Birthday mixup

My notifications are disabled at the moment, but around 11:15ish, I checked my phone for whatever reason, and saw that people were wishing someone a happy birthday in the Whatsapp group.

...Imagine my surprise when I actually saw whose birthday Hikianalia was celebrating:

"Happy birthday to Hi'iaka and Edelweiss🤩🥰✨️🎂☀️🌺"

...Oh, blimey. Bloody mother of blimey.

My birthday is in a little less than a month. In 28 days, to be precise. A full lunar cycle away, and OBVIOUSLY NOBODY KNOWS. Not that I'd tell anyone, anyway. Who would I think I am to blather it out loud. 

So people wished both Edelweiss and I happy birthday... and I stood there awkwardly, phone on the table, trying to figure out how the hell I'm going to handle this.

(I had been meaning to name her for a while, but I never actually mentioned her on the blog because so far nothing of note involving her had occured. Guess this is our opportunity here!)

At first, I almost wrote "Thank you, but Hikianalia made a mistake", but I thought that it was a shitty idea. Why? Because it would make her lose face. It would draw attention to the fact that she made a mistake, rather than... well. The kind gesture. 

Seriously, she makes the effort to celebrate birthdays like this, puts out a joyful energy into the group, if I was doing the same and had someone say "mmh ackshually this is in a month for me", I'd be... well. I wouldn't be very pleased. And considering I know that she probably doesn't like to lose control of her image... 

I didn't want to embarrass her, so I sent her a DM immediately.

"Hikianalia, if this is me and not the other [real name] you're talking about, my birthday is at the end of November 🤭 not October... but since there are two of us..."

She reacted a few minutes later with a prayer emoji. I think she probably took it well. And I bet that it's more comfortable than awkwardly realizing that you made a mistake in public.

Later on, it's Edelweiss herself who wrote me a happy birthday. I immediately went to private messaging.

"Actually, Hikianalia got it wrong, my birthday's in a month, hehe. I let her know in private, didn't want to put her on the spot like that 🤭😅"

"Hello! Oh dear, it's a bit tricky, isn't it? 😅🤭"

Yeah, it is.

I don't know what I'm gonna do with all those birthday wishes. Guess it's a double happy birthday for Edelweiss, then.

But still lol. Lots of comical shit happening these days, between Malia and this...