Happy Birthday To Meeeeee (Also Days #12 and 13 of the calendars)

Entry posted by Xinlo December 14, 2012

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It's official, I'm now an AFOL; I turned 18 today. Still not old enough to go to bars to see shows, but oh well. Next year. My birthday was... average, I guess, not like last year which was fantastic. But it definitely wasn't bad (just a bit too much bickering and whining for my taste; also I wasn't feeling very well most of the day).

But it got better near the end, and I got some really cool gifts:

-Guitar Pick punch-out thingy. Kinda' like a hole punch except it punches guitar picks out of random plastic.

-CAA membership (for if I get stuk in our dangerous winter driving conditions - also came with $20 free gas!)

-Lego CITY advent calendar (I opened it early for obvious reasons)

-Master Of Puppets (Metallica, but you knew that) picture vinyl

-Star Wars Sith robe housecoat

-KRE-O Battleship set

-headphones

-$20

Yeah. The last two were from my grandmother, who had wonderful intentions but did not know the ###### quality of the kre-o sets. The headphones are also garbage unfortunately. However my mom has the receipt for the kre-o, so I'll be exchanging it for some lego instead.

All in all it was a pretty good birthday. The metallica vinyl and sith robe are glorious.

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Now, on to the advent calendars:

So on the twelfth day of the countdown we get a firelady, with very nice hair. I really like this hair mold and I've not seen it anywhere else and I don't have it. Could come in handy some day. otherwise she's mostly the same as the fireman, just with a radio instead of a megaphone (it also included two radios). Today's kit is a computer desk, which is pretty wonderful aswell. It comes with a keyboard-printed tile which is amazing, and the screen is done really well. The chair and height of the dek could've been done a bit better but not too big a complaint.

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On the star wars end, we get what was predicted in the comments of the weird dish thingy, a generis rebel snow trooper. He's alright, but the face bothers me a bit for whatever reason, and the goggles look incredibly stupid while he's "wearing" them. So I'll just leave them up on his head there. Today we get a kind of silly gonk droid that has the same problem as the AT-AT: it's just a box with feet. Which, granted, that's what gonk droids are, but still. The way they used to build them for the star destroyers and stuff was much more pleasing.

That's all, thank you and goodnight.