Celebrate good times, come on!
April 14, 2008 – 10:25 pmSomewhere along the way, just like it does every year, my birthday snuck up on me and I am trying to figure out what I want to do for it and what I would like to receive as a gift. I am so bad about this, because as much as I blog (about myself) I don’t like to do stuff for myself. I have gotten very accustomed to more simplistic things because I just can’t afford what I want. I actually have talked myself out of buying many things by telling myself "I don’t love myself enough to spend that."
Last year, I wanted to keep my birthday fairly lowkey because we had the impending wedding and I felt it was a lot to ask for my friends to celebrate me in a big way two times (or three or four or five if you count bachelorette parties and bridal showers). So we planned a nice dinner at P.F. Chang’s. I designed and mailed out beautiful invitations to a small group of friends and waited to hear back And though we did get a decent RSVP response (after some reminding), there were a handful of friends who last minute cancelled. True, they all made it to the wedding (and stayed) but when you are sitting at the table, wondering where the hell someone is, it kind of stings when you get the "oops!" text message.
The previous year, I had made some suggestions to my best friend Kate of things that would be fun to do and she totally ran with it and coordinated this incredible two night birthday party, complete with surprise guests! Looking back now, this is a bit depressing that Kate can get more people to come to my birthday party than I can myself, but I know there are schedules and other lives etc. that come into play, so I am not pressing any hard feelings over it.
So here I sit, my birthday 9 days away and I cannot tell you what sounds like fun. I want to go out and do something. I want to have fun and be celebrated. I don’t have a place big enough for more than maybe two or three friends here at our apartment, so no house party, at least, not at the Frey homestead.
Feeling a bit hopeless now. Got any ideas for what would be fun to do for a birthday party? I am really not feeling a party of just bar jumping or dance clubbing (but am keeping it open as a late night option, since my classmate Toni is turning 21 that Saturday and after hitting Darcelle’s, who knows where that party will be heading and it could be fun). We bowled a couple of years ago and my wrist is still weak from a minor fracture back in November. Ideally, I’d like to do something that a lot of people would be interested in at least stopping by for to say hello, something that wouldn’t be horribly crowded, or smoky, but with the option to dance and talk and have a great time.
I thought this got easier as you got older.
