So my birthday...

...was just another day

For the most part.

Good day though. very light night at work. A local restaurant did bring the staff a considerable amount of food. I ate more than I should have throughout the night. More to work off after the holidays are over, but I'm not complaining. It was quite the relaxing night and I don't get many of those.

Some of the good people at TheologyOnline wished me a happy birthday, that was cool.

My mother bought me something, I don't know what yet. Haven't had a chance to find out.

I'm thinking back over the last year, it wasn't the best -

• An argument with my father resulted in me moving out of my parents' house again before I was ready. I wanted to finish out my degree.
• I moved twice and that about killed my finances for a while. The last move was into the ghetto.
• There's several more people that I used to call my friends that I will never speak to again. Many of them I doubt were friends to begin with. Acquaintances at best.
• I missed out on DragonCon.
• I missed out on a Crüxshadows concert.
• I didn't do any performing.
• I bought another car, only to have it breakdown on me.
• I couldn't get financed for the car I really wanted.

But on the good side of things -

• I lost a little more weight.
• I have my own place and it's all mine.
• I think I may have grown up a little.
• I'm in great health.
• I have a girlfriend that loves me and has stayed with me through all the bad stuff. She's been so loving and supportive too.
• Through hard work I got my finances back in order.
• I've made some new friends. At least one of which was very unlikely.

So I'm not totally bitter. I'm trying not to be bitter at all. I have some plans and goals before the next birthday -

• Go back to college.
• Get my girlfriend moved in.
• Lose more weight, I'd like to drop about 60 lbs.
• Get a better job.
• Move out of the ghetto.
• Fix the Escort and either sell it or start driving it.
• Get some work done on the Beetle.
• Spend more time practicing on my violin.
• Work more with music. I'd love to record something. Or at least perform an original work.
• Try to more closely follow Stoicism.

Looks like a lot, let's see what happens in the next year.