Guess What Today Is....

Guess what today is.......

It's my UNbirthday!!!

And I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say that it's YOUR unbirthday too!

Way to make it through another fabulous day, you wonderful person you!

(If it is indeed NOT your unbirthday today - I apologize for all the celebration here that doesn't apply to you. However, I happen to know that if you forgo reading the rest of this post for another 24 hours, this problem will be solved. So come back later!)   

Hopefully you all know where this holiday comes from. If not, short history lesson time: the word originally comes from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass but was also later used in Disney's 1951 film Alice In Wonderland. "Unbirthday" even has its own Wikipedia page (so you know it's legit) which can be conveniently found here in the event that you want to read up on it more. 

Maybe Mr. Carroll was onto something. I mean, yes, we all get "our special day" once a year. And that's cool and fantastic and makes a lot of sense. But having characters celebrate the day simply for the sake of celebrating - there's something there. 

Not every unbirthday is going to be completely awesome with no worries. 

But most people know that not every birthday is completely awesome with no worries. What makes a day great or not great is not the calendar. It's our attitude toward it. And if you've never celebrated a day for no other reason than to have something to celebrate - than you're missing out. 

Me and my roommate are pretty cool. And we have this thing that we do. It's silly, but it's one of the most fantastic things ever. It just so happens that we're exactly six months apart - with both of our birthdays falling on the eighth day of the month. It just started out with us celebrating one person's "half birthday" on the other's birthday. But then we decided we needed more celebration in our lives. So on every eighth day of the month, we celebrate a whatever-fraction-birthday (for example March 8th was my 7/12 birthday and her 1/12 birthday). Yes. It is just an excuse to buy myself chocolate and feel like a boss. But isn't that the point? A day is however special YOU think it is. 

So celebrate! For a real reason; for a made up reason; or for no reason at all.

Because it's fantastic.