Happy Birthday Blog!

#81: 1 Year, 80 posts and Still Going

Happy Birthday Blog!

Those of you who've known me for 5 years or more know that I'm horrible with birthdays. Terrible. I forget birthdays and on the miraculous instances that I do remember them, it's usually a day, a week or a month too late. (In 1993, I even forgot my dad's birthday. He was walking right in front of us the whole morning and when the time came for him to fly to Chicago that afternoon, that's when it all hit us that it was his birthday. No wonder there was a bit of drama going on there.) Anyway, I sometimes try to make up for it in terms of the quality of the gifts I give. But sometimes, even that, I forget.

So I need constant reminders. If your birthday is coming up, please throw a party and invite me. Err. What I meant was, if your birthday is coming up, please make life easy for everyone by dropping idiot-proof hints on what you want to receive. I may not be able to give them to you but at least the detail of your birthday is somewhere in my consciousness floating... And you can always have a blast watching me go through the guilt-trip of still forgetting.

It's then a wonder that I'm remembering my blog's birthday now. I didn't mean to, really. I just felt that something was vaguely familiar with May 26 and I decided to check the date of my first entry. Ah yes. Happy Birthday, blog. Now I'm feeling very smug about outdoing myself this time.