happy birthday jerms

whew. the end of a stressful week.
had to work super late every day this week.
got my 50% drawing submission done though. it's quite amazing that at the age of 27, i will already get to see a building designed and built.

it's weird though because a lot of my stress this week wasn't about the job but the life i was neglecting on the side. jeremy's birthday is today (16th). i fretted for two weeks on what to get him. i can honestly say that for the first time in 10 plus years, i have not known what to buy him. in the past, i usually buy him 6-10 presents for his birthday. this year, a complete and utter blank.

a part of me felt guilty because i thought that maybe work was interfering with my thought process. maybe if i had been around more, i'd know what he wants. but then i started taking inventory of everything he ever wanted and all the things he already has. there is almost nothing left. for this birthday, he told me all he wanted was permission to dual out his truck (two mufflers twice the noise). but i've pretty much been refusing. i could never submit to allowing that kind of excessive nuisance.

so. instead of getting him some object of monetary value, i decided to get him a memory event. there are few events in our lives...lack of time..lack of will. we prefer to stay at home and play on our computers.

i bought tickets for him, myself, my brother, and our friend eric to go see the Spur's Basketball game tonight. I figured we could go hang out at the river walk and have a late lunch...then go to the game.

So, here's the message I wrote in my birthday card to him:
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JERMS
What do you get a guy who has everything?
Not a single person could come up with a viable answer.
Not a single one.
SO, I wrote you a poem instead....


Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Who's going to a Spur's Basketball Game?
That would be you!

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Something in me thinks he'll still be disappointed in the lack of presents but I hope my creativity will make up for most of that.