My Birthday

Just a quick post as it is starting to become a bad pain night and I think I am going to curl up in bed pretty soon and just read my book for a while.  I know it has been a while since I have posted (yet again) but you all understand why posts can come few and  far between at times and other times I could post multiple times a day.  For today though, I thought I would post about the really weird birthday 'theme' in our family.  In case you didn't know today was not only my birthday but also my nephew's birthday.  We were born on the same day exactly 20 years apart, but that is not the strange thing about our birthdays.  The somewhat creepy and cool fact is this:

My grandma on my dad's side was born on August 27th and gave birth to her first born child exactly 8 months later on April 27th.  My dad then had his first born child (my brother is adopted) 8 months later on December 27th.  Exactly 1 year later and my nephew, the first of that generation, was born.  So to summerize:
Nan - August 27th
Dad - April 27th
Me - December 27th
Nephew - December 27th

Not only do we happen to like the 27th of the month, the very strange fact to add to this is that I was born at 29 weeks (3 months premature) at 11:46 pm.  Another 14 minutes and I would have been a day later. I was actually supposed to be born on March 17th in case you are interested.  Then, my nephew, was actually about one week overdue!  So add in we have 4 generations on the 27th, and two of those were not supposed to be on the 27ths at all.

Funny thing is that my dog was born on July 29th but the vet has his birthday marked down as July 27th even though I point it out that it is wrong every time that we are there!  Another strange birthday fact in our family is that both of our dogs were born on the 29th.  My dog is July 29th, our other dog is June 29th.  My mom and my brother's step daughter also have the same birthday, my cousin and her nephew share a birthday and I have an aunt and uncle that also share a birthday.

We had a good day.  Mom and I went to pick up the dogs from the 'pet resort' that we take them to when we go out of town then we came back home and I decided that I would rather a few more hours of sleep in my nice waterbed (did not sleep well the last few days as I was sharing a futon with my nephew and lots of stress going on) instead of going into town and doing some boxing week shopping.  I got up then and gave K his birthday present from me which he loved.  I got him a few halo lego sets and he thinks he is getting away with something lol.  I keep telling him that he is allowed to play with the lego but dont even think about asking to play the video game.  He gave me his gift to me which was a little zebra plush stuffed animal and some chocolate coins that he picked out all on his own because he knows I like zebras.  We built and played with one of his new sets (bought him two) for a while before we had to get dressed. Got dressed and still had to wait like another hour and a half until my brother and family decided to show up.  Had our traditional birthday meal of chinese food and then had our dessert.  Because of us sharing a birthday it doesnt make sense to buy two cakes and since I have always loved ice cream cakes, we now get K a birthday cake (cupcakes actually this year - half vanilla and half chocolate) and I get an ice cream cake (Supposed to be half cookie dough blizzard and half reese's peanut butter cup but it ended up being just the top layer of cookie dough and reese's mixed together).  Kyler then opened his gifts (a bunch of Lego kingdom sets from my parents, movie and money from my nan, money from my aunt and money from his dad) and I opened my cards (money from my parents and from my nan).  J (step-niece?) wanted to sleep over so for some unknown reason mom agreed to it (not impressed!) and later (when my brother decided to finally drop off her PJ's) we all started watching "Kung Fu Panda 2" and J fell asleep soon after.  And basically that brings us up to this point in time with me writing up this entry.

Okay, that was enough for tonight, my shoulder is starting to cause me a lot of problems and does not like being on the computer too much anymore which really sucks as I live on the computer!  I do have some other posts that I need to get up soon.  One of them I wasn't going to post as it was a doctor's appointment that went so horribly wrong that it was actually funny, so I figure you guys might like the laugh (and want to document it for my 'records' as well).  Then there is a post about a 'doctor' that believes my cousin (well my cousin's son) has EDS and one about how my body, and family, is not liking a lot of scents and fragrences anymore.  Those will come within the next few days hopefully!

I hope everyone had a great holiday season and all the best for the coming new year!!!