Love When It Happens
Ξ June 30th, 2009 | → 13 Comments | ∇ birthdays |
I have always been a huge fan of my birthday. While I know many people who try to ignore theirs, who don’t want to admit to getting older, I have never been among their ranks. Quite the contrary, I celebrate the miracle that is me surviving another trip around the sun. Seriously, there is no real reason why I am alive other than I am truly blessed or lucky.
Which means I love my birthday. Back in the day I would celebrate the entire month, then I got it down to the week before and the week after. Lately I have been trying to only celebrate the weekend, but my birthday is July 5th and it is so difficult when the day before your birthday is a holiday because, helllllo, built in party.
This year my day falls on a Sunday. (Since Independence Day is a Saturday, we are closed on Friday the 3rd…woot!) I was emailing or IM’ing with a friend and telling him how happy I am to have a long weekend to celebrate my birthday and he said him as well. The more we discussed our plans the more it became obvious…we both were born on July 5th. How fucking cool is that? No wonder we were instantly close friends when we met a few months ago. (Him in 1966, me in 1971.)
Reminded me of a day when I worked at the bank…maybe back in 1995 or so…and was talking with one of my favorite co-workers. He mentioned that his birthday was July 5th and I excitedly said, “Mine, too!”
My coworker looked at me in disbelief and gave me a stern, “Who told you to say that?”
“My mother.”
on June 30th, 2009 at 12:17 AM
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on June 30th, 2009 at 3:16 AM
Dude! Happy Birthday! Let’s get drunk and eat cake. Or wait, you don’t like cake do you? I think I remember that. Well *you* get drunk and *I’ll* eat cake.
Sound good? 
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on June 30th, 2009 at 6:08 AM
I love my birthday too! People always think I’m weird. hehe.
Happy birthday!
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on June 30th, 2009 at 7:03 AM
Oh wow, so you and J-Town have birthdays one right after the other? Awesome.
I won’t say Happy Birthday yet…nope. I know I will talk to you on the actual day, that’s why!
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on June 30th, 2009 at 7:34 AM
Happy early birthday!
I like my birthday too, but we never really do anything for it, so it’s kinda boring… and usually snowed in. I need to do a party next year 
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on June 30th, 2009 at 8:49 AM
Wanna hear some odd shit?
My very first girlfriend back in high school was born on the same day as me. We didn’t realize when we first started dating. It’s something that came up after a few weeks. My family had moved to that area when I was 10, so I joked about maybe being next to her in the baby room at the hospital knowing that it couldn’t be true. But her family moved from the same area. We were born on the same day, around the same time in the same fucking hospital!!!
The karma of it all was too weird for us to keep the “relationship” going. Well, that and because I was a weird little kid.
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on June 30th, 2009 at 9:38 AM
I like when people blog their birthdays since it makes it easy to remember when it is so we can come back and wish you a happy birthday.
Although, I’d better, for safe measures, wish you an early happy birthday now. Because you know, it’s a party weekend.
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on June 30th, 2009 at 10:23 AM
I love my birthday because it’s all about ME. I can be any age I want to be.
Clearly I’m 12 today.
on June 30th, 2009 at 2:17 PM
Happy early birthday!
The great thing, is that my birthday, is also on July 5th! I have only came across two other people with that birthday, you included! Yay!
Kim – I feel like I am 12 and just found someone else with the same birthday!
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on June 30th, 2009 at 3:08 PM
I love having a birthday because each year it’s a definite day when I can do whatever the fuck I want to do because it’s my day. And if that means I’m a year older? Oh well. Even if I ignore it, I’m still going to get older. No changing that. Might as well get sugared up anyway!
Happy Early Birthday, Darlin’!
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on June 30th, 2009 at 9:07 PM
I was just saying how I am jealous of the people born on the 4th, but now, the 5th, as well. At midnight for you, it’s a fantastic birthday, every year!
Awesome.
Happy Early Birthday!!!!
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on July 1st, 2009 at 1:55 AM
I can only imagine what type of bacchanalia a Becky birthday would be!
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on July 4th, 2009 at 3:38 PM
Happy Birthday, a bit early.
Way back, when I was about 13, there were two older kids — 17 or so, and a guy and a girl who were flirting with each other (which I didn’t know at the time) were talking and found out their birthdays were August 23rd. I pointed out mine was too — which they refused to believe … of course, they were more interested in getting me out of the way.
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