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Great birthday, or greatest birthday?

It was a peaceful day of spending time with my closest friends. We played games, ate a tasty dinner prepared by Reagan, and stuffed ourselves on cheesecake. C&B brought a cheesecake from Trader Joes that was actually two slices each of four different kinds of cheesecake. I asked for my share to be taken out of the middle. Indeed, I ended up with eight small triangles of dessert in four decadent flavors. :)

What really touched me was the generosity of my friends, and how suited to me their gifts were. Everything I brought home supported the image I hold of myself, and fit into my image of who I want to be. The general consensus of that is "ARTIST", as I received a sketchbook, a book on drawing, a book of reference images, a book on bookbinding, and RAM for my computer so I can run Photoshop smoothly enough for drawing.

B gave me two movies, both of which I'm interested in, especially Charlie Wilson's War, as it was written by Aaron Sorkin. Sorkin is one of the writers I can watch over and over again and get lost in the flow of the dialog and really respect the intelligence of the characters.

There's no better feeling to come away from a birthday with than that my friends really get me. :) Good experience there.

Otherwise, I'm really thinking about how I want to play this current stretch of time in terms of my self-challenge project. The injury-barrier to exercise has invalidated half of my goal structure without looking back. Chances are that even when my knees malady goes away, I'll have to spend some time recovering.

It seems a moment has come where I need to recommit to drawing every day (should be easy with the new toys I received!) and doing a couple other things that are Good For Me as well. Things yet to be determined. Sigh.

Gonna close down the b-day with playing the only unmentioned present: FFTA2. (from Reagan)