Birthday S days
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:18 am
A year ago, I was about a month and a half in to doing NoS when my birthday came along -- on a Saturday. The injustice! It landed on a day that was *already* an S day, how unfair! I wrote a rather plaintive post to the forum asking if people thought I could grant myself an extra S day to compensate for the birthday-on-Saturday thing. The response, as I recall, was along the lines of "Of course you can do whatever you want. But no." [I didn't take an extra S day, but it felt like a hardship.]
What a difference a year makes ... My birthday just passed, this time on a Sunday.
My reaction this time was completely different, however: I feel like, "Hey, I already get two S days *every week*, plus some sort of holiday or the like, about once a month. That's *plenty*." The fact that I won't get an extra S day out of my birthday until 2011 no longer seems like a terrible joke by a cruel universe -- I have all the S days I need!
And my birthday on Sunday was a fairly "gone wild" S day: we went to a buffet, and I ate considerable amounts of food. Though come to think of it, even that has changed: by "going wild", I now mean that I had *two* whole plates of food, plus a plate of dessert. That's no worse than what I would have done, a year and a half ago, on any non-special occasion.
ADDENDUM: I just checked back, and it turns out that this question about birthdays was in fact my *very first* post to this forum. Here's the thread, if anyone is interested:
http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic ... ght=#66120
What amuses me is that near the bottom of that thread, I made the very same claim I'm making here, namely that I wasn't desperate for extra S days. I was lying. Or at least, stretching the truth: I wasn't so desperate that I gave into the temptation to take an extra day, but it certainly wasn't easy!
What a difference a year makes ... My birthday just passed, this time on a Sunday.
My reaction this time was completely different, however: I feel like, "Hey, I already get two S days *every week*, plus some sort of holiday or the like, about once a month. That's *plenty*." The fact that I won't get an extra S day out of my birthday until 2011 no longer seems like a terrible joke by a cruel universe -- I have all the S days I need!And my birthday on Sunday was a fairly "gone wild" S day: we went to a buffet, and I ate considerable amounts of food. Though come to think of it, even that has changed: by "going wild", I now mean that I had *two* whole plates of food, plus a plate of dessert. That's no worse than what I would have done, a year and a half ago, on any non-special occasion.
ADDENDUM: I just checked back, and it turns out that this question about birthdays was in fact my *very first* post to this forum. Here's the thread, if anyone is interested:
http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewtopic ... ght=#66120
What amuses me is that near the bottom of that thread, I made the very same claim I'm making here, namely that I wasn't desperate for extra S days. I was lying.
Or at least, stretching the truth: I wasn't so desperate that I gave into the temptation to take an extra day, but it certainly wasn't easy!