it's not my birthday so why do you lunge out at me?

I don't do Halloween, Christmas or my birthday (June 2) as "events" anymore, as I would rather treat every day with a Carpe Diem attitude. I give people gifts because i get the message from the universe/God that the person is supposed to have the item.

Occasionally I've been in these platonic (wish it could be more than) friendships and just going somewhere quiet and alone or a movie (Moulin rouge" was a birthdayer) is just nice.

An embarrassing public event with mom, dad, my brother and his kids at Olive Garden where my 16 year old bipolar ADD nephew thinks it'd be cool to go out the fire alarm door and orders 2 vanilla cappuccinos because he's not paying the tab and mom has bought magic relighting candles which are more like sparklers and specifically says on the package have to be put out using water (because the flames and sparks go up about 2 inches ... mom bought the dollar store candles because they had neat little free holders!) ... well, that was 2007.