The Festival of The Peg!

Okay, so each year I celebrate what has become known as "The Festival of The Peg!" or as most people prefer to call it my birthday.

It began as a simple little thing - I registered for a restaurant's birthday club. I thought to myself "Hey, self (cause like most people that is how I refer to myself) I think it would be fun to have a restaurant recognize and celebrate my birthday." So, I signed up for it. It was easy - a simple card that asked for my birthday and email address. Unfortunately, that year my birthday had already happened so I had to wait for it to roll back around.

Now, like most people I totally forgot that I had signed up for the birthday club and so when I got a "Happy Birthday" email with a coupon for a free meal on my birthday I got really excited. For a split second I wondered who had signed me up for such a cool thing and then almost as quickly realized that I had done it for myself. This led me to sign up for other restaurant birthday clubs.

Flash forward several years and I now receive about 15 different birthday celebration emails with offers of a free appetizer, entree, dollars off or dessert in honor of the day that I was born. As you might imagine, one simple 24 hour day did not allow for enough time to redeem all of the birthday offers so I began spreading them out over the course of a few days. And as it would go, the more offers I received the more days it stretched.

Realizing that "birthday" often means one day I decided that I would create "The Festival of The Peg" and decree that the official start of this wonderful festival would begin with the first arrival of the birthday offer. So far a seafood restaurant chain has become the first sign that the Festival of The Peg is upon us and one of my favorite fast food drive in chains (because their expiration date is the latest) signifies the end of the Festival of The Peg.

So, now you know the whole story behind "The Festival of The Peg" and how it is celebrated. And yes, the seafood restaurant birthday email came yesterday so let "The Festival" begin!