This is the one where it’s my birthday.
Posted March 19th, 2009 by Mike Lawson
Anyone who knows me well knows that I hate my birthday. Birthday attention annoys the heck out of me. A bunch of praise for doing nothing. Hate it.
I woke up this morning and Daniel gave me a nice “happy birthday,” without over doing it. And I received about 50 messages on FaceBook. But I’ve yet to see how things are going to turn out at work.
We have a “Meet The Staff” board that has everyone’s birth date listed. So I’m sure that a few of the more clever children will figure out that today’s my mass-attention-for-nothing day.
Last year at this time I was working from home and wrote “This is the one where there is no escaping it.”
A lot happens in a year, huh?
Also, you should all go to Daniel’s blog or Daniel’s Twitter and comment on how disgusted you are that he’s dating an older man now (even though his birthday is in 3 days and we’ll be the same age again).





One Response to “This is the one where it’s my birthday.”
March 19th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
I love my birthday for pretty much the same reason you hate it: A reason to celebrate. You don’t have to do anything to deserve it. It’s a time to celebrate “being”, not “doing”. At the risk of alienation: Happy Birthday. (And I won’t be harassing Daniel — I’m now dating an older man… well, for another 3 months anyway.)
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