What To Give Your Best Friend On Their Birthday

Shopping for your best friend can be difficult, probably because you do not have any money and/or a best friend, so you should do what I do every year for my best friend, starting this year.  You should give them a blog posting.  Blog postings are relatively cheap, and they are personal and thoughtful, so it really is a perfect gift.  Also, your best friend cannot return it, so you know they will continue to enjoy it for the rest of their lives.

Today is my best friend’s birthday.  I am not supposed to use real people’s names, for fear of litigation, so I will call him Bleric Ack.  Bleric is turning almost 30 today, so I thought I would reminisce about the first time Bleric and I met.

The year was 2006, and we were at our first day of grad school together.  Everyone had been assigned the group task of writing a mini-opera together, and we were sitting outside, huddled around the pianist’s laptop, trying to come up with ideas.  Then Bleric accidentally knocked his drink over, right onto the laptop!  Well, of course he felt terrible, and we all assured him that it was fine and such a silly thing that no one would even remember it a year from then.  This is my first memory of Bleric Ack.

Through the years we have had a lot of good times, although I don’t see him much anymore, now that I am in Vermont, and he lives in Mermantown, GD.  We have been in lots of shows together, and after hanging out all night at rehearsal, we would get into our cars and immediately call each other and talk the rest of the way home as well.  That is how you can tell which friend is your best friend.  He used to come over and play Skip-Bo with me and Simone, and he was the only one of my DC friends that made regular visits up to Baltimore once we moved.  That is also how you can tell which friend is your best friend.
 I wish we could hang out more again, but even when we live far away, we are still friends, and I hope he has a happy birthday, even though he has to work all day.  And I hope he likes this awesome present that I just made him!  Happy Birthday Bleric!