Currently I’m thinking about birthday gifts. It isn’t because it’ll be anyone’s birthday soon, rather, it was because Vance a friend of mine, asked that supposedly magical question: What do you want for your birthday? I guess under a normal circumstances one would have an answer ready for this common question. Unfortunately, I was not prepared and was absolutely stumped. Does that make me a person who lacks desire for material goods? Or does this just make me a person who isn’t staying conscious about what I want; not only in materialistic goods, but in life as well? After a while of thinking I managed to scrounge up a pathetic answer, which really didn’t involve an item of desire – as it was pointed out to me – but more like “what you would want for the future. ” My answer? “I want to have a more organized and kipple-free room” or along those general lines. Now that I think back on it (3 days after the discussion), I realized that it really was just a something I’d want for the future. It’s not something I could get as a gift. I mean I could, but honestly, if someone else cleans my room I’m going to end up flipping my room upside down to find my favorite mechanical pencil if I don’t know where things are.
I finally figured out what I would want, though: Gift certificates to art classes. Actually I had more that I had thought of, but now as I write my blog entry I can’t remember any of the others. So I assume Gift certificates to art classes or miniature classes would be the most significant.
This made me remember about someone talking about how they wanted a coach bag or diamond earrings. I guess what I would really want would be to make a awesome steampunk earring holder! Or making a light box. Pretty much anything that involves organizing will rock my boat it seems. Maybe this is a good thing, honestly, I’d probably end up losing nice earrings unless they connected me to the interwebs all the time.
p.s. It’s not my b-day soon anymore, it has long past… but better late than never eh? ;p