I got Phil a cake to celebrate his new job.  Why?  Why not?  And why not add a candle on it too to make a celebration wish?  Why only eat cake for birthdays?  I mean, my mom did this for our family for 30+ years for nearly any occasion when almost the entire family were in the same house despite avid protesting of no more cake, so why end the tradition?  Because even though we always pleaded and begged my mom, “please, no more, no more!! nobody wants to take in any more calories than the 4000+ we’ve already consumed from the excessive galbi and lobster and heaping bowls of rice from the dinner we just ate,” we’d still eat the cake and it would taste pretty good, if only because it made my mom happy.