Today is my birthday and I can tell you having a birthday in January kind of sucks. It seems that it has always sucked. It is snowing, cold, and it is 2 weeks after New Years and the same week as MLK day and it all brings back bad memories for me.
I bring this up because today it is freaking cold, snowing and blowing, which reminds me all the missed birthday parties when I was in elementary school.
Back in the day, if it was your birthday, time would be taken to celebrate it in class. I remember there was a paper crown you wore and you gave out cupcakes or some other treat to the other students. It was a bit weird for the birthday person to give out stuff.
About 90% of the time, when my birthday came around in January we either had no school due to snow or in some cases we were out for the day for Martin Luther King’s Birthday.
So out of the 6 years of elementary school I think I got to celebrate my birthday once or twice.
I just now remembered that some kids had birthdays in the summer so they never got to have a party in class at all.
But enough about them. This is all about me… me…. me… boo hoo…
Happy Birthday
Mine is on the 23rd.
Thanks Mark. That helps a little but January birthdays still bite… <g>
January isn't so bad.
A lot great people have January birthdays…
Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Walter Mondale, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, William McKinley, Dick Cheney, FDR, J. Edgar Hoover, Betsy Ross, Paul Revere, Millard Fillmore, Daniel Webster, Robert E. Lee, Douglas MacArthur, & of course Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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