It’s My Birthday

Daily writing prompt

What are you doing this evening?

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I am not doing anything this evening because I didn’t plan for it. No one has said that they want to take me anyplace on a Wednesday. But Aaron is coming over this weekend and I’m going to visit my family at the end of the month. My birthday celebrations are planned, just not on my official day.

That seems to be the way every year as adults are busy during the week. I have spent my birthdays as an adult alone most years, with parties planned for the surrounding weekends. The best I got today was a free drink from Starbucks, which I ended up paying for because I was locked out of the app and couldn’t get it to work to claim my birthday drink. I’ll fiddle with it and go to Starbucks again this afternoon.

I’m hoping that I get some Starbucks birthday money, because that’s how I fund my coffee the rest of the year. 😛 Bags of beans are quite economical as birthday presents, and I usually get a mug to commemorate the day. It makes me happy to buy something tangible because the beans will get used quickly. I like Komodo Dragon almost as much as Cafe Bustelo.

The drink I got, in case you’re curious, was a venti no whip mocha frapp with two shots of espresso. It was the perfect pick-me-up for all I have to do today. This mostly involves putting on the gangsta rap and getting it handled, and by that I mean laundry.

It will probably take most of the evening.