Birthday Greeting Rankings

My ranking of long distance birthday greetings:

• Facebook friend request from random acquaintance you wouldn't have recognized if they sat next to you on a plane but found you again thru Facebook cause you went to school together: Acceptable

• Facebook Greeting from a close friend: Questionable, consider Christmas card list removal

• Text Message: Double points

• E-Card: That is SO 2003, but triple points

• Phone call: Consider giving kidney to these people if needed

• Text Message from friend of 26 years who sends it as a joke now because I called and complained about my birthday text last time she sent one pointing out I knew her in 3rd grade and deserved a phone call: priceless, also gets kidney, maybe even liver if needed

• Birthday Card in mail: Thanks mom and dad. Does anyone else still do that?

• Flowers: HUGE. I got a pretty yellow bouquet. From a boy? Nope. From my client.  

Oh, I'm not individually judging anyone either. I'm the worst birthday rememberer there is...

Old Age

A pre-birthday story....

I was at my gym last week. It has this fancy little kiosk you sit in and it takes your blood pressure, weight, body fat etc each time you workout. Then it uploads it to a website. I like it sit in it every time I go cause it tracks my workouts (not to obsessively weigh myself) and the little bar graph is ever so slowly ticking down on all measures (slowly though). 

I was sitting in it when this group of high school kids was being given a tour at the gym. It looked like some kind of youth wellness program. The teacher taking them around pointed at the machine, looked right at me and said:

"That's a blood pressure machine for when you are old...."

Lucky for her my arm was sucked into the blood pressure cuff and I was trapped or I may have thrown a dumbbell at her head. 

Happy non-milestone, meaningless, 34th birthday to me. 

Adventures in "Social" Media

I was really bored last Saturday. I refuse to do any sort of online dating right now but I really wanted to just go and get some dinner and not by myself (2 of the 3 people I know here were out of town). So I posted a short thing on Craig's List and hoped I wouldn't end up with a serial killer.

When you post something that little confirmation box pops up where you type in the words they give you to be able to publish the  posting. 

One of my words was "Needy"

I hate you Craig.