March 24, 2012
Birthday Status Report
I guess I’m older today? That’s cool.
Anyway, most of the party times were last night, and it all went pretty damn well. We went out to eat fancy with my parents and grandparents at Olive Garden, of course. I got this grilled Parmesan chicken in a weird Parmesan wine sauce, which was fucking fantastic, and of course, I had some Zuppa Tuscana, which was also fucking fantastic, as always.
Awkwardness was, for the most part, minimized. My grandparents were polite to Aesa, though mostly paid him no mind. My parents continued to be awesome about it. There was some frustration about a card from my grandma with “Grandson” written on it, but I was expecting that and tried to shrug it off.
After that, I had a party with my friends where we played some awesome card games. We threw down in Cards Against Humanity, which was as fantastic as I had hoped, and The Resistance, which was received well by everyone. In-depth write-ups of those games forthcoming. Still, it was a fantastic evening: it had been way the fuck too long since I got to spend time with Spaeth and Essner, and Aesa fit in without issue, which was something he was worried about.
But yeah, it was a pretty fucking awesome birthday, even though it took place before my birthday. I’ve been having a fun time messing around and stuff today too, but having to do my taxes and going to work later really made yesterday seem more birthday-y.
Anyway, the haul.
I got a Teacher Bag from my mother. I think it will work for my purposes, although it’s strange 3 compartment structure might cause issues. I’m going to give it a try, in any case. Way better than carrying all those fucking books around.
Shauna, Jonathan, and my parents teamed up to buy me a pink 3DS! I’ll update my gaming info page with my Friend Code sometime soon: tell me so we can Swapnote and shit. I don’t actually have a game for it yet, though Skylanders 3DS is on the way. Heh. I’m going to save the Skylands again, motherfuckers.
Jonathan and Shauna also found a 3-pack of Skylanders I didn’t have yet, and grabbed that for me. (Well, I do own Whirlwind, from the pack, but I haven’t opened my individual Whirlwind, and I hear there’s resale value to these things, so I’ll just flip the extra unopened one and use the one from the 3-Pack.) That means I will have 6 new, unleveled Skylanders for the 3DS game (plus all the ones I already had: not all of them are max level!) which is nice.
Kale wrote me a very sweet letter and made some sort of crazy Minecraft shrine to me, which is adorable of him.
Aesa got me a copy of Tanto Cuore, the Maid Deckbuilding Game. I tried that today: it seems like a real interesting Dominion Variant without adding too many additional rules. Writeup Forthcoming.
And, of course, I got some cash from my grandparents, which is always appreciated.
Yep! Birthday Status: Pretty sweet. I’m happy, and lucky I have such awesome people in my life. ONWARD TO BEING ALL OLDER AND CRAP!