Shablam!

[go_team]

So last Saturday as I was leaving work I put a little note on the message board in the break room advertising the fact that I want more hours, and suggesting that cooks who want to take a day off (especially on weekends) give me a call. I also asked if anyone wanted to trade shifts so I could have next Thursday off (it is my birthday, after all).

I just got a call. Net result is I'm working this Saturday and next Saturday at 7 AM, and I have my birthday off, just like I wanted. Hurray!

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My mom cares deeply about birthdays and anniversaries. She keeps a big ol' calendar that's devoted exclusively to keeping track of them. I think I must have mentioned that we were going to Portland for your birthday, and there's a good chance you've made the calendar now, in which case you can expect birthday email from her for the rest of her life. Like I said, my mom cares deeply.

In her family, it's traditional to visit (or at the very least call) someone for their birthday (that's a pretty typically Dutch thing, actually, as is the tradition of congratulating not just the birthday person for being a year older, but also congratulating all the other party guests and friends and family and suchforth, which you can interpret either as "good job helping X get a year older" or "good job surviving another year with X"). Part of the reason I have to be home on my birthday is so I can receive calls from my immediate and extended family, and many (most?) of those will be in Dutch. That's all the birthday plans I have for certain, although if I can get the day after my birthday off as well, a certain amount of staying up late having fun will be in order for sure. I'll keep all y'all posted.