Happy Okay, Just Stand There Then Year!

If a Leap Year does not have February 29th in it, then what is a year that does?  I propose the new title above.  I am very hopeful that this will catch on and provide yet another holiday for greeting cards and jobs for greeting card writers everywhere such as Tom in (500) Days of Summer.  For at the end of the movie, we never really know if he hooks up with Autumn and does in fact fulfill his dream to become an architect.  In my little world I like to think that he does.


I have a second cousin, Ed, who lives in Pittsburgh and was born on a February 29th.  He was born in a much earlier year than me, but since he only has a birthday every four years, does that actually make him younger?  And what happened that first year when Ed as a little boy grasped the concept of what day his birthday was on and waited eagerly for February 29th to roll around to experience presents and parties?  He sure must have felt ripped off and jipped!  Hey, it's the 28th, my birthday is tomorrow.  Then he wakes up and his parents and teachers tell him it's March 1st.  Whoa!  What just happened there?  I've missed the day after my birthday, but that was so my own fault for celebrating too much. 


In these tough economic times (haven't we read/heard that sentence a little too much), I could see this as a way for cash strapped parents everywhere to save money by not buying presents for their kid's birthday.  Say the kid's birthday is June 30th.  Poor little Bobby wakes up and his parents tell him it's July 1st.  "Wait a minute!", Bobby cries.  "What the @&#*$! happened to June 30th?"  "Oh, you know.", his parents say evasively.  "It's that whole Leap Year kind of a thing.  Due to the summer equinox, the no daylight savings time change in Arizona, and the fact that Pluto is no longer a planet, we had to make up another day and June 30th was chosen.  Sorry buddy.  Maybe next year."  And my husband says I'm not thrift-minded.


But I ramble....


Dear, sweet, and oh so fashionable, Thrifted Shift, (check out her awesome blog at thriftedshift.blogspot.com) bestowed upon me a "One Lovely Blog Award" with the admonition that I pass it along to another noteworthy blogger that I enjoy. I have chosen (drum roll - boom, boom, boom):


Tall Kendall at tallkendall.blogspot.com


I enjoy perusing Kendall's blog because: 1) she is tall like me, 2) I like her style and the outfits she puts together, and 3) she has a good sense of humor and doesn't take herself too seriously