24

I celebrated my 24th birthday yesterday with a bunch of family and friends, and I had an absolutely wonderful night. The weird thing is, I never meant to throw a big party this year (24 is not that special an age), but it ended up a bigger party than the previous 23 times. Thanks for being there, everyone!

Catering for over 25 people is a tad difficult, even with some people helping out, so I hope no one suffered too much from a lack of service or personal attention.

In addition to simply enjoying the presence of family and friends, I was overwhelmed with gifts: some decorative lamps, four new expansions to the Settlers of Catan board game, a Monty Python DVD box, a Futurama DVD box, a cookbook, some chocolates and sweets, a comic book, a citrus squeezer, six dessert bowls and three plants. Thank you, everyone!

And now for the aftermath… cleaning up! Fortunately, we didn’t create too big a mess.