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Dear Readers, this weekend contains my birthday, on which I become the answer to life, the universe, and everything! (Douglas Adams fans will have immediately deduced how old I am. Everyone else will have to use Google.)
I’m very pleased about this, and am considering whether I should attempt to do another project in celebration of it, because naturally I am not busy enough with this daily blog project + full time job + bringing up two small children. One of the nice things that has happened in my forties is that I’ve accepted that some of my flaws are never going to go away, like voluntarily taking on too many responsibilities, and that I should just accept that I’m probably not going to finish everything I start.
Anyway, as my birthday approaches, there have been cards and gifts arriving with each day’s post. Not loads, I hasten to add, but enough to keep my curiosity piqued. And thus, today’s Unscientific Poll.
I’m very pleased about this, and am considering whether I should attempt to do another project in celebration of it, because naturally I am not busy enough with this daily blog project + full time job + bringing up two small children. One of the nice things that has happened in my forties is that I’ve accepted that some of my flaws are never going to go away, like voluntarily taking on too many responsibilities, and that I should just accept that I’m probably not going to finish everything I start.
Anyway, as my birthday approaches, there have been cards and gifts arriving with each day’s post. Not loads, I hasten to add, but enough to keep my curiosity piqued. And thus, today’s Unscientific Poll.
Poll #20474 Birthday presents
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 56
When it's my birthday, I like for my gifts to be
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a complete surprise. I put them aside and don't look at or touch them until the day.
34 (60.7%)
thoroughly prodded, poked, shaken, and pondered. I consider volume, shape, sound, weight, and (if known) the giver's identity, and then I attempt to deduce what's inside.
22 (39.3%)
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It's a good age, yours. The prime of life. :)
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I usually receive monies or cards, as those are far easier to ship than actual gifts off the list. It has been some time since a surprise gift arrived, but some part of that is also that I share a birthday with a major States holiday, and therefore have essentially resigned myself to "nobody celebrates with me because they've already made plans, and several places where I might like to go are closed." I don't necessarily want to be Eeyore about it, just that I understand my place in the celebrations.
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I can't remember the last time someone wrapped up a gift for my birthday. Perhaps the ex did? Dunno. But certainly when I was a kid it was all about using whatever information was available outside the box/wrapping. Sometimes they were purposely obfuscated, for example a box with a rock in it, oh and a note saying where to go look for the next note, directing one to a third note, and ultimately to the gift itself. One December my mother was out shopping and the pickup truck died, as it happens in front of a Ford dealership, so she traded it in. There was a treasure hunt for my dad under the xmas tree, ending up with a baby blue truck and a big red bow, in the garage. I'm not sure why he hand't happened to go to the garage before that...
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I'm the one who bought most of my presents, so I know exactly what's in them, though this year I didn't open the packages when they arrived in the mail but saved them until my birthday. Spouse did actually go with the kids to buy me some cotton yarn for dishcloth knitting -- I'd told him that was what I wanted the kids to get me, so I wasn't surprised by yarn but did enjoy being surprised by the colors.
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I keep presents and cards to one side, to only be opened on my birthday, even if I know what is in them. I have certain friends that this drives round the twist because they can't help from exclaiming that I could at least open the card! It's a holdover from being a kid when cards and presents were opened after school (if my birthday was on a weekday) or after breakfast (if my birthday was on a weekend).
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