Birthday Plans

Yeah. I don't have any.

Well, that isn't entirely true. I requested Monday off (the actual day) and was approved for it, restarting my tradition of not working on my birthday -- a 20 year tradition that came to a screeching halt last year. And we're not working Saturday this week, so that means I have a three day weekend with which I can do anything I want. So what do I want to do?

I know that for some of it, at least, I'll be holed up somewhere working on the book. I'm making arrangements to purchase a replacement laptop from my good friends in Florida, but I kinda wish I'd had that extra money weeks ago, because then I'd just lurk at Borders all day working on my stuff. Even so, there's enough for me to do in notebook work to keep me very busy for a while yet. There's always a Plan B.

I've been unusually popular lately. I'll probably try to slip under the Amy and/or Jen radar if possible, not that either of them would realize or remember that it's my birthday. Well, Amy might know. Jen won't. And one of them is my ex-girlfriend who drives me bananas, and the other is my not-girlfriend even though I wish that was different, and I don't want to be depressed about that. Not on my birthday.



I know, because she told me, that Lynne wants me to come down and see her, but I don't think this is the weekend to do that. I know that Dan and Amanda (Damanda?) will want to do something, and her brother Jason, my nephew, is back from Arkansas, so that's extra pressure. But I'll be honest, I'm not really feeling like that's what I want to do either.

There's still the family. Something could cook up there yet. It is early still. But people are understandably busy with other things right now, so it isn't a huge deal if we can't all get together this particular weekend. But I'll wait and see what happens.

I don't think this will happen, but even if *everyone* else in the world forgot, I'd still make a big deal out of my birthday, because that's just what I do. And I have many many tricks up my sleeve towards making this weekend completely awesome.

I just haven't decided what I want to do yet.