An excerpt of somebody's birthday this year:
1. It still makes me feel a funny kind of sad even after years of telling myself that it is like any other day.
2. I started the day with a friendly 3 am call from HSBC from Manila.
3. I had a bit of a breakdown in bed and couldn't seem to get up to face the world.
4. The idea that nobody at all back home knows how isolated and miserable this situation is making me is a double-edged sword. I am glad they don't know, but I am also desperately lonely.
5. A new chum talked me out of the house and fed me soup in a Manchester soup shop. Bought a hat and a bar of honey soap.
6. Dinner with the mother-in-law in a warm house made my toes warm. She is a precious thing, that woman.
7. There was much anxiety over his lack of communication en route from Belfast.
8. Walked home an hour before midnight and found him home exhausted and asleep.
9. Biiiiig fight.
10. Slept on the couch in the front room.
Hello, 31.
In conclusion:
Surely, as I keep pushing the boundaries of how low I can get on birthdays, then the rest of my life should be an improvement...?
-End of excerpt
1. It still makes me feel a funny kind of sad even after years of telling myself that it is like any other day.
2. I started the day with a friendly 3 am call from HSBC from Manila.
3. I had a bit of a breakdown in bed and couldn't seem to get up to face the world.
4. The idea that nobody at all back home knows how isolated and miserable this situation is making me is a double-edged sword. I am glad they don't know, but I am also desperately lonely.
5. A new chum talked me out of the house and fed me soup in a Manchester soup shop. Bought a hat and a bar of honey soap.
6. Dinner with the mother-in-law in a warm house made my toes warm. She is a precious thing, that woman.
7. There was much anxiety over his lack of communication en route from Belfast.
8. Walked home an hour before midnight and found him home exhausted and asleep.
9. Biiiiig fight.
10. Slept on the couch in the front room.
Hello, 31.
In conclusion:
Surely, as I keep pushing the boundaries of how low I can get on birthdays, then the rest of my life should be an improvement...?
-End of excerpt
