These birthdaythreads make me wonder... who else gets moody on his birthday?

My birthday is the only day I never feel older, but always as whiny as a child. I want my chair decorated (it never happens), I want a surprise-party (never happens), I want lots of friends thinking about me and loving me. It's never what I expect it to be. Most of the time I give a big party the same week and this has always the opposite effect...then I'm all in tears and emotional, surprised about having so many people who care about me.

And another thing, on the day itself I never think "God I'm getting old". On the contrary, I'm still saying "almost 24" when people ask me how old I am. my birtday is in October and I've been saying "almost 24" since May. It just feels like everyone's birthday is so much earlier.

God, I'm stupid.

Birthdays have never been a big thing for me.

Everyday for me is a celebration, and I truly try to live my life that way.

i was just fine on my birthday this year, but i was in my favorite place with my favorite people doing my favorite things, so i didn't have the time to get moody.

sag10 said:

Happy September 13th!

holy crap, today's my granny's birthday. gotta shoot a card in the mail!

Anxiety said:

It's my mom's bday tomorrow too, I remembered the card

I want people to forget my bday, I'm uncomfy with that kind of attention. Usually I succeed in making people forget
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Birthdays are just another day to me. I stopped trying to make any sort of deal of it after I got through my middle teens. No one else cares that much anymore, really.

The only one I was upset over was my 25th. But most of the time I love them and celebrate all month!

Having a birthday is better than the alternative, so celebrate it and enjoy it to the max!

PANDURITO said:

Same to you!

CarrieLee said:

When it was my 18th birthday, I wanted to give a party. But my boyfriend at the time told me he had two great surprises for me, so he didn't let me plan anything. That night he took me to a house-warming party of people I never saw before. Everyone was drunk. He became very agressive and I had to drag him home, carry him, fight him, because he was still convinced of the fact he could still drive his home. The next day I asked him what the second suprise was supposed to be. He said "Oh, that's right, I bought you some strawberries, they're in the fridge. I completely forgot because I was wasted, wasn't I?"



Plain horrible. Plus he broke up with me ten days later, after me making me move to the city he lived in.

It's a great city though.

CarrieLee said:

same here on my 25th I had abit of a freakout, for some stupid reason I normally love birthdays.

next week is chris bday, he says he isnt having one this year, so I took it apon myself to throw a big party for him, band and all.

I hope he has a heartattack

MarieLouise said:

Ugh, you too, huh? I moved to Cynthiana for that choad-bag ex.

And it's not even a nice place.

Nero said:

Never heard of it. I hope for you that tells you more about me than about this place.

Sounds rather girly though.

Nero said:

Is that the one you're buying flowers for???

btw, I dig your comments, but I seem to have missed the personal stuff...

MarieLouise said:

It's just an old, historic town on the Licking River in northern Kentucky. There's absolutely nothing there except a Food Lion, Walmart, and some houses and apartments. I had a lovely apartment in the center of town though. It was my first place. I even fulfilled my dreams of hanging up a picture of Elvis from the 1968 Comeback Special in my living room.

It's my 26th tomorrow and I must say that I do not really like marking getting older.. I still feel 18!!

I like the fact that everyone comes together to celebrate the fact that I am alive though
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MarieLouise said:

Indifferent, to me it's just another day.

ladymisskat said:

I really feel schezophrenic about that aspect at the moment. I'm teaching at a new school, and whenever I enter the room for teachers someone is holding me and sending me out, thinking I'm 16.

But my students think I'm almost 30 (I'll be 24 next month ) When I said something about a party I went to in 1996 (had their age at the time) one boy said, completely serious, "Shit, were parties cool at that time as well???"

ladymisskat said:

it's your birthday tomorrow? OMG I wanna have a drink with you!!! we have to organise something again soon hon it's been a while!

birthday

if more than 3 people remember it im shocked.

i enjoy being remembered on my birthday i think thats only human though.. this year im into this whole "feeling old" thing ... and that kinda sucks

My mood had been pretty blah on my birthdays. I think I actually "did' somehting a few years back. I like to celebrate it, yet feel strange asking my friends to join me in celebration. I feel as though I am obligating them. I have kept it low key so it doesn't bother my friends. Also my partner is VERY inept when it comes to planning things like my birthday. It's pretty much we do what I decide and plan and get together. I think that's one of the reasons I keep my BD on the downlow. All the planning behind it. I am very humble about the whole thing. I would love for someone just to DO my birthday once without having me have to plan it out.

kisscamille said:

What's the alternative...an unbirthday?

they used to be a low time...
but i try to not dwell on another year passing - they are passing too quickly to keep bemoaning them.

it's always nice to be remembered - but then i feel guilty for not remembering the birthdays of those who remember mine lol...
now i try to do something for myself as a little present to me

well, as i approach 40 next march.. yes 40 personally i think i'll be a moody fucker. LOL, so go ahead u can start with the old jokes now, and get it out the way

TheRealFiness said:

lol Finess age aint nuthin' but a number...40 is by no means old ...and second YAY for March birthdays!!

TheRealFiness said:

you're a moody fucker now