birthday wish list
Birthmeh
For most of my life I have gotten really excited about my birthday. I would sometimes have expectations that were too big to fill but for the most part I’ve always had a great time. As I got older, I started to feel that it was decidedly uncool to love your birthday like a child, so I learned to hide my excitement. I’m sure I didn’t do a very good job. My late 20′s have changed that. I’ve stopped caring about doing anything special and it felt like just another day, but at least another day with guaranteed chocolate cake. I still don’t hate or fear my birthday. I think I’ve done a pretty good job of dealing with aging. Maybe it’s because I look a lot younger than I am – something that used to bother me when I was younger but of course now is something I treasure. Maybe it’s also partially because of my child-like behaviour… Either way, I’m not sweating birthdays… yet.
I remember when I was a teenager I’d prepare the birthday wish list no less than 1 month in advance. Having a mid November birthday meant that all unfulfilled birthday wishlist items automatically became the Christmas wishlist. It was just efficient, I thought! Then I got to that point where I could buy myself whatever I wanted, and all the things I really wanted were way too expensive to ask of anyone. This never stops my mom for asking me what I want. It’s an interesting thing. As a kid I’d ask my mom what she wanted for mother’s day, birthday and Christmas and I’d rarely get a real answer. Every couple of years she would run down her old slippers or run out of perfume and those were easy… but other than that she mostly wanted nothing. How frustrating! Surely there’s something you’d want! Well, now I find myself in that position.
Last year when I turned 30 she bought me and Baron a return flight to NYC as our combined birthday gifts. It was perfect. I’d always wanted to go, flying is very convenient and this way I could force Baron to come with me. I loved it. I decided at that point that every birthday in my 30′s will yield a trip. Lavish, indulgent and maybe a bit much but that’s what is happening… Though I can save up and take these little weekend trips myself, and I could never ask someone to buy me that… so it doesn’t quite solve the problem of what my mother wants to give me.
Since I am taking myself to Chicago (my kinda town), I started to think of things I would want.
So far I have come up with this:
A chocolate covered caramel apple.
Birthday Yum
Failing that, I will gladly take an edible arrangement:
More Birthday Yums
There are a few other things I want like a cusinart food processor, a better blender and perhaps slight more fun, cooking classes. Those things can still get pretty pricey.
So apparently I want either: fruit dipped in chocolate, or things that will allow me to cook. Hrm. Can we say one-track-mind? I wouldn’t mind getting a wacom tablet, but it’s not a necessity. When I was younger it was so easy to make a list of things I wanted… now even the things I want seem slightly silly. Perhaps I’ve actually succeeded in becoming less materialistic. I’m totally fine to not buy things, to wait it out or at least save up for it.
All I really want on my birthday is this: to spend time with people I love and to have chocolate. Taking a trip to somewhere is really just the chocolate on the fruit. 
Age is just a number… that signifies how long you’ve been alive.
my 27th Bday.
In less than 1 month, I will be turning 28. I’m generally ok with this as there is no significance to that number. It’s not a milestone birthday, I’ll still be waddling vauguely around my late-twenties. Even though it is slowly encroaching on the big 3-0, I’m ok with it. It could have something to do with the fact that for the most part, my mental age is 8.
Here is a list about the ways in which I am essentially a child.
1) My love of Apple Juice.
I am not sure what it is about apple juice that makes it the de-facto juice choice of children, but it seems it is. Adults probably choose more sophisticated flavours like cranberry or orange… but not me. Apple Juice all the way.
2) My desire to wear my Halloween costume every day
Upon putting on this years Halloween costume, I realized this reflects my personality way more… I want to wear it every day, damnit!
3) My stature.
I wonder if I was a tall person, one who didn’t look like a child, if I would then be less child-like at heart.
4) The fact that one of my favourite shows is Pocoyo
Ellie, Lula, Pocoyo & Pato!
It’s no secret that I love cartoons (ahem, I AM one), but the fact that one of my favourite shows just happens to air on treehouse, the channel for pre-schoolers, might indicate my child like mind? Maybe? I don’t know, don’t knock Pocoyo until you’ve seen it. The animation is ACE. And Stephen Fry narrates it.
5) My leisure-time activities include colouring and playing with play-doh (clay)
I actually haven’t coloured in years, but I do play with clay quite frequently – the goal is to make things as small as possible. Mmm. Reducto understands.
Well, there’s a succinct list. To top off this post, I’m going to attempt to create a birthday wishlist. Baron and his mom have asked me what I’d want for my bday (and then xmas) and I have no idea! Other than the things that I’ve tagged with the “birthday” tag… So here’s a handy list, mostly for them (unless you want to buy me crap too, but really… save your money).
I burned the rope and saved you all.
Megashaun sent around this wonderful flash game and I can’t stop playing it. So I share it with you. It’s pretty awesome, so I think you should click on this picture bellow and play it.
You have to Burn the Rope
My first shift at the Cupcake place went well. Got the basics down and next weekend will be the hard part, but I’m looking forward to it. I also had a lovely evening at Plenty Space’s place. We watched a movie called “The Room“. There are many words I could use to describe this film, but It’s too traumatic to think about it for more than 15 seconds at a time, so I won’t. You can, however, click the link and learn about it yourself.
Heavy Metal Fun Time Activity book (more product love.)
I’m pretty sure that I should be gifted this:
Heavy Metal Fun Time Activity Book
I am a bit of a fan of metal – not a huge fan… perhaps the camp and hilarity of metal appeals to me more (as I do love me some Metalocalypse). I do have a metal playlist on my iPod however – it’s decent. Regardless, this book is full of fun activities like colouring in Rob Halford & a 83 AND 93 version of Metallica, making anagrams from the words “White Zombie”, a satanic sudoku, and much, much more.
My birthday is coming up, (wink) and I’m pretty sure I can picture myself throwing on that metal playlist and busting out the (blacker than the blackest black times infinity) crayons on a sunday afternoon.
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