# Stuff I Want for My Birthday **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 8, 2002, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-want-for-my-birthday/135909 "2002-11-08T18:37:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-want-for-my-birthday/135909/1 "2002-11-08T18:37:32Z")
Tomorrow is my birthday. El Hubbo and I had an argument about it this morning. He doesn’t know what to get me. “I told you I want a heart monitor for running.” “Something under $100, please.” “It’s $89 something.” “Okay, WAY under $100!” Then he decided to be pissy and stew for a few minutes. “I’ll tell you what I DON’T want for my birthday.” “What?” “You to be pissed off about it!” Grrrrrrrrr. I’m a birthday person. I love my birthday, I love to celebrate it, I love to be the center of attention, I love it. It’s my day. It doesn’t have to be perfect, I don’t have to be buried under a mound of presents… I just want to go out to dinner with a few friends, eat some delicious food, drink great beer and laugh my ass off. That’s happening. We’re going out to a German restaurant tomorrow night. Okay, I will admit that part of me wants to be buried under a mound of presents, but I subvert it well. This greedy drooling presentmonger portion of my psyche will now be briefly unleashed in order to unload a list of merchandise I will gladly accept in lieu of El Hubbo’s attimuhtude. 1. [S120 Polar Heart Monitor](http://www.polarusa.com/cgi-bin/db_manager/catalog.cgi?setup_file=prod_display.setup.cgi&invoice=1902120&search_and_display_db_button=OK) - Yeah, it’s more than $100, but the one I referred to with El Hubbo this morning was a cheaper, non-running one… This list is of what I really want, not what I’m willing to settle for. 2. [The car](http://www.vw.com/NASApp/newmodellaunch/nbconvertible/index.jsp) I’ve always wanted and for which I have waited years. In red, please. 3. Nike Clima-Fit Maximum Jacket - Can’t find a straight link to this one. 4. [Running Headband](http://www.roadrunnersports.com/cgi-bin/rrs/rrs/ProductPg.jsp?baseProdKey=RRMZL-005&catOID=-8890&BV_SessionID=@@@@0769631339.1036779493@@@@&BV_EngineID=dcadcfijmhdjjbelgcgecfefdgf.0) 5. [Running Sunglasses](http://www.roadrunnersports.com/cgi-bin/rrs/rrs/ProductPg.jsp?baseProdKey=RRNIU-003&catOID=-8890&BV_SessionID=@@@@0769631339.1036779493@@@@&BV_EngineID=dcadcfijmhdjjbelgcgecfefdgf.0) 6. [Short sleeved](http://www.roadrunnersports.com/cgi-bin/rrs/rrs/ProductPg.jsp?fromClearance=&baseProdKey=RRNKL-085&catOID=-8970&BV_SessionID=@@@@0769631339.1036779493@@@@&BV_EngineID=dcadcfijmhdjjbelgcgecfefdgf.0) and [long-sleeved running shirts](http://www.roadrunnersports.com/cgi-bin/rrs/rrs/ProductPg.jsp?baseProdKey=RRNKL-041&catOID=-8970&BV_SessionID=@@@@0769631339.1036779493@@@@&BV_EngineID=dcadcfijmhdjjbelgcgecfefdgf.0). (I have one long-sleeved and three short-sleeved shirts. I want to run 6 days per week… laundry don’t get done fast enough. Knowhuttumsayin’?) 7. [I-Zone Camera](http://www.i-zone.com/products/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=30587&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=398115&bmLocale=id&bmUID=1036779055281&PRDREG=ID&FromListing=1&SOURCE=catalog). 8. [10 Day European Cruise](http://cruises.orbitz.com/cruises/show_cruise.asp?d=&i=832716&c=24&v=112) 9. [Week at Red Mountain Spa](http://www.redmtn.com/spa/index.html) with my best friend. Okay, I’m done. :::feeling much better now::: ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-want-for-my-birthday/135909/2 "2002-11-08T20:31:07Z")
1. Someone to respond to this thread, even if it is to say, “QUIT YER WHININ’!” ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-want-for-my-birthday/135909/3 "2002-11-08T20:40:49Z")
If the German restaurant isn’t the Black Forest Inn on 26th and Nicollet, then you don’t deserve to have a good birthday. Welllll … maybe you still do. But it’s a good place to go nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-want-for-my-birthday/135909/4 "2002-11-08T20:51:53Z")
Homeboy, you know it’s that German restaurant. Veal cordon bleu and Weissbier. Can’t beat that! ---
**Author:** ![Typo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Typo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-want-for-my-birthday/135909/5 "2002-11-08T21:11:57Z")
Happy birthday in advance! Now quit yer whining! 🙂 Seriously - last year I got a book, a frisbee, and a bag of Oreos from my husband. That was it. Oh, no - and barbecued ribs for dinner with Jack Daniel’s barbecue sauce. I was thrilled he remembered, actually. The previous year, he forgot completely until I got a phone call from my work wishing me HB. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-want-for-my-birthday/135909/6 "2002-11-08T21:16:24Z")
So…um…when we buy you these gifts off your list…where shall we send them? I mean, when one presents a list of “I wants”, presumably one hopes that in a perfect world, fellow Dopers would step up to the plate and shower one with said gifts. Wouldn’t one? 😃 Well, if not, then I’m not bothering to put a list together for 12/22! And no, I ain’t sendin’ ya a Beetle!!! ---
**Author:** ![Lao\_Tsu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lao\_Tsu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lao_Tsu)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-want-for-my-birthday/135909/7 "2002-11-08T22:44:28Z")
Happy Birthday!! Scorpios Rule! Hubbie could make you happy for a measly $120. He doesn’t know how lucky he is. Have a great Day. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-want-for-my-birthday/135909/8 "2002-11-08T23:03:13Z")
> [@](#): > > Scorpios Rule! I think you’ll find that it is Taurians who do, indeed, rule. Taurians born on April 23rd 1968 ruling the most. 🙂 **GfH** , Have a very happy birthday. If hubby won’t buy you the gift you’d like just “borrow” his credit card. Kal ---
**Author:** ![Leifsmama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a698b9/32.png) [@Leifsmama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leifsmama)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-want-for-my-birthday/135909/9 "2002-11-08T23:10:24Z")
Ooooh, I’m the same way about my birthday. I want someone else to get up with the kids and I don’t want to make my own breakfast or dinner. I don’t care about presents, but I do want everyone to make a fuss. I don’t care if I’m 30, 47, or 82, I’m gonna celebrate BIG and take as many people with me as I can! ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-want-for-my-birthday/135909/10 "2002-11-11T20:04:44Z")
Thanks for the birthday wishes, all. **scout** ybaby, writing the list was mostly a cathartic exercise. But I do happen to know that someday, all of it will be mine. Buahahahaha! My best friend gave me a winter running shirt, so I can check that off my list. El Hubbo got a clue and actually surprised me with something I wanted, although I forgot to put it on the list: [EverQuest: The Planes of Power Expansion](http://everquest.station.sony.com/power/). I spent most of my birthday weekend as an EverCrack Ho. PoP rocks, for those of you who care about the game. Never again beg for a port. Never again sit beneath a set of spires waiting for the portal to open. The Plane of Knowledge serves all. w00t! EQ Highlight of the weekend: Upon the advice of a level 25 druid, I took my ranger up to the Paludal Caverns and gained an entire level in two hours; level 21 to 22. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-want-for-my-birthday/135909/11 "2002-11-11T23:56:43Z")
Wishing you a good day, a good year and a good life. I too am a birthday guy and tell everyone weeks in advance that the day is coming. You would think I would get lots more attention on that day, but alas…