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There are some people that can organize things better than others. I have always been someone that can organize, plan, delegate and manage most type of events from fund raisers involving several hundred people to private dinner parties. I believe a big part of this is that I love to pay attention to small details. I have always been this way. I notice little details from what is in a room to what a person is wearing to what color eyes people have. I have employed these skills to be rather successful as a corporate event planner as well as a party planner in my personal life.

Since I have been an adult I seem to be the go to person when it amounts to birthday party ideas as well as ideas for anniversary and retirement parties. Just now my children came to me asking ideas for presents for dad and I am the one that have to counsel on these issues. In truth whenever I get upset at work my hubby tells me to cease the trouble of corporate and take one of the numerous offers I have had from caterers to be their party planner. I have thought on some of these offers now and again; yet it is hard to give up the protection and income that I get from being involved with a large corporation. I enjoy getting involved in different birthday party ideas and other parities, yet I am a part of the corporation so I see the on-going effect that my attempts of raising funds has. If I would just plan and arrange various birthday party ideas I would not have any on-going feeling of satisfaction that something great was going to happen as a result of my endeavors.

A few months ago my sister telephoned me for birthday party ideas for her hubby. He was going to be sixty-one. He did not wish anything great for his sixtieth birthday party last year. My sister has never been capable of surprising him in all the years they have been married. The only thing I suggested her was on the choice of retirement gift in the past. Now she desired me to help her pull off a surprise party for him. I told her that I would have to consider some diverse ways that we could pull off a surprise for him. I told her I liked the fact that she was doing this on a year other than one ending in a zero or five because people were more wary during those years. My brother-in-law is rather a practical joker so I knew I would be able to enlist the help of many people to pull of different birthday party ideas. I have given my sister a few different ideas to think for the event. My best bet will be also to find a special gift for my brother-in-law such as family ski vacation in order to surprise him. Once she gives me her decision I will start the planning. I am glad that I got a way to put my skills to work.