TheChrisD - Rant Central

Eh, I asked for low-key!

Jeez, barely even one minute into the 2nd of July and already I’m getting hounded by e-mails, text messages and people wanting to wish me a happy birthday. Yes, I get it - I’m 19. But you really don’t have to make such a big deal out of it!

Although, I think this is turning out to be a bit of a “tradition” - everyone else in the house forcing me up just after midnight to give me their well-wishes, and then me trying to shrug it off and go back to sleep! I know everyone is enthusiastic about it (or at least they make it out as if they are), but I’m really not all that bothered about it, to be honest.

One thing I have wanted lately is for nothing particularly extravagant be put in place for the day (or weekend, in some cases). If we are going to go out for a meal to celebrate, I either insist that there’s only a few people, or that we bring my aunt Paula along - since her birthday is the day before mine (BTW, if you are by some chance reading this, Happy B-day!). And when we go to TGI Friday’s for said meal (again, tradition), I’m always really adamant that we NOT get that special birthday song sung by all the waiting staff. I didn’t mind it when I was younger as a kid, but these days I really don’t want to be the center of attention for the entire restaurant, even if it’s only for a couple of minutes!

Anyway, I’m still slightly in the dark as to what else is going to happen today. Either way, it probably won’t end up being all that different to a normal summer Wednesday - that is to say we all clear out of the house while our cleaner Emily comes, and just do stuff. There’s only really one thing I would really look forward to though - and that’s ordering my nice little Komplett shopping list so that I get to work on building my monster gaming rig

Odds of that actually happening though? Slim to none…