Count down to Dooo um, I mean
13 years ago
My B-day. Thats right kiddies. 12-21-12 baby, that be my Bday. Sooo do I start the party at 12:21 am on 12-21 or wait till 12:21 pm ? Muahahahahahahaha *hack*choke*cough*weeeze* hhhhiem ok....
so, should do the trick as well.
My birthday is tomorrow, I'm going to be 53.
Maps, The Mayans, just because it was your birthday, ended their long count there and moved to another cave to start the next cycle. Go fig.
TM
On this day 4000 years ago
And you're all young whippersnappers. Just try being born in the 1940's. Everyone have a beer!
Luckily, I never had to deal with the bad issues of being a near-Christmas baby as my family never used it as an excuse to cheap out. The closest they ever came to doing that was when they gave linked presents, and the one year my sister thought the iPod was a going to be for my birthday and had to give a quick warning to switch her two gifts around.
In university it even resulted in something I personally liked: Never being a fan of in class/dorm birthday recognitions, it was nice to always be able to say, "my birthday isn't during the term". (Given that there were a couple of ladies in my program who loved giving them even if you didn't want one and they seemed to be incapable of getting that some people didn't, this was a good thing.)