The Big Birthday Countdown Part One: 1 Month

If there are two things everyone loves, they are surely:
1) Internet countdowns
2) Me

With that in mind, I present the first installment in the official countdown to my birthday!!!

image5-3.jpg < Who’s that cutie?

During the next month I will make periodic posts detailing the preparations for my upcoming birthday, and generally giving my loyal readers a forum in which they can share their enthusiasm for the soon-to-be-upon-us event.

Right now there isn’t a great deal to tell. With (only) a month to go, there is no doubt that everyone has started either buying my gifts or at the very least planning what to buy. But I’ll be honest – they’re doing a grand job hiding their efforts from me! It’s probably unlikely at this point that anyone has actually purchased me a card, but I wouldn’t put it past a certain few who deep down want to make sure I get just the right card for my special day.

As for me, well I’m starting to reflect on my nearly-37 years on this Earth. Melancholy threatens to overcome me (as it strangely always does around March 3), but the thoughts of how great the day itself promises to be is (thankfully) keeping most of the dark clouds at bay!

And with that I’ll sign off until this time next week. Feel free to add a comment if you want to talk about what you specifically are doing in preparation for my birthday 🙂

Here We Go Again

Next Saturday we’re taking the train down to New York to go to the 2009 New York Comic Con. You may recall we went last year.

The organizers are saying the event is bigger this year, both in terms of floorspace, exhibitors and attendees. Notable the game company and anime company presence is apparently larger (and both were big last year)! It promises to be a lot of fun and we’re very much looking forward to it.

Needless to say, I’ll be picking up swag for certain readers of this blog as well 🙂

Oh, and I’m also planning on blogging the event from my cellphone, so keep an eye out for that.