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Big, Blue Bag of Happiness
I was having a crap day, but then the postman came to deliver something in a big, blue, Deutsche Post bag. It was pretty heavy. What could it be, I wonder. The last time I received a package with Deutsche Post mark, it was something from Amazon.com. As it turned out, it was no different this time.
Inside the big, blue bag was a brown, Amazon.com cardboad box and inside the box was a 2-CD album of Leonard Cohen, a novel by David Sedaris, and a big design book (yes, the book does live up to the title) off my Amazon wishlist from Steven in Belgium. Yay! That really brightened up my day. Thanks a million, Steven! :)
People have been asking me why I have very few fictions on my Amazon wishlist. The reason is, I can usually find the fictions I’d like to read in local bookstores while books on web design and development are rare and view, and when they are available, they usually cost almost twice the original price.
As for why there is no DVD on my wishlist, even though I love movies, I have no DVD player. All I have is a VCD player. A certain someone that shall remain nameless had to spend long hours burning DVDs and convert them into VCD format just so that I could see Donnie Darko and Memento, but I think he’s had enough of the hassle and won’t do it ever again :)
Now, anyone want to buy me a digital camera for my birthday next month? ;) Man, how I hate birthdays. As far as I can remember, there’s been only one happy birthday in my entire life and it was already 6 years ago. I am so not looking forward to my next birthday. It’s bound to be worse than ever because it will be my very first birthday since my mother passed away. My mother had always been the only one who would bother to try to make my birthdays a good one. I wish I could have her back for my birthday, but since I can’t, a digital camera will do. Heh. (And no, I’m not really expecting you to buy me a digital camera.)
Quacks on Big, Blue Bag of Happiness
It’s so nice to have generous friends, even if they live at the other side of the globe :-)
I share your dislike of birthdays, by the way. I believe many people don’t enjoy their own birthday at all. No matter how nice the presents may be.
I’ll sleep through my birthdays if I can help.
I always forget my birthdays but good friends remember them for me. Is it too early to wish you a happy birthday?
Hey Firda,
if you don’t want the birthday you don’t want a present either. It’s only fair. :-)
Me Talk Pretty One Day — AWESOME book. Good choices!
I’m at the age when I wince whenever I have a birthday. I suppose that I should be happy to be alive and well, but it’s the number of years gone by that just keeps increasing.
I’m delighted that you like Leonard Cohen. He’s my favorite songwriter/singer. I can listen to him for hours and I sometimes do.
Make sure to update your wish list now that your birthday is coming up. You never know. There are probably lots of people out here who enjoy making Firda happy. Anyway, you don’t really need lots. A few would do quite nicely.
I happened to trespass your website by chance, anyway, just wanna say, cool site! From your journal entries, I can come to the conclusion that you sound like a COOL person! Shit, used the word “cool” two times in such a short message, wouldn’t that put me into the illiterate bourgeousie category?
March 5 was my birthday! I don’t have an Amazon.com wishlist, but my mom bought me Compact History of the World from Barnes and Noble.
Enjoy your books :-)
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