2 posts tagged “life”
How do you feel about your birthday? Do you look forward to it and remind all your friends, or do you dread it and try to keep it a secret?
Did one of you suggest this question because it's my Birthday Month? And Jaypo's, too(morrow). You are so darn sweet.
I love celebrating my birthday. Maybe I'm just an attention whore. Maybe I just love cake. I enjoy celebrating everyone's birthday, especially when there is cake/booze involved.
As of yesterday, I was facing the sad situation of having nothing to do for my actual birthday *cough*this Friday*cough* because BDG canceled our plans. Sure, they were tentative plans but still. He's going to a Suns basketball game instead. I was not asked and although he said he wanted a raincheck, he was noncommital on setting something else up. Phooey on him. Over it.
So a good friend of mine cancelled her date with her douchebag ex-boyfriend and we're headed out for some fun and frivolity. She needs to not see that guy anyway, but don't tell her I said that. I'm proud of her for cancelling on him, because he always does that to her. She beat him to the punch this time.
Another friend took me out to dinner this past Sunday, another friend is taking me out tomorrow and Saturday is the big blow-out party with multiple birthdays to be celebrated (and non-scary cab drivers lined up already). Same goes for next Saturday as well. w00t!
Have you ever backed out on doing something you promised you'd do? Did you have a good reason for going back on your word?
Submitted by enSue.
No.
This is a huge deal for me and part of who I am and how I was raised. If you tell someone you are going to do something, you do it. They are now counting on you to live up to your word.
"I changed my mind because I just don't feel like it" is not, nor ever will be, an acceptable excuse. Those people go on the Shit List from which they don't easily come off.
If you want to see my temper go from Zero to Ballistic, cancel on me at the last minute. And yes, cancelling Friday morning for a Friday evening event still counts as last minute. Now I need to spend my entire day on the phone finding a replacement.
I'm a pretty easy going person but if you leave me hanging and put me in a difficult position because of your flakery, you have hit raw nerves. If you ditch an obligation, death and/or destruction had better be involved in some way.
Seriously.
I'm a teensy more forgiving about some people's complete disregard for the social courtesy of punctuality, but not by much. I personally would never want my friends to expect me to be unreliable, but some people are perfectly fine with it.
