Birthdays are almost everyone’s favorite day of the year (mine is second only to Halloween). There’s such an excitement with receiving gifts and getting to spend the day doing what you want to do. As I’ve grown older, I’ve stopped caring so much about the gifts, and have started caring more about spending time with people and birthday experiences. This year, someone asked me what I was doing for my birthday, and I told them I didn’t have much planned. I intended to spend my birthday at work, then going…