Happy Birthday Gypsiyee

[Jay]

Happy B-Day biatch. To think we've known each other since I was 20 and you were 19.

[Gypsiyee]

sounds about right =) makes me feel old as hell too.

thanks Jay!

[Lyion]

Happy Birthday. Hope it's a good one!

[leah]

happy birthday, little lady!

[Tossica]

Happy birthday!~

[Lueyen]

A little late seeing this, so hope is was a good one 8).

[Gypsiyee]

that's okay, Jay was late posting it too thanks guys!

[Ginzburgh]

I kicked you out of town in the west to make room for someone who wanted to buy something.

Happy Birthday.

P.S. you've been inactive for a week, thought you were on vacation. If you come back, shoot me a telegram and I'll reinvite.

[Dimuza]

Happy B-day, late

[Drem]

happy belated bday

[Gypsiyee]

I kicked you out of town in the west to make room for someone who wanted to buy something.

Happy Birthday.

P.S. you've been inactive for a week, thought you were on vacation. If you come back, shoot me a telegram and I'll reinvite.

I said in the forum that I can't play at work anymore so to kick me out because I very rarely get on the computer at home :p

[leah]

so what did you do for your bday? anything wild and crazy? get any awesome shwag?

[Gypsiyee]

the older I get, the less birthdays matter, I think. I try to bring all the old joy back by keeping on repeating it's my birthday and declaring the whole week my birthday, haha. if I still lived back home, there would've been all sorts of tomfoolery. Not down here, though. Got dressed up and went to a nice dinner, got brought home some fancy cupcakes with candles, played poker, took the day off, turned my phone off so as not to deal with people I don't really like, looked at houses, played MLB09, found out Jonathan got the job he interviewed for.. ah, the simple things in life

really, we're trying to spend less money to a) get a new house and b) be able to budget school come fall, so it didn't matter. going to orlando for the Magic game was kind of a dual gift - early for me, late for him. I decided what I really want was to sack some money away to head down to Disney next spring since we haven't taken a proper vacation in 2 years. hopefully, we can!

[Jay]

the older I get, the less birthdays matter, I think. I try to bring all the old joy back by keeping on repeating it's my birthday and declaring the whole week my birthday, haha. if I still lived back home, there would've been all sorts of tomfoolery. Not down here, though. Got dressed up and went to a nice dinner, got brought home some fancy cupcakes with candles, played poker, took the day off, turned my phone off so as not to deal with people I don't really like, looked at houses, played MLB09, found out Jonathan got the job he interviewed for.. ah, the simple things in life

really, we're trying to spend less money to a) get a new house and b) be able to budget school come fall, so it didn't matter. going to orlando for the Magic game was kind of a dual gift - early for me, late for him. I decided what I really want was to sack some money away to head down to Disney next spring since we haven't taken a proper vacation in 2 years. hopefully, we can!

So...40th birthday? You sound like you're planning retirement lol.

[Drem]

srsly

[Gypsiyee]

who plans retirement at 40? ><

I still go out and have fun, but drunk every weekend just isn't a priority, and money's tight and about to get even tighter if I get this internship, so I spend on my favorite things: video games, movies, and poker. For 2 years I've been stuck. I hate being stuck. I like to have a plan. I don't want to end up like my sister or my mom - it's balance. And I don't care what you think of my vacation planning! Disney World rocks, man. We're planning a trip with Vyv/Mik~

[Jay]

I dunno...it just seems very unnatural to hear you plan so much shit out. As long as I've known you you've been a very spontaneous, live for the moment type of person. I'm not saying it's impossible to plan ahead while still enjoying the present, I'm just concerned that your adventurous side is being held down under the foot of your responsible side. You used to do a lot of things on a whim, maybe too much even. Still though, are you really prepared to let that part of your life go? Don't get me wrong here, professional and responsible Ashley has really impressed me over the years and it's great to have focus, goals, plans etc etc but are you really ready to let go of that adventurous side of you? I'd hate to see you have urges to travel, dance on bar counters and pursue exorbitant hobbies in the future during an inopportune time like when you have 2 kids waiting at home or something. Again, it's a concern, not an accusation or presumptuous notion that I actually know what your life is like. Shenanigans is what Gypsiyee has always been about and lately I've heard of no such shenanigans. Hey, maybe that's good?

[Gypsiyee]

there's still shenanigans, just not as many! I just plan big things out - never plan out little stuff. A vacation takes planning, you know

Plus, I really don't know as many people down here. the people dynamic is so much different here than it was back home - lots of rednecks. I work with a bunch of middle aged dudes, not exactly a good place to meet people though I do go out with a handful of people from here. I don't really get into going to the bar anymore.. so most of my friends are poker people.

I actually do a lot more now than I did when we first met - you probably just don't notice it as much because we don't talk anymore (because I'm never online anymore, which must mean I'm doing something!) When it was EQ, I never did anything but EQ, haha.

I still have urges to travel etc, the money just hasn't been there, so travel usually means a weekend in Orlando. I'm not living under a rock, I promise I just got offered a good opportunity and I have to take it, which means a severe paycut for a while which means cracking down and budgeting. January and February I was out til 7am every night of every weekend.. I just go in phases, just how I am.

But I'm the more level headed one in my situation, so sometimes I have to be overzealously level headed. If I have a couple weeks where I'm being totally whimsical everything kind of goes nuts, so I just draw a line somewhere in the middle to keep myself sane.

Think about when you were falling into your career - you were driven, man. You couldn't be bothered with anything else around you because you had to establish yourself with what you were doing and prove yourself to get you where you are now. I'm just kind of in that place - my career won't be nearly as fast paced or big as yours, but it is a career path and that's really important to me to establish right now. Once I'm settled in, I can focus on the fun stuff again. My head is just in a place where I just want to get the initial phases over with as quickly and efficiently as possible. I mean all the time, I'm constantly thinking of what the best way to tackle the issue is. It's not because my job is hard (so not, my job is a joke) - it's because we finally found an in as permanent with guaranteed quick promotion progression and I just have to find the right way to do it.

I know you can relate, cuz you've been there. I'm still me, still have fun, still go out - I just have different priorities this month!

[ClakarEQ]

late here too, happy belated b-day.

[Narrock]

Happy Birthday Gyps