so, last saturday was my 31st birthday.
i'm old.
ancient.
trembling with age, my fingers try as hard as they can to type these words.
i persevere, not because i feel young and only look old but because as an older person, or as we like to be called the youth challenged (but i can stomach elderly in a pinch), i am suppose to be too damned ornery to do what it is that i am expected to do. unless, of course, you find the loophole in which i am expected to be ornery.

and apparently not very intent upon writing on it as it wasn't this past saturday, it was the week before that.  i did have a very good day. My friend shawn came in from out of town and we wandered around together, played some games, went to dinner and then saw two different improv shows.  altogether it was a pretty good day.

   do birthdays just naturally become less important as life goes on?  maybe they do, i dunno. i certainly haven't been making a big deal about them in the past few years.  if shawn hadn't told me he was coming to town and wanted to do something with me, i doubt that i would have done anything at all.  come to think of it, i haven't received a present this year either.  not that i am asking for pity or anything, i mean shawn spent the day with me and bought me dinner.  and my parents are going to give me something when i pick it out.  but the point is that i just don't seem to care.
   and while i did spend some money during those two weeks i didn't buy anything thinking as i purchased it that it would be my gift to myself. maybe i have a huge case of maturity or something. i wonder if there is a cure.  it doesn't' seem reasonable that i would be mature.  swoosh.

the day after that, was, of course, my annual oscar party. it was a lot of fun. the program itself was less fun that normal, what with the lack of red carpet and the toned down performance but at least Steve Martin was biting, witty and damned funny.  that was grand.

   there were prizes given out and a statuette was given out to the person who won the oscar pre-pick competition.  you know, some day i am going to have an ok showing in that competition myself. i mean, gosh, i was the only one in the room that had seen more than 4 of the big movies. and there was only one other person who had seen more than 2. 

ok. this is a shorty. cause i want it to be.
next entry....look for stuff about the cat.  i left him alone this weekend...