Birthdays and Bagels and Books... Oh My!

Hello! Today is Saturday, June 26. Do you know what that means? (That's a rhetorical question, since I'm about to answer it anyways.) MY BIRTHDAY IS IN FOUR FREAKING DAYS.

(The song "Different As Can Be" just came on iTunes on shuffle. This makes me happy.)

People always talk about birthdays as if they're a great thing, but I don't really like them all that much. I like being a year older, one year closer to being allowed to drive/vote/legally purchase alcohol/etc, but I don't really like the idea of my actual birthday. I guess I'm excited for the presents, because I always get plenty of gift cards for bookstores, and I love buying books. 

You see, everyone says that a birthday is "your day" and that you can do whatever you want, but it's quite a bit different when you have to share your birthday with a twin. It's just another day when I have to figure out "compromises" (Me: I like chocolate cake! "Kate": I like yellow cake! Parent: *buys yellow cake*) and listen to Kate jump around for the five minutes in which she is older than me. It doesn't actually make sense, because she's always five minutes older than me no matter what the age numbers are, but... you know what I mean. (Her name isn't actually Kate, in case anybody was wondering.) I'm also a bit bummed out that my older sister, who doesn't have a 6LCF code name, won't be here for our birthday. I hardly get to see her all summer, really. This week, I was gone; next week, she'll be gone; the week after that, I'll be gone... you get the picture. 

I had a bagel when I got back from Reading Camp today, and it was awesome. Camp had really good food, but there were no bagels for some strange reason. Like, there were extremely legit hot breakfasts every morning with eggs and bacon and the whole "nine yards" (where does that expression come from? American football?) but no bagels. I loooovvvveeee bagels.  

Speaking of Reading Camp, it was awesome. I think it's probably the most responsibility I've ever had in my life so far, and it was a lot of work, but it was totally worth it and we had so much fun. The kids improved so much, and they were all so sweet. There was a ton of junk food out during the counselor breaks (AKA while the kids were with the teachers & after they went to bed) and I think that I gained a ton of weight, but I have a week to work it off. I'm excited for next year. (For the Curly Fries who are friends with me in Real Life on Facebook, there are seven hundred pictures up that you can creep on if you wish. That wasn't an exaggeration. There might actually be more than seven hundred...) 

I feel like I've been talking about myself a lot in this post. Hmmm. 

So.... yeah. A lot to look forward to in the coming weeks. 'Tis all very exciting. 

Questions for the Comments:

1) Do you know when the new Alex Day album will be available on iTunes?  (I was just wondering)

2) What do you like and/or dislike about birthdays?

3) How's your summer been so far?

4) What's your favourite word?

5) What was your favourite book when you were a kid learning how to read?

DFTBA,

PDBAZ,

Peace, Love, & Otters,

Virgil