Today I am celebrating the first of the so-called "awkward birthdays".
Although I've thought of myself as middle-aged for quite some time now, it smarts nonetheless. Oh how it smarts. It also smarts that no one on this green earth seemed to remember or care. Not even Thearea.
Not to complain or anything, but birthdays have always been an odd blank spot in my life. That's why I don't really celebrate them anymore, I guess.
Except in Cambodia, I happen to share a birthday with the king, so I watched the fireworks along Riverside and got a manicure. You know you can get them for only $5 in this country (albeit with me having to put up with the manicurist gossiping in Khmer about the ragged and bloody state of my nails [which I am now educated enough to understand]. Because I've become a feral human who bites off all her nails and hangnails. Who needs nail clippers when you have teeth, right?). Yeah and...fireworks are free.
That's something anyway. Right?
And at least now I can legitimately claim wisdom and superiority over stupid young people. I'm a REAL adult now...or just a goofy feral human, deludedly claiming a position of social superiority. One of the two. XD
Although I've thought of myself as middle-aged for quite some time now, it smarts nonetheless. Oh how it smarts. It also smarts that no one on this green earth seemed to remember or care. Not even Thearea.
Not to complain or anything, but birthdays have always been an odd blank spot in my life. That's why I don't really celebrate them anymore, I guess.
Except in Cambodia, I happen to share a birthday with the king, so I watched the fireworks along Riverside and got a manicure. You know you can get them for only $5 in this country (albeit with me having to put up with the manicurist gossiping in Khmer about the ragged and bloody state of my nails [which I am now educated enough to understand]. Because I've become a feral human who bites off all her nails and hangnails. Who needs nail clippers when you have teeth, right?). Yeah and...fireworks are free.
That's something anyway. Right?
And at least now I can legitimately claim wisdom and superiority over stupid young people. I'm a REAL adult now...or just a goofy feral human, deludedly claiming a position of social superiority. One of the two. XD
