August 7th.

Today is my birthday. It doesn't feel too wonderful yet, but no worries, I'm not in a bad place or anything. It's just...ordinary. Rather nice.

I slept in til 11:30 today, since marching band deprives me of sleep and just about everything else. That felt good. And then, it's okay to be screamed at by one's sister to stay out of the kitchen until she says so. I laid the condition down that I needed to do rajio taiso before any birthday...things were started. Nice having teh powers.

I like getting a half empty bottle of root beer from my sister because I told her no gift was required. I like getting a bit more money from family friends and relatives to use towards London. I like getting a gift cleverly wrapped in a dog food bag by my father. Never has he ever given a normally wrapped present. Usually its newspaper. Upgrade?

I like getting birthday cards from the random elderly couple from Blue Ridge as I have for the past six or seven years. What happens when they die? O.o Sorry, hint of morbidity there. Won't happen again. I like getting birthday wishes on Facebook from adults, past teachers, anyone I've really ever interacted with who is a smidge older than me. I like birthday cards in general. I even don't mind the strange phone call I just received from the dentist's office, in which a robotic female voice wished me happiness on this fine birthday and a choir of staff sung a generic happy birthday with no name twice xD I even don't mind that. Nor do I mind the random phone number that called me, though I have a feeling it might be a friend who promised to surprise call me. Really, this is the best part of the birthdays :D

And I like being able to write this blog post on a brand spanking new laptop cleverly wrapped in a dog food bag. Silly father, don't you know I have x-ray vision? It's happy. And mine :D

The thing with me and gifts is that, whilst I appreciate that someone took the time to buy something or give something, I'm more a fan of having fun times with the person instead of the gift itself. Did I just make English sense at all? O.o I don't really know what to do with myself when opening a gift or after getting one; I'm just like...awkward beans? Yeah, I don't know, I just appreciate the people more than the things is all. Call me crazy; I won't deny it.

I'll try to post later about cool things since I had no intention of turning this into an "All-About-Me" post; it just IS my birthday and I wanted to note? Eh, dunno. Right now, I'm rushed about trying to get to the Boonsboro Country Club for a family birthday dinner. Toodles! Have a wonderful day of resting!