ROFL!
That is a GREAT way to spend a birthday, ESPECIALLY some thing like 40th!
I do have a knack for birthdays!
My "mentor" is a 70 year old woman who threw herself a BASH for her 70th. She taught me that birthdays are things to be celebrated - either in foreign lands where you are learning and laughing OR with all of your friends at a Gala....
I make a BIG DEAL each year out of my friends' birthdays AND my own.