7 Days!

Ok -- so only 7 days until my birthday. I was getting pretty excited. Was, being the word there. So I thought, OK for my birthday I want to get all my friends together and go to Bamboo room. So I sent out eVites and what not. I sent them out about 2 1/2 weeks in advance -- just to give people a heads up. Well I can tell who has viewed the invite but not responded (sneaky, I know). And so far I've had 4 "no" (3 good reasons, 1 terrible reason, that i'm extremely pissed about, but i'm not going to name names). A couple of maybe's. and only 6 "yes" -- now realize that 6 includes myself and Tom -- so 4. Yeah. 4. -- Ok make that 5 b/c Laura doesn't have internet at home so she told me she was coming. 5 out of 28 people on that list!
I'm not sure what is up with the people who have viewed the thing but not responded. (This includes Amy -- so I'm going to kill her if she doesn't come).
So then I tried to make it a better deal -- b/c I know some of my guy friends aren't into the "club scene." So I scheduled an actual "birthday party" @ Bamboo. Which basically means, I have invites to hand out -- those people get: No Cover. No Line. 1 Free Drink.
So far that hasn't sweetened the deal. I've even told them I would orchestrate car pooling or even we could do hotel rooms -- b/c Bamboo room is sort of far so I didn't want that to detur people.
So far no luck. Now i'm even looking into doing a private room (b/c i know a bunch of the guys hate the dance floor). I get a private room 1/2 off for booking a birthday party -- so maybe this will give people the push.

I realize it's far (but it's not like i'm asking people to go the moon!). But it's my birthday -- a special occassion. And do you know the last time we went to a bar that wasn't in Naperville/Yorkville ??? Heather's birthday in January. Not 2006. It was 2005!!! Yeah.

I even went out of the way to personally invite EVERYONE -- including peoples girlfriends/boyfriends. Because there is nothing I hate more than when people invite Tom somewhere and just assume he'll tell me and I'll come -- I am my own person you know. So then part of me is beginning to think that these people who are suppose to be my friends too, are really just Tom's friends. Maybe I was wrong about most of these people. And then I started thinking about it -- when did I start hanging out with them all? Oh, when I was dating Mark. I see now -- i'm just always "the girlfriend." And i'm sorry, but that's bullshit. I would do anything for anyone of them -- and all I am asking is that on my birthday they make a tiny bit of effort - b/c they should know I would (and have) done the same thing for most of them. Is it my fault they refuse to leave this damn town to do anything? No. Is it my fault the closest (and best) dance club is in Schaumburg? No.

I'm just praying for a good turn out - b/c I feel like my birthdays are always a bust (at least since I've been old enough that where my birthdays are about me and my friends, not me and family).

Don't ask why I posted that picture of myself -- not really sure. Other than it's the most recent one i have (Tom took it the other night -- only b/c I made him. I swear I have very few pictures of myself. When I'm old I'm never going to remember what I looked like when I was young).

So today is my day off (yay for Good Friday). Later.