tuesday

I NEED HELP!! I need to think of things that Jesse can get me for my birthday here in Japan. I've made a mess of a bunch of his good ideas by buying items for myself. Oops. But I have no ideas and I'm horrible at hints. If you know of something I want, please, tell me (or him!). I know it's really important to him to get me something that I will just loooovve. It's also important to me to have a fantastic birthday. Presents don't mean a birthday is fantastic, but our collective happiness does. So...things I want in my life.

A dog - impossible (for a ka-jillion reasons)
To be happy/content (not gift-able - currently has most to do with image crap)
Friends DVD's
To go on a trip somewhere warm (and be both pampered and adventurous)
Pretty clothes?

I don't know. I'm really hard to shop for. I know this. But anything he gives me is special, because it's somthing he thought of. For me! He thought of me!

I think what I really want is to have a good time, to feel like I'm (spoiled) celebrated. I'd like to have dinner with a bunch of people here at my favorite place, but I've mentioned that and I don't know if I'll ruin a surprise if I try to organize it. I think it'd be best to tell the guy at the restaurant ahead of time and maybe he'd make cake or something.

I should stop worrying about it. I just want to have a good time and I don't want Jesse to stress.

11:20am

You know, putting a link to Hawaii is silly, becuase there are so many other places I'd like to go. Would you like to know my real true dream trip? Backpacking from Turkey to Greece to Italy to Spain to Morocco. And imagine if you could also see Crete, Sicily, Portugal and even the Canary Islands. That would be THE TRIP of all TRIPS for me. Oh, imagine what good food you'd find! And the art! And architecture! Maybe when we're rich (we're not going to be rich).