βπβ³ Each year, my birthday falls on a day which is usually inconvenient and difficult to arrange a party for. Everyone is spent from Christmas holidays or else still celebrating them, while gearing up for New Year's. For that reason, and others, I like to do a full month each year of birthday celebrations. This way, I can arrange meetings and connections with friends and family throughout the time, when it's convenient for them. Also, the one-on-one emphasis tends to inspire people to buy me dinner, more than it would inspire them to pay into a party. Plus, this saves me the expense of hosting an expensive party to entertain my friends, which is usually out of budget anyway. But this year the birthday month extended longer and began earlier :)) βππ