Crappy Birthday to Me

Yes, you guessed right. In the midst of all this ruined vacation and awful leg pain, today is my birthday. As the song goes, It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To.....and that's exactly what I'm going to do today because I'm still "Les Miserables". I just can't believe that I can't get any relief from this misery. Trying to get an appointment with my specialist is another nightmare. Two calls to his office on Friday weren't even returned.

Added to this already existing nightmare is a job that you can never be free from for even one day. Last night at 9PM, I finalized a huge deal (which could only mean more gifts for the baby to come), only to get a call at 9AM this morning telling me that it all might be falling apart. These things happen all the time but come on........does it have to happen on my birthday? So from 9AM until at least 1PM, I was on the phone trying to save this deal from extinction. I still don't know if I was successful or not but I'll know by tomorrow morning.

People are telling me that my blog doesn't even sound like me anymore. I'm beginning to think it's kind of funny at this point. There's nothing I can do but continue to be in pain until I can get in to see the doctor and get a shot. There's nothing I can do about my once a year special day that will now go down in history as my worst birthday ever. There's nothing I can do about work because what will happen will happen no matter what I do. So I'll just keep on blogging in total misery until I'm without pain. That's all there is to it.

My ever faithful brother Kelly did send me a nice surprise....a $125 gift card to The Borgata Hotel in Atlantic City to be used at any of their restaurants or spas. Michael is buying me a new cell phone as soon as I'm well enough to go shopping for it with him. My brother Bobby called and is getting me a new addition to my Christmas In The City village. My girlfriend Paula from high school sent me a funny ecard this morning. My girlfriend JoAnn wrote about me and my birthday in her blog. My girlfriend Nance sent me a nice card. I'm not home to get any of my other cards but I'm sure there are a few there. Bob was supposed to be buying me a new Louis Vuitton bag but, at the last minute, the one I thought was black turned out to be purple so that's on hold now. So other than that, I'm also "giftless in Avalon" on my birthday. It's the first birthday in my entire life that I didn't have a present to open.

Well, there's still four hours left in this miserable day. Perhaps the baby will be born and that will be the best present ever. Oh wait......it can't be today. I'm in too much pain to get there.

So it's only 365 days until next August 10th, I hope it will be a better birthday than this one was.