2004-01-09

Happy birthday to me!

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Lord god a’mighty. I read 170 books in 2003. 170! That’s, like, .465753424 books a day! I am the reading champeen, I am. If you take into account all the magazines I read, along with the fact that I very rarely read during the day, well, the mind just boggles! I’m a reading fool, is what I am.
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Can you think of anything that sucks more than being let go over the phone? Someone give Jane a job that pays a million dollars a year so she doesn’t have to do any of that pesky and stressful interviewing. And one where she’s required to do nothing but chat online, and make one phone call a week. Maybe two during busy times. Hey. Give me one of those, too, while you’re at it.
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While in Maine, I got to scan a bunch of pictures from my mom’s photo albums, and since today is The Day of My Birth, I’ll share the pictures that are of me. Debbie, too, since she was always horning in on my photo opportunities and looking all cute and everything. Brat.
Not a clue how old we are here. 3 and 1? Surely right around there, anyway. That’s me on the left, Deb on the right. Again, no idea how old I was. Do I look like a happy kid, or what? I’m not sure what’s going on here. If we were looking at the camera I’d say this was a professional portrait, but since we’re looking off to the side and beaming, who knows? Me on the left, Deb on the right. Let’s see. I have braces and I’m pretty sure we were stationed in Guam so I would have been, oh, 7 or 8? Thereabouts? And Deb (on the left) would have been 5 or 6. My 7th or 8th birthday. I’m holding my favorite birthday gift that year, Suzy. Suzy got pregnant later that year and gave birth to my favorite cat ever, Charlie. Then she went to live on a farm. Or so my parents claimed… Didn’t know I was trained in the martial arts, did you? (I took judo lessons for MAYBE a month) Didn’t know I was a cheerleader either, did you? The team we cheered for, the Saints, sucked. I don’t think they ever won a game. That’s Deb on the left, me on the right. Me at the age of 10. I read in one of the many magazines I read even back then that when you wrote to a star, they liked it if you enclosed a picture. Somehow I doubt that this is the kind of picture they were hoping for. I loved that shirt I was wearing, because it had bird names all over it, and somewhere it said “Robin”. I was the shiznit in my home-made t-shirt, yes I was. There goes Debbie, stealing the show with her cute self. Bitch. We popped into a photo booth-type-thing at the movie theater one night and had our picture taken. It was kinda fun, actually.
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Okay, it’s my birthday, so I’m going to slap that up and call it an entry. Don’t forget to leave a comment letting me know how you celebrated! I think I’m going to go crawl back into bed with a book for a few hours. Unless the bathroom (which hasn’t been cleaned in WAY too long) calls too loudly, in which case I might break out the cleaning supplies. Don’t count on it, though. (Bonnie‘s already changed her journal. Hee!) Have a good one, folks! A year ago: Happy, happy birthday to me! Two: Oh… is it my birthday? Why, I had completely forgotten… Three: Happy birthday to me! Four: Incredibly enough, it was my birthday!]]>

96 thoughts on “2004-01-09”

  2. Happy Birthday! I am Bitchypoo for the day! And I may just call Tracy a fugginidiot! So there.
    You are as old as me now!!!
    Seriously, I hope today is a great one and you get everything your little heart desires!

  5. Happy Birthday, Robyn!
    why, you don’t look a day over 19!
    I’m calling The Voice Of Reason “Spud” for the day (no kids yet). He was slightly freaked out this morning, but what’s a guy to do? I’m also thinking about the extra-special “yafuckinidiot” thing, but that wouldn’t be much of a change (tee hee)
    Hope you have a great day!!!! 🙂

  8. Hmmm….I think I shall postpone cleaning the house another week! (Maybe that random act of kindness thing if I decide to get crazy). HAPPY BIRTHDAY Robyn! I loved seeing the pics of you as a kidlet.

  9. I’m going to follow one of the cats around and call her Miz Poo all day long. Happy Birthday!!! I love the photos. Just think you need to know that you don’t have to tell us which one is you and which one as Deb, seeing as how you look exactly the same now as you did as a kid!!!

  10. In honor of your birthday the Olan Mills baby pic is now my computer wallpaper. This has drawn criticism from my two teenage sons who were quick to point out that I have never even used them as wallpaper (I happen to like a plain blue background but today is an exception.) So Happy Birthday Robyn, we here in Houston celebrate you!

  12. happy birthday robyn…love from down under australia
    p/s: i love reading about your cats ( havent i mentioned it before?) the captions crack me up

  13. Kitchen Logic pointed out it was your birthday – so have a delightful birthday and stretch it out over the weekend! I think I will celebrate your birthday by postponing cleaning the house for another week.

  14. Happy Birthday Robyn! I called my cat, Bella, Miz Poo last night but it was completely accidental. She has too many nicknames to know what her real name is anyway.

  15. Happy Birthday Robyn! Here’s hoping yours is better than mine was the other day..I got to spend half of it at a funeral!! It got better though. I’ll be calling the boy “spud” all day in honor of your birthday…I guess I could call the pooch Miss Poo all day too…but she’s had enough confusion this past week with all the house guests we had!
    Have a good one and enjoy yourself!!

  17. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!
    I’m celebrating my birthday two days in a row in honor of you Robyn! Going out to a fancy restaurant owned and operated by chef Vilma from the culinary institute NY. You have a blessed day filled with Family, Friends, Laughter, Love, Kitties, Cake and LOTS and LOTS of Presents! That’s a hint FRED =)

  23. Happy Birthday, Robyn! For your celebration, I’m going to clean our bathroom this morning…I know you don’t usually drink, but I do! So, I will toast your day of birth with a libation or two sometime after 5:00 pm.
    I just re-read your “Meeting Fred” journal post…it’s as romantic as my “Meeting John” story. How fortunate to have found the men of our dreams. God, life is good!
    Happy, happy, happy………….

  25. Happy Birthday Robyn from a fan in Colorado !! I know that when you were sending out your Christmas cards, you were bitching that no one in Colorado loves you. Well, I do, and I will be sure to send you my address this year !!
    Cheers on your special day !
    Ami

  27. Happy Birthday Robyn!
    I know you can’t open it, and I did go off list for this, but I made a donation in your name at Seedlings. (That’s http://www.seedlings.org.) Your name will go in a Braille book that’s donated to a child.
    I’ll also call Bad Cat Miz Poo and seriously fuck with his sexual identity. (Not that I didn’t do that already by getting him neutered.)

  28. Happy Birthday, Robyn!
    I will call my cat, Ms. Poo,(as if she could give a “cat’s ass”)and I will have a Diet Coke
    in your honor. : )

  29. In honor of your birthday today, I am not going to clean my house for at least a week. And Matilda is now Miz Poo, for today.
    Happy Birthday, Robyn!

  30. Happy Birthday Robyn!!!! In honor of your birthday, I am going to spend all day at work, reading online journals. nope – not gonna work hard today! And then I will go home and start reading a new book, a trashy Jackie Collins book!!

  31. So you say it’s your birthday…well it’s not my birthday too! BUT you do share a birthday week with my youngest (turned one on Wed.) my husband (turned 31 on Tuesday), my sister in laws (who the f cares how old she is) and my father in law (New Years Baby!) So enjoy!
    Today I will sit on couch, read trashy mag, drink diet coke and give lots of love to my Tessa Kitty!

  32. Happy B-day Robyn!
    Just wanted you to know that my cat Moe (aka – Tiny) jumped in my lap and was settling down for a snooze, when I reached over to pet him and said “miiiiizzzzzz poooooooooo” and his eyes bulged, the hair on his back stood straight up…tail turned to a bottle brush and he bolted down the hall and under the bed –
    apparantly he doesn’t like that…
    Also, my husband was nosing around in the fridge and looking for the mustard (which was right in front of his face) and like all men, yelled out “Where’s the Mustard?” – to which I responded to “Why don’t you look for it?….yafuckinidiot”
    he closed the fridge door, came over and eyeballed me while feeling my forehead. I whipped out a printed out copy of your journal entry yesterday – and after reading it, he promptly looked at Tiny and gayly purred “Mizzzzz Poooooooooooo” –
    Needless to say, it was an entertaining evening, and my poor Tiny is traumatized…HEH
    thanks Robyn! Have a wonderful and relaxing birthday 🙂

  33. There is no way you’re already 19!!! You don’t look a minute over 18! I’ll celebrate your birthday by opening my amazon box and reading all my books in bed, how’s that? I’d change my blog but it hates me and would probably do something really weird that I couldn’t fix 😉 Have a great B-day!!

  36. Happy, happy birthday, Robyn! I’ll celebrate by drinking copious amounts of Diet Coke and not cleaning my bathroom. Have a lovely day!

  38. Happy Birthday to you !!! I just celebrated with an egg, cheese, and bacon quesadilla. Yummy :}

  39. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Robyn !! I think that since you don’t look a day over 18 you should refer to yourself today as Jailbait-The Birthday Girl !
    In honor of your birthday I’m calling my 2 cats Miz Poo, they don’t really like it.They each get a confused look and then kinda sneak away when they think I’m not looking.Also, I’m not cleaning the house for a whole week (no big change there but I at least have a good excuse now!) The chicklet pics are just adorable! I really hope that you have a great birthday and get pampered by Fred and The Spud.. Come to think of it, I should also call my son who’s 11 Spud today. My nickname has been Tater for 31 of my 32 years. No one, I repeat no one in my family has ever called me by my name unless I was in big trouble.The only
    people who call me Denise is my husbands family. I’m 32 and I am still called Tater and all my cards and everything is addressed like that.
    Ah well, enough about me, you are the birthday girl, so have a Great Day Robyn Happy Birthday !!!
    ~Denise~ Celebrating Jalbaits Birthday in Georgia !

  40. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!! I hope your day is the best. Don’t scrub the bathroom on your birthday, both of ours needs cleaning, but in celebration of your birthday I think I will take the day off. Well if anyone asks why I didn’t do the things that needed to be done, I will tell them, hey it’s Robyn’s birthday, it’s a holiday!

  45. Happy Birthday, Robyn!!! Thank you for sharing the photos. We had a few pets that “went to the farm” too.

  46. Happy Birthday Robyn!
    I’ve been calling my youngest son “Spud” for the day in honor of your birthday. Ethan, whose birthday was yesterday by the way, has started calling the baby Spud too!
    My mom still claims that my dog Bruno went to live on a farm.

  47. First of all, Happy Fucking Birthday! 😛 I hope you have a perfect day. I will try to rename my diary Bitchypoo later today…but I am feeling a little lazy so…

  49. Happy Birtday!! You were a cute kid..very happy! You are still cute! Have a wonderful birthday!!!!!!!!!

  53. HAVE A WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY ROBYN!
    I can’t believe I can honor you by not cleanign my house. Guess what? I apparently worship your being, because I haven’t been cleaning much lately. May you have a relaxing and enjoyable birthday, and a glorious year to come. The pics were soo cute, and I was amazed how very much you looked like yourself even as a little one. (Go figure, you looking like yourself!) And damn, the Spud sure looks like you.
    In honor of you, I plan to lay a “youfuckinidiot” on the SO later, and perhaps slip some MizzzzPoooooo’s on our kitties, though they’re male, and probably will be confused.
    HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Live up those teen years while you still can!!!

  55. Happy Birthday Robyn!!!
    In your honour, I went out today in -37 weather (oh yes, you read that correctly!) and got a back massage!
    I strongly suggest everyone get one to celebrate their, or someone they know’s birthday, or hell, for any reason at all.
    All the best to you in 2004!

  57. I told a couple of people at work that it is “Bitchypoo’s birthday”. One of them asked, “Oh? Did you feed her a special treat?” Happy Birthday! Look at all these comments!

  58. Happy Birthday Robyn!!
    Have a wonderful day, and DO NOT Clean the bathroom. What are ya’ thinking. It’s your birthday. Eat chocolate and read.

  60. Surely you won’t even FIND this email amongst the 58 that were here before mine!
    Anyway, yes I am celebrating the birthday of someone I have never met by:
    Calling my female rabbit AND male dog “Mizz Poo”
    Using cuss words I never use
    Renaming my non-existant website Bitchypoo
    Drinking Diet Coke even though I usually drink Dr. Pepper
    Using a yellow highlighter to right all my notes
    Feeding any stray cats in my neighborhood (and there are tons)
    Finally, I am singing Happy Birthday endlessly.
    Have a great one and thanks for making us all smile on a daily basis!

  61. Happy Birthday, ya brat!
    A cheerleader? Ugh…I cannot be friends with a cheerleader! Say it isn’t so! Hee.

  63. Happy Birthday. I ate a Florida mall-type whoopie pie in honor of your birthday. You know, one of those chocolate cookies with the icing in the middle. NOT as good as a northern whoopie pie.

  67. Happy Birthday! Glad you loved the book. I called Felix “Miz Pooo” and I got the normal dirty look with the flattened ears. But he does that no matter what I call him. God he’s so moody.
    I’m not cleaning house, and I’m launching my new website tonight, so it will have “BitchyPoo” as its name for today (don’t you feel special?). Lol!

  69. Happy Birthday Robyn!! you sure can see alot of the spud in your pics!! Hope you have a great day!

  71. Happy Birthday Robyn!
    In honour of your birthday, I smiled and waved while I was walking outside in Deer Groin, Manitoba at someone who looked exactly like you. At least, through the toque and scarf they looked exactly like you…. Happy Birthday!
    Miche

  73. You have to be one of the most unpopular people online, Robyn. I swear.
    Not!!
    You and Spud look so much alike. Wow. Oh – and Happy, Happy Birthday 🙂

  75. Happiest of birthdays to one of the funniest people on the ‘net. :c)
    I’m calling both of our cats Miz Poo…one is about the same size, and the other one is about the same color…so it works. They’re weirded out, though!
    Have a great day!!!

  78. Happy Birthday! In honor of your birthday I am wearing YELLOW, YELLOW, and YELLOW! All the way down to the undies! 🙂

  79. Happy Birthday to you!!
    In honor of your birthday, I wore Toe-socks, because I thought to myself, “Self(wow, that’s just like Robyn would talk to herself), if you were Robyn, and Robyn had a choice between white ankle socks or red, pink, white and sparkly striped toe-socks, which would get worn?” I actually didn’t know the answer, but because I wanted to wear the stripy, sparkly toe socks, I just pretended that would be your choice, too.

  81. Von I would TOTALLY have chosen the cool stripy sparkly toe socks (although I can’t really stand to have anything between my toes!).
    Michelle – I love it, and I love the name of your site! 🙂

  82. Happy birthday Robyn!! Thanks for sharing these photos with us! I cleaned my bathroom in honour of your birthday, and wore yellow!! (Actually, I was wearing yellow today anyway, but as I sit here I realize it must have been a subconscious move this morning!) Hope you had a great day!!

  83. Hey hey Robyn- Happy B-day! So, I turned 36 on the 28th, met my hubby online and have a online website too- of course, I am not a crazy cat woman, but three outta four ain’t bad.
    Celebrate!

  89. Happy Birthday, Robyn. I think that picture you took with Debbie is just great. I hope you had a wonderful day!

  92. Happy Birthday! I called my cat Miz Poo and he came galloping over to me and jumped on my lap – very strange! My husband was upset since my cat isn’t a girl, so we settled on calling him Fancypants for the rest of the day (Bob is jet black)
    I just cracked up at the bottom of your journal with the titles to the last four years’ entries – too funny!

  94. ROBYN is the cute one!! *SHE* didnt get the big honkin nose like I did:P Happy Birthday Sis! We celebrated by listening to the Portland Pirates swear like sailors;) I KNEW you would appreciate that!

  95. I actually went to the animal shelter yesterday for the purpose of adopting me a kitty and celebrating your birthday, but can you believe there were no kittens and none of the adult cats had any personality at all i left depressed and empty handed. i’ll try again next week

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