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Lil's Atelier
Social Life Begins and Ends With Etiquette
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Posted Dec 18, 2011 by  aka Bel
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My birthday is on Boxing Day. Sure, I got presents, but it m´never really felt like birthday. 
| | Subject: 107Xth Conversation chez Lil
Posted Dec 18, 2011 by Agapanthus
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*Enters in a little puff of blue, well, blue, because of the swearing*
Aww, you people make me feel quite flustered, in a happy happy way. Thank you for all the outrageous flattery.
Re: Christmas birthdays, I am lucky enough to be born in May, so apart from a few years when I always had EXAMS on my birthday and so did everyone else and there was no party, no how, I had the jolly luck of having my celebration be all about me, and I always got two gifts, one for Xmas, one for birthday, nicely spaced out. My sister, whereas, was born within a week of Christmas, and I remember distinctly how upset she'd be to KEEP getting 'Happy Birthday and Merry Christmas!' on her single present, year after year, and I promise you, she was not getting nicer, bigger presents because they were doing double-duty. And before anyone thinks this is about materialistic desire for things, I know she'd've been happy with an empty honey-pot for Christmas and a burst balloon for her birthday, as long as the two were kept separate and her family gave some evidence of caring enough about her and her uniqueness to celebrate her birthday AS A BIRTHDAY. To this day, I always make a point of getting her two presents, and wrapping the nicer one in BIRTHDAY paper.
And I still can't believe some of my family were so careless with her feelings about it all. I'm still annoyed on her behalf about it. She has a bee in her bonnet about my being the favourite child of us two, and whatever our parents/aunts&uncles/grandparents felt, based on the way they treated us between the ages of four and eighteen, she has a point.
Which is disgraceful.
*RAWRRR*
Excuse any stray spelling and grammar. I had a migraine this afternoon - very short-lived (about three hours (oh, my BOB I am the luckiest migraneur I know)) and I'm still all 'aaagh the LIGHT!' and afflicted with super-sonic bat-hearing and I actually still have a headache. Just not THAT headache. The one where someone is scraping out the inside of my forehead and eyesocket with a specially sharpened melon-baller. I am writing this on a lap-top with the screen dimmed to barely-legible, because, as I was saying, 'aaaaigh the LIGHT'. But I was too bored to stay in the dark and carry on sulking.
Thank you Ag  , that was a beautiful summing up of why I, as a kid, used to be so very jealous of my younger brother for being born in the end of May.
| | Subject: 107Xth Conversation chez Lil
Posted Dec 18, 2011 by Agapanthus
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Speaking of which, Ti, this is a  wrapped in relentlessly birthdayish paper (cakes with candles and the words HAPPY BIRTHDAY in seventeen European languages, also Elvish and Klingon, on it). It contains a pair of socks. Green ones, with a pattern of entwined tendrils and ivy-leaves on. They smell of fresh-cut grass, daisies, roses, cherry blossom and cold white wine. In other words, totally not a Christmas present.
| | Subject: 107Xth Conversation chez Lil
Posted Dec 18, 2011 by aka Bel
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Gosh, I nearly forgot: Happy Birthday, Ti!
It's still a whole week until Christmas, it's hard to imagine parents merge that with Christmas. Ag, I'm sorry on behalf of your sister.
My siblings and I agreed many years ago not to give each other Christmas presents but they always gave me a birthday present.
Best birthday present evah!  *sniffing appreciatively into box ripped open*
Except for Ripley, I hasten to add...
Titania, Atelier's Guardian of Birthdays!
My cousin had her first child on Christmas day - he'll be six this year. Straight away her and her partner resolved to celebrate in June instead, to completely separate it from Christmas. Then last Christmas eve, her daughter was born (14 days late) so now there will be two midsummer 'official' birthdays....
Works very well for them
| | Subject: 107Xth Conversation chez Lil
Posted Dec 18, 2011 by Hypatia
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Happy birthday to my very dear, first h2g2 friend.   It's a gold chain with a flamenco dancer locket attached. is engraved "Girlfriends Forever"
Thank you Hyp - forever and ever...
for Ti, it is a week of sunshine to be used in the dark wintertime. Happy Birthday!
My youngest is a boxing day baby, he will probably never get a party on his actual birthday because so many people are away on boxing day. We have his party on the 28th, in the dull bit between christmas and new year when folks are desperate for something non-christmassy to do.
*carefully unwraps part of kelli's package, but hastily wraps it up again, almost blinded by the contents*
Must remembe to wear sunglasses next time...
Definitely a good idea to separate his birthday from Christmas 
Happy Birthday Ti It's a little box engraved with music notes and flames, when you open the lid it plays strains of flamenco music fiery enough to melt any snow drift.
I was born on Easter Sunday, so always felt like I should have two birthday celebrations when Easter falls on a different day. And never really appreciated being given chocolate Easter eggs as birthday presents.
MC
Thanks MC
Never realised Easter could be a similar dilemma to Christmas... 'someone' ought to write an entry on disappointing birthdey dates.. *hint, hint*
Tillykke med fødselsdagen, Titania [happy birthday] -
Happy Birthday Titania! here's a gloriously decorated cupcake, chocolate base, with a caramel and pecan frosting, and all miraculously only 10 calories.
And here's my decoration for the goo spruce - a little hand quilted red and gold goose. Yes, a spruce goose.
I would sing happy birthday Ti, but I can't sing.
I would instead whistle, but I can't whistle.
The only humming I can manage is when I've not had a shower.
Entertainment wise that only leaves mime, and I'm of the opinion they should be shot on sight.
So I'm afraid that my birthday greeting to you shall have to be typed by me and read aloud by you...
"Happy Birthday!"
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Posted Dec 18, 2011 by Eatsmice
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 Happy Birthday Ti
A pair of sunglasses to go with the box of sunshine. Along with a tiny bikini to ensure maximum vitamin D generation (yellow polka-dotted of course)
*Feeds the Red Squirrel some nuts*
Oh and my goo spruce decoration, it is the same snow globe as I've hung before, with the gold flecks. Inside is a tiny representation of the salon with all salonistas in their most usualy poses. If you look closely they are all in animated conversation. Please nobody press the orange button again, it took ages to clear away the glitter last time.
Also some gingerbread xmas trees decorated with sweets and icing by my boys.
I'm a third week of January baby. It sucks because it is the penultimate weekend before payday of the longest and most expensive month of the year, during a month when everyone is always on a health kick and doesn't want to go drinking and is too skint to do so even if they wanted to. As a kid I could never think of anything to ask for for christmas (never been very demanding of gifts) let alone a birthday a few weeks later. People still gave me joint presents.
If t'Other wants a half-year celebration when he is older I'm more than happy to do it, at least he could have a party in the garden!
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