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So it's 2 weeks to my birthday, and I've officially started getting emails for free birthday stuff. Today I got an email from Pizza Hut offering me a free dessert if I order a pizza during my birthday month.

You see, last year, I found out about all of these awesome "free stuff on your birthday" things, but it was too late to sign up for them and still get stuff... so I signed up to get lots of stuff THIS year. I don't even remember everything I signed up for.

There's a good chance I won't even use all of these offers, but man, it's still cool to get all these "HAPPY BIRTHDAY! HAVE FREE STUFF BECAUSE YOU'RE AWESOME" emails from random companies.

This weekend was kind of busy!

Except for Friday night. Friday I came home and was asleep by 6pm. I woke up at 10am the next morning. Whoasleep.

Saturday afternoon, I took Hawking to her first vet visit. I got her all signed up for the Kitten Plan, and they gave her her first shots after doing some tests. She was NOT a happy kitty. She's pretty whiny anyways (she gets really pathetic when she is tired and wants in my lap) but when they took her back to draw her blood and do the "fecal exam" she yowled as if they were murdering her. I knew it was coming because a coworker took her brother and he did the same thing, but it was still sad to hear. But when they brought her back into the room it was funny because her leg and butt were wet from the rubbing alcohol swab, and it was pretty obvious she'd put up a fight. I knew she would, she's a feisty little thing. They they gave her ringworm some other kind of medicine (apparently she had ringworms something) and her shots, and she whined about both (I think she was more complaining about being held still, because she didn't noticeably flinch at the shot like it hurt her) and then clung to me so they wouldn't CRUELLY TORTURE her anymore. Poor thing has no idea she has to go back in three weeks. She was fine as soon as she got home, though, and took right to tackling Tesla's head as if she'd never been gone. I'm sure Tesla was thrilled to have her back.

By the way, Hawking thinks her name is STOPIT. Tesla was doing something the other night, and I said "STOP IT" in my Serious Voice, and from across the room I hear Hawking's little "Mrow?" and I laffed.

Saturday night, I went to Tom's Burgers with sparklyaria, gutterballjen, kandigurl, and auracel (Brandy, Jeni, Jess, and Megan, respectively) for dinner and had a delicious burger, then Jeni, Brandy and I went to see Prince Caspian and I completely fangirled over Reepicheep. I LOVE YOU REEPICHEEP. It made my heart happy to see him on the screen, complete with red feather on his circlet, and OMG THEY HAD TINY MOUSEY BAGPIPES and yeah that was pretty much awesome. Also, I really kept waiting for Caspian to deliver Inigo Montoya's line.

THEN. I slept, and today I did a whole lot of nothing (reading mostly) and then went to babysit for a coworker and had fun playing with the kiddo. And then I came home and now I should go to bed before work tomorrow but I don't wanna. I was practically falling asleep while I was babysitting, and now I'm wide awake. Thanks, brain.

EDIT: Okay, so apparently it was NOT ringworms that Hawking had. Ringworms are the highly contagious, makes-fur-fall-out Bad Things. She had something else I can't remember. My memory fails SO HARD.

My birthday has been amazing.

It started yesterday, when my coworkers did my food day (the standard birthday celebration- everyone brings food and we get fat) a day early since our boss was gone today and didn't want to miss it. So that was cool. And then TODAY, I got a MONEY CHAIN and it was AWESOME.

For those of you not in the know, a money chain is the best workplace birthday tradition ever. One person pins a $1/5/10 bill on the birthday person's shirt, and then for the rest of the day people add more dollars, usually by stapling each dollar to the bottom of the last one on the chain. I've never gotten one before, for one reason or another (accounting was a boring dept, last year my coworkers gave me a crapton of money collectively, etc) so I was pretty pumped. I made it look really long by stapling each dollar as far down on the last one as possible. It reached my knees :D :D :D

I'm now going to use my $15 of birthday money to order a pizza. A birthday pizza. Of yumminess. Oh yes.

OH! And! I have decided that it would be cool if you could have an extra birthday every year, one that you could choose the day. That way, if you're feeling blue, you could say "HEY, I'M HAVING MY EXTRA BIRTHDAY NEXT TUESDAY" and then you would get all sorts of "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!" messages and cards and emails and calls and BAM no more feeling blue. Someone needs to work on getting this made official.

Happy Birthday, Internet!



(Is it just me, or is it incredibly fitting that the Internet is 16? It totally is a whiny, angsty teenager who, of course, knows everything.)


((Also, my brother is 16))

Some interesting facts about May 15:

• In 1718, James Puckle patented the world's first machine gun.


• In 1720, Maximilian Hell, a Slovakian astronomer, was born.


• In 1817, the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason, opened.


• In 1836, Francis Baily first observed "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.


• In 1856, L. Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz, is born.


• In 1857, Williamina Fleming, one of the first lady astronomers (and creator of a star classification system later modified by another lady astronomer to the system we use today), is born.


• In 1886, Emily Dickinson dies.


• In 1905, Las Vegas, Nevada, was founded when 110 acres, which would later would become downtown, are auctioned off.


• In 1919, the Winnipeg General Strike began. By 11:00, virtually the entire working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job.


• In 1928, the animated short "Plane Crazy", featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse, was released.


• In 1932, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed in an attempted coup. This is called The May 15 Incident.


• In 1940, McDonald's is founded.


• In 1951, the famous cartoon "Rabbit Fire" is released and is awesome


• In 1951, Jonathan Richman is born and is awesome.


• In 1958 and 1960, The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3 and 4.


• In 1969, Emmitt Smith is born


• In 1973, Nolan Ryan threw his first no-hitter at Kansas City.


• In 1978, Mr Universe Hot mathematician guy David Krumholtz is born.


• In 1978, Jaye Tyler Caroline Dhavernas is born.


• In 1985, I was born

Lots of cool things have happened on my birthday. This year on my birthday They Might Be Giants are releasing an album on iTunes. The actual CD won't be available until July, but they are putting it on iTune early just for me. Because they love me. I mean, first they do a song for me, then they release an album early on my birthday. That's pretty awesome. I love you, too, John & John.

PS: Hi, my birthday is in ONE WEEK.

PPS: The above facts were shamelessly stolen from Wikipedia.

Once a year we celebrate with stupid hats and plastic plates the fact that you were able to make another trip around the sun
*inhale*
And the whole clan gathers 'round and gifts and laughter do abound, we let out a joyful sound and sing that stupid song.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Now you're one year older!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Your life still isn't over!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
You did not accomplish much.
But you didn't die this year, I guess that good enough.
*happy musical interlude*
So let's drink to your fading health and hope you don't remind yourself your chance of finding fame and wealth decrease with every year.
*inhale*
Does it feel like your doing laps and eating food and taking naps and hoping that someday perhaps your life will hold some cheer?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
What have you done that matters?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
You're starting to get fatter...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
It's downhill from here on...
Try not to remind yourself that your best years are all gone.
*happy musical interlude*
If cryogenics were all free then you could live like Walt Disney and live for all eternity inside a block of ice/
*inhale*
But instead your time is set, this is the only life you get, and though it hasn't ended yet sometimes you wish it might.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
You wish you had more money!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
You're life's so sad it's funny!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
How much more can you take?
But your friends are hungry so just cut the stupid cake!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Dear... Ralph? Bill? Stanley? Bob? Umm... Aaron!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY AARON!
<3, Jesso