birthdays rule. :) even if everyone outside your immediate family doesn't acknowledge them anymore for some reason (seriously! my parents got more birthday cards than i did, which is easy to do since i didn't get ANY). but cuz my mom rocks she made me a peach pie with gigantic fresh peaches and bought some black raspberry choco chip frozen yogurt (i prefer it sans choco chips but its still vastly superior to every other non-Ben&Jerry's flavor). so, despite my concern that the two would taste terrible together, i just finished consuming a piece of birthday pie and some fro yo, and surprisingly it was still delicious. i guess cuz nothing can ruin the taste of my mom's baking, or the taste of the awesomest ice cream flavor ever.

last night my family had me open my presents since my mom is at work tonight and tomorrow, which is my actual birthday, i plan to spend the day at Zack's. they brought me two small packages, inside of which were a discman belt holder thingy and a small box of the top 10 Jelly Belly flavors...i opened them and then just sat there waiting for the rest, so my dad and brother went upstairs and brought down 2 more packages, which were a Sony discman with a special mp3 disc (which of course i can't use on the mac, and Zack's cd writer is broken, but oh well, at least i have it) and radio tuner with weather band and TV signal picky uppy thingy. which is way awesome since i let Matt borrow my old discman over a year and a half ago and he never gave it back (and when he brought it to school he'd be like "hey anna, look!" but never make any attempt to actually give it back....asshole). then my brother gave me a big ol' Jelly Belly machine full of the current mix (i'm very disappointed by the blackberry flavor, but i guess i should give it another chance since when i popped one into my mouth i was expecting licorice), its coin operated, you can make it so you don't have to use coins but you'd have to empty it out and take the entire thing apart so, hey, it'll be a good place to keep all those pennies i have lying around in a box somewhere. i seriously have way too much fun with that machine, its so exciting to wonder what flavors you'll get this time. plus it only gives you 3 or 4 at a time (usually, i got 7 out of it last night) so it curbs my consumption....when i have a bag of em i tend to eat till i get sick. so anyway that rocked.

my brother bought a ps2 today when he and my mom were in Portland, he also got a 2nd controller and remote, however he didn't buy any games, just borrowed a couple from his friend, so all we have at the moment is LOTR (or, as i called it, Fruity Elf Guy and His Midget Lover) and some Japanesey RPG about this dude who fights demons in samurai suits, it begins with a U but its too Japanese for me to remember. so i guess i best rent some games since my brother is too cheap to buy his own games (he got that from my dad....ick) and he has horrendous taste in games anyway.