You Say It’s Your Birthday

October 16, 2009 at 6:35 am | Posted in fun & frolicking, shout out | 27 Comments

This is my friend, Putzy.

I made him wear my scarf for the emo effect.

Today is his birthday. (Welcome to 36, my friend.)

Those who have been around for a while here might remember him from when I first moved to Seattle. Putzy holds the title as my First Seattle Friend. And if you can believe it, we met on My Space of all places. Over the past three years, our friendship has waxed and waned but in the last few months we’ve been hanging out a lot- both newly single and up for some fun.

We're total hams. Later this night, totally drunk, I tripped and fell because I am classy like that. I must have made Putz look at my busted lip five times. "Is it bleeding?!"

Putzy makes me laugh. Like deep in my belly. He’s very silly and a total prankster. In my old apartment I had on-going issues with my Comcast internet service. It was so terrible that I got to know the service guy by name. He had a friend that worked at Comcast at the time so he snagged a bunch of those “comcastic” stickers and came over to my place. While I was making dinner, he slyly hid the stickers all around my house. I found those fuckers for months. He was very full of himself for what he’d pulled off.

I think one of his best pranks was on a best friend of his who hates bunnies. Yes, you read that right, the dude hates rabbits. Putz works with kids so he had them make hundreds of cut outs of bunnies and then put them on sticks. He and his friends went over to this bunny-hating friend’s house while he was gone and covered the front lawn with them. P went to meet with his friend and grabbed a ride back to the bunny-laden-lawn-house so that he could see the reaction first hand. As the car turned up the driveway and the headlights lit the lawn, his friend saw what they had done and told him to get out of the car. You just know that with shit like that, Putzy was at the helm. The guy is very creative.

P found this heart-shaped rock for me & I made a necklace out of it.

He’s incredibly talented. He’s played guitar since he was 15 and owns upwards of thirteen guitars, a mandolin and a ukulele. He’s the one that’s teaching me to play my acoustic. He’s artistic- he’s constantly holed up in his apartment making jewelery or painting or doing some new mosaic piece. He’s a horrible typist, hates mushrooms and has a really dirty mind (but I like that about him). He drives me up the g-damn wall when he goes into hermit mode. He can be sporadic about which messages he chooses to respond to which I think is total bullshit since he has an iPhone and I’m pretty sure it’s written in the fine print of the contract: You can not miss any calls, texts or emails when owning an iPhone because when you hold an iPhone, you hold the Universe in your hands. (Or something like that. I’m paraphrasing.) His litany of excuses amuse (and irritate) me. My favorite is “I was putting out my bosses PMS fires all week.” By my calculations, his boss is constantly suffering from PMS. Poor lady!

I cut his forehead off on purpose. Really!

Putz is my go-to guy. He’s usually up for anything and he’s pretty unflappable. It’s well known that I am a control freak and when I mentioned this to him he seemed to have no awareness of it. Either he’s playing dumb to play safe or he really doesn’t notice it. But that certainly didn’t stop him from giving me shit about it for the rest of the evening. “Oh, are you trying to control me now?” he’ll say trying to suppress a smile. Just shut it, Putz. Except I’m laughing while exasperated. He gives good tease. I’ll admit it- it’s good for me to be around him. He’s like the yin to my yang. I suppose that’s what happens when you put an Aries and a Libra together. He’s not an emotional basket case which sometimes is unnerving for me. He does claim to have cried before so my previous claim that he is a robot masquerading as a man is unfounded. Kind of a bummer because having a robot friend could be kind of cool.

You can take the boy out of California but you can't take California out of the boy.

This is all just to say Happy Birthday to my very good friend in celebration of his 36th year and thanks for being in my life. Have fun in California! Say hello to the ocean for me.

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I want to be friends with Putz. He seems really cool. Happy birthday dude.

Comment by hotpinksox— October 16, 2009 #
My, what fancy sideburns he has. Happy B-day and welcome to the 36 club, though in two short months I will have to move on to the 37 club.

Comment by Travis Erwin— October 16, 2009 #
Happy Birthday to Putz!
Now I just wish I could be real life friends with you so you can write an awesome post like this about me. :)
In other news, I’m so ridiculously self-centered. (In a cute way though, right?)

Comment by Marie— October 16, 2009 #
Aww. Happy birthday to Putzy!

Comment by Jess— October 16, 2009 #
Happy Birthday, Putzy! You sound like a great guy!

Comment by Melissa— October 16, 2009 #
Amen about the iphone contract.

Happy Birthday, Putz. I am glad you have each other as friends.

Comment by Aimee— October 16, 2009 #
Happy Birthday Putzy!

Also I have that shirt.:)

Comment by Kaleigha— October 16, 2009 #
*kisses both of you for adorkable photos*

Happy Birthday Putzy! We all should be so lucky as to know you.

Comment by Bully— October 16, 2009 #
I have to agree with the iPhone contract.

Happy Birthday Putzy!

Comment by kim— October 16, 2009 #
He seems like a friend anyone should have :) Happy Birthday, Putz.

Comment by san— October 16, 2009 #
Aw…Happy Birthday! What a great tribute (and adorable photos).

Comment by Angella— October 16, 2009 #
Did I miss something here? You said you guys are dating and planning your future wedding. Right? RIGHT? No? Why the hell not?!? =)

Comment by SoMi's Nilsa— October 16, 2009 #
I feel special that I know Putzy’s real name, but I shall not out him, especially on his birthday. Happy! Day of Cake, good sir.

(Yay! for first Seattle friends.)

Comment by Kerri Anne— October 16, 2009 #
I love it! Putzy, Gnome, my brother… Happy Birthday, enjoy the California sun and mischief. Like the write up on him Siz, you are great!

Comment by zainmoribundi— October 16, 2009 #
Man! I wish we knew each other better, so I could get write-ups like this for MY birthday. ::kicks dirt::

Oh, happy b-day, Putz. You have an AWESOME screenname, IMO. :D

Comment by Faith— October 16, 2009 #
Happy birthday Putzy! I need a fun friend like you!

LOL, I am TOTALLY laughing at your iPhone complaint. We have an MIA iPhone owning friend too. We won’t hear from him (or his wife) for MONTHS and they act like it’s normal. Ahem, it’s RUDE!

Comment by kilax— October 16, 2009 #
Happy b-day to Putzy :)

And that is an awesome pic of you with the necklace!

Comment by Long Story Longer— October 16, 2009 #
Happy birthday Putzy-You are my kind of guy-I go into hermit mode a lot too.

Comment by Annie— October 17, 2009 #
Reading IS sexy! Where did you get that shirt. I need one NOW~ -)

Comment by Sigh— October 17, 2009 #
Reading is quite sexy as is the angle of that photo.

AH!

STOP!

You’re my blogsis! Can’t say these things!

Comment by kapgar— October 17, 2009 #
Yay! I’ve got that shirt too!!–so comfortable!
And your friend Putz has now inspired me to create a factory of child-workers making animals on sticks. –I smell fortunes!!
-K

Comment by Ben/Kate— October 17, 2009 #
Happy Birthday Putz… I’m totally stealing your line from the iPhone contract that somehow I missed and making it my FaceBook status. ;P

Comment by Tori Blaine— October 17, 2009 #
Happy Birthday Putzy! And may your 36 be grand! : )

Comment by Jen— October 19, 2009 #
I think I want him to be my friend. And you of course because you write such beautiful things about your friends.

Comment by radioactive tori— October 19, 2009 #
my birthday’s coming up–wink wink

hope you’re well, honeybunches :)

Comment by sarahjane— October 19, 2009 #
You need boots with more attitude anyway. If you’re going boots, go all out!

I recommend these: http://www.zappos.com/n/p/dp/59308105/c/6.html . They apparently come pre-loaded with some kind of mojo. I get insane amounts of attention when I wear them; perhaps it’s because they make me feel so fantastic.

Comment by Karen— October 19, 2009 #
He sounds like a cool friend… Happy Birthday, P-man (late)!!

Comment by sue— October 20, 2009 #

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