that they were indeed open, and they did have the sauce. So I high-tailed it up there, bought the sauce, some bowl-ramen, pocky (yay pocky!), some canned beverages I'll surprise Joe with, and some kim chee. I love kim chee; it's delicious stuff, and makes me glad I can't smell. Now I'll be able to make fried spam and kim chee sandwiches; that's gonna be some gooood eating.
(More on Oriental groceries, plus my current music, after the cut.) ( Read more... )