They forgot my birthday

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  • Mikkimeow
    Mikkimeow Posts: 1,282 Member
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    F - it.
    Life is too short for self pity. :)

    I totally agree! I want to add something here also, you are on MFP to lose weight not to go eat ice cream cakes with your toddler. Those people at work did you a favor by not bringing up your birthday. This way a big lunch and the obligatory cake are not in the picture. Find the positives in life and you will win all you set out to do!

    So, I can NEVER have ice cream cake with my toddler? And apparently you know what I came on MFP for better than I do... huh
  • CallMeCupcakeDammit
    CallMeCupcakeDammit Posts: 9,377 Member
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    F - it.
    Life is too short for self pity. :)

    I totally agree! I want to add something here also, you are on MFP to lose weight not to go eat ice cream cakes with your toddler. Those people at work did you a favor by not bringing up your birthday. This way a big lunch and the obligatory cake are not in the picture. Find the positives in life and you will win all you set out to do!

    So, I can NEVER have ice cream cake with my toddler? And apparently you know what I came on MFP for better than I do... huh

    You better have ice cream cake with your toddler, or I'm gonna delete you! :flowerforyou: :heart:
  • lloydrt
    lloydrt Posts: 1,121 Member
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    HAPPY BIRTHDAY, mack
  • LianaG1115
    LianaG1115 Posts: 453 Member
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    My birthday was last Monday. My own mother still hasn't called me.

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    My mother hasn't called me in about 5-6 years, for birthdays or anything else. I win!

    My parents don't ever get me presents but get them for my sister in law!! I win!!!
  • Mikkimeow
    Mikkimeow Posts: 1,282 Member
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    F - it.
    Life is too short for self pity. :)

    I totally agree! I want to add something here also, you are on MFP to lose weight not to go eat ice cream cakes with your toddler. Those people at work did you a favor by not bringing up your birthday. This way a big lunch and the obligatory cake are not in the picture. Find the positives in life and you will win all you set out to do!

    So, I can NEVER have ice cream cake with my toddler? And apparently you know what I came on MFP for better than I do... huh

    You better have ice cream cake with your toddler, or I'm gonna delete you! :flowerforyou: :heart:

    Okay okay! *runs to cake store*
  • bamagrits15
    bamagrits15 Posts: 131 Member
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    I've bent over backwards to make the 30th birthday of several of my friends amazing. I got stupid phone calls for my birthday. Seriously? A phone call? Bump that. I want money and expensive tequila. I love birthdays and I am so sad all of my coworkers now would rather forget they are a year older than celebrating at work.
  • bamagrits15
    bamagrits15 Posts: 131 Member
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    By the way, if you have a Bruster's near by you get free ice cream on your birthday...
  • wheird
    wheird Posts: 7,963 Member
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    I got a text from my sister on my birthday at 8pm. That was it from anyone outside of MFP and more than last year.
  • WaterBunnie
    WaterBunnie Posts: 1,370 Member
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    My birthday was last Monday. My own mother still hasn't called me.

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    My mother hasn't called me in about 5-6 years, for birthdays or anything else. I win!

    I beat you both with almost 15 years (and counting) - although she did try sending me a FaceBook friend request recently.
  • Joannah700
    Joannah700 Posts: 2,665 Member
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    "they effing forgot my birthday!"
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    Because any birthday is better when you reference an 80s movie... and Jake Ryan.

    Happy Birthday.

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  • 13bbird13
    13bbird13 Posts: 425 Member
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    I didn't get a card from my dad this year, and I'm his only living biological child... but he gets a free pass because he's dealing with his wife's serious health issues and I'd rather he forgot to send a card than forget a doctor's appointment or forget to give her her meds. I did get kind of a "hey... umm..." feeling at the empty mailbox, but no harm, no foul.

    My boss stopped observing my birthday a couple years ago... and I'm his only employee. Last year he skipped Christmas too. But I think his wife found out.... in mid-February I suddenly got gift cards for both occasions. My birthday is in September. Whatevva.

    In sum, OP, I feel your pain and I sincerely wish you a happy birthday on behalf of those who spaced on the occasion. Log your ice cream cake, though!
  • NataBost
    NataBost Posts: 418 Member
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    Try having a birthday 2 days before Christmas! No one ever remembers my birthday (except my awesome hubby). I get a call on Christmas Eve from my mom wishing me a late birthday and early Christmas. Even when I was little, no birthday celebration for me, my friends were all on vacation/with family. But honestly after 21, it's just another day anyways, nothing special IMO.

    Happy Uterus Liberation Day though!

    LOL. MIne is exactly a week from Christmas and I feel the same way. No b-day parties, no friends over, 1 present for the price of 2. YES!!!! I totally agree "just another day"

    Yeah. This. My birthday is within a week of the holiday, when a lot of Christmas parties are going. I've learned to celebrate on my own time, although my husband always remembers as well as my closest gal pals. My parents have forgotten it from time to time as have my brothers.

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
  • JustFindingMe
    JustFindingMe Posts: 390 Member
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    Just for you...
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    well, ok, and any other mikkimeows who stumble across it.

    That was so sweet !!!

    Happy Birthday Miki :happy:

    Have a beautiful birthday with your friends and family and especially your little one :flowerforyou:
  • WhizGidget
    WhizGidget Posts: 62 Member
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    Aw, that's not right. Happy Birthday Mikkimeow! No one should be forgotten on their birthday!
  • heikejacob4
    heikejacob4 Posts: 38 Member
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    I think I win. My twin brother forgot my birthday.

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  • Archon2
    Archon2 Posts: 462 Member
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    I prefer that no one knows it's my birthday.

    Same sentiments here in regard to workplace birthday parties. I was in a department that used to do the celebrate everyone's birthday. Seems every week, we had cake and crap at odd hours, or for lunch, and had to donate cash for someone's card & gift.

    I didn't want card, cake, party, congrats, and was willing to spare everyone the pain of collecting cash, etc. So I had my name off the list for a long time until someone somehow found out the date and then I was included in the cycle. Fortunately, later I changed jobs into an area that either never had or lost the tradition of doing this.

    Now family forgetting is a different thing altogether! That doesn't seem too nice, unless you aren't on speaking terms.
  • Bellodesiderare
    Bellodesiderare Posts: 278 Member
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    #wouldbedivorcedifIhadforgottenhersthough

    This is the single most hilarious thing I've ever read on MFP... OMG!!!! I'm dying here!!!
  • bwright9752
    bwright9752 Posts: 125 Member
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    Try having a birthday 2 days before Christmas! No one ever remembers my birthday (except my awesome hubby). I get a call on Christmas Eve from my mom wishing me a late birthday and early Christmas. Even when I was little, no birthday celebration for me, my friends were all on vacation/with family. But honestly after 21, it's just another day anyways, nothing special IMO.

    Happy Uterus Liberation Day though!

    Or the day after Christmas for that matter. I guess I don't really care about birthdays because they were never a big deal for me when I was growing up, kinda a let down after Christmas. The worst part was getting all my presents in two day and then 363 (364 on leap year) days with nothing.

    My wife works at a small company of 40-45 people. She is on the Sunshine Committee and has to do bday cake once a month for all the people who have bdays that month. Last month the person with a bday is gluten free so she did ice cream sundaes instead and a couple people actually complained about not having cake. uuuggghhh.
  • vegasgyrl79971
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    My birthday was on the 8th, if it wasn't for fb I wouldnt have even remembered it was my birthday thats how much fan fare was given for it. I got my usual sweet text from my mom but thats it. My cousin is pretty much my best friend, forgot and we talked that morning. She had to text me later in the afternoon because she forgot lol! Oh well, I take it as a sign of getting old. No one cares anymore.
  • sculli123
    sculli123 Posts: 1,221 Member
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    Take the high road and act like it's no big deal. Keep going on your path to self-improvement. THEN, down the road when you are feeling beautiful and super self-confident, start interviewing for another job. Everything happens for a reason ... maybe the Universe wants to remind you there are much better opportunities and colleagues in your future! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
    Look for another job because they forgot her birthday???? LOL