Birthday Stuff
Tomorrow is my birthday. In honor of such, I bought myself a much-needed birthday present: 7 new DVDs of BTB episodes.
No, I don’t have a BTB fettish…but Button does. And we only have two. And we’ve been watching the same two over and over and over and I’ve got them both memorized and as much as I prefer BTB to some of the other wackos that people let their kids watch, if I have to see those same episodes any more my head is going to explode.
It’s tradition in my family to take the birthday girl/boy out for dinner at a restaurant of his/her choosing. My parents asked me where I wanted to go and I said something like, “I really want crab. I’d say Red Lobster, but I know Iris doesn’t like seafood and I don’t think they have much there besides seafood.”
Their immediate response was, “That’s irrelevant, it’s your birthday so if you want to pick Red Lobster, then pick Red Lobster.” I said, “Ok. I want to go to Red Lobster.”
Ever since that conversation, they’ve been trying to talk me out of going to Red Lobster. They’ve offered lots of other more expensive places, and my answer has always been the same: That’s fine if you guys really want to go there. But if it’s up to me, I’d rather go to Red Lobster.
They called me the other day and said, “You HAVE to give us SOME ideas for what you want for your birthday!” I can’t think of much this year in the way of gift ideas, but eventually I did come up with one idea.
The next day my mom tried to talk me out of it. “Are you sure you want that? What if they wrap you up too tight?”
What if they…huh???
Next time I should just send out invitations:
Please come to my Birthday Dinner, at __________________.
Gift ideas: _____________, ________________, and __________________.
Please fill in appropriate fields with what you were hoping I would say, because I probably wouldn’t get it right anyway.
February 26th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Do we have the same parents???
February 27th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
first of all, happy birthday! I hope you DO get to go to Red Lobster w/o having to hear any more other suggestions. The wrap thing is interesting.. if you do it I hope you blog about how it went and what your results are. I wonder how it works.
February 27th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
oh. my. heck. that sounds just like my family. I always want mexican, because it’s my favorite. However, I don’t usually get that because everyone wants something else.
Just throw a bit tantrum, it worked when I was younger…..wait it still works.
February 27th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Happy Birthday!! All spa treatments are lovely. As is getting what YOU want to eat on your birthday. Hope Red Lobster wins out.
March 7th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Okay, I don’t know how I missed this one but I sure am glad I decided to go browsing through your archives. Better late than never, eh? Sorry for being a (late) moron. I hope your birthday was “suweet”! Can’t wait to hear about your wraps (I’ve never had one!).
Cheers!