Birthday Wishes

Imagine it's your birthday and for most of your life you have celebrated by throwing a big party--fine food and wine shared with friends and family. Only this year, you are unemployed, have exhausted your savings and really shouldn't spend a dime on your birthday. What should you do? Throw a virtual birthday party!  Invite all your friends via email or posting to your virtual party. People will check in throughout the day.  Like my friends in Germany, are calling now while most of California is still sleeping.

Wouldn't  it be great if I could add a video component.  I guess I can open Skype or Gmail and chat with some of my friends that way. Already I've received four Facebook birthday wishes and two fabulous E-cards and it's only 7 AM.  Then I realized that my iPhone battery was dead. When I plugged it in, there were six voice-mail  messages with more birthday wishes.

I checked my various email in-boxes to find all sorts of birthday greetings from friends and vendors like a free cup of coffee at Borders, a $3 coupon at CVS and  a free tarot reading at tarot.com, all of which I appreciate very much. There is a book I want to get at Borders and a free coffee would be nice. I'll use the $3 coupon for eye makeup remover pads and I'll see if my Celtic Cross reading promises a better year ahead.  My discounts at Loehmann's, Macy's, White House/Black Market, will have to wait until the cash starts flowing again.

Virtual birthdays are fun, inexpensive and convenient.  I think I should setup a website to coordinate virtual birthdays. (Brother D, this could be a cool app. Let's talk.) I need to find a way to make money without being dependent on someone employing me.  It is time to be more entrepreneurial, like my hero, Oscar Micheaux, a man who made almost four dozen films, even during difficult times like the great depression. He figured out a way to make his dreams happen, and now, so should I.

My birthday wish is that I get an amazing job or that I finally get a script produced, or a third solution I haven't even thought of yet, or a combination of all of the above.  I want to keep my home, this sanctuary that I have created, and that provides sanctuary for others.

Before I blow out my virtual birthday candle, I want to thank all of my friends for being part of my virtual family, and I want to thank my family for being you.  I love you all. Thanks for celebrating my virtual birthday with me.