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count your blessings

i forgot to mention the most interesting (read worst, unless this is my mom reading it) part of the whole birthday thing. it was the longest birthday i have ever had (literally and figuratively speaking). seeing as how i started out in reno and ended up in hawaii, i added two whole hours to my birthday. but more to the point, i only slept for two hours the morning we left, and i didn't get to bed until after midnight, so i was awake for over 24 hours of my birthday.

but what made it so much was my mom. now my mom has done some pretty wonderful (read cooky) things before, but never has she brought a cake to the range on wednesday, given a bag of candy, hats, laies (spelling?), odd looking sunglasses, and other assorted items to people on the team to get out during the plane flight, convinced members of the team to have it announced that it was my birthday during the flight, and even remembered to include a button that says happy 21st birthday with a little bear (it oringially said happy 2nd i think, but she added the one) for me to wear around.

she paid off mary (mary of course denies any and all involvement) to handle all of this while she wasn't there. now i should have just enjoyed all of this but i was in a pretty bad mood because i don't like to celebrate my birthday and she just does it to annoy me i think. looking back it was really nice though, i wish i could have spent it with the crew like years prior, but all in all it was a lot of fun.

i had to explain to everybody else why i don't like my birthday, and i don't want to work right now, so i will explain it here, for no one to read. in elementary school we always went to the skating rink on valentines day and near the end they had a couples skate, now of course anyone who knew me in elementary school knew there was only one person i wanted to skate with (jamie might be the only one who is going to read this who witnessed that episode of my life, but that is besides the point) and i never got to skate with her. also they never annouced my birhtday but they always annouced matt theisens (odd how i can't remember anybody elses name, just his). i figure there are other people with the same birthday and so i feel bad that i am now getting recognition and they aren't (i am still working that theory out) but also i can't remember other people's birthdays at all, and i think it is unfair that mine should be so easy to remember, kind of ironic, in that alanis morsette kind of way.

my mom is just sad she didn't have a girl i think, and so valentines day gives her an excuse to act like super mom and get out the pink and purple things (yuck). isn't that annoying when you start off wanting to be pissed off but end of happy that you have people that love you.

now andrew can't be mad at me for not updating my blog

Posted by cmorton at February 18, 2003 04:14 PM