Happy belated birthday, Mary Anna!!
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wrote on 6 Dec 2024, 19:48 last edited by
Better late than never!
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wrote on 6 Dec 2024, 20:03 last edited by
Happy Birthday!
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wrote on 7 Dec 2024, 00:45 last edited by
Happy Belated Birthday!
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wrote on 7 Dec 2024, 11:47 last edited by
Happy Birthday @Mary-Anna !
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wrote on 7 Dec 2024, 19:12 last edited by
Happy birthday. I hope you celebrated well.
Big Al
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wrote on 8 Dec 2024, 02:47 last edited by
Thanks, y'all!
I spent almost all of the actual day on an airplane. Quirt and I got up at 2:30 am in California, then got on separate planes. He went home to New York and I went to Oklahoma for some work stuff. I spent the part of my birthday after I got off the plane on the phone with kids, husband, and sister. Also, I walked to a nearbyTex-Mex restaurant so I could have two margaritas without having to get behind the wheel. Then I spent the next four days going to meetings, talking to students, and seeing friends. I got home a few hours ago.
We time-shift our holidays a lot, so I have asked for the elements of a stay-cation for my birthday, only not all at the same time. So over the next few weeks, we'll do some things like go to dinner, go to a play, go poking around art galleries and antique stores in some adorable nearby town. And so on. It remains to be seen how much of this I'll get away with.
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Thanks, y'all!
I spent almost all of the actual day on an airplane. Quirt and I got up at 2:30 am in California, then got on separate planes. He went home to New York and I went to Oklahoma for some work stuff. I spent the part of my birthday after I got off the plane on the phone with kids, husband, and sister. Also, I walked to a nearbyTex-Mex restaurant so I could have two margaritas without having to get behind the wheel. Then I spent the next four days going to meetings, talking to students, and seeing friends. I got home a few hours ago.
We time-shift our holidays a lot, so I have asked for the elements of a stay-cation for my birthday, only not all at the same time. So over the next few weeks, we'll do some things like go to dinner, go to a play, go poking around art galleries and antique stores in some adorable nearby town. And so on. It remains to be seen how much of this I'll get away with.
wrote on 8 Dec 2024, 11:54 last edited by@Mary-Anna said in Happy belated birthday, Mary Anna!!:
We time-shift our holidays a lot,
I don’t think I’ve heard this express before, what does it mean?
so I have asked for the elements of a stay-cation for my birthday, only not all at the same time. So over the next few weeks, we'll do some things like go to dinner, go to a play, go poking around art galleries and antique stores in some adorable nearby town. And so on. It remains to be seen how much of this I'll get away with.
It sounds lovely, I hope you “get away” with a lot of it!
My birthday was last week on a random weekday. In the morning I had to go to the podiatrist and then I taught all day and was exhausted when I got home. I told Mr SK that I need a do-over birthday!
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wrote on 8 Dec 2024, 12:17 last edited by
Time-shifting means that we choose to celebrate on a different day. Example: if we are in different places on one of our birthdays, we designate a different day as the birthday day in that year. We are not bound by the strictures of the calendar.
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Time-shifting means that we choose to celebrate on a different day. Example: if we are in different places on one of our birthdays, we designate a different day as the birthday day in that year. We are not bound by the strictures of the calendar.
wrote on 8 Dec 2024, 13:00 last edited by@Quirt-Evans said in Happy belated birthday, Mary Anna!!:
Time-shifting means that we choose to celebrate on a different day.
Thanks for the explanation! This is certainly something that happens quite commonly (like when a holiday is observed on a Monday) but I had no idea there was a special term for it.
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@Quirt-Evans said in Happy belated birthday, Mary Anna!!:
Time-shifting means that we choose to celebrate on a different day.
Thanks for the explanation! This is certainly something that happens quite commonly (like when a holiday is observed on a Monday) but I had no idea there was a special term for it.
wrote on 8 Dec 2024, 13:32 last edited by@ShiroKuro We sort of made it up, in that it wasn't an idea we got from elsewhere, but it's such a common way to deal with missed occasions and such a not-too-creative combination of words, I don't think we can copyright "time-shift."
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wrote on 8 Dec 2024, 15:00 last edited by
I think it’s worth copyrighting!
And apparently, AI thinks it’s a word that already exists!
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wrote on 8 Dec 2024, 16:29 last edited by
I figured we'd heard it before and adapted it to the way we do things.
I hope employers don't time shift in order to get away with not paying extra for working on holidays!