{"id":7348,"date":"2019-08-20T12:44:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T16:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/?p=7348"},"modified":"2019-08-21T04:36:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T08:36:46","slug":"happy-43rd-birthday-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2019\/08\/20\/happy-43rd-birthday-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 43rd Birthday to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/fxcm1SK.png\" \/><br \/>\nHorray, another year that I&#8217;ve been alive. Definitely surprised. 43-years-old. Damn! \ud83e\udd14<br \/>\nAnd like two years ago, not a single &#8220;Happy Birthday!&#8221; email.<br \/>\nHell, the only email I got today.. was about sending a Lenovo PC. Uhh&#8230; it&#8217;s a VR headset? I mean technically, it is a computer. But not in this sense!<br \/>\nBut it turns out, I wasn&#8217;t even ready to send it to them&#8211; would&#8217;ve had to print out even more than just the shipping label. Was told I would need to fill out this &#8216;Inventory Control Sheet&#8217; and have <em>that<\/em> printed out (as it was supposed to go in the box).<br \/>\nThis is the 21st century, why do companies think we still have printers? ..Oh, that&#8217;s right. Because of the price of replacement cartridges! That and no one has invented an alternative to it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;You know, this <em>was<\/em> 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&#8230; as in, I can&#8217;t express my love to my poly group. I sad. \ud83d\ude22 But, I don&#8217;t think they really care that I can&#8217;t hug (or make love to them), for they love me for who I am.<br \/>\nI just wish I could do more.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nAnd of course my friends on Discord have been wishing me a happy birthday. That&#8217;s really sweet of them. Even Kat sending me this adorable drawing of my avatar;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/uGAqw9y.png\" width=\"489\" height=\"366\" \/><br \/>\nOh my GOD, <strong>I LOVE IT!!<\/strong> \ud83d\ude0d Thank you SO MUCH!! \ud83e\udd2a No one has ever drawn a picture of my avatar before, that&#8217;s why I absolutely love it. I wanna see more of this! \ud83d\ude01<br \/>\nAnd the guy who&#8217;s doing my new avatar, made this for me in Blender;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/6IPjhY5.png\" width=\"388\" height=\"314\" \/><br \/>\nI have the best of friends. Can&#8217;t thank you all enough. \ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n<p>Now speaking about emails again, I didn&#8217;t even get one from Nintendo, which is a shocker of <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2019\/08\/08\/nintendos-celebrating-my-birthday-11-days-too-early\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">what I said back on the 8th<\/a>.<br \/>\nHowever, I did get this when I logged into my account today;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/kkprcxh.png\" width=\"385\" height=\"494\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;Here&#8217;s 300 coins for staying alive!&#8221; Thank you. \ud83d\ude42 That&#8217;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;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/yKy3bgY.png\" \/><br \/>\nWOOT! 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.<br \/>\nIf I may barrow a quote from Dashie: &#8220;rage the FRUUUUUUUK OUT!!&#8221;, then yes.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nAnyway, this birthday is turning out better than last year: Best Boi community shutting down the month after, and the AUFF also closing and &#8216;laying me off&#8217; as a moderator. Yeah.. that was a rough birthday. But I didn&#8217;t have the friends that I do now. Maybe in the old MRT Server, but not really in VRChat.<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\nEDIT: 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&#8217;d give it an 8. Could had spent more time in<br \/>\nVRChat (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.<br \/>\nInfact, a quarter of me wishes it didn&#8217;t have to end (almost like the feeling of leaving an Impalong in Wurm).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horray, another year that I&#8217;ve been alive. Definitely surprised. 43-years-old. Damn! \ud83e\udd14 And like two years ago, not a single &#8220;Happy Birthday!&#8221; email. Hell, the only email I got today.. was about sending a Lenovo PC. 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