Birthdays suck.

[kellinator]

Thursday is my birthday. I'll be 26.

Unfortunately, that means it's time for the obligatory yearly post in which I bitch about my birthday.

For the past several years, my birthday has generally been one of the worst days of the year.

Let's review:

2003 -- Was just getting started on The Breakup That Wouldn't End. Depressed, got trashed in Decatur and drunk-dialed and sounded like an idiot.

2002 -- I don't remember much about it, but I was in grad school so it must have sucked.

(Edit: Checked my LJ for that day. Yes, it did indeed suck. A lot.)

2001 -- The exception on this list. I met alanator for the first time. (I have to point this out because otherwise he'll make a bitchy comment about that birthday and was it one of my worst ones?)

2000 -- That year mostly sucked, so I'm pretty sure that birthday did too. (How the hell did I ever remember shit before I had an LJ?)

And then there are my personal favorite bad birthdays:

1994 -- Sweet Sixteen. The high-school boyfriend (the one whose name I won't even say) didn't even say 'happy birthday.' We were on a bus trip, and when I told him how mad I was, he turned on the waterworks until I was the one apologizing. I consider this the spot where the abuse started.

1997 -- First birthday away from home at college. My "best friends" (one of which had just taken over my boyfriend) took over my TV and VCR to watch "Top Gun," a movie I had no interest in seeing, because they knew I wouldn't stop them. I ended up in tears to my mom without even being sure why. This was enough for her to tell our family doctor to put me on the first round of antidepressants, so I guess it wasn't a complete loss after all.

Comments

[stevietee.livejournal.com]

At least you won't be 31, like me! :)

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

Girl, I suggest you reverse this "sucking birthday" trend. You need to plan to do something really nice for yourself, like a small trip to someplace fun, like Vegas, or whatever other locale you prefer.

[bannanna.livejournal.com]

I have a friend getting in town from Milwaukee on Thursday night, but I know all about the birthday suckage, and I love to help prevent it when I can...if there's anything you wanna do or whatever, or if you just want some folks around, lemme know!

[gmslegion.livejournal.com]

It's my fault. My 28th and 29th birthdays were the best darn birthdays in human history, so I stole all your karma. My sincere apologies.

[ariedana.livejournal.com]

This year I think I'm going to celebrate my mom's birthday (a week after mine) and Lauren's (3 days after) and skip mine. My birthdays have generally been like yours, but last year's was special. I'll just end the birthday thing on a good note.

[idioticpoet.livejournal.com]

I hate to again be cynical..but, I learned years ago not to expect much out of my birthday. I just treat it like any other day, which lessens things. Not very helpful, but that's what works for me.

[chicating.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday...crappy birthday...so close and yet so far.Best wishes for breaking the curse...

[gladstone.livejournal.com]

I remember your 2003 birthday. I was at Twain's. You had just auditioned for Jeopardy! that morning, too!

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I kinda left that part out while whining to make my point. ;)

[jennay138.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday, killer.:)

[vernard.livejournal.com]

Fooey. I have to work thursday evening or I'd take you out on the town and show you a birthday you would never forget.:-/

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hon... *hugs* Call me tonight? You've got my number, right?

[notgruntled.livejournal.com]

Thursday is my birthday. I'll be 26.

Kid.

My birthdays have been mostly uneventful lately, but I've made up for that with an appalling string of New Year's Eve disasters. The kind that end with someone in the back of an ambulance, a patrol car, or both. Bad enough that I now spend the evening at home with Dick Clark.

Happy Birthday, he said without apparent irony. There's no better time than the present to reverse the trend.

[10dimensions.livejournal.com]

Well then. How come I'm just finding out these things? I guess we'll have to do some extra celebrating on Friday!