birthday week: now for boys too!
So, Chris has been celebrating birthday week since last Thursday (his birthday is on the 2nd), which marks the first time that birthday week has been extended to the male section of the species. Birthday week is, I humbly submit, my best invention ever. It is 15 days of pure goodness. Basically, any day that is within a week of your birthday is part of birthday week. It is like a get-out-of-jail-free card for laziness. Chris has tried to use it for monetary gain ("buy me a new computer?") but that doesn't work, and not just because my bank account says it's impossible. He has, however, managed to get me to carry his backpack and make him pancakes, which are both acceptable uses of the holiday. Personally, I have perfected a rather cute pouting face and just the right tone of "... but it's my birthday week!" to get my way when my time comes along. I don't do ANYTHING extra on my birthday week, and that includes looking at my watch for the time (I just ask other people) and reaching for things that are clearly within my grasp. It's Laziness Extraordinaire without the guilt! :)
Bush visits Canada and...
Some American journalists, while killing time waiting for the Bush-Martin news conference to begin, passed the time by searching for "the most desirable Canadian souvenir: flu shots." $20 bought them the shot at a nearby clinic.Oh, America. You are unintentionally funny sometimes.
Some links:
- Fresh Yarn: The Online Salon for personal essays - some are quite entertaining :)
- New Perspectives Quarterly - haven't looked through it much yet, but it promises to be interesting
- Chemistry: The Songs of our Lives - because it's too funny when people make popular songs into chemistry-themed anthems
- Jesus Wrapping Paper - for wrapping Jesuses!
The other day, I saw a Buy Nothing Day table at York... covered in merchandise. Oh, the irony, it is so thick.
posted by Heather Ann @ 10:16 AM
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Write my reply for me. It's my birthday week!
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Chris
Dearest Heather Ann,
You are the most fabulous girlfriend ever and how can I ever repay you for the graciousness you have bestowed upon me by extending birthday week to the male half of the species? I promise that when your birthday week comes along, I will bring you flowers and chocolate every day, and will fawn over you and carry your books and do everything in my power to make you overwhelmed with happiness. Because that's what you do for me just by being in the room.
Love,
Chris
(ça va?) ;)
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Has birthday week been done globally? If not, may I pioneer it? I think it is a fabulous idea...and one that I'd be happy to initiate here in Australia. Let me know.
Caleb, I would be thrilled if you would spread the birthday-week goodness to the Aussies. :D
Excellent! It shall be done. I don't think I'll let them in on it until my brithday though. I don't want to get stuck celebrating someone else's birthday week before my own. I think they will love this. Thanks heaps!
I don't think there'll be any patent infringement on this, but I invented the Half-Birthday Celebration.
The Half-Birthday Celebration, much like Birthday Week, is an reason to get presents, breakfast in bed, foot massages and all flavors of treats, simply because your birthday was six months ago... or is six months from now.
I invented this because I was born on December 22 and quickly grew tired of my birthday presents being wrapped in christmas paper.
I think then, that it's only right and just for Half-Birthday Week to be included in the festivities.
Dear Heather ann,
I was having a look at your main site and noticed an interesting statement. It reads: "This front page will be changing soon, I'll probably indicate updates on the blog." The subtle interestingness of this statement is in the fact that it was posted on October 6, nearly two months ago. Is this a sly tease just to get us checking back for the "new front page," or have there been technical difficulties in updating to the new page? Of course, as I'm sure you are aware, the excuse of "I have a boyfriend and 'don't have time' for internet exploits" has long since past its prime. :)
I hope all is well and you are enjoy exam season.
Regards,
Mike
Mike: errrrrr... exam week? (sorry! it's been so long since I even thought about it!)
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