S.'s Birthday. Mood: Expectant with a Touch of Fear
Today is S.’s birthday.
What I have bought her:
1. A $10 bottle of champagne
2. Why Men Love Bitches by Sherry Argov
3. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
4. A copy of the latest In Touch magazine
The gift list is like a perfect little description of her personality.
Even more descriptive of her personality is the fact that I am handing each to her in an overly casual manner, unwrapped and without fanfare. S. has experienced full on birthday terror since the year she turned nineteen and decided she was no longer young. (That was also the year she began using wrinkle cream).
Thus we are all pretending that she is not turning another year older, but is simply so sweet and wonderful that people have suddenly felt compelled to buy her things and pay for her dinner.
We are going to drink the champagne at 6, then go to dinner at a restaurant far too expensive for our salaries, our friend’s salaries and the expected intoxication levels of all.
24 comments:
CB
How fortunate S. is to have you for a friend.
Cheers >=={
It's nice you play her birthday game with her.
Have a wonderful time, C.B. And happy birthday to S.
Be safe out there.
It sounds like I would get along with S great! I love in touch as well as the books and bubbly! Sounds like a great non-older birthday gift :)
I wonder if she'll be flattered or insulted by your gifts that "perfectly fit her personality?"
I love people like S. because they make their friends be creative about giving gifts.
Also, no wrapping? I think I'd give more people birthday gifts if there was no wrapping involved. S. may be scheming.
I'm permanently 22 and it's great to have friends who play along!
So does this mean the next post we get is more wild adventures on the town?
(I guess this does it for your healthy streak, eh?)
Have fun. Kill the hangover...
Is this like an Un-Birthday?
"Have a very merry un-birthday to you, to you"
I think S. is very lucky to have her friends play along. Do you also sing "happy (awkward pause) day to you" ... or maybe you could just replace birthday with Friday?
Sorry, it's morning, and I'm with my first cup of coffee...
S is fortunate to have friends like you who care enough about her to get so very creative about her birthdays.
I have friends who do that for me, too, although in my case it's not a fear of aging; we don't really celebrate birthdays in my family.
i enjoy your style of writing.will be here more often
Do they sell wrinkle cream to nineteen-year olds?
Your blog is elegant and amusing. You remind me of myself in a former life.
I'm a man ... and I don't love bitches.
Let's sing..."Happy //everyone sing a different syllable day// to you!!....to the tune of Jingle Bells, right after we all search for brightly colored eggs, and while we are all wearing costumes. That should sufficiently confuse her.
Yikes, I know an "S." who has been using wrinkle cream since she was 19. I wondered briefly if it could be the same S., but that was not her birthday. (Duh.) Sorry to hear about Whole Foods, but at least you have the consolation that some tiny-dicked security guard probably totally got off on his little power trip. What joy!
A $10 bottle of champagne? Does Advil come with that?
Oh, btw... tell S (and yourself) that not all men like 19 year olds (or younger). In fact, the intelligent ones prefer 25+ women, because as women age the insanity falls off. :-p
Happy birthday S.
Love Cat.
And next year will be a re-birthday.
Are you sure she will not be offended by the $10 champagne?
Ditto what Peter Matthes said...
A past employer of mine imparted his philosophy regarding birthdays to me, which I think is an excellent way to view a birthday. He was grateful and happy for every birthday he could count and always wished for more.
Tell S that all the beauty creams in the world will not stop the march of time. In the end what stops the wrinkles is good genes or great wealth. In other words, don't sweat the small s--t, because in the end, it's all small s--t!
How old is that bitch?
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