Birthday Recap [Nat]

I don’t normally post personal stuff, but one can only hope that Tony is having a better birthday than I am. (Our birthdays fall in succession.) Let’s run a tally. Here’s what I wanted to do today:

• Clean the house
• Play games such as Sins of a Solar Empire, Burnout Paradise, Fairway Solitaire, and some DS love.
• Read a new book such as Armor or Inside Delta Force
• Fix my favorite meal: chili
• Post two writeups on buttonmashing
• start on a watercolor

Here’s what I’ve done:

• Cough
• Lose my voice
• Clean up our youngster’s puke (All four of us are sick with random things.)
• Go to the store and get nighttime cough medicine when I needed daytime
• Watch my oldest and his grandma play Wii and Burnout Paradise
• Cough
• Clean crap out of my youngster’s eyes
• Played about five minutes of Fairway Solitaire
• Fixed my own birthday supper: chili with chocolate and cinnamon (trying something new). It was actually very delicious. A highlight of the day.
• Passed on my birthday cake. (Not much of a cake eater, but I love carrot cake. My wife tried a new recipe and it came out like a carrot fruit cake. We all laughed.)

I may play some PC games tonight in a delirium. I might actually do well.