Birthdays
Joel
care about their own birthdays? As in, you actually enjoy them or feel like
it's a special day or something?
-Joel
Ely
Joel wrote:
No, not since I was a kid. And I don't much care for Christmas either, except
for the time off.
Angel
"Joel" <mole...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Not much. But it's a brilliant excuse to get drunk. :) And I must admit I do
feel good when my family and even my in laws (they don't have to now) and my
close friends make a big deal out of it. It does put a smile on my face. I
feel pampered. Also it makes me feel awful cos I'm really bad at sending
cards/presents on time. Everyone just seems good at it.
When they ask me what presents I'd like, I can never come out with anything
and when it's too late I think "Oh I should have said this or that....cos I
need it ...etc." But for Christmas I know what I want. And I want everyone
to buy me Dune by Christian Dior. I spend way too much money on it. I have
been trying different perfumes for at least last 10 years now and Dune is
definitely my favourite. Then Boudoir by VW. I used to love Poison but then
grew out of it.......like Cool Water too but Dune is definitely the one.
Actually my husband bought me one called Sun Moon Stars few years back and
that would be my favourite too but I can't find it anywhere.
Angel
naturallyweird
> Ok, this may seem like a bizarre question, but does
anyone in here really
> care about their own birthdays? As in, you actually
enjoy them or feel like
> it's a special day or something?
>
Birthdays aren't a happy experience for me. It has
been over 15 years since I celebrated one in any sort
of party atmosphere. Usually, it's just a reminder
that I have no friends or loved ones (my family goes
through the motions and gets me a cake). Lately,
birthdays also have been reminding me that my
professional life is not where I want it to be.
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not any more
Ed
EZE
>care about their own birthdays? As in, you actually enjoy them or feel like
>it's a special day or something?
Absolutely.
But, then again, everybody at my school gets excited over each other's and
their own birthdays. I even remember one girl who was celebrating her HALF
birthday.
...Nice people. Wish I could get to know them better.
Eric
kitz.the.plate.spinner
I do, I do! Since my daughter was born I look forward to it a lot more.
What I enjoy even more though is my cancer remission anniversary. We have a
big party that day every year, my family and I. We don't have parties on my
birthday, though, because I don't want them. It's embarrassing.
- k i t z -
"So I see this face so innocent and fine...
So I see this face and I realize it's... mine." - KoRn
http://spinning_plates.tripod.com
Atptour16
Joel
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> well its a year closer to death so yeah its good for me
I feel where you're comin' from man... I really do.
Miz Positivity
>Ok, this may seem like a bizarre question, but does anyone in here really
>care about their own birthdays? As in, you actually enjoy them or feel like
>it's a special day or something?
I've never felt as if it was a special day. Well, maybe as a very young child it
was, after all, kids love getting gifts... :) But already then I didn't like all
the fuss over it (people coming over, the need to entertain and feed them and so
on :). Now it's just another day, no more or no less than the rest of my days,
except that it allows me to call myself a year older (I suppose I should be glad
I'm still young enough not to hate it :).
Haven't even had anything resembling a birthday party in *years* (well, not that
I'd have many people to invite to it if I did have one :), usually we just go
over to my aunt's and have a little family dinner there (spares us the trouble
of having to cook and clean ;).
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Wayne P. Muckleroy
when they come around. This past year, my daughter came up to me and said,
"Dad, we have to do something special today...it being your birthday and
all." It made me feel special and it also let me know that Annie is thinking
about me.
I don't know if it's the day so much as that there are people out there
thinking about you that make me feel warm. Then again, it might be the
Scotch I buy every birthday that makes me warm! :-)
Wayne-
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Ollie B
Nope. It's only going to be a let-down if I expect it to be anything
special, so why get my hopes up? It's not like anybody gives me presents
any more.
Ollie
Ely
Ollie B wrote:
I don't really like getting presents that much, at least ones that people felt
they had to get just as part of a ritual. I don't like having to get them for
other people under those conditions either. I can never find the right thing
at the right time, and it doesn't seem to make sense. What makes sense is
getting somebody something because you happen to find something they'd
actually like.
Elston Gunn
No, I hate my birthday and would rather not be reminded of it when it
comes around. It forces me to realize how unsatisfied I am with my
own life and how little progress I've made in improving it or doing
anything with it. At least during normal days I can just focus on
work or school or whathaveyou, but on birthdays and holidays I can't
help but think about it.
Elston
Saladin
On 20 Nov 2001, Elston Gunn wrote:
> No, I hate my birthday and would rather not be reminded of it when it
> comes around. It forces me to realize how unsatisfied I am with my
> own life and how little progress I've made in improving it or doing
> anything with it. At least during normal days I can just focus on
> work or school or whathaveyou, but on birthdays and holidays I can't
> help but think about it.
Yeah, this describes me to a T as well. Except that I also intensely
dislike ceremonies and other "occasions," especially ones that are held in
my honour.
Joel
birthday! Woo!
--Joel (Who turned 19 today)
Laura
Nope, don't like the attention. I tolerate it on behalf of my kids,
though, which nets me some pretty cool gifts. My little brother's
birthday is the day after mine, which allows me to deflect attention
pretty easily.
lm
Ollie B
Muckleroy) wrote:
> I don't know if it's the day so much as that there are people out there
> thinking about you that make me feel warm.
Well, there's something to learn from this in that *other* people do seem
to appreciate it if you remember their birthday, not necessarily to the
point of getting them anything but just mentioning "happy birthday" to
someone when you've got no particular reason to have remembered it seems
to get you brownie points with them.
Birthday-rememberin' Ox
yakima
anon-...@anon.twwells.com (Saladin) wrote:
>Yeah, this describes me to a T as well. Except that I also intensely
>dislike ceremonies and other "occasions," especially ones that are held in
>my honour.
It was my brother's birthday today, and he was in town, so my family all
went out to dinner. I got him a funny card and some books and a CD that
I thought he might like (based on a pretty drawn-out analysis of the
things I know he likes). It seemed to go over well.
It occurred to me, even before I read this thread, that I enjoy other
people's birthdays more than my own. It's not so much the attention
from those in my "inner circle" that I mind so much as acquaintances
from work, people at restaurants, etc. making a fuss out of it. Not
only that, but I _like_ the challenge of picking out gifts and cards for
other people. Maybe I should start giving presents out on my birthday.
:P
I _really_ hate graduation ceremonies, and finally got to skip it when I
finished law school. With my luck, if I ever have kids, they'll _love_
graduation ceremonies and will get numerous degrees. Sigh.
-yakima
Trance909
>finished law school. With my luck, if I ever have kids, they'll _love_
>graduation ceremonies and will get numerous degrees. Sigh.
I didn't even go to my own graduation, high school *or* college. Do I regret
that? Hell no. My parents wanted me to, but they didn't exactly push me that
hard to do it. I didn't (and still don't) care about the stupid cap and gown
and walking across a stage and shaking hands with the principal or university
president. I have no use for such things. I also have a thing against wearing
hot clothes like a cap and gown......it's too hot here for that kind of thing.
naturallyweird
I skipped my college graduation. I hated that place and had no
friends there (basically, the people weren't good enough for me). The
ceremony was probably going to be too hot and long, also.
EZE
...And I bet people were wondering what I was talking about when I said "'I'm
better than you' that" (as seen on Gra Gra's .sig sometimes)...
Eric
gra...@webwombat.remove.com.au
Oh, we've seen it all before :-)
>
>Eric
"you're" this, that's "immoral," "1woman" this, "women" that, "small torso" this, "bigger jaw"
that, "INFP" this, "LMNOP" that, "lower class" this, "prenup" that, "I'm better than you" this, and so on.
Ox in a Box
wrote:
> I skipped my college graduation. I hated that place and had no
> friends there (basically, the people weren't good enough for me).
Wow. You must be a hell of a guy if there wasn't one single person at
college who could live up to your exacting standards.
Or maybe you're just an insufferable snob.
Sufferable Ox
Trance909
>friends there (basically, the people weren't good enough for me). The
>ceremony was probably going to be too hot and long, also.
I don't know about the people but I skipped out because it was going to be too
hot and too long. You'd have to be a fool to sit outside in Miami in May for 5
hours, wearing a cap and gown.
Saladin
I skipped mine too. What's the point of going, unless you've got friends
there?
flustel
>In article <9tdstv$1mim$1...@server.twwells.com>,
> anon-...@anon.twwells.com (Saladin) wrote:
>
>>Yeah, this describes me to a T as well. Except that I also intensely
>>dislike ceremonies and other "occasions," especially ones that are held in
>>my honour.
I dislike anything held in my honour that I don't think I deserve. My
birthday falls squarely under this - I lived another year, so what,
big deal. Celebrating it seems kind of dumb. And besides, I always
cry on my birthday.
>I _really_ hate graduation ceremonies, and finally got to skip it when I
>finished law school. With my luck, if I ever have kids, they'll _love_
>graduation ceremonies and will get numerous degrees. Sigh.
I graduated earlier this year, and without a doubt, that was the
single best day of my life so far. I walked across that stage in my
funny gear, and *really* felt that finally, this was something worth
celebrating. This was also a very social day for me, too, with
friends who'd come back from out of town for the ceremony. And in the
evening, I had a seven-hour conversation with another friend, who'd
missed out on graduating because of a mix-up.
- flustel
yakima
tran...@aol.com (Trance909) wrote:
Yeah. Arizona and California are the same way. Not to mention that
while you're out there sweltering, there is always some blowhard who has
to gratify his own ego by taking 30 minutes to an hour to say something
that could have been summarized in 30 seconds. And then there's the
endless wait while everyone's name is called . . . I went to college and
high school graduation because my parents wanted my grandparents to be
able to "see me graduate" and I hope like hell that _they_ enjoyed it,
because I surely didn't.
-yakima
Trance909
>while you're out there sweltering, there is always some blowhard who has
>to gratify his own ego by taking 30 minutes to an hour to say something
>that could have been summarized in 30 seconds. And then there's the
>endless wait while everyone's name is called . . .
I don't understand graduation ceremonies. Are the organizers of such ceremonies
stupid? How is it that in Florida, California, and Arizona, they actually hold
graduations *outside* in May and June? This was the #1 reason why I didn't want
to go. It could conceivably be uncomfortably warm for a cap and gown here *any*
day of the year, but in May/June, that is squarely within the heat and
humidity. #2 reason, the egotistical blowhard you mentioned with the cliched
speeches I don't want to hear. I'm not *uplifted* by hearing people talk, and I
never will be - talk is cheap and it's usually a bunch of BS anyway. BTW, I
think my college graduation was like 5 hours long; so I heard. Certainly not
the way I'd want to spend a Saturday afternoon.
Standing on the Edge
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I had the same experience with my schools prize day thing.
Ed
Standing on the Edge
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> yakima <yak...@my-deja.com> said:
> >In article <9tdstv$1mim$1...@server.twwells.com>,
> > anon-...@anon.twwells.com (Saladin) wrote:
> >
> >>Yeah, this describes me to a T as well. Except that I also intensely
> >>dislike ceremonies and other "occasions," especially ones that are held
in
> >>my honour.
>
> I dislike anything held in my honour that I don't think I deserve. My
> birthday falls squarely under this - I lived another year, so what,
> big deal. Celebrating it seems kind of dumb. And besides, I always
> cry on my birthday.
ditt oooooooooooooooo
Ed
yakima
tran...@aol.com (Trance909) wrote:
>>Yeah. Arizona and California are the same way. Not to mention that
>>while you're out there sweltering, there is always some blowhard who has
>>to gratify his own ego by taking 30 minutes to an hour to say something
>>that could have been summarized in 30 seconds. And then there's the
>>endless wait while everyone's name is called . . .
>
>I don't understand graduation ceremonies. Are the organizers of such ceremonies
>stupid? How is it that in Florida, California, and Arizona, they actually hold
>graduations *outside* in May and June? This was the #1 reason why I didn't want
>to go. It could conceivably be uncomfortably warm for a cap and gown here *any*
>day of the year, but in May/June, that is squarely within the heat and
>humidity.
I think the stupidity transcends graduation ceremonies. _Everyone_ in
Arizona and California seems to be in denial about the weather when it
comes to determining what clothes are "professional". There is no
goddamn reason in the world to insist that female lawyers wear pantyhose
and closed-toe shoes when it's 110 outside. And it's even worse for
men--I can usually get away with a short-sleeved suit, but they have to
wear long-sleeved shirts and jackets year-round.
>#2 reason, the egotistical blowhard you mentioned with the cliched
>speeches I don't want to hear. I'm not *uplifted* by hearing people talk, and I
>never will be - talk is cheap and it's usually a bunch of BS anyway. BTW, I
>think my college graduation was like 5 hours long; so I heard. Certainly not
>the way I'd want to spend a Saturday afternoon.
Yeah, it's a rare speaker who says something that really sticks with
me--and it's never been a "motivational" or "uplifting" speaker.
-yakima
Ollie B
> I think the stupidity transcends graduation ceremonies. _Everyone_ in
> Arizona and California seems to be in denial about the weather when it
> comes to determining what clothes are "professional". There is no
> goddamn reason in the world to insist that female lawyers wear
> pantyhose and closed-toe shoes when it's 110 outside. And it's even
> worse for men--I can usually get away with a short-sleeved suit, but
> they have to wear long-sleeved shirts and jackets year-round.
Makes a change from my junior school where all the boys *had* to wear
short trousers all year round no matter how cold it was.
Ollie