As always, we had an interesting and enlightening conversation during lunch today. My friend, coworker and faithful reader SH was telling us how she had to make a trip over to her daughter's elementary school today to deliver a load of cupcakes for her daughter's Un-Birthday. It seems that her teacher wants to celebrate not only the students' birthdays, but also their un-birthdays -- which come six months before their actual birthday.
This was big news to me. I had no idea that people celebrated an Un-Birthday like that. In years past, our family has celebrated Non-Birthdays here at The Compound; in months when there were no family or friend's birthdays to celebrate, we would get cake and ice cream together and celebrate a Non-Birthday. But I'd never heard of an Un-Birthday, to be celebrated six months before your birthday. This might need to become a new tradition at The Compound.
There's a few unanswered questions, though. First of all, since you celebrate at the half-way point to your birthday, does that mean you should get half of a birthday present? And does this mean you should only get half of a birthday cake? And most important of all, does this mean you have to acknowledge the fact that you are officially half a year older?
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