Good Mornthing!
14/10/18 09:55![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blissmorganMy hair definitely suffered for sleeping last night, but man, after having to leave a fabulous grownup party last night to tend to migraining child, I don’t have it in me to nice it up much today. Family party means no fucks given. And I have some bobby pins, I’ll do a twist-roll thing and forgeddaboudit.
My big brother turns 40 today, and while he planned way ahead for his wife's big birthday bash and reached out to lots of people at a special venue to really make it a thing, she...made a facebook invite for it and is having it at my parents' house. I am sad that it is not a bigger deal for him, and now that I'm thinking about it I am also mad at myself for not doing anything to help make it a big deal.
Both parties I'm attending this weekend - last night and today - are decade parties. My friend last night is 50, my brother is 40, and the difference between the celebrations is kind of stark. Some of it is a vast difference in available wealth on hand, I think.
It also has me thinking about my own birthday, and Secret Agent Lover Man's. I place way too much importance on my own birthday and its party or lack thereof every year, and I'm always kind of sad when nobody plans if for me... but who am I to have that expectation? I'm not seven years old. I am a grownup and need to figure and do for myself. So now I need to look ahead to my own birthday and figure out what sort of celebration I would enjoy doing, and with whom. Too, I need to some thinkyness about SALM's birthday; it is two days after Christmas (mine is two weeks) and the planning for the birthdays tends to get lost in the planning for Christmas, especially since we have children. In particular I need to keep in mind that the kind of party I want and the kind he'd want are not the same. Whereas I'd like something joyful and creative with a good group of friends, he would probably be happy with a really excellent meal and a night of scotch and catching up with his best friend.
I have time yet to figure these things out... but he is going to be 45 this year. I would like to make that special for him, because he has survived so much, and is worth celebrating.
As for today, I am having a quiet morning. I'm planning on finishing up a read of a really excellent book by Chris Ruz, so I can give him my squealy feedback before he sends it off to his publisher. I'm especially excited about this book because I get to be in it as a character, and let me tell you, folks, it is definitely the kind of story in which people tend to die. Horribly. Aheheheheheh. No spoilers though.
Beyond that... maybe I will make with some arting or writing before I go do family partytime. Unstructured, choose-your-own-adventure morning is go!
My big brother turns 40 today, and while he planned way ahead for his wife's big birthday bash and reached out to lots of people at a special venue to really make it a thing, she...made a facebook invite for it and is having it at my parents' house. I am sad that it is not a bigger deal for him, and now that I'm thinking about it I am also mad at myself for not doing anything to help make it a big deal.
Both parties I'm attending this weekend - last night and today - are decade parties. My friend last night is 50, my brother is 40, and the difference between the celebrations is kind of stark. Some of it is a vast difference in available wealth on hand, I think.
It also has me thinking about my own birthday, and Secret Agent Lover Man's. I place way too much importance on my own birthday and its party or lack thereof every year, and I'm always kind of sad when nobody plans if for me... but who am I to have that expectation? I'm not seven years old. I am a grownup and need to figure and do for myself. So now I need to look ahead to my own birthday and figure out what sort of celebration I would enjoy doing, and with whom. Too, I need to some thinkyness about SALM's birthday; it is two days after Christmas (mine is two weeks) and the planning for the birthdays tends to get lost in the planning for Christmas, especially since we have children. In particular I need to keep in mind that the kind of party I want and the kind he'd want are not the same. Whereas I'd like something joyful and creative with a good group of friends, he would probably be happy with a really excellent meal and a night of scotch and catching up with his best friend.
I have time yet to figure these things out... but he is going to be 45 this year. I would like to make that special for him, because he has survived so much, and is worth celebrating.
As for today, I am having a quiet morning. I'm planning on finishing up a read of a really excellent book by Chris Ruz, so I can give him my squealy feedback before he sends it off to his publisher. I'm especially excited about this book because I get to be in it as a character, and let me tell you, folks, it is definitely the kind of story in which people tend to die. Horribly. Aheheheheheh. No spoilers though.
Beyond that... maybe I will make with some arting or writing before I go do family partytime. Unstructured, choose-your-own-adventure morning is go!
Hello, Blisstopia. <3
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14/10/18 14:28 (UTC)