I don’t really want a present for my birthday. As it falls on a week-day this year, I’m just going to take the day off work and indulge in a few simple yet rarely-enjoyed pleasures, like:
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Sleeping late and having breakfast in bed.[/ul]
[ul]Maybe spending the day in London, wandering around The British Museum and/or The Victoria & Albert Museum.[/ul]
[ul]Renting a movie for the evening, with Chinese take-out for dinner and my favourite ice-cream for dessert.[/ul]
Looking at the list above, it strikes me that these wishes are really mundane and pedestrian, but I can’t think of any presents that I actually want. Times are hard and money is tight. I don’t want much, but I fully expect that my office will forget about my birthday for the second year in a row.
Here at work we just mark colleagues’ birthdays with the signing of cards, the provision of cakes and nibbles and the consumption thereof. But they forgot mine last year, and I think they’ve only remembered twice in the seven years I’ve been here, the gits.
I don’t want to descend into petty bitching, but …still…
Anyway, this thread isn’t about that. It’s just about the simple pleasures I don’t really get to enjoy often, but which I plan to indulge in. I’m just going to have a “me” day.
I’m the same way; I generally don’t really *want *anything on gift-giving occasions. The things I want I tend to just buy for myself anyway, or they’re too expensive/elaborate for someone to buy me as a gift anyway.
I’d love to spend the day walking around the British Museum for my birthday. Of course, I live in California…but substitute any one of a number of museums in San Francisco and I’d be just as happy (well, almost).
Thank you! I’m certainly planning on treating myself to various and sundry nibbles, treats and munchies throughout the day. Food will in fact play a large part in my plans for self-pampering.
The two things I’m truly passionate about are books and food, so either of those will do me nicely, but I get plenty of free books via work anyway, so the only thing I’m truly lacking is “me-time”.
A Kindle Paperwhite *would *be nice actually, but I have a perfectly decent eReader already so I can’t justify the cost.
I think those ideas are lovely. I, however, have asked for things for my birthday, and am getting them:
To see Wicked (will be seeing it on the 20th)
Sherlock Season 2
A new lighted case for my Kindle
I also have the day off. They’ll have cake at work and a card. My birthday is the last of the year, and after all of our events, so I figure it’s just an excuse to have a party.
Oh, I’m on my way, hon. I’ve actually been to the fair city twice, but once I was ten and missed my connecting flight so didn’t go beyond the hotel, and once I never left the airport. Le sigh.
We tend to do things for our birthdays in the 8404/Plankton household. Suburban Plankton and Ledzepkid’s birthdays are close. This year we went to see Aerosmith in concert. Nobody got presents, but the kid got a cool t-shirt.
I’m already trying to figure out what I’m going to do for my birthday in January. Maybe San Francisco and go to museums and things. Maybe Disneyland. I would love to go to London and wander around there. I’ve been twice and still haven’t made it to the British Museum.
Ooh clothes! I forgot about clothes! I haven’t bought new clothes in ages so I could do with a new coat or something - or maybe just a warm woolly hat to keep the wind off my shaved head.
Your birthday is Nov. 21st? Mine is Nov. 27th. I would like to go out for a nice dinner with my husband and maybe a couple other people; as for gifts, well, I don’t know - I don’t need anything, either.
Mine is the 30th. I close out the month. We have a bunch of November birthdays. TDN’s was the 1st, I believe, and No One Special shares a birthday with me.
This year Mrs. Call said the same thing, “Oh, I don’t want anything but I know you’ll get me something so no more than $100”
I complied. I got 20+ things, each under $100 (well except one… after tax) - some dollar store stuff, each with a memory or some significance attached. I wrapped each of them in identical giftwrap. On B-Day Nature Girl helped me deliver the stream of presents to the kitchen table in exaggerated multiple trips - Mrs. Call’s eyes widening each time.
I was honestly able to say, “I did not get you one single thing for your birthday.”
She loved it - it was like reliving Christmas as a kid.
Having breakfast in bed then walking around London sounds like a once-in-a-lifetime dream to me, so enjoy. My husband does get me a cake on my birthday, bless his heart.
When I worked nobody in my office ever mentioned birthdays.
