To all of you who are celebrating a birthday this Friday. . .
Happy Birthday!
And, this year, you get to celebrate on the actual anniversary of your birth!
If you are a leap year baby, like the other 199,000 people born on February 29, you could be either 40 or 10. I’d pick 10 myself.
For the rest of us, guess it just means that we’re a day older than we should be. So, if you are 40 and you’re not a leap year baby, on your birthday I guess you’re actually 40 years and 13 days old?
Of course, there are other ways to fool yourself about your age. I like the one that says that someone who is 40 is actually 30-10. That’s if they decided to stop having birthdays after 30. If they stop at 21, then they’d be 21-19.
Too bad they couldn’t figure out how to divide up the year without needing to include a silly fix like adding a day every four years.
Maybe I’ll work on that in my spare time.
3 Comments
February 27th, 2008 at 9:48 am
As a child I had a Sunday School Teacher who was born on the 29 Leap Year! He was particuarly a short man and he had us as children convience for years that he only has birthdays every 4 years so he ages slower than the rest of people think I was about 12 before I figured it out.
So this blog made me chuckle and think of Mr Reily again.
March 14th, 2008 at 9:05 am
When the moon is in the seventh house and jupitar aligns with mars and peace will guide the planet and people born on leap day will guide the stars. Just couldn’t get that song out of my head today. To all you fellow leapsters there is a special place for us and I like to think celestial as you can see.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Melbourne – Glad to hear from a leapster!!
Happy late birthday!