Writer's Block: Circle the date
Jan. 24th, 2011 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nightshade1972[Error: unknown template qotd]
I actually like my birthday quite a bit. As it happens, because of the date (1/23), during my school years my birthday typically fell right around the split between first and second semester. My parents usually let me stay home from school that day. In college, xmas break was long enough that I usually didn't have to go back to school until after my bday anyway.
My birthday also has special significance for me because my 37th ('09) bday was the day I officially (in my mind, anyway, the Parental Units still don't get it) cut ties with the Familial Units. When the Parental Units took me out to lunch, and it went off without a hitch, I didn't have long to wait for the other shoe to drop--it's maybe a fifteen minute drive from the restaurant back to my place, and the Maternal Unit complained about the Paternal Unit's driving almost the entire way home, which pretty much ruined that part of my day for me. She's always had a gift for raining on everyone else's parade. I've been significantly healthier and happier since I stopped speaking to them.
I actually like my birthday quite a bit. As it happens, because of the date (1/23), during my school years my birthday typically fell right around the split between first and second semester. My parents usually let me stay home from school that day. In college, xmas break was long enough that I usually didn't have to go back to school until after my bday anyway.
My birthday also has special significance for me because my 37th ('09) bday was the day I officially (in my mind, anyway, the Parental Units still don't get it) cut ties with the Familial Units. When the Parental Units took me out to lunch, and it went off without a hitch, I didn't have long to wait for the other shoe to drop--it's maybe a fifteen minute drive from the restaurant back to my place, and the Maternal Unit complained about the Paternal Unit's driving almost the entire way home, which pretty much ruined that part of my day for me. She's always had a gift for raining on everyone else's parade. I've been significantly healthier and happier since I stopped speaking to them.
