oh a mystery
Aug. 30th, 2019 02:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7via https://ift.tt/2MMv7ji
i got home yesterday to find one of those UPS post-its on my door. We Tried To Deliver You A Packidge But Nobody Home, it said. It had checked off that they’re not trying again, I have to go tomorrow (today) to their Pick Up Your Shit center, which happens to be right by work, and Sign For It In Person, after 1pm.
It had my name on it, too, so I know it’s for me.
Now, it was just my birthday. But I saw my mom and all my sisters. And there’s nobody else in the world, I don’t think, who’s gonna get me anything. Dude didn’t get me anything. My bestie already gave me my present in person like a month ago, she’s bad at waiting. Farmsister forgot to get me anything but if she does it’ll be like, beer, and it’ll be at the farm next time I go.
I asked Dude straight out if he knew anything about it, and he refused to give any kind of answer, not even an absence-of-answer, and I genuinely don’t know whether that means he ordered something or not; we just didn’t discuss him getting me anything, and I assumed that he’d just figured the outing was my gift, which is fine. I just ordered some stuff online but #1 I know they didn’t send it signature confirmation and #2 I just got a tracking number yesterday, they’re not arriving yet.
So on the one hand I’m all like ooOOOoohhh a MYSTERY maybe it’s a LAVISH GIFT from a hithertofore UNKNOWN ADMIRER but I am 1) old and 2) tired and so I am mostly thinking that it is going to be something quotidian I forgot about, but I am definitely thinking that I really should not give myself the extravagance of getting worked up over it because I hate getting disappointed and I have done a lot of getting disappointed in my life, and my look-on-the-sunny-side reflexes are well-worn but also kind of, well, worn.
So I’m trying not to be curious, but also trying not to totally forget to go get the thing later. It’s a balancing act.
i got home yesterday to find one of those UPS post-its on my door. We Tried To Deliver You A Packidge But Nobody Home, it said. It had checked off that they’re not trying again, I have to go tomorrow (today) to their Pick Up Your Shit center, which happens to be right by work, and Sign For It In Person, after 1pm.
It had my name on it, too, so I know it’s for me.
Now, it was just my birthday. But I saw my mom and all my sisters. And there’s nobody else in the world, I don’t think, who’s gonna get me anything. Dude didn’t get me anything. My bestie already gave me my present in person like a month ago, she’s bad at waiting. Farmsister forgot to get me anything but if she does it’ll be like, beer, and it’ll be at the farm next time I go.
I asked Dude straight out if he knew anything about it, and he refused to give any kind of answer, not even an absence-of-answer, and I genuinely don’t know whether that means he ordered something or not; we just didn’t discuss him getting me anything, and I assumed that he’d just figured the outing was my gift, which is fine. I just ordered some stuff online but #1 I know they didn’t send it signature confirmation and #2 I just got a tracking number yesterday, they’re not arriving yet.
So on the one hand I’m all like ooOOOoohhh a MYSTERY maybe it’s a LAVISH GIFT from a hithertofore UNKNOWN ADMIRER but I am 1) old and 2) tired and so I am mostly thinking that it is going to be something quotidian I forgot about, but I am definitely thinking that I really should not give myself the extravagance of getting worked up over it because I hate getting disappointed and I have done a lot of getting disappointed in my life, and my look-on-the-sunny-side reflexes are well-worn but also kind of, well, worn.
So I’m trying not to be curious, but also trying not to totally forget to go get the thing later. It’s a balancing act.
