weeknotes 32.1 birthday edition
hi it is my birthday. i turned 32 today. so i will number weeknotes now because i hate thinking of titles and this is convenient. it's painful because next week i'll probably be late/early posting the next two weeks because i'll be traveling. i'll allow this awful start because i just need to do it before i can hold myself to some standard that i've yet to set. i'm also just going to ignore that despite turning 32 today, i'm calling it 1, but also talking about the prior week when i was 31?? are my weeknotes future or past? does it matter or am i just forcing myself to post once a week. time is made up.
somehow turning 30 and 31 didn't feel like i was "in my thirties" but 32 definitely does.
i'm going to do weeknotes wrong which is a great way to start the first one.
- i did get two recognition awards at work this past week and you get some points. which dont mean anything whose line is it anyway style.
- i also booked all the hotels, and the esim. ill do the immigration thing and then i'm ready to go!!
- i finally did that blog post about japan that nathan was waiting for. and while i hate it i'm at least done with it. it was a good chunk of my free time spent on it this past week and i only posted it because i actually forced myself to do it at work. i think my biggest issue is that it felt kind of aimless. just text and photos on a page. and its a blog post so it really isnt that serious. but i feel unsatisfied with it. i feel like there was a huge disconnect between my lived experience and being able to share it. i don't know how i did that on tumblr dot com. maybe age. maybe i don't know what feels safe to post or what i want to remember and look back on. probably because i dont know what my brain is thinking and it takes a little too long to think lately.
- my brothers birthday was saturday. at his request i baked him a carrot cake with chocolate frosting. yesterday we went out to celebrate our birthdays. and as an embarrassing aside, growing up i thought your birthday had to be close to your siblings birthday because it happens to be like that in my family. i realized that wasn't true a little too late.
- my friend felician who is new appearance to the mariah blogimatic universe but will be in the next post i have drafted up but probably wont post until i come back from japan, who knows got me a gift which was very nice despite him saying it was a box of literal shit. gift is a secret because he was so weird about it so i feel like its supposed to be a secret, but it is a very nice gift and a very nice card. drove all the way up from LA to deliver it directly to me by yelling "pop the trunk" at me.
anyways, i spent my morning at the DMV because i thought i could renew my drivers license online, and it turns out i couldn't. if only they sent me a letter and an email in july stating exactly that. so on the 9th when i decided it was finally a good time to renew the only in person appointment i could find was in the same city yvt lives, my best friend who signs my guest book because shes great. after my twelve minute appointment at the DMV i hung out with her for a few hours. and i don't know if i've ever seen her on my birthday. we went to get donuts but she forgot her wallet in the car so i paid which was not her plan.
this upcoming week i have pretty light plans because of all the cleaning that feels required to do before leaving on a trip. like cooking all random things in your fridge that will go bad.
nick also got me some flowers for my birthday. i think he has a crush on me
should i probably have a more introspective birthday post? yeah, maybe.