Trouble with birthdays, AP- and I'm SURE my stats are right on this one-
Its like you have a bucket full of golf balls, approx. 3 score & ten, and you keeping taking one out each year...
At first this is fun- especially when accompanied by jelly & ice cream and those squeaky things like chameleons' tongues, that you blow into.
However, when you find you can count what's left in the bucket without running out of fingers, it isn't such fun.
Therefore, after removing the first couple of dozen, its appropriate to go & get thoroughly pi$$ed each time a birthday comes up & you have to lose another ball, so to speak; and its also advisable to keep in training through the year with regular alcoholic top ups.
Thus, each year, you destroy an appropriate quota of brain cells until, when you come to my age and the balls are looking a bit thin in the bucket, not only can you no longer remember your name, let alone how old you are, but there seem to be twice as many balls (minus 2) that there were last year, so everything's fine & dandy.