Hurrah for my birth (x29)!
So, Doug called and left me an awesomely piratical phone message, which almost made my girlfriend die in spasms (Doug's pirate voice is equal parts Captain Blackbeard and Wesley Willis) and Travis stopped by to bestow a hipster hoodie (he's secretly trying to make me dress like him) AND a digital metronome/tuner (a suitable gift from a band-mate, especially since the one my sister gave me years ago has, sadly, bleeped its last.)
Later, my mother and father called, which was nice, because I was starting to worry that they no longer liked me.
Then Matt Arnold and The Perfect Doug stopped by to give me a pink Dora The Explorer cake with my name on it, and a Tinkerbelle birthday card. "We told the woman at the grocery store it was for a little girl," TPD told me, gleefully.
From Janice and the girls, I have received: hiking shoes, Shutter Island (book), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (movie), and...
...a guinea pig. My guinea pig's name is Eleanor (after the dubiously sane protagonist of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.) There are actually two guinea pigs, but the other one is Cristin's. Were it mine, I would have named it Theodora. Since it is not, it is named Alice, after Cristin's favorite Twilight character. They're both kind of tired, after an exciting afternoon, so their photo-op will have to be later.
We are not actually allowed to have pets, so these are SECRET guinea pigs. Shhhhhhh!
All of this has helped to make up for the fact that my birthday is, so far, the grayest, gloomiest, rainiest day we have had in quite some time, and I slept like a stone until almost two in the afternoon, at which time I woke up with, unfortunately, the Gin Blossoms song "29" running through my head.
Hope everyone is well.
Later, my mother and father called, which was nice, because I was starting to worry that they no longer liked me.
Then Matt Arnold and The Perfect Doug stopped by to give me a pink Dora The Explorer cake with my name on it, and a Tinkerbelle birthday card. "We told the woman at the grocery store it was for a little girl," TPD told me, gleefully.
From Janice and the girls, I have received: hiking shoes, Shutter Island (book), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (movie), and...
...a guinea pig. My guinea pig's name is Eleanor (after the dubiously sane protagonist of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.) There are actually two guinea pigs, but the other one is Cristin's. Were it mine, I would have named it Theodora. Since it is not, it is named Alice, after Cristin's favorite Twilight character. They're both kind of tired, after an exciting afternoon, so their photo-op will have to be later.
We are not actually allowed to have pets, so these are SECRET guinea pigs. Shhhhhhh!
All of this has helped to make up for the fact that my birthday is, so far, the grayest, gloomiest, rainiest day we have had in quite some time, and I slept like a stone until almost two in the afternoon, at which time I woke up with, unfortunately, the Gin Blossoms song "29" running through my head.
Hope everyone is well.