Birthday.

My birthday this year was very low-key, and I ended up working on it at the one (Thai) restaurant where I work now, as I did last year and as I often have done in years past, at various other places that I have worked.

My one (newer) (taller) (Thai) coworker asked me if I had gotten any gifts, and I said no, and I added that I usually never do, since my birthday is so close to Christmas, and then she asked me if I wanted any gifts.

"No," I was like, "I don't want any gifts; I only want freedom for Luigi."

Later, too, there was some order mix-up where a box of crab rangoons didn't get packed with a delivery order, and then the customer accepted a credit for a free crab rangoons another time rather than have someone make a whole second delivery trip just for a single box of crab rangoons right then,

So -- and I don't know how this was decided -- somehow the crab rangoons got funneled to my one (newer) (taller) (Thai) coworker, who ate most of them right away.

But, she did offer me one.

"Want a crab rangoon?', she was like.

"Yes," I was like, "But not as much as I want freedom for Luigi."

Later, too, everyone at the restaurant brought out a cake, and I could order anything off the menu for my shift meal, though when I went to order prig khing, it turns out that we were running low on greenbeans, so I couldn't have it, although that was the only special thing that I wanted.