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[SaRina]

The way I feel about birthday parties?  Eh, just hand over the cake and forget the rest of the krap..  :-)

[Scooby Doo]

I've felt the same way for many years, but now I plan my own fun time and look forward to it.  My DD's birthday is the day before mine.  For the last several years we have made a road trip to Las Vegas for a couple of days.  We have a good time shopping, sight seeing, and gambling, and eat lots of yummy food.  Our birthdays are next Wed and Thurs, and that's where we will be.

The best present I ever had was an unexpected encounter.  On my 50th birthday I was having a pity party thinking I was now old and not so good looking any more.  I took the day off work to sulk.  Anyway, I stopped by an office building to pay my mortgage.  In the elevator a guy called me by name and started talking to me, and I'm wondering why I should know this guy.  Turns out we went to elementary school together and used to play marbles.  He recognized me 40 years later.  Someone sent me a sign that everything would be ok.

[Desertdi]

Don't much care...........so long as there is enough in the pushke for some Voluma and Juvederm.................

[ValuSkr]

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@Lucky Charm wrote:

I just asked my husband what the Red Rover thing was and he didn't know. 

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@Lucky Charm  I remember playing Red Rover as a kid!  As I recall there were two equal lines of kids holding hands facing each other. Then one kid in one of the lines would call - Red Rover Red Rover send (name of kid) right over. Then the kid named would run from his line and try to break through the opposing team's line. If the kid broke through the line, he/she could take another kid from the opposing team's line back to his or her line. If they didn't break through they had to stay with the opposing team. 

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The game was fun but it's a wonder no arms were broken.

[hckynut]

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@hsawaknow wrote:

I used to like them, heck I used to love them, but not anymore. I know the saying its better to be above ground but birthdays are no fun anymore! No fun games to play like running with an egg on a spoon to the finish line or red rover, red rover.Im grateful to be alive but I dread another candle on that delicious cake!

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Grew up differently. No games, no parties, but did have a cake with candles on it. That ended when I was 11 years old. Fun? Nah, but did like the get together and the cake.

Only birthday I looked forward to, when young, was #16. That allowed me to finally drive the car I worked so hard to make money to buy. The #21 didn't mean much to me because at that time alcohol did not interest me.

Did kinda look for #62 so I could get some of my SS money back before I died. Now? Just another day to me, and with my several brushes with death? I appreciate every additional one I am getting.

ETA: I don't see anything the OP posted that said this was their birthday?

hckynut(john)

[luvdoodles]

We used to play that game a lot with all the kids in the neighborhood when I was younger. The more kids that play the better. Maybe you are too young to remember this game but we thought it was fun. Love it when I broke through a set of boys arms. Oh the good old days.

[qualitygal]

Cripes, if they put candles on my cake for a birthday, they'd have the firetrucks on speed dial. Don't recall a birthday party. But at my house, most the days were pretty much fun. You don't miss what you don't know about I guess.

[qualitygal]

@Lucky Charm, Red Rover, running game in the 50's that we played outside. We used to run our legs off and tried not to break anyone's arms. We had great games! Tether ball, 4 corners, we moved around a lot!!!

[kzjohnson]

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@hckynut wrote:

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Grew up differently. No games, no parties, but did have a cake with candles on it. That ended when I was 11 years old. Fun? Nah, but did like the get together and the cake.

Only birthday I looked forward to, when young, was #16. That allowed me to finally drive the car I worked so hard to make money to buy. The #21 didn't mean much to me because at that time alcohol did not interest me.

Did kinda look for #62 so I could get some of my SS money back before I died. Now? Just another day to me, and with my several brushes with death? I appreciate every additional one I am getting.

ETA: I don't see anything the OP posted that said this was their birthday?

hckynut(john)

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Sounds nearly identical to me @hckynut... the early years.  The birthday cakes stopped at 12 when my mother became a police officer and stopped being a mom and everything was about the new career.

I really didn't care about turning 21 because one horrifically bad experience as a teenager turned me off to alcohol ever since.

Since birthdays mean very little other than I'm grateful that I have made it through another, me and the DH really don't do much other than go out for a nice dinner.

Next year I turn 50 and I warned my entire disfunctional family to not use my birthday as an excuse to have an all out food-drunk fest that will ultimately not end well.

I've already told the DH I'm not attending any family function 30 day before or after my birthday.

[hsawaknow]

Thank you  for all your well wishes and happy thoughts. I tried to make the best of it but it was what it was. But you all cheered me up! Thank you all!