Its your Birthday and Your Spouse Is In Disney World, What Are You Gonna Do?
This is my dilemma today as I turn ~muffled sound~ years old and my husband is at a Solidworks Convention being held in Disney – my absolute favorite place on the entire planet.
Solidworks, we gotta have us a talk about you changing the date of Solidworks World.
Now I’m not one of these people who thinks the town should shut down and throw her a parade on her birthday. However, I have been known to host a pretty rockin’ pity party from time to time. So in my effort to avoid going down that slippery slope I came up with an idea…
and it made me smile
and giggle
and laugh
and grin
and write about it to a few thousand of my nearest and dearest friends (that’s you, by the way).
You see, my husband (who is in Disney World today…on my birthday….while I am at home…with 2 kids) has a blog. His blog is very popular among his niche audience of Solidworks users. Solidworks is a 3-D design CAD software program, which I know way too much about considering I have never once used it.
However, we have a bit of a playful jesting back and forth about who gets the most visitors, who gets the most comments, etc. Hey, in absence of an actual life, its fun and its our sport.
Of course, my site is a cooking site and I have yet to meet a human who doesn’t consume food so you can see I obviously have the edge in our little rivalry here. So the question is, how do I take the bit of an edge and have some fun with it (on my birthday…when I am at home…with two kids….while he is at Disney World)?
~giggles as she gets ready to announce this~
Today, I am asking a personal favor of all of my nearest and dearest readers.
Help me have a happy birthday!
Please go to my husband’s website and leave a comment-but not just ANY comment!
Something like: “Hey Ricky! LOVE your wife’s blog!”
~giggle~
To keep it all in one spot, I’d love for the comments to go on his latest post, which may be found by clicking this link.
Oh this is going to be fun! Maybe not as fun as it is right now to be in Disney World….with Mickey Mouse…on your wife’s birthday…while she is at home…by herself with two kids…hearing “It’s A Small World” and the theme from “The Enchanted Tiki Room” playing in her head, but I’m sure it will be awfully close!
He has an iPhone and gets an email notification with every comment, which causes his phone to vibrate in his pocket. How FUN will it be if suddenly, his phone starts going off…and just keeps on going and going and going!!!
Oh y’all, PLEASE help me with this!! I cannot tell you how many times throughout the day I will be grinning from ear to ear as I check his comment numbers only to find them growing and filled with comments from Southern Plate readers!
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“@southernplate is home on her birthday while her husband is in Disney World! Help her have some fun! click here! http://snipurl.com/bor63″
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Happy birthday Christy!!!Hope you have a wonderful day.I left a comment to him.
Happy Birthday Christie! Your poor husband is being swamped with messages now. I just posted one and there was already 65 on it. I bet he want leave you on your next birthday! Hope you still enjoy your special day and may God Bless you.
This was lots of fun!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Happy Birthday! Hope you have a good one and hopefully Ricky will make it up to you when he gets home.
Left a comment on hub’s blog…evil but fun…hope he’s a good sport!
Happy Birthday Christy!
I told him that I thought he should fly you to Disneyworld to spend some time there for you b’day!! Hope you have a wonderful b’day! Love your site and your recipies!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday Dear Kristi
Happy Birthday to You
I hope this is the BEST birthday yet! I left a comment for your hubby…giggle giggle!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Christy,
Looks like another Feb birthday has entered my life. Hope you have the BEST birthday ever, and to keep the spirit goin, I hit the big 4-0 this coming Monday. Don’t party too much, in fact, party til ya can’t party no more.
Have posted on Ricky’s site. Hope you have a great birthday.
I did it…Hope I helped to make your day just a tad better~ Happy Birthday!!
Ooh, you’re devious.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday! I left the comment for the hubby. Even suggested a belated birthday present. I always enjoy reading your blog. Thanks for all your effort and hard work. Many blessings.
Hi Christy,
Happy Birthday!
I left a comment for your husband. LOL
Really enjoy your recipes. Thanks so much!
Christy, I just love your style girl…. I would have never thought about this. I’m in agreeance with everyone, its evil but fun!… If nothing else, he will realize (and his friends too), just how much we all love you!
Have a great Birthday and sit back and giggle your butt off!!!!!!
Oh I forgot, dont be suprised you might get a homemade dinner out of it, along with jewelry!!……hehehehe
DONE! Have a ~*ROCKIN*~ birthday, Christy!
The Matthews Family
Done! LOL
Happy Birthday, Christy!
Just think, when ya’ll are sitting in the rockers on the front porch, 50 years from now, you’ll both remember this day!!!!
I’m sure that not only will he make the B-day up to ya, but I bet Valentine’s day(my aunt’s b-day) will be special too.
Now, the question is….what we he do on his b-day, or yours next year?
My uncles used to give each other dog gifts for Christmas every year, for many, many years. I’ve been trying to goad them on to pick it up again. There’s new chew toys and dog treats now….he he he
If nothing else, ya know we’re always here for ya
Being an old person, who is not very computer savy, I cannot Twitter ot Tweet…..but I can wish you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!
Done Christy!
Have a wonderful Happy Birthday!
I am still laughing about this one! Your husband is gonna have lots of folks wondering why his phone keeps vibrating!
Still laughing!!! So funny!
Happy birthday gal! Looks like I was #103 on Ricky’s. You soooo bad! hehe!
Hey Lady! Happy Birthday!! Just got back from his blog…glad I could help
Happy Birthday Christy! Hope it’s a great one, even if it didn’t include Disney World.
Hope your husband is a good sport!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Disney may be the happiest place on earth, but I’m sure he would rather be there with you celebrating your birthday. Anyway, go out and treat yourself. That is the one sure way to always get what you want for your present.
Happy Birthday Christy! We’ll make sure he doesn’t enjoy himself too much!
WOOOOOO! happy birthday wonderful lady! may this day be be most special for you !
Y’all, this has absolutely made my entire day. Its been so busy! Katy had a Valentine’s party at school and I had so much work to do and baking for the party, then I did get to eat lunch with Mama, Grandmama, and Miss Millie (and a very sleepy/grouchy Katy) and after that I’ve just been working all day.
THIS has been the highlight of my day and I have grinned from ear to ear every time I even thought about it!!
For supper, I’ve ordered my favorite pizza (delivered!) and breadsticks…got diet dr peppers chillin’ now!
He has laughed about it all day, he is a very good sport. You have to be in order to be married for this long!!! He got to be a rock star at his conference with all those comments! lol
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Grateful to all of you for all of the smiles you give me!
Christy
It’s definitely a world of laughter thanks to people like you Christy. That’ll teach him to leave you to your own devices:) Keep up the good work and have a wonderful birthday.
Happy Birthday!!! Good idea about commenting to your hubby.
I just added a comment to your husband’s site. Your husband probably has his phone turned off by now. lol
Ok Christy, Haven’t been home all day. Read your post, and did my thing too. OH your husband is really getting the works. Hope you have had a wonderful Birthday. I think Ricky is going to be bringing you something really nice home for this birthday.
Again, Happy, Happy Birthday. And keep up your great work.
Just got in from work, I hope you have had a wonderful day today on your special day hon!
It’s a wee bit late, but… Happy Birthday Christie!
I just left one, but it said “0 comments”. What’s up with that?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISTY! I did my good deed for the day…my comment has been left at your husband’s website!
I did it! Us girls have to stick together! heehee
Happy Birthday Christy
Christy…I have enjoyed BOTH you and your husband’s blogs this week. My husband, Randall, is the one who gave Ricky a ride from the airport to the conference. You have both blessed me this week and made me feel a little more a part of my husband’s world as I have also been home…alone…with two kids.
We didn’t order out for any pizzas this week, but I did enjoy not having to put a full cooked dinner on the table every night. It gave me a little more time to cook and bake a few things for our upcoming Princess Birthday party. Our oldest one will be 4 in a couple of weeks. I make most everything from scratch and spend about 90% of my time in the kitchen so I promise you I’ll be visiting your website often. =)
Now that Randall is home, it’s back to cook’n for me. Most likely, something from Southern Plate will land on our table soon, if not tonight.
I hope you enjoy your birthday and having Ricky home again today. Vacation is now over Christy. Time to get back to work. Maybe we should hook up for SWW10! LOL!
Brenda
P.S. Thank you so much for the chocolate fudge! Randall loved it!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
I’m so sorry that you’re at home while he is at Disney World. Please explain to me why you didn’t get to go????
In honor of Valentine’s Day (and now, you’re birthday, too!), I did a post (http://myfirstyearasawallace.blogspot.com/2009/02/in-honor-of-fact-that-its-valentines.html)on blogs that I *love* and you’re on that list! I seriously add new items to my to-make list every day because of you!
I’m off to comment on your hubby’s blog.
Well, I just had to do it even if it was a day late. I want to wish you a belated Happy Birthday. And I want you to know I commented on your husbands blog for yesterday. I informed him that at my house THE wife’s birthday lasts ALL week! Hope he brings you some goodies from Disney World. I can’t wait to hear his response to all this. What a great Idea, it is totally somethin’ I would do.
Better have something reeeeally special planned for when you return, Ricky….. she’s *so* worth it!!
Happy belated birthday! Okay I LOVE DisneyWorld so ME, well I sure ’nuff woulda left those kids with grandma and boarded a plane for a surprise visit. I’m just sayin’….
Sorry it’s late… But posted one.