It’s birthday week.

My birthday week….and while the actual day of the anniversary of my birth is Thursday, I have unilaterally decided to take the whole week ….

A day is not enough. I have people to see and things to do and so I refer to this week as my “Birth Week.”

I’m starting a trend. I’m thinking once you hit 40 (and the age is negotiable) you can stretch the occasion if for no other reason than, how many people can you actually see on the birth day?

Friend: “Let me take you to dinner for your birthday.”
Birthday girl: “Having dinner with my family that night.”
Friend: “Fine, we have a week, don’t we? Pick another night.”

So much better, right?

Friend: “What are you doing Saturday?”
Birthday Girl: “Going out for my birthday.”
Friend: “Isn’t your birthday Thursday?”
Birthday Girl: “Birthday week, remember?”

See, it’s all good.

Plus, besides the whole celebratory thing, I need the whole birth week to deal with the roller coaster of emotions my birthday brings and to do my “birthday evaluations…”

They are like “year-end evaluations” at the office and I am my own “Human Resource Department.”

I review the prior year, how I work and play with my peers, whether I am on the right track in life and career and what my goals for the next year are.

What would a year end be without a report card? Or is it a year’s beginning? Is that a whole glass half full/half empty philosophical debate or is there a simple answer? Write me a memo.

In any event…..

Birthdays are cause for reflection….some of it sane and some not. As women we measure ourselves against more clocks than our male counterparts….standard, lunar, biological, Cartier…..and we ask ourselves, at many ages, are we everything we want to be?

“How’m I doin’?”

Why do we do this on the Birthday more than any other time of year?

‘Cause logically, the Birthday, an event that typically causes the people who defined, shape and fill our lives to reach out and touch us in some way during the “Birthday Week,” lends itself to interactions that weigh heavily on our response.

So, “How’m I doing?”

If you are not buying me a drink or a meal during birthday week and you wanna wish me a happy birthday……Wanna give me cause to do a Sally Fields at the Academy Awards?

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XOXO