It's my birthday. Whee.

I'm feeling a little whiny, since we can't do anything for said birthday. Money's tight. And then I thought, "Wait, have we been able to do anything on my previous birthdays?"

This year I'm getting some shirts, but I don't really count those since they weren't technically a birthday present, but rather a "I only have four shirts, I'm ordering more shirts" kind of a thing. Sephora tucked "Happy Birthday" lip gloss into my last order, which was also not a gift, though I guess you could the re-ordering of my face scrub a gift to myself.

I went off looking for posts, notes and journal entries.

2008: There were no posts pertaining to my birthday anywhere near my birthday. I certainly don't remember doing anything then. So I'm guessing that would be... nothing? Also, I'm not posting in a whiny way about stuff I could be doing, so I wasn't stoically refraining from whining. Unlike now.

2007: No posts. I posted about something entirely unrelated, trying to get recs for kid's movies. Again, keeping my chin up, probably because we weren't doing anything of note.

2006: See 2007.

2005: I posted about being flattered that I was carded when I ordered a Frangelico coffee drink with my brunch, as I was 28. So, nothing that year either.

2004: I was volunteered to make a bunch of food for a family function that was just a random family function and had nothing to do with my birthday. Apparently, no one looked at the calendar when they promised my culinary skills. (I get the feeling that I wasn't consulted on the date, as the post reads as if I was blindsided.) Everyone was there to visit with an uncle on my husband's side who lives across the country and doesn't visit often, so I took pains to not bring it up, since I didn't want them baking me a pity bundt cake on a day not intended for me. Birthday was seemingly forgotten.

2003: I received a gift card to Borders books (where I apparently purchased the Barzun book in the previous post, depressingly), and was glad I had shown no signs of schizophrenia (there's a family history of it). But we didn't do anything due to my husband being sick. I was promised we would as soon as we were able, but I don't see a follow-up post to that effect.

You know, I'm tired of this. I know that this year we have no money to speak of, and that may have even been the story last year, too. But I don't believe that was the case before. I think I've been enough of a "good sport" and that I should get to have a birthday now, too.