Happy Birthday to Me!
by Kym on August 19, 2009
I am going to spend the entirety of my day doing whatever I darn well feel like. The end result could be very interesting indeed…or perhaps, rather dull, since my list of things I really want to do includes things like bubble baths and favourite books and copious amounts of baked goods. My long cherished desire of jumping out of a plane some day is being postponed at the request of my husband who says I’m welcome to do so…AFTER the kids have been raised. He’s so sweet.
As for the ole blog, I’ve decided on a whim to share little known Kim-Factoids with you in celebration of my special day. Of course, this may prove tricky because of the whole open’n'honest thing I’ve got going on here. Is there anything I haven’t told you yet? Specifically, is there anything INTERESTING I haven’t told you yet?
1. I eat my food naked. Oooo…that sounds so naughty, doesn’t it? But I’m talking condiments here, people. Dry hotdogs. Dry hamburgers. Dry sandwiches. No sour cream on my potatoes. I am very much a detester of condiments. When I eat a food I want to taste the food. Label me a freak if you must.
2. Oh my. I just thought of something I am NOT going to share. Seriously. You do not want to know. A word of warning though? If you’re coming to visit me, PHONE first. You’re welcome.
3. I love nature too much to have it inside my house. My thumb? Is the black thumb of death. While I’d love to have a house covered in greenery and all things flowery and lovely, the guilt would simply eat me alive. It bothers me that something that makes me happy is something I seem destined to destroy. There’s a twisted sort of irony there.
4. I never plan my blog posts in advance. I get a little writerly sort of itch…and then I feel the blogging mood descend. I sit, I ponder a moment, and then I write whatever pops into my head. This, I am sure, explains a lot.
5. The smell of coffee makes me gag.
6. I suffer from self-inflicted personality disorder. I’ve given different aspects of myself different forms of the name Kimberly as labels (Kim, Kimmy, Kimberly…). This makes for some interesting bouts of introspection, let me tell you. And yes, I have considered seeking professional help…
7. When I was eighteen my boss and my pen pal both gave me the same nick-name within about two days of each other. Total twilight zone-ish moment. The name? Kimbo. At first, I loved it. It put me in mind of Rambo. And then, a horrific realization. Kimbo…Bimbo…by then though, the name had stuck.
8. Catch me from the right (wrong?) angle and I have two chins. Hence why I take my own online headshots, holding the camera WAY up high. Being on the tall side, there are far too many double-chinned photos of me floating around…
9. Much like the plants issue, I love animals too much to have a pet. Your average dog or cat deserves better than me.
10. I am the queen of writing birthday cards. I write long, heartfelt messages in them. The sort that will make a person blush or perhaps even tear up a bit. Shame that I never remember to mail them…
11. I often buy books I’ve never read, read them, think of someone I know, and then want to give the book to that person. But I don’t. Because I’m selfish like that and a small part of my sense of self-worth is tied up with how many books I own. Sometimes? I think I’m utterly ridiculous.
12. During in person interactions I tend to over share to a huge degree. You’re shocked, aren’t you? So yeah, making friends in person is a real struggle for me. Most conversations I have involve the semi-sane voice in the back of my mind hissing at me to just shut up already.
13. Sometimes, when unexpected company is on its way over, I hide dirty dishes in the oven. Recently, I turned the oven on and filled the whole house with the smell of my favourite tupperware container melting into oblivion. Sigh.
14. I’ve slowly been replacing my bathroom toiletry items with natural/organic products. Most are made with fruit extracts. Honeydew shampoo. Mango conditioner. Pomegranate body wash. Yup, I wander the world smelling like a fruit salad.
15. I have some serious inner ear issues and sometimes I just randomly fall over. This has often proven embarrassing.
16. I save every sweet note and thank you card I receive and keep them in a little photo album. I try to remember to flip through this when I’m feeling low/worthless.
17. Biggest pet peeve ever? People who jay walk SLOWLY. If you’re going to break the law and risk your life? Be quick about it already!
18. I’ve stopped wearing make up. It’s been about a week now. Years of acne induced trauma need to be gotten over for me to be comfortable with this but my skin is VERY happy right now.
19. I prefer (cold) water to just about every other drink out there. I quit drinking soda several years ago and now when I have it I get a very upset tummy. If a rootbeer float is on offer I have a hard time resisting though…
20. Recently I went to have my haircut (not with my regular gal – so, so foolish). The moment I sat in the chair the hairdresser ran her fingers through my hair and proclaimed, “I know just what you need!” and began cutting. And gave me the exact hair cut I did NOT want. I? Was too passive to protest. I’m really weak willed like that.
21. I thought about writing 31 of these, since that’s the age I’m hitting this year, but I’m tired of sitting here and I’m thinking that a bubble bath sounds pretty good right about now. 31…21…good enough. Oh, and I’m lazy, but I think you already knew that.
Have a happy day – I know I’m going to!
And Happy Birthday to my sweet, birthday sharing friend Kate. Love you, hun!
86 comments
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
by Kara on August 19, 2009 at 9:12 am. #
Is salsa a condiment? Because I love salsa. And mustard! Mmmmm. Mustard doesn’t cover up the taste of food, because it is its own food that deserves to be tasted! YUM!
I am jealous of your blogging skills. Your writing is fantastic, and it sounds like you don’t plan it or agonize over word choice or anything. My posts take forever because I do both, and it’s not like they are, oh, lyrical or anything (like another blogger I know). (You.) (Even when talking about condiments.)
Hey, I just noticed you wrote more than showed up on my Reader. And they are all funny and clever. You rock.
Happy birthday. :-D
by Beth on August 19, 2009 at 9:33 am. #
I’m getting more protective of my books. I’m missing a few from a series that I lent out and never got back. Another one has gone missing this summer… maybe I need to be more like you and hoard them about me… kind of dragon style. I’ll sleep on my pile of books… hmm… that may be a thought for my next blog post…
Oh, and happiest of happy birthdays :)
by Melissa on August 19, 2009 at 9:36 am. #
I wish you the happiest of birthdays!
by Even Odder on August 19, 2009 at 9:44 am. #
Happy birthday, Kim! You naked girl, you.
by Kristina P. on August 19, 2009 at 9:45 am. #
Happiest of Birthdays dearest Kimberly . . . and thank you for the shout-out :)
3. two words ~ silk plants . . . all of the beauty (or at least MOST of it!) . . . none of the work!
8. pure, unadulterated Kim-ness is much better than correct-angle photographs . . . ;)
10. if you ever find any unsent cards to me (not that there are necessarily any), please send them . . . better late than never in my opinion! ;)
11. i own too many books . . . want some? :) i’ve a copy of Jane Eyre ca. 1942 that i’m not likely to ever read again
much love to you! *HUGS*
by Kate on August 19, 2009 at 10:07 am. #
Have a very happy book-reading, naked-food, no-jaywalking, card-reading, blog-blabbing, LAZY kind of birthday! Enjoy it.
by Stephanie on August 19, 2009 at 10:23 am. #
Happy Birthday! Enjoy all the bubble baths and baked goods you can, birthdays are never long enough.
by Mrs. Organic on August 19, 2009 at 10:59 am. #
??Happy? Birthday to YOU!?? I hope you have a great one. I’m a little curious about number 2, but then I realize there are about 5 reasons I want to be called before you visit me, too. :)
Watch that inner ear issue with the babe! Hope your pregnancy is happy, too!
by LisAway on August 19, 2009 at 11:05 am. #
You are fabulous!!!!
Happy Birthday!
by Eowyn on August 19, 2009 at 11:05 am. #
1. Oh my gosh! My friend Kate is the same way. Which is why she and I have a hard time eating together. haha. I’m a pile-on-the-mayo-and-mustard kind of gal where sandwiches are concerned, I gotta admit.
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:08 am. #
2. Hahahaha. Good to know. Will remember to phone first. :-D
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:08 am. #
3. Ooooh, twisted irony indeed. You should write a book, expounding on that. You could have a plant who loves a person, but knows that the person will kill it. Sort of Twilight-y, with plants and plant-killers instead of humans and human-killers… It’s gonna be huge.
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:10 am. #
4. It’s amazing, then, that you always come up with something to say! If I did that, I’d only write once every three weeks or so. I think of blog posts all day and all night, and occasionally I even write them. :-D Your way? BRILLIANCE.
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:11 am. #
This list made me smile. Have a great b-day!
by Annette on August 19, 2009 at 11:11 am. #
5. I don’t really feel strongly one way or the other, but my husband loves the smell of coffee so passionately that he always drags the rest of us down the coffee aisle at the grocery store and inhales until I drag him away.
He’s never actually drunk coffee, but boy-oh-boy I think he dreams of it often. You probably don’t struggle with that particular aspect of the Word of Wisdom then, do you! hahaha.
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:13 am. #
6. I think I’ve met Kim, Kimmy, and Kimberly. I happen to like all three of them very much. :-D
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:14 am. #
7. Ooooh, freaky! it was a nickname that was meant to be! Sorry about the mix between Rambo and bimbo, though. But wow. Can you imagine a cross between Rambo and bimbo? There’s another book for you to write…
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:15 am. #
8. See, you’ve mentioned this before, and I can’t tell you how grateful I am. As another tall woman with a double chin, this tip has really helped me out in the profile-pic department!
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:16 am. #
9. Hmmm, I’m totally with you there. When I was a kid, my brother got a guinea pig. It lived for 11 years. Our childhood is full of random memories, and a guinea pig eternally in the back ground. Then I got a guinea pig, and it died within a year.
Then my sister got a rabbit. Cutest frickin’ thing ever. The rabbit lived into old age. Then I got a rabbit. It died within a month.
This story goes for every cat, dog, rabbit, bird, and fish I ever owned. And I’ve owned A LOT. Which makes me a mass-murderess.
Then my husband insisted on a dog, despite my attempts to warn him. Max is one year old now. Phew! We crossed that one year threshold! But I do fear every day that the poor beautiful thing is going to die at my hands any second now…
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:21 am. #
10. “Shame that I never remember to mail them…” — HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:21 am. #
11. I love this. That’s so funny. If you read a book that makes you think of me, KEEP the book (because I totally understand!) but TELL me, so I can go find it at the library. :-D
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:22 am. #
12. Honey, you could NEVER share too much with me. I only met you that one time (sorta two times) and I’m glad for every single burst of vocal superfluity. (But honestly, I’m the same way. I call it “diarrhea of the mouth” and I have it in a BAD way!)
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:24 am. #
13. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh, I’m so sorry that you lost your favorite tupperware, but I’m DYING here. Too funny!
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:25 am. #
14. Mmm, you must smell delicious!
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:26 am. #
15. Oh PLEASE get this on YouTube sometime! Just keep a camera running all the time at home, so that when this happens, we can all enjoy it. Seriously.
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:27 am. #
16. This. Is. A. Brilliant. Idea.
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:27 am. #
17. hahahahaha. Make that into a bumper sticker.
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:28 am. #
18. I applaud you and hope one day to follow in your footsteps!
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:29 am. #
19. You’re the person I want to sit next to at a restaurant. I’ll drink your soda, and you can have all my water. :-D (Reason #5,000,093,845 that I’d love to go hang out with you at a restaurant again…)
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:30 am. #
20. I’m TOTALLY the same way– I end up with something I hate because I didn’t know how to tell the person I didn’t want what they thought I wanted. How does that make ANY sense? But I do it anyway. But I bet that your haircut is gorgeous on you ANYWAY.
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:32 am. #
21. Wait– you can’t stop now! I have ten more comments to leave!
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:33 am. #
22. Well, okay. If you must. As a fellow 31-year old, I completely understand the desire to think of yourself as perpetually 21…
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:34 am. #
23. Hey, remember that time we went to Applebees? And stayed for, like, four hours?
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:34 am. #
24. And you practically danced on the table?
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:34 am. #
25. And it was hilarious? And then we went to Walmart? HAHAHAHAHA. That was seriously a highlight in my life.
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:35 am. #
– Hold Please — (My children seem to think that even though it’s your birthday, they should still get lunch. I know, right? What’s up with that?)
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 11:36 am. #
A couple of those I learned about you yesterday. Naked potato girl. Too funny. :D You are an amazing writer and I love reading your stuff. I wish I was so eloquent when I wrote, but alas I am not. lol I try but really it never happens! Happy, Happy, Happy, birthday!!!!!! Hope you have a wonderful day, of bubbles and such. :D ((HUGS))
by Candace on August 19, 2009 at 12:05 pm. #
Happy Birthday kim!! Hope you have a great day! Cold water is my drink of choice as well. ;)
by Kiera on August 19, 2009 at 12:47 pm. #
Happy happy birthday, Kimberly dear.
(And pretty sure I love you.)
by That Girl on August 19, 2009 at 1:17 pm. #
Happy Birthday you sweetie-pie! (Since you sign your emails to me as Kim, I *have* to know which side of her personality she represents!)
by Heidi Ashworth on August 19, 2009 at 2:17 pm. #
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIM!!!
I’m breaking my self-imposed time-out just to come and tell you how much I adore you and love you and wish you the happiest of happy birthdays!!!
I loved every bit on your list (because now I just know you better!) Love you, love you!
by L.T. Elliot on August 19, 2009 at 3:07 pm. #
and a second one just to say “you’re wonderful and fabulous and I love you tons and tons!”
by L.T. Elliot on August 19, 2009 at 3:08 pm. #
and a third one just to say again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! *hugs*
by L.T. Elliot on August 19, 2009 at 3:08 pm. #
I’m getting here at the end of the day, so I hope you have had a fantastic birthday. I loved getting to know you better. Happy birthday!
by Erin on August 19, 2009 at 6:25 pm. #
26. I have a photo of you and my kids at Temple Square. It makes me smile every time I see it.
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 6:50 pm. #
27. You are a dear friend and a brilliant writer and I am so glad I know you.
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 6:50 pm. #
28. And I can’t wait to see where your writing takes you. When you’re rich and famous, you won’t forget about us, will you?
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 6:51 pm. #
29. One of the things I love most about you is your absolute honesty. Life is gritty and you’re willing to tell it like it is. That’s one of the reasons why I find you and your blog so very refreshing!
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 6:51 pm. #
30. I have this daydream that maybe we’ll all meet up at a writers conference. Maybe next year? That would truly be a daydream-come-true.
by Brillig on August 19, 2009 at 6:52 pm. #