Important Post is Important. (And Quite Embarrassed)
Wow.
People have been sending me v-gifts for my birthday. I never expected this and it's both heart warming and I feel awful about having to say this:
It's not actually my birthday today.
Please allow me to explain:
Way back when I began this journal, I wanted a decisive break between my real life and this journal as I had another journal going, one for my family and friends to read. This was for my fandom life.
Because of this, and some work I was doing at the time I set this journal up with a fake birthday. I'd rather have not put in a birthday at all, but lj wouldn't let me away with that.
So.
Daisee got her own birthday.
I fretted about this for a while, but a very good friend reassured me that I only really need be concerned if Daisee began demanding her own parking space, which seemed reasonable to me.
I also only had about 3 friends on lj at that point, none of whom were the birthday-wishing kind, so it didn't seem to be an issue.
Then I realised my family weren't reading my other lj at all, and word got out to my pre-online friends that I had another journal, and they slowly migrated over here. I still wasn't overly worried about the birthdate, because I was more concerned about them reading the sort of stuff I got up to in fandom...
Recently I upgraded the bio, and put in an explanation about having a real birthday and a fake birthday. I still wasn't worried about it because I forgot two important things:
lj sends out reminders to everyone about upcoming birthdays and because I'm useless at keeping up (as outlined in yesterdays' post) I don't do that sort of thing I've made some astoundingly lovely friends over the last year or so, who do behave in a manner friends often do and actually remember people's birthdays (unlike me).
Aaaaaaaannnnneeeeeewaaaay...
Today is not my real birthday.
I am very sorry I caused confusion, but astoundingly humbled to have received lovely tokens, and thank you all from the bottom of my grateful but slightly muddled soul. If my idiocy has caused you offence and you are out of pocket as a result I would be happy to credit the price of the v-gift to you.
In the meantime I think this means it's time to start merging Daisee with real life me, which is not a little scary. Baby steps first: I shall be correcting the birth date on my profile.
People have been sending me v-gifts for my birthday. I never expected this and it's both heart warming and I feel awful about having to say this:
It's not actually my birthday today.
Please allow me to explain:
Way back when I began this journal, I wanted a decisive break between my real life and this journal as I had another journal going, one for my family and friends to read. This was for my fandom life.
Because of this, and some work I was doing at the time I set this journal up with a fake birthday. I'd rather have not put in a birthday at all, but lj wouldn't let me away with that.
So.
Daisee got her own birthday.
I fretted about this for a while, but a very good friend reassured me that I only really need be concerned if Daisee began demanding her own parking space, which seemed reasonable to me.
I also only had about 3 friends on lj at that point, none of whom were the birthday-wishing kind, so it didn't seem to be an issue.
Then I realised my family weren't reading my other lj at all, and word got out to my pre-online friends that I had another journal, and they slowly migrated over here. I still wasn't overly worried about the birthdate, because I was more concerned about them reading the sort of stuff I got up to in fandom...
Recently I upgraded the bio, and put in an explanation about having a real birthday and a fake birthday. I still wasn't worried about it because I forgot two important things:
Aaaaaaaannnnneeeeeewaaaay...
Today is not my real birthday.
I am very sorry I caused confusion, but astoundingly humbled to have received lovely tokens, and thank you all from the bottom of my grateful but slightly muddled soul. If my idiocy has caused you offence and you are out of pocket as a result I would be happy to credit the price of the v-gift to you.
In the meantime I think this means it's time to start merging Daisee with real life me, which is not a little scary. Baby steps first: I shall be correcting the birth date on my profile.