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Well, happy birthday to me.

It is hard to really know how to feel about a birthday... As a child, your birthday is really cool, but after a while they stop meaning quite so much. Some years I had big parties with lots of friends, other years just spent the time with the people I loved and close friends over dinner.

Events in recent years have made most 'special' days of the year a little bitter for me, so I'm trying to keep my plans small and not expect much from the day. At the same time, I don't want to cheat myself out of a once-in-a-lifetime day just because I'm not really happy with the course of my life the past five years.

Anyhow, I should probably start my birthday with getting some sleep...

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I turned 33 at 9:26am local time today. I was in the shower at the time, which given the water boy I am was nice--coulda been better, but it'll do. Going to try to get some of the bums at work who used to go out to eat with me on a regular basis to leave their lunch in the fridge today--they've been using some lame excuse about each of them having a second child recently... whatever! Assuming my dinner-date doesn't die from whatever cold she's suffering from, I'm hoping to eat dinner at Icon Grill, having some snarky conversation, and call it a day.

Gotta run, the Sandmen have noticed my blinking life clock...

(for those of you who aren't at least Green 6 probably have no idea what I'm talking about. If you are a single female who is at least Green 4 and gets this joke, please send applications to me)

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"There comes a time in every director's career where they say 'I want to make a terrible movie in Canada'" -- Scott Thompson, Kids in the Hall

After dinner, loree was feeling pretty wiped so we watched a movie on DVD. Loree & Marty have recently grown their movie library way past my own--frankly, it isn't fair... the boy gets an employee discount at Amazon.Com! Anyhow, we watched Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever. It was one of those movies were almost every cool scene is shown in the trailer. When the director and producer credit was noted as KAOS, I knew we were in trouble--sounds like a l33t haxor group from Sweden. There was really only one good line not in the trailer: Antonio Banderas comments on Lucy Liu's weapons collection and she responds "Some women buy shoes". You see better fights with Lucy in Charlie's Angels, but I have to admit that this is one of the few films I didn't dislike Antonio Banderas in--The 13th Warrior probably being the only movie I consider great. Still, it was fun if extremely predictable. Oh, and apparently trains in Vancouver B.C. are chock full of explosive materials; I'd avoid going there.

Overall it was a pleasant day. Not thrilling, but nice. Maybe next year's will be a 'special' day full of fantastic fun and deeply rewarding... Frankly, I'd be satisfied with just feeling like more of my regular days are worthwhile.