Happy 43rd Birthday to me

Horray, another year that I’ve been alive. Definitely surprised. 43-years-old. Damn! 🤔
And like two years ago, not a single “Happy Birthday!” email.
Hell, the only email I got today.. was about sending a Lenovo PC. Uhh… it’s a VR headset? I mean technically, it is a computer. But not in this sense!
But it turns out, I wasn’t even ready to send it to them– would’ve had to print out even more than just the shipping label. Was told I would need to fill out this ‘Inventory Control Sheet’ and have that printed out (as it was supposed to go in the box).
This is the 21st century, why do companies think we still have printers? ..Oh, that’s right. Because of the price of replacement cartridges! That and no one has invented an alternative to it.

…You know, this was going to be the first time in my life, I would had been celebrating my birthday in VR. But that definitely changed about a week ago, and I feel so crippled without it… as in, I can’t express my love to my poly group. I sad. 😢 But, I don’t think they really care that I can’t hug (or make love to them), for they love me for who I am.
I just wish I could do more.
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And of course my friends on Discord have been wishing me a happy birthday. That’s really sweet of them. Even Kat sending me this adorable drawing of my avatar;

Oh my GOD, I LOVE IT!! 😍 Thank you SO MUCH!! 🤪 No one has ever drawn a picture of my avatar before, that’s why I absolutely love it. I wanna see more of this! 😁
And the guy who’s doing my new avatar, made this for me in Blender;

I have the best of friends. Can’t thank you all enough. 👍

Now speaking about emails again, I didn’t even get one from Nintendo, which is a shocker of what I said back on the 8th.
However, I did get this when I logged into my account today;

“Here’s 300 coins for staying alive!” Thank you. 🙂 That’s nice of them. And I also decided to take this day to get my Switch Online account going (the $20/yr thing), mainly because in about a week from now.. this thing is coming in the mail;

WOOT! I see a 70% chance of keeping it, due to its high replay value (playing other players levels, designing your own, story mode, etc..). But, it all depends on how it feels for me.
If I may barrow a quote from Dashie: “rage the FRUUUUUUUK OUT!!”, then yes.
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Anyway, this birthday is turning out better than last year: Best Boi community shutting down the month after, and the AUFF also closing and ‘laying me off’ as a moderator. Yeah.. that was a rough birthday. But I didn’t have the friends that I do now. Maybe in the old MRT Server, but not really in VRChat.

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EDIT: With the passage of time, my birthday is now officially over (August 21st is here). Overall (if I was to rate this day with a 1-10), I’d give it an 8. Could had spent more time in
VRChat (such as being in a birthday world), but I feel the love and support I got from my friends (even a few sending me hand-made gifts) made up for it.
Infact, a quarter of me wishes it didn’t have to end (almost like the feeling of leaving an Impalong in Wurm).