Quote from: Alaskan Danielle on August 20, 2018, 09:46:21 AM
*** QUESTION: What are your plans for your special day???
My normal plan for my birthday is to see if I can get through the day without anybody noticing it's my birthday. Long ago, about age 12 or 13 at Christmas I realized what I received was probably something I didn't really want and what I wanted was far to expensive for others to buy for me. As the result, birthdays were just another day.
After I meet my roommate and we shared a condo, I would remember my roommates birthday as it was important to her but I would do my best to allow mine to slip by without notice. Later on it became much easer because she would take a road trip around the time of my birthday and she would be visiting with her family distracting her from my birthday. I would consider it a success if I was able to have two or three month pass before she would ask me what she did for my birthday. Occasionally I would luck out and she wouldn't remember it at all.
When I placed my birthdate in my profile, it wasn't with the desire to advertise my birthday. I realized early on that I would be providing a good deal of advice so I decided to put up and avatar and my birthday so that others would know a little more about me. Yes my avatar is 30 years out of date but I really haven't been able to capture a decent picture of my current self to put up.
In any case, this year I was a total failure. My mother, our employe and Christine78 independently conspired to spoil my plans. After about an hour and a half, nothing was going on at work and my mom sent me home probably because I no longer had any room on my desk to do anything. As they say, pictures or it didn't happen.
