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!]]>