Best of luck, Dana! Hope it comes through.

I confess I am not the best at celebrating holidays and birthdays with the people at work. There are a total of ten people living at the houses I work at, and I do not have all their birthdays memorized. Today was somebody's birthday. The house manager had not ordered a cake or written it on the calendar (she usually does). The other three people who live there will say, weeks ahead of time, what they want to do for their birthdays. This person is less verbal. I roll in to work, nobody says anything. Part of the way through supper, the person's father and brother show up with presents. I ransack the cupboards for a cake mix, and settle on brownies, because by gum I may have to improvize a bit but I not doing nothing about. After they leave, coworker says, "Yeah, I only found out it was her birthday when she got off the bus from the day program and they said, 'here's the birthday girl.'"

Ok I feel a bit like I should have been paying attention, but come on, coworker, give me a sporting chance, eh?

Don't feel bad, I've worked with most of my co-workers for more than a decade and my cousin in the only one whose birthday I have memorized.

My brain has room for some of my relatives' birthdays and like 5 friends, and the rest I have to depend on facebook for.

Yeah, I pretty much only know birthdays of people I've known more than 30 years - some relatives, some friends.

Thanks for helping me keep perspective.

I wonder if/how they do birthdays for patients at nursing homes who do not have family involved in their lives.

From what I've seen, I don't think they do anything, but most people on my father's unit wouldn't have any idea what day it is, despite the sign on the wall.

Sending the ~ma for Dana's dude!

I'm sorry about the news on your sister's marriage, Tommy. So hard on everyone.

Still over visiting with my family since my sister is here for Mom's birthday. So pleased that my son and his girlfriend both took off from their jobs yesterday to come over and see her. What good kids! They weren't even prompted to do so. Now we have a surprise party planned for my son tomorrow. Not sure if my family will be able to come over, depends on Mom, but the Holt side and friends will be there.

The only way I can keep track of anyone's birthday is FB and the calendar app on my phone. One year I forgot my own.

One year I forgot my own.

"There's something significant about today, what is it, what is it--oh, yeah. Now, how old am I? Crap, I'm going to have to do the math, what year is it again?"

Timelies all!

I mostly remember what month my friends were born in. Family I remember exact dates.