As all of you all know, today was my birthday. I must be honest though. This birthday was by far probably one of my best I ever had. What made it the best? It’s the company of friends, families, and co-workers that I hung out with that made it one of the best birthdays. Especially, since my last three birthdays have been pretty, well, down. You see, three years ago, my birthday of 2007 I basically forgot about my own birthday until a friend call me the day after to wish me a happy birthday and I told him that my birthday hasn’t occurred. That’s when he told me it was the following day. 2007 was the year I had the longest interview ever for the interim manager position that I was already doing. It was this job that lead me to being in the hospital for a week. So, 2008’s birthday was me recuperating from being in the hospital with Cellulites Infection. Then in 2009, I was homeless living out of a semi truck traveling the US with a trucker friend of mine. Those were my last three birthdays. So, I was determine to make this a great birthday for 2010. I must say I pulled it off.
You see, I had a co-worker that owed me a lunch and she asked me back in March when I wanted to go out to lunch? She told me to pick a time, date, and place. So, I decided that I pick my birthday, May 18th as the date for her to pay me back and the place was Dewey’s. Then since then, my office mate that I share an office with started asking a few other co-workers and so did I. So, I had like 7 to 10 people that were wanting to go to my birthday lunch. A few people dropped out, there were 6 people that went and the whole time we just laughed, talked, and laughed a lot more. It was something I really needed. It allowed me to forget about my previous birthdays. It’s the small things that makes me happy. Things like hanging out with friends, families, and co-workers, being taken out for lunches and dinners, and just plain having fun. It’s not about gifts for me than hanging with people and sharing a few laughs.
But I must tell you a few gifts I did get. You see, I might be 36 years old but I act like a 13 year old at heart. I’m amused easily. I just like to laugh and smile. That’s what these gifts did. But I don’t know how much my co-workers know how happy I am of my gifts or what they have gotten their self 
into. My first gift (in a way) was a blue boo baa. Ever heard of a Boo Baa? This is what a boo baa looks like. 
People think it looks like me? Let’s compare? Here is a picture of me. What do you think? Any resemblance? The funny thing about this boo baa is when you squeeze its hand, it dances and some other actions that is just hilarious. Everybody that comes into our office laughs their asses off but then say how much it looks like me.
The office that I share with another VISTA is being called the “Answer Centre”. We have all the answers to any questions. We don’t care what the question is. It can be about life, about work, about relationships, or whatever you want to know we will have the answer. So, we have a new weapon now that we can use to finalize our answers. Meet the Whomp It. 
This is a very bad gift for me to have. I mean this in a good way. I’m the type of person that will carry this around the office and just hit things with it. *lol* It might actually get me in trouble?
It’s hard to believe that these two things bring happiness and joy to me. People might not want to believe it or can’t believe I would actually play with stuff like this but I can’t help it when I’m a kid at heart.
So, things like this is why I was so happy today and thrilled to have friends, families, and co-workers that’s willing to put up with me. It was a relief to have a great birthday unlike my last three birthdays. So, I’m actually starting to get unstressed and relaxing now from my situation. Well, back to doing laundry. Enjoy and until next time. Have fun!
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