14 Ways To Properly Celebrate Your Birthday The Amy Poehler Way

Say Knope to dull birthdays.

1. Start your day off by proclaiming positivity toward the heavens.

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2. Eat breakfast in bed.

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Then fall right back to sleep, covered in the crumbs of your gluttony.

3. Your response whenever somebody asks you what day it is.

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In fact, start every conversation with this true fact of truth.

4. Your response when your boss tells you to do something on this very special day of yours

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5. TREAT YO' SELF.

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6. Your birthday becomes a special kind of cheat day.

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7. Host a Harry Potter movie marathon.

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Be sure to remind your guests that it's BYOK: Bring Your Own Kleenex.

8. Seize every opportunity to bust a move.

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9. Also, recruiting back-up dancers is badass.

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Preferably strangers you've just met.

10. Of course, it's also perfectly okay to have a quiet evening of take-out and Netflix.

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11. Let the birthday festivities run for the entire week!

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It takes about one "birth week" to celebrate your awesomeness.

12. Remind yourself that age is only a number

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13. Spend the entire day chuckling with your BFF

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14. Whatever you do, just keep in mind...

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