Dear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n
My birthday isn’t until June, but I’m interested in getting a party and some gifts now.\u00a0 I’d also like an ice cream cake and for all my friends to sing a nice song about me.\u00a0 Do you have any ideas?\u00a0 I don’t want to jeopardize a great birthday celebration when the time comes either.<\/p>\n
Best,<\/p>\n
Adulthood Is Boring<\/p>\n
Dear Adulthood Is Boring,<\/strong><\/p>\n I respect your needs, but I think this may be tricky to pull off.\u00a0 Let’s see…you could fake a pregnancy or engagement or pretend you’re moving.\u00a0 But that could really backfire.\u00a0 I saw this Dateline where a girl kept pretending to be pregnant for attention then was flabbergasted when her friends and family and the couple who was paying her to be able to adopt the fake baby got mad.\u00a0 A fake engagement is safer, because you can just “break up” but do you have to return the gifts then?\u00a0 A fake move doesn’t guarantee gifts or a song. <\/strong><\/p>\n Here’s the best idea, but it may take a little time: You need to make a second set of friends.\u00a0 Be sure to keep them totally separate from your current group.\u00a0 Tell them your birthday is six months from your real birthday, then plan your own party!\u00a0 Elect one of the new friends to spread the word that their “presence” is not to be considered your present. \u00a0 Hopefully you’ll find some one who can pull that off with out pissing everyone off.\u00a0 If one of the new friends has musical ability, ask them to write a song for the party.\u00a0 Tell them that you are so impressed by their talent, you want to give them an opportunity to showcase it.\u00a0 Then…tadaaaa!\u00a0 You get two birthdays! <\/strong><\/p>\n Now, some people might say that this is a very manipulative, dishonest plan.\u00a0 But those are the people that should be in your first group of friends, and don’t know about the second birthday. <\/strong><\/p>\n Sincerely,<\/strong><\/p>\n Poor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Poor Lucky Me, My birthday isn’t until June, but I’m interested in getting a party and some gifts now.\u00a0 I’d also like an ice cream cake and for all my friends to sing a nice song about me.\u00a0 Do you have any ideas?\u00a0 I don’t want to jeopardize a great birthday celebration when the … Continue reading “Wednesday, March 11th”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3842,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/3842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}