Your most fondest birthday memory, if you still remember?
my third birthday! i remember it so vividly - i woke up to have my entire bedroom floor covered in b'day presents, my roof was clouded by a good hundred balloons filled w/ helium and there were another good hundred balloons on the floor along w/ streamers and all sorts of cool shit - there was also an orange wiggly balloon the size of my bed lmao
i still remember most of the presents i got that day, and i still remember that i'd always sit on the same spot on the floor to open them (like i'd walk all the way to the other side of the room, pick one up, then drag it all the way back to The Spot)
i remember this b'day that well that my mum didn't believe half the shit i was saying when i was recalling it, but turns out she had a VHS of the day that she'd filmed on her camera and everything i'd recalled was actually true haha - i think i remember this the most bc as a kid waking up to that seemed so magical u know? it was definitely unforgettable and i've never had another b'day like it (understandably, we're a p poor family) and it was one of the last b'days i had when my parents were together :0 (not that them being split ever bothered me, but hearing them together on the VHS makes me happy)
another one that i feel could be my fondest memory would be my ninth b'day - i spent it in hospital
i'd gotten v sick suddenly and almost died (w/ a whopping body temp of abt 41.5 degrees celsius - still don't know what was wrong w/ me tho?) so i'd spent a good week in hospital on a drip, barely ate tho (like hospital food isn't that bad but when ur spending most of ur time asleep ur toast gets cold bc they don't wake u for breakfast and cold toast sucks)
anyway
i woke up on my b'day to find that one of the nurses looking after me had strung a 'happy b'day' decal along the wall and it wasn't just that that made me smile, it was the fact that i woke up briefly during the late hours of the night to find her putting it up (i was a little bummed that i'd accidentally ruined the surprise for myself but it meant a lot that she did this during the night hours of her shift)
amazingly i had recovered enough that (while the doctors DID kinda wanna keep me another night) they discharged me and i was able to go home and spend my b'day w/ my family!Â
i actually hold onto brief memories of all my childhood b'days if i can help it, things were nicer then - i remember when my mum used to make rly well done homemade cakes like a train one i had, a lala (the tellytubby) one filled w/ those lolly bananas, and one of mixy
(god googling her she's a lot scarier than i remember) that i loved! tho my fave cake i still insist on getting despite nearly being 20 is the freddo icecream cake lmao (i'm certain they changed the recipe or smthn tho bc it doesn't taste as good as it used to back in the day)
What do you usually receive as gifts on your birthday?
when i was younger i'd get clothes, dragon ornaments, and trinket boxes (bc despite being a boy i collect them lol) - but now i just get w/e few things my mum can afford ;w; last year i got a pig the pug plush, an abra plush, a dreamcatcher, and a calendar w/ a pug on the cover haha (i'm honestly surprised she went out of her way to get me a pokemon plushie tbh, she's... never been too fond of my collection and keeps trying to convince me to sell it 😅)
Are you looking forward to your next birthday?
maybe :0 i mean not looking forward to being 20 but hopefully i'll actually have my ID by then (still waiting for it to come in the mail - i would've got it back when i turned 18 but i haven't been able to afford it until recently) so maybe i'd finally just be able to go out and get fucked up w/ my mates
well... not completely 'fucked up' i pass out if i drink too much and i don't exactly wanna spend my b'day asleep lmao
but nah i'd just be happy if i got to spend some time out w/ friends :0 i wish i could hang out w/ all of them but after highschool half of them moved to the city for university so i doubt i'd be able to haha
i wrote a lot more than most ppl i'm sorry---