I turned 27 today
June 22nd, 2008 | 
Author: (Warning, the folling is whiny, EMO and totally self absorbed. Yeah, I know this WITHOUT being told how full of myself I am)
It happened without fuss and without fanfare. It happened, largely, without notice.
I didn’t expect anything from my hubby, but KNEW I could count on my MIL.
Only, her daughter (who is going through a nasty divorce) and her grandson are visiting, so her life currently is revolving around them. Not that it SHOULDN’T be, but still, it just served to remind me how alone I am here.
She forgot my birthday was this week until Friday when she saw something in my fridge that somone at work had given me for my birthday.
She did buy me a birthday cake, as an afterthought on Saturday when she realized she had forgotten my birthday. She tried to turn the cookout (which had ALREADY been planned as a FAMILY thing all week long) into a party for me, but I knew it hadn’t been meant for me to start with.
I was just a footnote on the day.
Today, my actual birthday, they all went out to my MIL’s moms house for another family cookout. I probably didn’t even cross their minds.
I did get some e-greetings and e-mails and myspace messages from friends and family. Tim came to visit me, and Rachel called and she and Phil sang happy birthday to me.
That was the extent of the “happy” part of my birthday.
We went to see “The Happening” (which wasn’t a birthday thing, we would have seen it anway) then to the “family” get together (where I sat in the middle of a bucnch of people and listened to them talk about people, places and things I knew nothing about), then to Toys R Us to buy my “present.”
Hubby, as I thought, never wished me happy birthday.
He hadn’t gotten me anything, but took me out to buy my present….Spongebob Monopoly. I love spongebob, so thats okay, I guess. But we already have 4 different monopolys and never play any of them. I guess it was too much to ask that he get me something from the LIST OF THINGS I WANT that I gave him a month ago
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve cried today.
Happy Birthday Me.
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June 23rd, 2008 12:13 am
Sorry to hear that you didn’t have a very good birthday. My birthday was Friday and went largely unnoticed, but that is the way I like it. It seems that nowadays that everyone is so wrapped up in their own little world, they have little time or thought for anyone else, and this seems to be more pronounced with families, I don’t remember it being this way when I was growing up. Its too bad that your hubby didn’t take notice, but that probably is a situation that I know nothing about. But Happy Birthday anyways.
June 23rd, 2008 4:05 am
Happy birthday! I’m sorry that it turned out to be a non-event. I felt the same way about Christmas last year, after my family opened all their presents before I arrived…
June 23rd, 2008 2:28 pm
I’m a day late, and usually a dollar short, but I wanted to wish you a very Happy belated Birthday. Not too many more birthdays and you will be hoping people don’t notice so you don’t have to claim your age!
HUGE Birthday HUGS from Kansas!! 