yeah, might be the occasion of x-mas or might be because i am away for quite sometime...
I think those of us with Christmas or early January birthdays are just victims of the season, Erica!
I've had years where I've been spoiled rotten on my birthday and years where not one person I know - family included - has remembered it's my birthday and I didn't get so much as a card.
The latter doesn't really bother me too much as I understand that people have a load on their minds during December and are decompressing in January and so it can easily slip past them, unnoticed. It's a little depressing, sure, to be forgotten, but I can understand why. Plus, it's fun to rag on my baby brother for it when he finally remembers in March.
So that's a bonus, right there.
So, don't let it get you down - we haven't forgotten you. Just got the day lost in the Christmas haze.
Hope you had a lovely birthday!
LabRat