Birthday Presents

Tomorrow is my birthday, so I bought a present for me. Doesn't everyone do that? I bought something that I haven't had since I was a kid, a bed. I have slept on either a mattress on the floor or a mattress resting on the flimsy metal stand that came with the mattress. It seemed like it was time to do something about that.

Since I was getting what will perhaps be the only bed I ever own, I decided to do it right. I got a BIG bed with four posters and intricately carved wood. I may need to paint it white to fit my fantasy of a proper fairy princess bed, but we'll see. Not that there are mosquitoes here, but I also got mosquito netting to complete the gauzy, gaudy fantasy.

Being faced with my mortality caused me to buy one other present that may prove to be one of my dumber ideas, a skateboard. Now I just need to find a place to ride where the neighbors won't see me making a fool of myself.