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If you were wondering - Today is the day! Thank you all for the lovely birthday wishes!



FYI, the Google Photo Scan app...not as great as I was hoping. I think I'll just bite the bullet and scan them the old fashioned way. But I was too lazy tonight so you get this weird photo that looks like it was run through too many filters of me contemplating getting older and what looks to be maybe 8 years old? (I can't see all the candles and the photo is stuck down in the old album and I'm scared to peel it off).

I had a wonderful day. I always take my birthday off because it is the holiday of me. Yes, I am the center of attention today. At least, for myself, if that makes sense. I tend to "treat myself" for all of March because we should all celebrate our birthday all month long.

I slept until a little after 9am, rolled out of bed and had a cup of hot chocolate and then Tim appeared behind me with a card and a bag of goodies.

He got me two video games - Dishonored 2, which I have wanted to play since it came out but it kept getting bumped down my list, and Monster Boy for Switch, which is brand new was the biggest surprise!!

He also bought me HOTPOP microwave popcorn popper but unfortunately, our microwave gave up on it's mechanical little life on Friday so now we need to buy a new microwave so I can use my new popcorn popper! I am contemplating taking it to work with me to test it out.

My parents got me the new iPhone XR, which is great because my poor 6 was dying. This upgrade made a HUGE difference. I got the shiny red one and I love it. And then they bought us dinner, delicious gyros.

Bonus, the universe also decided it was a good time to celebrate and I won a giveaway on Entertainment Earth for a Legend of Zelda prize pack!


Now it's time to curl up with my Switch and see if I can at least get past the Monster Boy tutorial before bedtime!

^^^see what I did there?

I spent my ModCloth gift certificate from my birthday! :D I'm usually awful at spending gift cards so I made it a goal to spend this one ASAP! Plus, they had a coupon day!

Here is one of my new pretty things!



And now it is time to start closing up the library!

Thank you all for the birthday wishes! It has been quite a week, bit of a blur.

Because of ice/cold we had a delayed opening on Monday at work so that day was screwy. Tuesday was a scare of ice in the evening and I was perturbed at how our upper management handled it (but saying at 2pm they were not going to close, even though the week before they told us how staff safety is important). I was very angry as I slid out of the parking lot at 5pm knowing my friends were stuck there until 9pm as the freezing rain pelted my car.

BUT the bright side is that my awesome coworkers did my birthday party on Tuesday! We do birthday buddies and you are supposed to request a cake and ice cream flavor but I learned long ago that the world is full of MANY cake flavors, so I always just put "YES!" or "delicious" next to the cake option and hope for the best. This year was not a disappointment as my buddy made a tasty chocolate cherry cake. OMG SO GOOD! She used a recipe from Cake Mix Doctor and said you just don't use any liquids, just chocolate cake mix, an egg and cherry pie filling. And then make real chocolate frosting by melting chocolate chips. I won't lie, I had two pieces haha. Plus, she found the most awesome card for me:

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Anyway, good times. I feel like I've had my quota of snow days now so I'm ready for spring. And I'm about to lose an hour of sleep to daylight savings, blah. Tim is working tomorrow 1-5pm which means I have the apartment to myself hehe. Oh what to do what to do...watch commentary, binge watch another series, play Sims, plays Xbox...my life is so hard LOL.

I leave you with the birthday card my parent's got me because it is very relevant:

It's been a busy few days! Because of the snow, we had Sylvia here on Monday. My Mom emailed me a link to the latest Jimmy Fallon Hashtags bit and we watched that and immediately fell into a Jimmy Fallon YouTube hole for the rest of the afternoon LOL. God bless the Late Show YouTube channel!!!!!

We also finished up Season 2 of Veronica Mars. I have many thoughts to post and I will save them for later because otherwise this will be all over the place! Suffice it to say, I did remember most of the "mystery" and I still was not happy with the ending. Meh.

Yesterday was my birthday (thank you all for the birthday wishes!!!!). Because the weather was so cold and miserable, we mostly stayed inside and played video games and watched TV (caught up on Justified). Then Tim took me out for sushi dinner as a treat! OMG I had a large Sapporro and way too much sushi, I was ready to burst by the end but it was worth it. Then we bought some pie at Giant and came home, had a few drinks, watched "Ninja Scroll" (Tim convinced me I should see it and it would fit into the Japanese theme of the evening), and after that we had delicious pie and watched the latest episode of "Community". So, yeah, it was a lazy birthday but I was fine with that. :)



OH! And Tim got me The Art of Tangled and the Deluxe Edition of the Frozen soundtrack! Karen got me the Fan Phenomona Buffy book for my Buffy Studies collection (someday I will have a Whedon library! you will see! And you can all have cards there...just return stuff on time and no one gets hurt). And andy_wolverton got me the big huge Beatles "All The Songs" book! :D I am so spoiled, I have awesome friends, yes?

AAAAAAAAAAAAND I finally watched the first episode of Orphan Black! Karen got disc 1 from Netflix and let me borrow it, I need to watch them all by Saturday so I can mail it back for her. But I really liked it! More once I've seen more!

Okay, gonna go look at my shiny new books now. Must learn ALL THE THINGS! If you have any favorite Beatles songs you need me to look up, I can do that for you! god I'm such a librarian.

previously on orangerful: Amy and AD revealed their super secret birthday surprise - a trip to Las Vegas to see Cirque de Soleil's salute to The Beatles "LOVE"

But, of course, the birthday celebration did not end there! My actual birthday was this past Thursday, March 4th (explains the radio silence, eh?). AD surprised me with a pile of presents and I convinced him to make a Dr Pepper cake, something I only found out existed the week before because of a link posted on the Dr Pepper Facebook page.

The cake was quite the experience, hard to really describe. It had the consistency of carrot cake, but since there were marshmallows and chocolate involved, it made me think of Rocky Road ice cream, but then there were walnuts and frosting on top like some kind of crazed brownie. It was good stuff, very different. I love trying new things!

Then for the prezzies - AD picked up the Xbox Live Messenger kit for me which I've wanted for awhile. It's ridiculous because it's a chatpad that plugs into your Xbox controller. But it makes things so much easier if I want to just send someone a quick note of hello and not go through the bother of getting my headset on etc..

I also go a little mini MO from Wall-E who actually CLEANS! He's got little brushes on the bottom and when you roll him across a surface, he'll pick up bits of paper and such. Again, ridiculous but awesome. He's on my desk at work since he's not quite to scale with Eve and Wall-E on my desk.

I have a Prince Naveen and Tiana (in frog form) now. They are adorable little stuffed toys, perfect size (Apollo agrees). Makes me want to see that movie again. Trying to decide if I want to pre-order from Amazon or just go pick it up the day it comes out next week.

Speaking of things coming out on blu-ray that i need to pre-order that tie into my birthday - AD also got me a Jesse (from Toy Story 2) doll!!!!! You pull her string and she says things like "YEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAH!" and "SWEET MOTHER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN!" which cracks me up every time.

And to top off this very animated birthday celebration, AD snagged me a copy of "Coraline" on blu-ray. It came with a set of 3-D glasses so I can't wait to watch it in 3D. I mean, I already heart it so much in 2D.

In my inbox was an email from AD's parents who got me a surprise gift - as if Beatles wasn't enough, Amy and I will also be enjoying the talents of some *ahem* men from Australia. Yes, they got us tickets to see The Thunder from Down Under. Yeah, we will be giggling like little girls. It's gonna be ridiculous but I would never pay to see something like that...but I'm not gonna say no to a birthday present! LOL!

On Sunday my parents took us to Fogo de Chao which is an Brazilian Steakhouse of AWESOME! You pretty much have a stop/go sign on your table and after you've snacked on salad for a little bit, you flip it to green for "go" and these gauchos with meat on sticks start to magically appear and slice off bits for you. We ate WAY too fast but it was so good. I want to go back, I feel like we made a few rookie mistakes (too much salad, let them fill up our plates with meat instead of pacing ourselves) so next time I'll know what to expect. We were just in awe and got overwhelmed. Then we had dessert and then the manger brought me MORE cake because my dad told him it was my birthday! So, yeah, I think I'm still recovering from that, LOL!

So, 29 is off to a good start. My Entertainment Earth order happened to ship last week too so I should have the new Starbuck and Leoben pack tomorrow, and my $25 Gamestop gift card arrived yesterday so I'm all set for the new DragonAge expansion next week. AND I beat Mass Effect 2 (I'll fangirl about that in a later post, that game is so frakkin awesome).

Yet another fabulous birthday. First I spoiled myself by taking the day off. Can't work on my special day! I came out of the shower and there was a present for me on the table, wrapped in Star Wars wrapping paper and the cutest card in the world stuck to the front. :)

I resisted opening the package because AD said that what was inside I would want to play with right away, so we ran over to the mall so I could get my claddaugh ring (I dropped it off for repairs) and then I ran into Victoria's Secret because they sent me a $10 coupon for my birthday. Good times. We spun by Giant on the way home too so AD could get cupcake and ice cream makings. I also opted for a homemade Italian Sub as my birthday lunch, so we got the meats and bread. Mmmm nothing like homemade subs.

Then I opened my present, which you all saw in my previous post - LEGO INDY! That took up most of my afternoon. Then my parents came over and took us out for sushi at our favorite little sushi place Tokyo Sushi. The woman who owns the place was there, she cracks me up. She's like "21 again, right?" Ate yummy sushi and a fire dragon roll. Came home and had my chocolate peanut butter cream cupcakes w/ homemade vanilla ice cream with Oreo bits.

My parents got me the Muppet Show season 3, Watchmen, I Can Haz Cheezburger book, and a Brookstone "Mini Charging Valet"(so I don't have to throw my iPod on the floor when it's charging/plugged into the stereo.

We immediately watched the Harry Belafonte and Danny Kaye Muppet Show episodes - too many memories in those two. I still remember sitting in front of the TV and transferring the songs to a cassette tape so I could carry them around with me. (Now, how do I get them from the DVD to my iPod??)

Ah, and now it is late and time for me to get to bed and get back to work. :)

THANK YOU to all of my friends for their birthday wishes. You guys rock. All day my inbox kept beeping with new messages of "Happy Birthday" and it made me feel very special.

Have a goodnight!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY dstntp1lgr1m!!!!!

Hope you have something fun planned on your special day. :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY jimithingy

Another wonderful year, and now you are my "older man" again. ;-)

I love you!

Well, the 'rents came over yesterday, along with zaubervz and we celebrated my belated birthday! I like to stretch my holidays out for as long as I can.

Anyhoo, you want to see the coolness that I got??? OMG!

( FINALLY! )

Also, I opened all of the toys I bought back before my birthday, since it was safe. And I have to say - Lucasbooks, you marketing machine, I have a request for you. Can you please publish a book of all the box art on the toy packaging? I love the little Galactic Heroes and the Unleashed Battle Pack artwork. Please, make me stop clipping them and just put out a book! I know I'm not the only one who would buy it! Please!

heehee, I just woke up and this was what I saw on my desktop:

( squee!!! )

There's also a pile of presents behind me on the tv table!!! jimithingy is awesome!!!