introspective periscope : peeking inside since Y2K ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- my birthday and the lack of crisis a free moment - fourth of september, 2003 "...but it was just a paper bag."~fiona apple my birthday came and went with much suprise. t came to get me at work bearing two dozen of the most perfect roses i've ever seen...all shell pink with vibrant pink tips. perfect for a birthday princess. he took me home and gave me my other presents...the new annie lennox cd and a book (the complete idiot's guide to paganism...which i exchanged for buckland's encyclopedia of witchcraft) and two sweet cards. two. who gets two cards? the birthday princess does! he told me he was taking me to dinner and though i'd sort of hinted that i'd like to go to Outback, he said he'd made a reservation for seven thirty at the zenith tea room. so we showered and got dressed and headed downtown. there were many messages on my machine and a card from toby's mom and a card from my aunt. i was in good spirits. i never saw the suprise coming. we hustled into the resteraunt/antique store through the rain and around the corner....there were my five closest friends there for dinner. i'd been sort of anxious about asking anyone down because it was also the same weekend that everyone started classes up at school and it was jonathan's birthday just the day before....so i was sort of just planning on a night with just toby and i. but there they were: nacho, brian, michael, jonathan, and jess z. its hard to suprise me; i was suprised. we ordered a ton of food and the hot server girl brought me a piece of strawberry cake with buttercream frosting gratis for my birthday. and there were presents, too...sweet, well thought out presents. in the order in which they were opened, i received: from jonathan, a tapestry in yellows and deep reds of a sun and moon...from brian m, the infinite jest with an inscription about having plenty of time to read it during my quarter life crisis (i love him!), radiohead buttons from michael and a homemade cd (my favourite) of something jazzy...and a brochure from the vespa store in oakland. a book on beltane and a handmade hemp necklace with a shell from the shore from nacho. after we ate, we headed to brian and jonathan's house to play a full game of trivial persuit, waiting out the most gorgeous thunderstorm we had all summer into the early hours of the morning. my boyfriend is incredible. my friends are incredible. i turned twenty five last week and have yet to start to feel the famed quarter life crisis. so far, so good. (i'm starting to think it was just a lie they told us, anyway...like an excuse to be pathetic.) blessed be, kittens. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .what came before. - .what happened next. a diamond at the bottom of the drain - 20 october 2017 |
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