Friday, November 13, 2009

34 Years Young

What do Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Kimmel and Craig Lindeman all have in common?

A. All three have hosted or appeared on a talk show.
B. All of them are funny, or think they're funny, and get paid for it.
C. All three share the same birthday today.

If you guessed "C," you are correct!

As much as I love celebrating birthdays and enjoy the challenge of trying to surprise Craig one way or another, it's pretty much impossible to top the big 30 bash four years ago. In fact, four years ago tonight, this is what we were doing:



Our hair may be a little longer and we may look a little younger, but that's us in the front row at the U2 concert in Miami. The best birthday present a 30-year-old U2 fanatic could ask for. So how do you top that? You don't. It's pointless to even try. So Park and I settled on getting the old guy a new cell phone that he wouldn't be embarrassed to whip out and text with or tweet from. He'll also feel a little more globally responsible with every call ... or at least when he's ready to recycle it. Check out the new Samsung Reclaim. I'm sure Craig will share more about it in a later post. It's pretty cute and 80% recyclable. I also like the nature ring tones.



With the new phone in his pocket, Craig seemed to have a fairly decent birthday: work, volunteering at the Humane Society, dinner with family, homemade chocolate cake and some one-on-one time with the kid over lunch. And though he didn't have a front row view of U2 this year, he did have the pretty cool gift of being a dad.



Happy 34, Craig. Here's to many more.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Craig did have a great birthday.

Carrie always comes up with great ideas. She did not say that she arranged a "spa massage" for the birthday boy.

Phone is pretty cool too!

Having Carrie and Park is the most cool, he could have. I think he would agree.

43

Anonymous said...

I'm thinking Park is the best birthday gift of all! What a great picture:) Mimi