Well, my birthday was good, if uneventful. Given that Friday was the work Christmas party (formal, with alcohol) I didn’t get much enthusiasm for the idea of celebrating my birthday too, so it went by largely ignored by the Kelowna masses. That’s okay, 32 is not exactly a milestone, and I’ve gotten used to being bored here.
My birthday gift to myself was a 42″ LCD television, because my eyes are going with my old age and now I can tell all those Gossip Girls apart. I consulted a bunch of my male workmates on which model TV to get (they all had strong opinions, sometimes differing, so I took the average) and it all turned out okay, because the TV is nice and big and I wonder why I waited so long to upsize. Then of course I remember that oh yeah, I was (self-|un)employed for nearly a year and spent the first few months of this job paying off my consumer debt from that time. Right.
For Christmas, work gave us all Nintendo DSis, each with a skin of the company logo and mascots (which I can’t show you because I’m not supposed to say where I work, though I can list it on my LinkedIn profile just fine). No included games, though. I didn’t know you could buy a gaming console without a default game (where’s my Tetris equivalent?), but maybe they’re just not included in bulk orders of over 300 units. I bought a DS Lite in 2006 but sold it after a year or so, so getting a new one now is a bit funny. I couldn’t find any games I was interested in buying this weekend but a workmate has lent me Scribblenauts, so I should be able to entertain myself for a while by summoning Large Hadron Colliders to help cats off of house roofs (I managed to play one level back when the game first came out, so that’s all I remember).
I kind of forgot to get ready for Christmas, though. Good thing the mall’s open until 9 every night this week.
Have a happy holiday!