What do I want for my birthday?

Maybe I'm the vainest person alive, but historically I have spent all of March and most of April planning my birthday - every year, for as long as I can remember. Maybe my parents made a big mistake throwing me an awesome party in kindergarten and I've simply come to expect too much every year since then.

My birthday is April 21st, and I'm hopelessly obsessed with it. April 21st has a lot to compete with - the 15th is tax day, the 20th is Hitler's birthday, Earth Day often falls on the 20th.

I share my April 21st birthday with Queen Elizabeth II, Tony Danza, the lead singer of the Cure, and Iggy Pop (and the lead girl in Mahou Sensei Negima).

This year I plan to go out drinking with coworkers on April 21st, a Thursday, and have a large party for non-coworker friends on April 22nd, Friday (so mark your calendars). The party on the 22nd will have a whiskey tasting theme!!

If you plan on going, please read on. If you're already nauseated by my vanity, or you don't plan on showing up, might as well stop reading now, it's only gonna get worse.

The year before last I said "no presents" which apparently means "bring oodles of cool gifts," because I got lots of great stuff. I'm tempted to say "don't bother getting me anything" again, but instead I'll just tell you what I'd like. If you already know what you're going to get for me, then stop reading now, it's just embarassing. For everyone else, I know I can be very difficult to buy for, and not everything I want can be covered on an amazon wishlist, so here's the following guide:

I recommend either participating in the whiskey exchange (more on this in a second), or getting me a gift certificate, or looking at the list of items at the bottom of this post.

The theme of Friday's party will be whiskey tasting. If you don't drink or hate whiskey don't worry about it, my party will not become frat-like I swear, but if you ARE interested, I'm assigning people different countries to get whiskey from. The plan is, you:

1. Sign up for a country,
2. Bring a bottle of whiskey from that country. INSTEAD of a gift! The whiskey is the gift.
3. At the end of the night, I will pick my favorite bottle(s) and keep them.
4. Then I will raffle off the remaining bottles to interested people - with whisky-buyers getting first preference.

Here are the countries:

• United States - "Maker's Mark" - Q
• Scotland - Ms. Cutiepants
• Ireland
• Japan - claimed by Alison
• China - claimed by Johan already (he says it's made of sorghum)
• Miscellaneous - any country other than the above

Claim a country by emailing me or leaving a comment! As countries are claimed I'll post them here.

If you want to get me a gift certificate instead of whiskey - any of the following places would be freaking awesome: amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, www.rightstuf.com, Image Anime (store on 30th St.), Kid Robot (store on Prince St.), threadless.com or even The Unemployed Philosopher's Guild.

If you want to get an actual gift instead of whiskey or a gift certificate, here's a list of anime/manga and other stuff. If you're going to buy me anime, I recommend going to Image Anime, or buying from Rightstuf.com, or even amazon. Try to get me legit North American R1 DVDs - that is to say, legit goods. American releases always have 3-5 episodes per disc and an English audio track. Bootlegs often contain the entire series and Chinese subtitles.

If you're worried you might end up getting me the same thing as someone else, email Ms.Sakaki at gmail.com. Then log in and check to see who else has emailed that address - log in by going to gmail.com, the username is Ms.Sakaki and the password is "erinsbirthday". I'll change the password after my birthday, but I PROMISE NOT TO CHECK THIS EMAIL ACCOUNT UNTIL AFTER THE PARTY. I swear!

Anime

• I have Paranoia Agent volume 1, and would like any subsequent volumes you can find.
• I have Evangelion platinum edition volumes 1 and 2 and will gladly take any disc from the rest of the series. Remember - they're the ones in the shiny silver boxes!
• I have Mezzo volume 1 and would like later volumes to complete the set.

Manga

• I have Kare Kano (His and Her Circumstances) in english, books 10, 12, and 13, and I desperately need volumes 8, 9, 11, and/or 14.
• In Japanese, I am looking for Hikaru No Go book number 3, and any book numbered 11 and up except 18 and the character guide, which I already have. This is one of the cheaper options on my list - Hikaru No Go in japanese from Book-Off is $1.50 to $3.00 per book!

Other

• I could really use one of those Nalgene bottles. The smaller the better.
• I'd like a coffee thermos - the kind that you can screw the lid on a throw into a backpack (not the sippy-cup kind, those suck). Preferably silver.
• Plush robots frigging rule!
• Anime keychains, also greatly appreciated!
• Just want to bring a bottle of wine? I'm especially partial to blue wines. Or wines that claim to be blue.

And, if none of that appeals to you, you could always check my Amazon Wishlist.

If you've read this far I've always wanted an ice cream cake. Be sure to email Ms.Sakaki at gmail.com if you plan on bringing one (and check to make sure no one else is, see the instructions above).

Truly this list confirms the sneaking suspicion that I have some kind of Narcissist complex.

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April 15, 2005 11:15 AM, zoe said:

hi erin! i will bring the scottish whisky. :) mmm, whisky.

it's totally not in keeping with the theme at all, but can we have those crazy windex drinks again? man those things were strong!

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