Monday, November 30, 2009

"Happy birthday/ Happy birthday/ Happy happy birthday to you!"

I just put people who forget to tell people happy birthday to shame. I told my sister, LA, happy birthday twelve, that's right twelve, different ways. So if you need any help coming up with some ideas, here they are:

1. I gave her a shout out on the previous blog post. Which she didn't see cause apparently she was delirious when she read it. Still counts though.

2. I told her happy birthday on gChat at approximately 1:40 this morning. So since she lives in Seattle it was technically East Coast time and not her birthday yet. But it still counts since Georgia is her true home.

3. Obligatory (inside joke. haha!) Facebook wall post.

4. I sent her a card (along with a gift card) in the mail and it got to Seattle before her birthday. I could count the gift card as a separate happy birthday but I won't.

5. I tweeted a happy birthday to her on good old Twitter.

6. Along with a link to her family's website, I wrote happy birthday to her in my gchat status.

7. I told her happy birthday on the phone. Like the good ol' days.

8. My mom and I talked to her on gmail's video chat this afternoon and sang happy birthday.

9. I texted her happy birthday!

10. I sent an e-mail saying "Happy Birthday!!!" with each letter in a different pretty color.

11. I sent an e-card that sings, dances, and is interactive.

12. I posted a comment on her family's blog.

I contemplated making it my facebook status, sending her a message on facebook, and hiring a skywriter but it's raining in Seattle today (go figure) so that'd be a wash.

In all honesty, I had done about six of the things when I talked to her on the phone so we joked about how I was winning at telling her happy birthday (I'm competitive). And then we came up with the idea of me coming up with as many ways as possible. I think 12 suffices. She also said I would spend the rest of the day coming up with ideas. Well it's only 5:30, maybe I can get to fifteen....

Actually this entire blog post in itself is a big old happy birthday so it's thirteen! Booya!

3 comments:

Lauren said...

Thanks for the birthday love! times 13!
Too bad about the skywriting. Maybe next year?

Joanne said...

I don't know how it happened but I do have very competitive children!

Annie Petrella said...

Coming from the woman who said, on family game night: "Well we can play Apples to Apples if you want to lose" or something along those lines. Yeah, I don't know where we got the competitive edge from at all.