birthdays are funny business

you wait a couple of days before you call, you don't want to call twice. you figure, you wait until the actual day. then on the day you try tohit the right hour, not too early, and not too late. sometimes the day gets so eventful you forget to call even tough you thought of it pretty much most of the day. so you call later. big deal! is it, or no?
I love my birthday and hate it at the same time.You get nice calls and get to talk to a lot of friends, but then I won't get to see them as I used to. my own family is there though, thank godness. they celebrate with me. it is odd perhaps that they don't know much of my youth, so funny stories remain untold and there is a change in schedule: grown-up birthday.