I Still Suck At Celebrating My Friend's Birthday

i am completely absentminded. my friend's (aimee) birthday was a while ago. happy birthday aimee! and by a long while ago... i mean... a while ago... beginning of october awhile ago... yep, i still suck at celebrating my friend's birthday.

apparently, my friend aimee got a huge bag of nothing from me this year. i normally reserve that special present for people like hot amy, who i first came up with the idea for. (it must be the name.) oh well.

with any luck, i will remember aimee's birthday next year... thanks to this blog... except that hopefully i can remember to say happy birthday on her actual birthday instead of being well over two weeks late.

anyway, aimee's birthday is october 6. you'd think i'd remember her birthday because i have known aimee for over twenty years. yep, we've known each other for quite some time. she is practically like a sister to me. heck, i used to call pretending i was dr. ruth, for no reason other than pure silliness. but that is a different story.

i also have aimee to credit for one of my favorite sayings: "the cure is god". for anyone who knows me, they would know that i'm not exactly a religious person. so the saying has absolutely nothing to do with religion. the saying actually came about because at the time, aimee was a diehard fan of the musical group, the cure.

according to my friend wikipedia, "The Cure are an English rock band that formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several lineup changes, with frontman, guitarist and main songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member."

aimee loved the cure. the instigator that i am, i used to joke about how awful the cure were. (i actually like the cure, but it was fun to joke about how bad they were with aimee... proof that my instigating ways started early.) naturally, aimee would defend the do-no-wrong band known as the cure. eventually, that led to the saying... "the cure is god". aimee has since become a diehard pearl jam fan. unfortunatley, "jam is god" just doesn't have the same feel to it.

now things haven't always been rosy between aimee and me. as pseudo-siblings are prone to do... we have had our disagreements. naturally, the instigator that i am (do you see a possible trend?), i was probably the cause of many of those arguments. we used to have summers where we would not talk to one another. those were long summers... real long. you'd think that i would learn to not get on aimee's bad side.

hopefully aimee won't hold a grudge over my forgetting her birthday, especially now since she is learning the brazilian martial arts known as capoeira. she's liable to take my kneecaps out. just kidding. seriously though, have a happy birthday aimee! i'm sorry i forgot.