Born-On Date

first off, i'm peeved, b/c i started this blog before and it was funnier... but a coworker came to download something and lost my entry. focker. anyhoo...

So yesterday was my birthday. Everyone, please, don't rush around to send me well-wishes and large bouquets of flowers...... because no one else did either *GASP!* i'm not whining or complaining... just stating a fact (read: complaining). This was one of 'those' birthdays. I usually plan something fun and outgoing, but decided to lay low this year....big, big mistake. note to self: plan, send invites, evites and badger repeatedly.

The day started out rather well. I got up early to head to the DMV, because my license expires, um, today. However, i took 15 minutes too long to get ready and decided just to get to work early instead of rushing off to stand in line. I decided to to look nice and wear the new silk skirt that my mom bought for me on vacation... I even dried my hair. Unbeknownst to me, my roommate stayed up late making some really pretty garland to hang in the living room, then placed a present on the couch. !Surprise! Quite a fabulous way to wake up really. PRESENTS!!!!! not even the smelly homeless man leering near my car could wipe the smile off my face. It was my birthday, I felt awake and damnit the sun was shining.

The commute was fabulous, barely any traffic. I got to work 40 minutes early to finally confront my boss about taking wednesday afternoon off. Reason being, i have the opportunity to work at the Latin Grammy Awards downtown that day (something i've known about for a week and a half). He begrudgingly obliged, after i swore that it would be OK with HR.... um well i think it will. I doubt he has any clue what the Latin Grammy's are, but that's beside the point. I didn't tell my boss it was my birthday because, #1. that's slightly rude and #2. it wouldn't have made a damn bit of difference. The man is clueless when it comes to doing nice things for his coworkers.

Bossman seemed to be in a bit of a "mood" and promptly piled a couple tasks on my to do list. I huffed and puffed, but afterall it is my job to "assist him" so i got to work. please note that i've sort of made my own job description b/c his task requests are so intermittent. i've been helping out other offices with minor projects, but don't always inform him, so he thinks i write emails all day. obviously wrong. i blog. a couple birthday phone calls came in, so i took them cheerily. A happy employee is not the sound a boss wants to hear, so he huffs n puffs and tactlessly hotlines me and sneers, "WHEN WILL I HAVE THAT FILE?!" well, last time i checked, i could multitask sir. so i'm actually filing while receiving my birthday wishes. sheesh.

Then the morning progressed with a lull. I received about three emails from my mom and two from a good friend from college. However, NONE of these emails included any birthday cheer. fizzle. Finally, at 11:30 AM (2:30 PM EST) I can't stand that my mother could have possibly forgotten my birthday so i emailed her, "um hi, it's my birthday.....is there anything you would like to say to your lovely daughter?!?!?" EIGHT hours later, at 7:03 PM (10:03 PM EST) I received this email to my work account......

Subject: Oh my poor baby!!!!!!

Oh sweetipie I am soooooo sorry I forgot it is your BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!! Hooray! ....heck you got all your goodies last week...quit grouching!

I hope you made it perfectly CLEAR at your office that it IS YOUR B-DAy so that everyone could make a terrible and terrific FUSS and TAKE YOU OUT TO LUNCH!!!

Well, dear...hope it has been a wonderful day. LOVE YOU! mom.

can you feel the love? i can.

Realizing full well what has happened, i continued to email/talk to people who had obviously forgotten about my blessed day. i stopped pouting slightly to email the rest of the bunch and hoped they felt like asses for not checking their calendars. (I even had it as my instant messenger away message!)... then the college friend sent this email....

Crap. I'm an ass!!! I thought that today was the 29th!!! Stupid me. I
didn't even look at the stupid calendar! I knew it was your birthday.
Sorry. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! :)

right-o... i won't bore you with the others, but that's the gist of it all. luckily my sisters remembered and my two closest friends. so it's okay. wait a minute, i don't think i even heard from my dad. what in the hell! addendum.... dad just called five minutes ago. he feels bad, he fell asleep before he could call. forgiven. The best was my friend bess, she called to relay a minor message, chatted for a good five minutes, then asked how my day was.... well it's my birthday today. "SHIT!" it's okay, she sent me a gift. after this point, my phones started ringing and e-cards were sent as the gateway friends sent out the red alerts and carrier pigeons.

Anyhoo, i continued to work diligently and get sideways glances from my boss (he rarely speaks directly to me) so i ignored him and finished his pile of invoices before lunch. my friend here at work spilled the beans to my department 15 minutes prior, so we opted to lunch with some beloved geeks instead of just us two. On my way out, bossman tries to put on a smile and says, "SOOOO IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!" "yep, sure is." "SO HOW OLD ARE YOU TODAY?!?!" "25, bye." i handed him his folder and walked out AS i said the last part. rude? yes. deserved? yes. the man had passed by my desk atleast two times right before this and could have easily said something before he knew i'd be out the door.

i don't know what gets to me about that man....it's like, why does he even try if he has no plans to back up his attempts at conversation? he wasn't going to take me out to lunch or even consider having a conversation that extends beyond the overtly superficial. it's frustrating. i seriously doubt he could write a list of 5 things about me, (that aren't in my HR file). i've worked for him for almost TEN months! maybe it's annoying, because he thinks he's a good boss. a decent boss? yes. a good boss or mentor, absolutely not.

but forget that whining...the rest of the day brightened. lunch was tasty and filling, coworkers wished me well and one even shares my birthday, surprise! Three of my good friends out here met up with me for drinks after work, threatened to buy me shots and made me chug wine... then my roommate met up with us for a delicious dinner at The Stinking Rose (a restaurant specializing in garlic cuisine). my mother had called by now as well as a few others. it felt good to have my cell phone exploding with messages. we made fairly large asses of ourselves at the restaurant and i didn't care at all. it was really fun. sidenote: never EVER get the garlic icecream, i didn't realize it would actually be garlic flavored. sick! get the sorbet instead. i made a wish anyway and blew out my candle with a smile. I made it home at a semi-decent hour, but obviously i didn't make it to the DMV today. crap. raise your hand if you'll be driving illegally at midnight tonight! me me me.

The calls and e-cards continued to trickle in today, so i'm grateful people remembered at all. stop bitching missy. I'm 25, but oddly i don't feel old so much as I feel like now i should be mature. ugh, how boring of me. next year i want flowers.......... and my mom forgot my birthday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Posted by missy at August 31, 2004 1:03 PM