Selfish

Bill has a friend who I find kind of goofy, immature, and moderately irritating. Said friend has a birthday this week sometime—I'm still not sure what day it is.

He has decided to have three days of different parties, all with the same people invited. The first of these parties started Thursday night, with the last one anticipated Saturday evening.

While I think this is a bit over the top and strange it wouldn't bother me nearly as much as it does, if Saturday weren't my big (as in 30th) birthday. I find it amusing, and ever so slightly annoying, that I am jealous that I have to share my birthday with this dude. Couple that with the fact that Cyclist's birthday is the 2nd, and so he's having his festivities tomorrow night (yeah, on my birthday), and I have a few too many jealousy issues to work through.

Let's not forget that I'm dragging 7 of my closest friends up the side of a mountain to celebrate (anyone have a good recipe for vegan birthday cake best cooked at, say, 4,760 feet?). Or the fact that Bill is plotting something fairly extravagant for Sunday night. But, the thing is—Saturday is my day, and I feel totally immature for being jealous about sharing. Also, a bit sad that Bill isn't taking me out to a nice dinner to celebrate this year.

Thus, I put it to you—who's the selfish one here? I don't think it's limited to just three-days-of-parties boy.