30

[pne]

Happy birthday marikochan!

I guess that means it's my birthday, too :) At 30, I feel that I turn officially Old.

Stella gave me two advent calendars with chocolate and the first half of season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD.

Which was a nice thought, but season 6 might have been better—I've only seen the first season and a half or so, so I don't know half of the storylines (or characters) in later episodes anyway, and S6 is the one with Once More, With Feeling. So I'll try to return or exchange it, either for S6 or possibly for S1 (and then start collecting).

Edit: Returned the DVD—for a refund, since they didn't have the Season 6 DVDs (they had them back-ordered and they should have arrived today, but didn't). So will have to try again another day, or pick something else. Possibly the "Willow" DVD from the "Best of Buffy" series. Mmm, Willow...

Comments

[marikochan.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I'm just about to make a post -- but it's only two minutes after midnight here, so I suppose your birthday technically started before mine. ;)

The wonders of time zones

[pne.livejournal.com]

Oops! Yes. I figured I'd get you just after midnight but woke up twenty minutes earlier than usual, when it was still on the 15th for you.

Reminds me of... two years ago? When I phoned my sister to congratulate her on both of our birthdays :) Hers is on the 15th, but she was in the States as an au pair then, and I called her just after (my) midnight, when it was about 7 pm over there, and so it was my birthday in Germany and hers in Pennsylvania, both at the same time!

Re: The wonders of time zones

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

I've always thought birthdays should change when one crosses time zones. For example, Gareth was born at some obscenely early hour of the morning on June 16, so I think when he's in the US his birthday should be June 15. Similarly, I was born the evening of July 20, so if I went to Europe, my birthday should be July 21.

Though it would be less cool for my friends' son who was born in Spain on Christmas Eve if his birthday were December 23 in the US.

Re: The wonders of time zones

[pne.livejournal.com]

An interesting thought.

My birthday would be on the 15th, then, in California and all points west (since I was born at 08:58 in the morning, which is 23:58 the previous day in Pacific Time).

It does make a certain amount of sense since at the *instant* I was born, it *was* the 15th in, say, Oregon or Hawai`i.