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Birthday Calculator

Here's a fun thing. Fill in your birthday on a form and learn

all about you, your life path, your traits, your skills.

Your date of conception! Fascinating!

Try it out. What do you think? Is yours accurate?

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Adopt An Animal--Birthday Gift Idea!

Adopt An Animal, Adopt A Wild Animal, Adopt A Farm Animal: "All Adoptable Animals

Adopt A Koala

WAF Adopt A Koala Kit in three-ring binder with Photo, Fact Sheet, Certificate & Help Animals Info Packet.

Adopt A Koala from World Animal Foundation and make a difference for animals and the environment. Your WAF Adopt An Animal Kit comes in a deluxe three-ring binder and includes:

•Photo of Your Adopted Animal On Binder Cover & Fact Sheet
•Adopt An Animal Adoption Certificate
•Fact Sheet About Your Adopted Animal Species
•Help Animals Info Packet Packed With Information On Animal Issues & How You Can Help Animals And The Environment

Adopt An Animal Adoption Kits make great gifts and can be sent directly to the recipient at a date of your choosing. "

What a great birthday gift for a koala lover! Or maybe your loved one is into another animal. They've got you covered here. Check it out.

notes from the laundromat: birthday wishes

notes from the laundromat: birthday wishes: "Saturday, April 08, 2006
birthday wishes

'Don't be afraid to want things, to yearn, crave, or lust for anything. And don't be afraid to go after what you want. If you can't satisfy yourself, then how can you expect anyone else to satisfy you?' - Cameron Tuttle

My birthday is on April 17th. It brings up the idea of WANT. What do I want?
Birthdays are always a confusing time for me. Some people talk about them to the point of being obnoxious. I have a friend who starts the countdown 3 months before and then celebrates for a month after her birthday. (If you are one of those people, sorry – yet you must know that it puts A LOT of pressure on those around you to make you happy.)"


Good point. I'm speaking as a person like her, always drawing a blank when asked what I want. I'm thrilled with things that make my life better. I don't tend to know exactly what qualifies, so it's kind of hard for someone else to know what that is and wrap it up as a gift.

I thought a typewriter would provide me with a writing career. I thought a loom would provide me with a weaving career. I got them, but didn't put in the amount of effort required. Did that cure me of wanting this type of life-changing thing? Um...no.

What does that mean? What I really need is gumption? Do they sell that anywhere and gift wrap it?

Are you like this too? Would you like the gift of commitment, determination, gumption or something similar?

Stroh's Ice Cream Birthday

A Songdog's World of Random Thoughts - The rest of the birthday story: "27th-Mar-2006 07:25 pm

The meatloaf was stellar. Mom made two meatloaves, actually. (Meatloafs? No, that would be a certain 70s rock singer and his doppelgänger.) One was 'plain' and one was Mexican—it contained red and green peppers and some other seasoning. The cake was good, but I will have very pleasant fantasies about the ice cream, which was Stroh's brand Sanders Bumpy Cake: vanilla ice cream with bits of frosting from their locally famous chocolate butter cream frosting cake. I may have to go visit my mom this week. Frequently.

(Yes, the beer Stroh's. Stroh's Ice Cream was founded by the Stroh's brewery founders in 1919 to tide the company over during Prohibition. [link])"


Beer lovers, take note. In Michigan you can celebrate your birthday eating cake with Stroh's ice cream in it. Yes, THAT Stroh's. Beer, baby. And ice cream? Huh.

Go there. He's got links.

Who Shares Your Birthdate?

Who else was born on your birthday? Here's a site that reveals all! What fun!

I found a dozen people share my birthday. Too cool!

Lebanon Daily News - Local News

Lebanon Daily News - Local News: "Homeless animals benefit from girl’s birthday party
By DAVID MEKEEL
Staff Writer
Lebanon Daily News

A typical 10-year-old might ask for a bike or a Barbie doll for her birthday.

Caridad Dieppa isn’t typical.

When Caridad invited friends to her birthday party Saturday at the YMCA’S pool at the Lebanon VA Medical Center, she asked that they bring her something extra special.

“This year I asked everybody to get dog food and cat food for animals at the Humane Society (of Lebanon County),” Caridad said while taking a brief break from her party.

Caridad is an animal lover; she has been as long as she can remember.

“I have a little dog,” she said. “His name is Pancho, and he’s 4 years old.”

Caridad said that she loves to watch Animal Planet with her mom, Gissett, at their Lebanon home. It was while they were checking out their favorite channel that Caridad came up with her grand birthday idea."


Here's a girl with imagination and follow-through--and she's 10! She already knows she wants to be a veterinarian.

Give her a few more birthdays and she'll be a major force to reckon with. You go, girl!

First Cello Birthday

"I've been playing cello now for 11 months. On my birthday, the 27th, it’ll be a full year. So, what have I been doing for the past year?

Well. Let me tell you!

With my first cello, I learned how to tune first. When I got it, it wasn’t set up at all (for safe travelling). So, not knowing how to do any of it, I went to my first lesson with an unstrung foreign object that I had never heard. My instructor, Richard Frost, was NOT impressed with my cello, though he didn’t say anything about it - it was a good beginner’s cello - especially for someone who wasn’t sure if she was going to stick with it or not.

Professor Frost first had me learn open notes and told me to get some books, All for Strings theory and sheet music. I sounded horrid! Squeak and squall, sharp shreiks and hitting two strings at once. I felt so sorry for my Professor! He gave me practice to do with just the bow, at first. I thought he was a little nuts - the sound came from the cello strings, not the bow! Or so I thought. Ha!"

Fascinating insight into playing cello. Guess where she got the bow that turned her sound from unmusical to something that brings tears in a good way? Would you believe, eBay? Good going!

Chess Man's Birthday

Sue's space: Birthday Day: "January 31
Birthday Day
Today's was hubby's BD. Steak pie was on the menu as well of BD cake. He insisted on Spice Cake, but heck it was his birthday so he has a right to choose. Dinner went well we had friends to dinner then we played a couple games of cards. He also liked his birthday gifts. The girls and I gave him a coke popcorn tin as well as a Coke cookie jar we also gave him an Elvis tin. His parents mailed him a Coke chess board with I just know he loves. And from friends he received a gift certificate to a games store. I think all in all he had a good day."


I didn't even know there was a Coke chess board. Here's a pic, courtesy of www.chessusa.com. Happy birthday, fella!

Birthday Card Memory Trigger

Blog: "32 Birthday Cards

This past Saturday was my friend, Margaret’s birthday. I mailed her a card, the 32nd birthday card I’ve given her. My friendship with Margaret is the longest standing friendship I have. We met when we were pre-school age.

My backyard was sort of kitty-corner from Margaret’s, so we saw a lot of each other in those days when kids could roam a neighborhood, play at someone’s house for hours without parental arrangement, and be out til dark. I have many memories of playing at her house and having her over to mine as well as playing in groups with other kids.

Over email this week, Margaret reminded me of when we made “fuzzies”. (I don’t know if anyone out there remembers that storybook about warm fuzzies and cold pricklies – a good story.) We would make fuzzies out of yarn and some from pom-poms on the back of footie socks.

I also remember collecting and looking at stationery with Margaret, those tri-fold cards that you’d seal with a sticker that matched the theme of the stationery. I remember one of us had a set of strawberry themed stationery and matching red strawberry stickers. Another set of cards had little mice and stickers that looked like cheese wedges. "


A look down memory lane upon sending a life-long friend yet another birthday card. Great stuff!

110-Year-Old Birthday Story

Gnomist: Super-Centenarian: "Super-Centenarian

Several days have now passed since my great-grandfather’s one hundred and tenth birthday. The attention from local and national news outlets has now subsided from his ascent into super-centenarian-hood. Today I will take him back to Skye Acres retirement home, where he will spend the remainder of his days.

I arrive early to his hotel room and begin to help him pack his belongings. My grandfather sits on the bed, eyeing me suspiciously as I carefully place the artifacts of his life in the suitcase. I take a moment and stop. Marveling at how, after one hundred and ten years, a man’s entire worldly self can be packed into such a small space. I look up at my grandfather, and he doesn’t notice my hesitation. His eyes have wandered to the window. He focuses on the birds, the freedom of their flight. I see his eyes darting to follow the frenzied path of the squirrels. Finally, he looks out over the hills to see the sun rising.

“39,160,” my grandfather says.

“What does that mean?”

“The gentleman at the television station said that to me on my birthday. He said that’s how many sunrises I had the opportunity to see in my life.” My grandfather pauses and his eyes focus hard."


Here's a good birthday story I really enjoyed reading. Whether it's fact or fiction, I don't know.

21st Birthday Stripper Story

Newport University, Advertures of Flat 3: "
January 14
Ted aka Adam's 21st Birthday Shindig
Righto this will be a novel when im finished, where to start? Well let me say that its 5.00PM and where drunk.. no wait a minute Got up today at 4PM still drunk from last night.. Jesus I have never been so drunk in my life.

The 'Planned' Agenda For the Night

* Start @ The Bull for Meal and Drinks around 2PM
* Back to Ted's Flat (In Suits for Male company and Shirts and Ties for Female Company) @ 5.30PM for more drinks and shots
* SU Bar @ 7PM
* Taxi into Town @ 9PM
* Reflex and then off to Clubnite... Now lets just say none of this works =P

Well lets just say like that fucking happened So lets start. True to there word at 2PM, off down to the bull.. now I cant give you any stories about what happened down there but im sure J, Alex, Ted or Chris will give you a low down if any in the comments. Unfortunately I was stuck at a garage while my car got repaired :( When my car was eventually repaired I thought it would be a good idea to join them for a birthday pint but only to find that they where just leaving :( So taxi service 'r us came to the rescue. Lets just say after there double vodkas, after shocks, pints, wine and sambucas ment they where pretty much already pished."


What's a poor university student to do to help celebrate a buddy's 21st birthday? Why, dress up in drag, of course!

If you've got some time, there are pictures galore of the whole night, even though the birthday boy missed the last half.

Well, you're only 21 once, eh?