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mistressofmuses) wrote2026-03-11 08:59 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2026-03-11 08:59 pm
Birfday!
It's my birthday!
Normal workday for me, so pretty low-key in terms of celebrating. We went to the zoo on Monday which was lovely.
Alex gave me a very cute tardigrade plush, plus a couple of pins. He also made me salmon for dinner. <3
After work, stopped by mom and Taylor's for gifts and pie. Mom made me a peach pie, which is always my birthday request. <3
I got a very generous gift (brought on by some luck, lol.) At the weekend getaway that I wasn't able to get off of work for, the one up at the Stanley hotel, one of the activities they did was a gift 'exchange' sort of thing. It was run like a white elephant, where you could pick a gift or steal one from someone else, but all the gifts were provided by the company. (And it was all good stuff; gift cards, tickets for things, etc.) Well, my mom was one of the last to go and wound up with one of the best prizes... a PS5. She... did not especially want a PS5, but also didn't want to "steal" any of the other gifts from anyone, and no one stole it from her, lol.
My mom told me this a few days ago, prefacing the story with, "So... this was a funny story..." about how the 70 year old lady wound up with the shiny gaming system. It was leading in to "...so, like... do you have one of those? ...Do you want one?"
Taylor does all their gaming on PC, so they aren't super interested, and while they offered to set the PS5 up for my mom if she wanted, my mom hasn't really wanted to play a video game since the Intellivision, ha. (One of her favorite games forever will be Dungeons and Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin, which is indeed a wonderful vintage gaming experience, but stylistically it's a maze where you can avoid/plan your encounters, and the encounters are turn-based. She doesn't like games where things chase you or you have to react in real time.)
So... wound up with the thing that I have failed to save money toward for years, because there's always an emergency/something more time-sensitive that comes up and eats my fun-thing-savings! I'm so excited. It's way spendier than any of our gift-giving tends to be, so it's not something I would have asked for, so I'm extremely grateful for her generosity in giving it to me, and the luck that led to her winding up with it. (And their company's generosity in giving it as a gift!)
I don't have any games for it yet, but I am *delighted* that I will be able to actually play a few of the things I've looked longingly at over the last several years. (My most recent system is a PS3. Which I will still have to keep as a dedicated Fallout: New Vegas machine, lol.)
Probably not taking a look at that until my weekend, but excited. Maybe I'll hit up a second-hand game store. Hopefully I can add video games back into my routine without utterly hosing my reading and writing, ha.
A very nice birthday, not just for gift-reasons! Salmon for dinner, peach pie for desert, getting to see my favorite people.
Normal workday for me, so pretty low-key in terms of celebrating. We went to the zoo on Monday which was lovely.
Alex gave me a very cute tardigrade plush, plus a couple of pins. He also made me salmon for dinner. <3
After work, stopped by mom and Taylor's for gifts and pie. Mom made me a peach pie, which is always my birthday request. <3
I got a very generous gift (brought on by some luck, lol.) At the weekend getaway that I wasn't able to get off of work for, the one up at the Stanley hotel, one of the activities they did was a gift 'exchange' sort of thing. It was run like a white elephant, where you could pick a gift or steal one from someone else, but all the gifts were provided by the company. (And it was all good stuff; gift cards, tickets for things, etc.) Well, my mom was one of the last to go and wound up with one of the best prizes... a PS5. She... did not especially want a PS5, but also didn't want to "steal" any of the other gifts from anyone, and no one stole it from her, lol.
My mom told me this a few days ago, prefacing the story with, "So... this was a funny story..." about how the 70 year old lady wound up with the shiny gaming system. It was leading in to "...so, like... do you have one of those? ...Do you want one?"
Taylor does all their gaming on PC, so they aren't super interested, and while they offered to set the PS5 up for my mom if she wanted, my mom hasn't really wanted to play a video game since the Intellivision, ha. (One of her favorite games forever will be Dungeons and Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin, which is indeed a wonderful vintage gaming experience, but stylistically it's a maze where you can avoid/plan your encounters, and the encounters are turn-based. She doesn't like games where things chase you or you have to react in real time.)
So... wound up with the thing that I have failed to save money toward for years, because there's always an emergency/something more time-sensitive that comes up and eats my fun-thing-savings! I'm so excited. It's way spendier than any of our gift-giving tends to be, so it's not something I would have asked for, so I'm extremely grateful for her generosity in giving it to me, and the luck that led to her winding up with it. (And their company's generosity in giving it as a gift!)
I don't have any games for it yet, but I am *delighted* that I will be able to actually play a few of the things I've looked longingly at over the last several years. (My most recent system is a PS3. Which I will still have to keep as a dedicated Fallout: New Vegas machine, lol.)
Probably not taking a look at that until my weekend, but excited. Maybe I'll hit up a second-hand game store. Hopefully I can add video games back into my routine without utterly hosing my reading and writing, ha.
A very nice birthday, not just for gift-reasons! Salmon for dinner, peach pie for desert, getting to see my favorite people.
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