celebrating a birthday alone. Any ideas?

So my birthday is next week and it looks like I'll spend it alone. All the boys are in different places at the moment. Family members not going to come either. Do any of you still celebrate birthdays or did you outgrow it? 

Haven't celebrated a birthday alone since that time I moved elementary schools and no one in my new class came even though the party was at Chuck-E-Cheese.

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Get a nice Argentinian woman, a nice Argentinian steak, and a nice Argentinian wine. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I'm jealous - I wish I was there.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Are you single? 

Never discuss with idiots, first they drag you at their level, then they beat you with experience.
 

Then what Isaiah suggested or some variant of it

Never discuss with idiots, first they drag you at their level, then they beat you with experience.
 

You could invite a few friends to have zoom party call or something like that? Not necessarily to celebrate, but to catch up as a group.

Also, in many places shops and restaurants are re-opening, you could arrange something once people are back in town and if local regulations allow it. Shouldn't be that long until more and more people are going out again (looking at my social media stream across the US and UK/rest of Europe, people are already outside every day).

 

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