Introverts, how is your day?

[T.o.b.y]

I hate the traditional birthday party. Hated it even when I was a kid (especially when I was a kid). Fortunately, my birthday is fairly close to a holiday and so my parents and I were hardly ever home that day.

 

I like to keep it a private affair. Last year, I brought cake to work and nobody stopped to ask why. That was a little... Sobering, after all my colleagues had gotten congratulations on their birthdays. But I would rather have it this way than be obligated to throw a party.

 

If it's hard to find good cake at a store or bakery, why not make your own? You can cut some of the sugar from most recipes and they will still work just fine.

[Artemis]

Only because I don’t feel like it, lol. I’ve done a lot of cooking lately, I’m tired.

 

Normally I don’t find cake too sugary, but this one... way too much. It was just like eating spoonfuls of sugar, no other flavor. Bluhck.

[Pseudonym]

 

So, did you do anything in the end? Or think of anything to do?

 

Thought this was apt for an introvert thread. My version of introvert at least. 

 

[Artemis]

^ :lol:

 

So, did you do anything in the end? Or think of anything to do?

 

I did see a movie, but I spent the rest of the night at home, which was alright.  I'm still thinking of planning something else though, for a later date.  I've tossed around a few ideas, but after looking around a little, nothing is really striking my fancy.  I'm going to keep my eyes open for something that might interest me.

 

I always end up sick when there's something I'm really excited about doing for my birthday, lol.  One year I wanted to see the Ice Castle.  Another year there was a Pompeii exhibit I was dying to see.  Another year there was a play.  Another year it was cosmic sledding.  Another year, for a short time, they were giving public tours through the Sherlock Holmes Collections archive at the University of MN.  I was super excited for that!  Rawr.

 

P.S.  I just learned there's a whole series of books about Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota, such as "Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders", lol.  Author is Larry Millett.

 

[Pseudonym]

Never heard of cosmic sledding before! Looks snazzy.

 

Is Sherlock American in them?!

[Artemis]

No, he's just over there for some reason or another.

 

(Edit: Cosmic sledding is basically just sledding at night, with blacklights and laser lights and such to make everything glow.  Much like cosmic bowling, if you've ever heard of that.  There are usually other activities going on if you want to take a break from sledding, and a warm-up area with hot chocolate and cookies and stuff like that.  I always thought it looked like fun, but there hasn't been another event close to me in ages.)

 

 

[Pseudonym]

Ah good. There are some characters that just don't work when they are transplanted to be another nationality. I'm all for him going walkabout though!

[Artemis]

I totally agree.

 

 

[J.P.]

Thought this was apt for an introvert thread. My version of introvert at least. 

 

 

I usually use this one to show my lifetime dillema:

 

[Pseudonym]

Yup, thats me too! Aw, I love Garfield. Or at least I used to love Garfield. When I was a kid I learnt all sorts of interesting, dryly cutting words from it. A couple of years ago I decided to buy one of the current issues and it was SO BAD. Garfield was nice. The jokes weren't remotely funny. Anything witheringly sarcastic had been taken out. So disappointed. Vintage Garfield all the way. 

[Arcadia]

For awhile there, I used to plan outings for my birthday every year. And every year the weather would turn nasty. I gave up. :smile:

[Artemis]

^ Yeah, I run into that problem too. Always a snowstorm or something.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Y'all should do what the Queen does -- celebrate your birthdays in months when the weather is likely to be nice.

[Pseudonym]

Mine is in June but I still usually get scabby weather. Go for July or early August.

[Artemis]

Nah, I don't like that idea.  I want to celebrate my birthday when it's my birthday.

 

 

[T.o.b.y]

I love the fact that my birthday is in the winter. I am a winter person through and through.

[Artemis]

I don’t mind my birthday being in winter. Actually as a kid I always liked its placement on the calendar, because I was always sad to see Christmas go, and my birthday was some consolation. Having something else to look forward to, even if it was never a big thing, eased me out of the holidays. Yet it was far enough from Christmas that people were mostly back to their regular routine, and were already starting to say “Christmas seems like ages ago.”

 

Autumn is my favorite season though. Summer is my least.

[Arcadia]

Spring's my favorite since I've lived in Virginia, in spite of my spring allergies. It's just so pretty around here. Winter was my favorite when we lived in the mountains, because it was ... well, so pretty. Hm. I'm sort of predictable, aren't I?

[Pseudonym]

I don't think I have a favourite. I do a lot more in the summer, so possibly that, though I'm not a big fan of daylight - I'm one of those people who always has my blinds closed and am most comfortable in the dark. I wouldn't mind winter if I didn't have to go out and could work from home. Spring is nice because everything is coming back to life and there are baby animals about, autumn the leaves are pretty and it's crisp without being unbearably cold. 

[Arcadia]

Ugh, summer's a misery in this area. High heat, higher humidity. I remember when I first moved here reading a line in the paper ... "Washington DC is the only place that when night comes, it doesn't get cooler, it just gets darker." Still true. :(

[Pseudonym]

Where as here it's a misery because it never seems to stop raining enough to actually be called summer. Summer - rain. Winter - rain. Spring and autumn, you guessed it, rain. 

[T.o.b.y]

We have rain year round where I live too. I don't mind. I like rain.

 

I like all seasons actually. I wouldn't want to live in a part of the world that doesn't get them. But I often don't feel so well in summer - hot, sweaty, bloated, disgusting. Winter just seems to agree with me better.

[Artemis]

We have rain year round where I live too. I don't mind. I like rain.

 

I like all seasons actually. I wouldn't want to live in a part of the world that doesn't get them. But I often don't feel so well in summer - hot, sweaty, bloated, disgusting. Winter just seems to agree with me better.

 

^ Same here.

 

I like some things about summer, but overall I dread it.  Summers here are very humid, and the heat just hangs in the air, even at night.  I overheat easily and am prone to heat sickness; I feel drained with too much light exposure; I react strongly to bug bites, especially the itchy kind; and I have a phobia of wasps.  I'm much happier when the mosquitoes and yellow jackets start to die, and it starts to get darker, and the weather cools down.  I don't think I could live anywhere without seasons either.  They each have their own beauty and it makes my year more enjoyable.

 

 

[Arcadia]

Right. I've lived in two places, Thailand and Florida, where you essentially have two seasons; hot and damp, and hotter and damper. No desire to return to either. And California; decent humidity, but booooring temperature-wise.

 

So come the storms of winter, and then the birds in spring again. I have no fear of time. (Sandy Denny)

[Carol the Dabbler]

California; decent humidity, but booooring temperature-wise.

 

Yup, in coastal southern California, there are two seasons -- green and brown.  You can just about bet that at any time of the year, summer or winter, day or night, the temperature will be somewhere between 40 and 80.  A native proudly asked me what I thought of the weather, and I said you don't have weather.  And they said well whaddaya call this?  And I said you have a climate.  (There are scarcely any day-to-day variations.)  As you say, boring.  I remember saying to myself, well I'll do that in the spring -- and then realized it was April.

 

Anyhow, back here in the real world, my ranking of the seasons (from most favorite to least) is Autumn, Spring, Summer, Winter.  (You'd think that meant I woulda loved California, and I did for a while, but see Boring, above.)