It's My Party

really?

so for the next few minutes, you like quotes.

• “when you want what you’ve never had, you must do what you’ve never done.”

• “failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.”

• “love is everything it’s cracked up to be. that’s why people are so cynical about it. it really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. and the trouble is, if you don’t risk everything, you risk even more.”

• “denial is a powerful thing.”

• “if you are only willing to do what is easy, life will be hard. if you are willing to do what is hard, life will be easy.”

• “logic will break your heart forever.”

• “there is no failure. you win or you learn. either one is okay.”

• “you can always get more money, but you can never get more time.”

• “you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

• “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”

• “long distance is the wrong distance.”

• “time wounds all heels.”

now get out there and go beer tasting with the greatest gay man alive! well, i’m going to do that. you do whatever you do on saturday afternoons.

and that’s not anything new or revelatious around here – i just haven’t had to use one for dumb reasons as of late. but now i have and i just can’t keep quiet about it any longer. also, i just made up ‘revelatious’.

so… i had to buy a birthday card for my aunt today. my aunt that i will see on friday. in person. but, i still had to haul it to a store, find the card section, find ‘birthday her’, and then proceed to look through exactly two cards before choosing one to have to actually pay for. like i said, i’m going to see her in person on friday. at which point, i will both hand her a card that says ‘random crap…hey, you!…happy birthday…flowers are pretty.’ and then also stand before her and say ‘hey, you! happy birthday! flowers are pretty.’

ok. where does this leave us. well, basically, spending any amount on good, colorful card stock to convey a message that you can and will easily convey in person, is too much. i wouldn’t even have to be going through all this with you, but my aunt is going to be celebrating her 61st birthday soon. and while that’s just super, the tendencies of her generation are not. they require greeting cards – the tangible kind. the expensive jewels you may or may not have secured for her will be inconsequential compared to the fact that you did not arrive with greetings on paper for birthday 6, 1 in july of 2009. i don’t understand this. and obviously, it doesn’t matter.

bob and sue say ‘hi’, btw. spent some time with them today and they’re doing just fab.