don't go to work

... on your birthday. Because many things will go wrong and/or you will be asked to do crazy tasks at the last minute.

For example:

1. The photoshoot you scheduled with The San Francisco Chronicle -- the awesome photoshoot, in which your winery was going to be the main art -- will be cancelled because the staff has suddenly chosen a different location. Sorry.

2. The winery owner will call you and ask you to make travel arrangements to fly three Bhutanese visitors up from L.A. to Napa on Sunday, which is only two days away and which also happens to be Mother's Day. You will be responsible for organizing their entire itinerary, including meals and transportation. And figuring out whose credit card to put it on. You will thank god that your co-worker is an event planner who takes charge of this project before you have complete brain meltdown.

3. You will fail to see the review of your wine in a certain very popular food magazine, so then you will contact the writer about it, only to have him point out which page it's on, and then you will look like an idiot who doesn't read carefully.

4. You will spill the contents of your Nalgene bottle all over your desk and all over the floor.

5. And even though this isn't related to work, you will also go to the dentist and find out you have two cavities.

Hooray for getting older.