birthday recollection(s)

[fflo]

Well, vachementmoi, my brother, who never remembers my birthday, called me this year. I have no clue how it suddenly popped into his head, but it was kinda nice---he being my only living blood relative and all. (Yes, I'm an orphan girl.) So maybe that was all the unlikely remembering the universe could manage yesterday.

I've always thought that my birthday isn't all that important to me, but talking to the girlfriend last night I realized I carry the memory of some lousy birthday incidents from my teenage years---and there are probably more I don't recall. One of THOSE, in fact, I know about only because one of my gifts was a little portable cassette recorder, into which I popped the short sample tape that came with it and thus with which I recorded the remainder of the birthday session. Found it years later---it's a bizarre archival item.

I still have old answering machine tapes from my 20's and early 30's, too---some day I'll sit down and play some of 'em. Many dead people will be featured.

Anybody else have tapes of the dead?

Comments

hmmm.

[vachementmoi.livejournal.com]

maybe you're right about your brother's call being all the unexpected remembering the universe could take. i don't know. and honestly, it's not that i wish he would have remembered and called me because that would have been worse, i think. it's always so tedious talking to him. i think what pisses me off more than anything is his utter disregard for his children. and the fact he always gets away with being so self absorbed and obnoxious. i'm just fed up with it, and decided since i'm trying to make other changes in my life, that i'd just tell him about it. more on this when i post re: his response, which will be after tristan is in bed.

Re: hmmm.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Your comments remind me a bit of my partner's gripe with her bio. father---who never had time to be involved with her (as he didn't with her sib.s) much UNTIL she told him she didn't want to hear from him at all any more---after he explained how her living as a lesbian is a sin and all. ("It IS?" I guess he expected her to say, "SHIT! I'd better go suck some cock!")