yay! it's MY birthday!

I know I'm way too old for being ridiculously pleased with it being my birthday. The year I turned 30 was the only year that I wasn't pleased. I cried. Now I've realized I'm far too old to cry about it anymore, and have decided to go back to being smug.:) Either way I'm self-centered, but it's more fun to be happy and self-centered. The big difference is, on my birthday I don't beat myself up about things I didn't get done. I sometimes think I should pretend every day is my birthday, but then I'd never get anything at all done, and be completely insufferable. :)

I have also finally figured out how to refilter my friends page so I don't have to look at every single 'friend' on the list. It's been getting cumbersome for a while, but this morning I was was inspired by someone spamming one of the communities which I had on my f-list (WritingWorkout) with stories. S/he didn't even have the courtesy to put in LJ cuts on all of them, and I don't think one is even supposed to post stories directly to that community (I think it's supposed to be that you post a challenge, then responses are in the form of links back to the writer's own journal). Of course I could be wrong, but whatever - the effect for me was multiple page-downs. Inconvenience? To ME? On MY birthday? I think not.

earwormed

eor started singing "Driving On 9" this morning (originally by Ed's Redeeming Qualities, covered by The Breeders). I teased him he was doing the Breeders version - "higher pitched, slower, and more breathy." ;) And he teased me that he'd given me the gift that lasts all day - the earworm. Have you ever tried to find ERQ lyrics? An excercise in futility, but I'm doing it anyway. I can find the Breeders version of the lyrics - most people who reference it seem to think it's their song - but the Breeders left out half the verses because they couldn't easily be transferred to a female perspective. ("How old is Cindy? She sure looks like me.") Here I found the description of the song: a sad but quirky song about a man driving to visit his about-to-be remarried ex-wife and a daughter he hasn't seen in years.

ETA: I found the connection... Carrie Bradley was with Ed's Redeeming Qualities and also was with the Breeders.

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Just got a phone call from my Dad. He'd left a message on my machine last night and I should have called him back, then. I thought I should not call when I could only talk for about 10 minutes, but... He wanted to double-check my address, but he then decided to mail it out before calling me today. Of course he sent it to my old address AND addressed it to 'Derien.' Which if you hadn't guessed, is not my actual name, so the post office might not forward it. And we only talked for about 10 minutes after all. *sigh*

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If anyone's wondering why I'm making comments on people's LJes when I'm supposed to be at work - I called in late. The guy who took the message got a good laugh out of it as he wrote down, "[derien] will be late because it's her birthday and her father spelled her name wrong." :) I went down to the post office and put in another change of address form that I'm hoping will catch his package and card. Now I'm trying to be cool and laugh at it all because not being at work when I'm supposed to be is making my stomach all tense. Must go.