I am officially calling a moratorium on all holidays in which people feel guilted compelled to buy each other extravagant presents in order to show their love for each other.  At what point do we stop this nonsense?  Seriously.  I am not a hooplah person and anyone that knows me knows that for sure.  I wore jeans to my own wedding and spent like $3000 total for our budget, for Christ’s sake.  I did not expect, but really do appreciate, my gifts from that day.  However, I think that enough is enough.  So, to anyone that I know in "real life" that reads my blog:  Happy/Merry Your Kid’s First through Twenty First Birthday, Anniversary, Christmas, Divorce, Marriage, Your Birthday, Your Thirtieth Birthday, Your Fourthieth Birthday, Any Other Birthday that is considered a Milestone if you have lived that long, New Baby, and whatever else I may not have covered.  Now go out and buy yourself something that you really want with the money that you would have spent on my Birthday.  As I just mentioned, you are off the hook for that this year.  And I was going to ask for a new camera, so you have a lot of money to work with.