How do you celebrate your birthday?
Happy Friday everyone… and happy birthday to me 🙂 Yup, it is really, truly my birthday today, and I’m excited that it falls on the Friday Five day. I can’t think of a more fun way to celebrate than with a birthday themed Friday Five. (And don’t worry if I’m working too hard on my big day – I wrote this post ahead of time.) As far as other celebrations go, I am going to ask Mr. Blogthings to take me out to a fun restaurant or two and eat lots of birthday cupcakes. And I have a special movie picked out for tonight. I like to keep it low key.
Of course, it wouldn’t be a Friday Five without a random giveaway. This week I’m giving away a $10 Old Navy gift code courtesy of Swagbucks. A lot of you on Facebook said you’d love an Old Navy card, and I recently learned they ship to 80 countries 🙂 (Swagbucks
is an entertaining and easy place to earn free gift cards that I am obsessed with. If you love free gift cards, I highly recommend checking them out if you live in Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, or the US.)
All you have to do to enter is comment below and answer the Friday Five. I will run a random number generator on Monday morning and pick the winners that way. I will comment on the thread to the people who won, so you can check back to see who won that way. If you miss it, I will announce the winner on Facebook and also next week in the P.S.
So, here are the Friday Five questions for this week. Simply answer below in a comment to enter 
Friday Five – Birthday Edition
- What’s your favorite way to celebrate your birthday?
- Do you like to have a cake on your birthday? If so, which kind?
- What celebrities, family members, or friends share your birthday? (Feel free to do a couple searches to find out)
- What gift would you like for your next birthday?
- What Does Your Birth Date Mean? Take the quiz and share your result. Is it true?
P.S. Congratulations to last week’s Friday Five winner, Linda
What’s your favorite way to celebrate your birthday? I like to get together with my family and just enjoy family time. But I also like to go out and dance with friends to celebrate the night!
Do you like to have a cake on your birthday? If so, which kind? Yes, of course! And any cake, I love dessert. As long as it’s not white cake.
What celebrities, family members, or friends share your birthday? (Feel free to do a couple searches to find out) Kelly Osborne!
What gift would you like for your next birthday? Hmm…I’ll be working a full-time job then…I’ll probably mainly ask for money to pay off my student loans and giftcards to get clothes for work.
What Does Your Birth Date Mean? Take the quiz and share your result. Is it true? Results below…and my strength is true, but I’m not a spiritual person at all so not really!
You are a spiritual soul – a person who tries to find meaning in everything.
You spend a good amount of time meditating, trying to figure out life.
Helping others is also important to you. You enjoy social activities with that goal.
You are very generous and giving. Yet you expect very little in return.
Your strength: Getting along with anyone and everyone
Your weakness: Needing a good amount of downtime to recharge
Your power color: Cobalt blue
Your power symbol: Dove
Your power month: September
“Anonymous” is me by the way! Liz! Oops sorry, I’ve never done this before 🙂
No worries! I gotcha 🙂 Thanks for entering, and welcome to the Friday Five.
1. It’s nice to do something different from the old routine, of course, but I’d be happy with having a low-key get together of some sort with my family or friends :3
2. I only do if someone makes me one! I like chocolate cakes and ice cream cakes.
3. My mom’s friend’s daughter has the same birth date as me, two years earlier (so maybe I just have hers…).
4. A trip somewhere would be amazing. But if I don’t have an art tablet by then, one of those would be nice too.
5. You are a GURU!
Spiritual and thoughtful, you tend to take a step back from the world.
You’re very sensitive to what’s going on around you, yet you remain calm.
Although you are brilliant, it may take you a while to find your niche.
Your creativity is supreme, but it sometimes makes it hard for you to get things done.
Your strength: Your inner peace
Your weakness: You get stuck in the clouds
Your power color: Emerald
Your power symbol: Leaf
Your power month: November
I’d say it is, mostly because of the strengths and weaknesses (damn creativity) and my power month–that’s the month my boyfriend was born in! :3
An art tablet sounds lovely! Definitely share some of your artwork with us once you get one 🙂
1. With friends and family
2. Yes i do, chocolate!
3. Kevin Bacon, Sandra Bullock, Mike Jagger, a friend that studied with me
4. Gift cards are always a great gift 🙂
5. You Are a Shapeshifter
You lucked out the the skills to succeed in almost any arena.
Put you in almost any business or classroom, and you’ll rise to the top.
You’re driven and intense, but you also know when to kick back and cooperate.
Your ability to adapt to almost any situation is part of what’s going to make you a success.
Your strength: Your attention to detail
Your weakness: You can be a little too proud of your successes
Your power color: Turquoise
Your power symbol: Arrow pointing up
Your power month: August
It does sound like 🙂
Gift cards are a nice gift! It’s fun to have a little shopping spree 🙂
1. I enjoy celebrating my birthday with my family and closest friends. 🙂
2. Yes, very much so! 🙂 I like chocolate cake with whipped cream icing or chocolate ice cream cream. It’s yummylicious! 🙂
3. Monique and Rider Strong.
4. A new camera.
5. You Are a Guru
Spiritual and thoughtful, you tend to take a step back from the world.
You’re very sensitive to what’s going on around you, yet you remain calm.
Although you are brilliant, it may take you a while to find your niche.
Your creativity is supreme, but it sometimes makes it hard for you to get things done.
Your strength: Your inner peace
Your weakness: You get stuck in the clouds
Your power color: Emerald
Your power symbol: Leaf
Your power month: November
Yes and so very true…. hehehe…
Happy Birthday to you! Hope you have a wonderful day! God bless…. *Hugs*
Celebrating with the people you love is definitely the best 🙂
1. Spend the day with my family, spend the night with my friends.
2. Of course. I like chocolate cake with whipped cream icing. It’s delicious.
3. Anne Frank.
4. A new laptop.
5. Magician – charming and manipulative. Dead on.
A new laptop is an epic gift! I hope you get it 🙂
1. It depends on the year. Lately I prefer low-key gatherings.
2. Ice cream cake with fudge dots!
3. I’m a twin, and one of my friends from elementary school also shares my birthday (which is tomorrow).
4. Tranquility in my heart.
5. Philosopher. It’s mostly true.
Another twin! I love it 🙂 Sounds like your birthday could be quite the party!
Somebody who remembers will celebrate with me
Maybe, those without butter smell
Phil Collins
no idea
troublemaker
Someone to celebrate with is the best gift, isn’t it? 😉
1. With my closest friends and my family, spending a nice evening together and laughing as much as we can !
2. OF COURSE ! Chocolate cakes are the best.
3. Gemma Ward (model) & Colin Kaepernick (football player)
4. Someone to go on a trip with me 🙂
5. You’re a Dynamo
You are more than a big ball of energy – you are a big ball of hyper.
You are always on the go, but you don’t have a type a personality.
Instead of channeling your energy into work, you instead go for fun and adventure.
Witty and verbal, you can have an interesting conversation with anyone.
Your strength: Your larger than life imagination
Your weakness: You tend to be pretty scattered
Your power color: Lime
Your power symbol: Lightening bolt
Your power month: March
Mostly true… When I’m with friends I can be hyper, other then that I’m more of an introvert person. But I always go for fun and adventure, that’s true, otherwise, life would be so boring. And I do have a larger than life imagination… 🙂
A birthday trip sounds quite adventurous… you are definitely true to your result 🙂
1 I enjoy celebrating my birthday with my family and few close friends. It doesn’t matter what we are doing or where we are just as long as everyone is together.
2 My fav cake to have is just a marble cake with buttercream frosting..(Kroger cakes)
3 Neil Diamond
4 not sure I can say if this is a gift or not but I would donations to go to local animal shelter
5 You Are a Mediator
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You understand people well and are a natural born therapist.
A peacemaker, people always seem to get along when you are around.
You tend to be a father or mother figure to friends, even to those older than you.
You enjoy your role, and you find that you are close to many people.
Your strength: Your devotion
Your weakness: Reliance on others for happiness
Your power color: Lilac
Your power symbol: Heart
Your power month: June
Yes and very true!!!!
I love the idea of getting donations for a local animal shelter. That’s very sweet of you 🙂
What’s your favorite way to celebrate your birthday? – Love to go out to a nice restaurant with family and friends. I give myself permission to get whatever I want on my birthday. 🙂
Do you like to have a cake on your birthday? If so, which kind? – I’m not really a cake person, but a few years ago I found an AMAZING recipe from Ina Garten for a Chocolate Espresso cake. Now I like to make and binge on that!
What celebrities, family members, or friends share your birthday? – No friends or family, but Dr. Seuss, Jon Bon Jovi and Mikhail Gorbachev.
What gift would you like for your next birthday? – Shemar Moore 🙂
What Does Your Birth Date Mean? Take the quiz and share your result. Is it true? – I’m a humanitarian. And it’s Definitely true!
You’ve got the most interesting mix of shared birthdays I’ve ever seen 🙂 I’ll have to look for that chocolate espresso cake recipe. Sounds delicious!
Happy birthday, Karie! Hope you’re having a great day!
1. I like to go somewhere out of the ordinary for my birthday. Last year I marched in the Pride parade with Mormons Building Bridges and it was the best birthday ever. Planning on a repeat this year.
2. I don’t usually have cake on my birthday…I like cookies better.
3. I share a birthday with Josephine Baker and Colleen Dewhurst. When I was younger I was especially excited about Colleen Dewhurst because she played Marilla in the Anne of Green Gables movies.
4. I would love a trip to somewhere fun for my next birthday…New York or to Thailand to visit my sister.
5. I got the result of Dynamo. Which is only partly true…maybe it’s a Gemini thing. This is the part I agree with : Witty and verbal, you can have an interesting conversation with anyone. 🙂
What a cool and unique way to celebrate your birthday! I love it 🙂
I like to go out to eat with my family on my birthday. I love having cake on my birthday. My favorite type of cake is red velvet. Yum! For my next birthday, I don’t know what I want yet. It’s too far away. Celebrities that share my birthday are Paul Walker, Jennifer Hudson, Jason Statham, Emmy Rossum. Also Henry Hudson. 🙂 My results for the quiz are: Magician. “You’re a dynamic, charismatic person who’s possibly headed for fame. You tend to charm strangers easily. And you usually can get what you want from them. Verbally talented, you tend to persuade people with your speaking and writing. You are affectionate and loving, but it’s hard for you to commit to any one relationship.
Your strength: Your charm
Your weakness: Your extreme manipulation tactics
Your power color: Indigo
Your power symbol: Four leaf clover
Your power month: December”
I agree with most of my results, especially being verbally talented. I love the color indigo so that is awesome. 😀 And four leaf clovers are the best.
Yum! I love red velvet cake!
Happy Birthday, Kari!! I hope you’re enjoying your day. 🙂
1. What’s your favorite way to celebrate your birthday?
With lots of phone calls and emails and tweets and messages. I like that people remember!
2. Do you like to have a cake on your birthday? If so, which kind?
Not really a cake, but I do like a special pastry, like an eclair or a napoleon.
3. What celebrities, family members, or friends share your birthday? (Feel free to do a couple searches to find out)
*googles* John Lithgow and John Le Carre. (It was a good day for Johns!)
4. What gift would you like for your next birthday?
That shouldn’t be a tricky question, but my family doesn’t really do birthday gifts! Hmmm….I just like people to remember, so a call or a tweet or a card or whatever, that’s a fine gift!
5. What Does Your Birth Date Mean? Take the quiz and share your result. Is it true?
I got:
You Are a Lone Wolf
You are resilient, and no doubt your resilience has already been tested.
You’ve had some difficult experiences in your life, but you are wise from them.
Having had to grow up quickly, you tend to discount the advice of others.
You tend to be a loner, having learned that the only person you can depend on is yourself.
Your strength: Well developed stability and confidence
Your weakness: Suspicion of others
Your power color: Eggplant
Your power symbol: Spade
Your power month: October
Wellll…I am a largely a loner, at least in real life! I guess it’s not far off.
(If I win, keep the giftcode and get yourself an extra birthday present! 🙂
How sweet!
Oooh, I love napoleons 🙂 And I agree, remembering a birthday is enough for me as well.
1. Dinner and a movie with family an/or friends.
2. I will accept cake in any form, but my favorite is strawberry.
3. Travis Barker, Josh Duhamel, and Claude Monet!
4. To get to spend it with my closest friends, whom I don’t get to see often enough.
5. I got “You Are A Performer”. It’s not entirely true for me. I’m much too introverted to be charismatic.
“I will accept cake in any form” – yes, me too, totally 🙂
1. I like themed parties. But if I can’t have one, a shopping spree or a day at an amusement park or arcade will do just as well, followed by a meal at a restaurant I love.
2. Chocolate. Always chocolate.
3. Danny DeVito, Martin Scorsese, Stephen Root, Jeff Buckley, Gordon Lightfoot, Lorne Michaels, Isaac Hanson, Rock Hudson, RuPaul, Rachel McAdams, Lauren Hutton, Raquel Castro, Sophie Marceau, Daisy Fuentes and Leslie Bibb.
4. A new place to live or a bike. My husband has nine months and two days to deliver! 😉
5. You Are a Winner
You tend to find yourself lucky – both in business and in life.
And while being wealthy is nice, you enjoy sharing your abundance with others.
You put your luck to good use: you are very ambitious and goal oriented.
Often times, you get over excited and take on more than you can manage.
Your strength: Your ability to make your own luck
Your weakness: Thinking you can do it all
Your power color: Bronze
Your power symbol: Half Moon
Your power month: August
Interesting how August is my “power month” – nothing ever really happens in August other than school coming back in session! But now that I am a student again, it does hold a new significance. The result pretty much hits the nail on the head, especially now that I am pursuing a degree and a career. I’ve learned that I succeed mostly when I actually put forward my best efforts, rather than skating by and hoping things work out. In fact, that’s how I earned my almost straight-A average last semester – it actually takes work.
I love your musings on your “power month” – very cool! That’s exactly the kind of charged energy I imagined when thinking about power months. I like that you’re getting busy and proactive during that traditionally lazy month. Congrats on all of your academic successes 🙂
Thank you!
Happy birthday! A movie sounds like a good way to celebrate. 🙂
01. On my birthday I like to reflect a bit, have some good food, spend time with family and friends and maybe do something out of the ordinary, like go to a concert or ballet.
02. Sometimes I have cake on my birthday, but more recently I’ve felt like exploring other options, so I’ve been making cheesecakes or pies.
03. I share my birthday with Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the director of one of my favourite films: A long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement).
04. I’d really love to have a black ’67 Chevy Impala. On a less expensive note, I always enjoy used books or gift cards to iTunes/Amazon.
05. According to the quiz…
You are more than a big ball of energy – you are a big ball of hyper. (Not so much these days.)
You are always on the go, but you don’t have a type A personality. (Always on the go, yes. But I probably do have a type A personality.)
Instead of channeling your energy into work, you instead go for fun and adventure. (Nope.)
Witty and verbal, you can have an interesting conversation with anyone. (I love interesting conversations. Not sure about the witty part.)
Your strength: Your larger than life imagination (Yes.)
Your weakness: You tend to be pretty scattered (Not very.)
Your power color: Lime (I’d prefer oxblood.)
Your power symbol: Lightening bolt (Okay.)
Your power month: March (Okay…)
I had a cheesecake this year for my birthday. Good choice! 🙂
What’s your favorite way to celebrate your birthday?
Most the time I like to spend it alone honestly. I don’t like to make a big deal out of it.
Do you like to have a cake on your birthday? If so, which kind?
I like for my mom to make me any blueberry dessert.
What celebrities, family members, or friends share your birthday? (Feel free to do a couple searches to find out)
Clark Gable, Rick James, and Lisa Marie Presley are a few.
What gift would you like for your next birthday?
Like I said I don’t like to make a big deal of it. A simple “Happy Birthday” or any thoughtful gift will do. 🙂
What Does Your Birth Date Mean? Take the quiz and share your result. Is it true?
I got “You Are an Idealist”, I don’t view myself as much of a leader, but otherwise its true.
I think a simple “Happy Birthday” is very nice – I love being low key about birthdays too 🙂
1. With my husband, kids and grandkids. Having my eldest granddaughter there to celebrate along with me is the best; afterall, we share the same birthday!
2. Absolutely! Just not a true birthday celebration without one. A big layer cake with lots of icing flowers on top is my favorite. The flavor can be anything.
3. The most important one is my Granddaughter Ashlyn!
4. A spa day would be great, but just having family there is the best gift of all
5.The Quiz said Performer, but description didnt match me at all.
How lovely that your granddaughter shares your birthday. I can imagine it was a very special day when she was born 🙂
Favorite way to celebrate my birthday? Anything as long as I don’t have any responsibilities that day! 😉
Cake on your Birthday? Sure, if there is cake I’ll eat it. Pretty much any kind but I do prefer quality.
Who shares my birthday? Patrick Swayze, Edward Norton, Robert Redford, Andy Samberg, Christian Slater, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Dennis Leary, Francis Bean Cobain, Mika Boorem
What gift would you like for your next birthday? I don’t know. Right now i want to fill out my collection of Sims 3 games and get a good computer setup to play it on.
What Does Your Birth Date Mean quiz result? Is it true? A Chief. I guess it’s true but I don’t seek to lead and I avoid too much responsibility.
I like your “any cake” philosophy – I share it as well. A day without responsibilities fits the bill for me too 🙂
1) My favorite way to celebrate my is by having a family party since I share my birthday with my twin sister 😀
2) Well I’m not really into sweets…I don’t like sugary food…so which kind of birthday cake I like to have on my birthday? I don’t really have a preferred one..However, I generally choose to bake my own cake. I black forest cake makes my family happy :)))
3)I was born on the 2st of February…I share my birthday with my twin sister as I previously mentioned. I share my birthday with Jennifer Love Hewitt and Alan Rickman.
4)I want a maxi dress to be my next birthday gift.
5) Quiz result
You Are a Maverick
You’re a restless rebel with an unpredictable nature.
Bright but unbridled, you tend to seek out wild experiences over new ideas.
People are frustrated by your great potential, but you love your unconventional life.
You’re a heartbreaker. People get attached to you, and then you’re gone.
Your strength: Your thirst for adventure
Your weakness: Not taking time for slow pleasures
Your power color: Hot pink
Your power symbol: Figure eight
Your power month: March
Correction: I was born on the 21st of February.
Congratulations! You won the Friday Five. I will email you later today with your Old Navy gift card 🙂
Black Forest cake is my absolute favorite cake. Happy early birthday! 🙂
Happy Birthday, Blogthings! Enjoy it to the max! Feel free to tell us which movie you watched later on.
Here are my answers:
1. Being in London. (Love that town above everything – however only celebrated one birthday there so far.)
2. No, bit of a difficulty since I’m allergic against almonds/marzipan/berries AND detest whipped cream. The only cake that works is plain chocolate cake or fruit cake.
3. I prefer to celebrate several times with fewer people each time instead of throwing a party for everybody at the same time. Makes me more able to focus on the company.
4. Virtually anything from British Museum in London will do. Or African Touch design store here in Stockholm. 🙂
5. You Are a Thespian
You are a virtual roller coaster of emotions, and most people enjoy the ride.
Your mood tends to set the tone of the room, and when you’re happy, this is a good thing.
When you get in a dark mood, watch out – it’s very hard to get you out of it.
It’s sometimes hard for you to cheer up, and your gloom can be contagious.
Your strength: Your warm heart
Your weakness: Trouble controlling your emotions
Your power color: Black
Your power symbol: Musical note
Your power month: February
Comment: Partly true – I’m an intense person yet quite thick-skinned. Am warm towards those who deserve it. The most accurate parts of the result is that my mood sets the tune in a room and the musical note thing. My whole life is resembling a soundtrack. Am a music addict.
P.S. Congratulations to last week’s Friday Five winner, Linda
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I love the idea of celebrating in London!
I can imagine it’s very difficult to enjoy cake in Sweden with a nut and berry allergy. In the US, using nuts is a lot less common, and we rarely put whipped cream on cake. If you ever come to visit, you can experience the US obsession with frosting 🙂