Every Birthday Has a Way of Being Forgotten

Today, July 26, is my half-birthday, maybe.  It is the date six months after my actual birthday.  Technically, it might be fairer to say the half-birthday is 183 days after the real one, but my way is easier to calculate.  Although a 'real' event, I am not sure how to celebrate or when I found out about it.  Then again, I don't really celebrate my real birthday either.  Growing up, school way frequently closed due to weather or flu, so I didn't get to be with friends much.  I had one party in the fifth or sixth grade, but it didn't go too well.  I tried to throw a better party later on, but I don't remember going to school on that date again until college when I turned twenty-one.  I didn't have any friends at that time to take me out to legally drink.  As to the unasked question . . .  I don't really celebrate my birthday any more, not since a few years ago.  My mother got me a cake, but it was twice the size it was supposed to have been and decorated with her favorite type of icing, one I detest.  Some of the cake had to be thrown out.  I never went to many parties either.  Mostly, I wasn't invited or wasn't unable to attend for other reasons or one wasn't thrown.  Not even my mother likes parties for her, even though hers falls on a national holiday.  (Decorum prevents my from saying which, even though one of you might share this important date.)  Things started to change when I joined social media.  I found out that may people consider it a tradition to wish others birthday tidings.  Just a few weeks ago, I remembered that a birthday was coming up.  I was just getting ready to check the calendar, when I got notified that the birthday was the previous day.  I had missed another one, as this has happened to me many times before.  Although I had been busy planning my store's upcoming book signing event, I have a better reason.  I still don't own a computer or mobile device; in fact, I barely understand how smartphones and data plans work.  Therefore, I am usually online only twice a week:  Wednesday afternoons and a few minutes Saturday mornings.  While I can randomly be online at other times, I am never online nights, Sundays, or most major holidays.  I keep missing gaming requests from one friend, because we aren't online at the same time that often.  I said before that I will get at least one device by the end of the year, I will need to when and not if I go back to school, but I am just so technologically illiterate, that I am having a hard time going through with the plan.  Until then, consider this a formal apology for being late for your birthdays.  I will try harder to be timely.  I have tried to post early, but I am not sure how much of a good idea this is.  Still, I am making progress slowly to commit to online social media.  I am about a quarter of the way there, or less.  Right now, I am keeping up with everything.  As long as half-birthdays don't start trending , that is.  Then, I will be screwed.