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Monday, September 20, 2004
Happy Birthday to Me
I guess some of you vouyers out there would probably like a run-down of my Super Happy Exciting Long Birthday Weekend of Joy in place of my usual philosophical ramblings about Mini-Cons. So I shall provide. Those of you who only come here to seek the deeper meaning of life as revealed by the Mini-Cons can skip this entry.
My weekend kicked off properly when I got off work Friday evening and went to see the extra-cool Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow with Graham, Walky, and Steve-o (and two of Steve-o's other friends). Graham and I even dressed up a bit and we went to the Arena Grand downtown to make it extra-shiny. I got a bad sinus headache shortly after getting home, though, so I went to bed early. But that's okay, because I needed to catch up on sleeping. I slept, in fact, through much of the next morning, until we had to get up because Graham's parents were arriving from Detroit early in the afternoon. We met them at their hotel around 2 and proceeded to W.G. Grinder's for a nice lunch. After that we went to a cookie place that was fortunately not in Westerville after all but was, in fact, right down the street and then went back to the hotel for some hanging around. During the driving around Graham's mom gave me my present from them, and those who have been reading this blog do not need me to reiterate how desperately I had been yearning for a copy of Pokemon LeafGreen. There was also a nice check for $40 that I promptly spent the next day. So once we got back to the hotel I spent a couple hours getting started in my game while everyone else watched sports, then Graham and I hit the pool before dinner. I had decided I wanted to try something new for my birthday dinner for once, so we went to the Cap City Diner, which is a pretty basic Nice Restaurant with a diner theme. It was pretty good, but we all ended up pretty much gorged, so it was time to call it a night.
Sunday was my actual birthday, so I made plans to get together with my friends again for gifting and all that. Graham and I were up early for breakfast with his parents at TeeJay's before they headed back to Detroit. TeeJay's is pretty good, but it's the sort of place where the handicapped spaces were all full on Sunday morning.
After they left I promptly headed out to spend that birthday money, specifically on the first Harry Potter DVD and this shirt, because I decided my life didn't have nearly enough Harry Potter swag. (I was sort of tempted by the shirt that had Ron on it, though. I mean, dude. It's RON. It's like the Dragonball Z shirt I saw once with Krillin on it.) After I went back home and played Pokemon for a couple more hours, Walky got home from work. Steve-o found it really sad that I had been planning to make my own birthday cake to take over to their place, so he went by Kroger while Graham and I were on our way over and picked up a really good carrot cake from the bakery. I opened presents while we waited for the dishwasher to provide us with clean plates: A really nice box with really good chocolate and lots of different tea from Windy, including a white chocolate Aero which I didn't even see when I was in England but I love white chocolate, a whole bunch of Ponies from Graham, and a preorder for the red Binaltech Jazz/Meister from Amenbo from Graham, Walky, and Steve-o together. I thought that was especially cool, since I hadn't seen anyone selling the red one by itself. Apparently Amenbo is the only site that'll guarantee you get the red one, or at least they would before they closed the presells. After the cake we watched the second disc of the first Invader Zim DVD set, which I hadn't gotten around to finishing yet, and then we watched the first episode because Steve-o and Walky hadn't seen it and it's just plain good. And then I went home and went to bed. :)
So that was my Super Happy Exciting Long Birthday Weekend of Joy, so far at least. It's still technically goign on, since I don't have to be back at work until Wednesday, but that's the part that anybody's likely to care about. Today I just had fish with Walky and helped him pick out a cell phone and searched foolishly for toys with Graham. And now I think I'm gonna make some of that tea and play Pokemon some more.
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