Katie Doyle, Girl About Town

Friday, Apr. 25, 2003 - 11:31 p.m.

So, tonight was J-Co's birthday, so we all met at PFChang's for the meal, which was unremarkable in its entirety, other than the bad waiter and the ridiculous host question was sitting on the patio "an option" for us.

In the wind.

And cold.

I said "No."

The reason I bring it up is because I gave him a set of 10 wine charms...Buffy wine charms. Which I had to make, because of course, no one in the Buffy merchandising department has had the foresight to make them available. So should any of you have rabid BTVS fans among your friends, I would like to state quite happily that the Buffy wine charms went over very, very well. He was thrilled with them, though I did have to explain the Angel charm, since it was a celtic knot kinda looking thingie; I could not find a claddagh charm anywhere.

And then, of course, I also gave him a keychain that said WWBD?, and he liked that too. :) And I was finally able to give him a birthday present he did not already have, which is a wonderful thing, because somehow, every single Christmas and birthday, whatEVER I choose to give him is something he already has. Really, I was getting to be quite beyond myself with the duplication. And it's stuff like I go and buy it, and then the day before his birthday, he goes and buys it for himself. Which begs the digression, why do people go and buy things they have wanted for ages immediately preceding a birthday or Christmas? WHY??? Do they not realize it totally messes it up for all their friends, who have already hunted high and low to find that perfect something??? Seriously, people, STOP DOING THAT.

Anyway, every time I give him a present, it's the same thing: "Oh, I love it...I already have it." Actually, sometimes it's varied with "What a cool present...I already have it," but you get the idea. So I was quite happy that for once I was able to give him something he did not have, and indeed had to ask, "What are they?" And when I (and the other people at the table) said "Wine charms," we still had to explain how they work. (He *is* a guy, afterall.) But once he knew what they were, he fully dug them and was quite amused. So I think that's now up there with the C3PO/R2D2 talking piggy bank that also played the theme to Star Wars I gave another friend of mine last year for Christmas. The same guy's ringer on his cell phone is the theme to Battlestar Galactica, so you know that piggy bank was the bomb. :)

So that's pretty much it. I'm going out to Palm Springs to see Gam tomorrow. I have no idea what I'm going to say to her. It's very hard to carry on a conversation with someone who is deeply hindered in their capacity. You have to phrase your stuff pretty simply and not talk about abstract things. It's a lot harder than it sounds, and this was a really boring week, so I don't know what to say to her that she will find enjoyable and interesting instead of thinking "my god, why am I stuck in bed while this mindless creature is able to walk around and do stuff?"

Anyway.

Peace out,
Katie

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