It's my party...

So, it’s my Birthday Weekend. Yes, the whole Weekend.

Which is kind of a rip-off. I much prefer to have the birthday fall on the Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. That way, it becomes my Birthday WEEK! Because we all know that you really can’t whoop it up with the celebrations when the day of your birth falls in the middle of the week. So, you use the whole week to drop the phrase “It’s my Birthday WEEK, that’s why you should do the dishes.” Or my fave “I don’t have to because it’s my Birthday WEEK.” I like to use that one a lot.

My actual birthday was yesterday. Which I know was Thursday. So I could’ve used the Birthday Week. But it’s also a long weekend, with it being Easter and all. And how weird is it that my birthday is right before the Easter weekend. That’s never happened before. And it won’t happen again in my lifetime. Here’s why:

As you may know, Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon
after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20).

This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people
used to identify Passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman
calendar.

The following may be of interest to you.

Based on the above, Easter can actually be one day earlier (March 22) but
that is pretty rare. This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever
see the rest of our lives! And only the most elderly of our
population have ever seen it this early (95 years old or above!). And none
of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier! Here's the facts:

The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228
(220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913 (so if
you're 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!).
The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285
(277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818. So, no
one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year.

So anyway, due to the long Easter weekend, I decided to give the family a break and just go with the Birthday Weekend this year. Which seriously compromises the next 3 birthdays. Because they'll only be Birthday Weekends. Having a Birthday Weekend doesn’t really get you more. It just gets you out of doing things.

Like washing the kitchen floor.

Or cleaning the toilets.

Or picking up dog crap.