What's friendship got to do with it!?!?

I have been pondering a few things lately. Birthdays, excess and behaviour.

First things first. Birthdays. I understand why birthday's are important and I believe in celebrating them. I think everyone should have one super-kickass-outta-this-world-birthday. Something over the top and SO special. Like throwing a HUGE party, that's catered with fancy food in a hall, with tons of people, decorations and an ice sculpture of 'The Statue of David" pissing vodka. Okay, I read that an business executive that stole money from the innocent investors did that. I don't think he's a good person, but his wife (I think his wife was the one that planned the party) or the person that ordered that ice sculpture for the party is a freakin' genius! Dude, it pissed vodka! Or, go bungie jumping or do something that you have always wanted to do but never did!

So, remember that birthday that I was supposed to go to last weekend? I felt SUPER guilty for not going. There were some unfortunate curcumstances, however I apologized and offered to make it up to her by going out for drinks with her. She immediately stated "I can't go out during the week!!!" I replied, whenever it is good for you. And she replied, "well, if you actually show up at my sister's birthday, maybe we can have a drink then." Well, excuuuuuuuuuse me! So, she was mad, disappointed... whatever.

And then I realized. Over the last few years, since I first met her, I have attended two of her four "birthday celebrations." Pretty decent, however thinking back I tried to remember if she ever showed up at any of mine. And I couldn't remember, so I went through my pictures, thinking that I would definitely see her in them. Well, I couldn't. And I double checked this... she NEVER showed up at one of my celebrations. So, she's mad at me. Shouldn't I be mad at her? I'm not. So why the tone? Damned if I know. So, the solution. Don't have one, but I thought that I would throw it out there. That and this, "don't dish it out, unless your gonna eat it too!"

So, now I'm onto the discussion about excess. Link's sister's birthday is this week. Hmm, she needs a name... don't have one, will come back to that one later. So, she's having a celebration. Actually, she's having four. Thursday through to Sunday night. I was expected at three of the four. Oh, and my boyfriend is supposed to be at two of the four. Now, I feel that's a bit excessive. And no, it's not one of those "special birthday celebrations" nope, she does it every year. Now, if you want excess, that's fine, knock yourself out, however don't push your excess on me. You want to have four celebrations, fine, but don't be upset when not everyone can go to ALL of them!

Now I have to decide, which one, if any, of the celebrations that I go to. Which ties nicely into my last pondering.

Behaviour. Now, everyone's getting mad at angrygirl regarding birthdays. People I am no longer allowed to talk about, Link, possibly in the soon to be future Link's sister (she still needs a name, dammit!), and I'm sure there are others who just haven't voiced their opinions. All this has caused me to NOT have a celebration this year. It's not my birthday yet, but this is how it's gonna go down!!! If anything, it will be something simple like "sitting on the couch & eating takeout with my dog." Nah, dude that's too complex, sitting on the couch drinking wine alone (cause my dog can't eat people food and that would be just cruel!). Scores!!! But only if someone opens the wine for me... Wait, let's just change that to "assorted cocktails on the couch from existing liquor in my house." Nice!

So, I don't think anyone should get pissed about birthdays. We're not age six anymore, we're adults, with our own lives, that sometimes get busy, double booked or for heaven's sake... held up due to poor weather conditions. So, let's relax on the birthdays! Don't have a cow when people can't make it! And we're old enough, so we don't need to act all "It's my party & I'll cry if I want too!!!" TAKE IT DOWN A NOTCH PEOPLE!!!!

That's all I have to say about that.

Konnichiwa Bitches!!!