Birth-weekend

My very first. It was awesome. My actual birthday was great. I started it with breakfast with my mother. The food was good. Her company was awesome. I bugged my sister while she was at her hair appointment. Then there was work. It wasn't that bad... It... yeah. I just summed it up. It wasn't that bad. My friend got her brother and my roommate together and took me out to dinner afterwards. She let me know that she had a vast budget for me to squander. I had an appetizer, dinner, dessert and a couple of drinks to boot. I thank her vastly for the evening of attention. She even got me my favorite energy drink as a gift.

Today started with a stark difference to the bliss I felt yesterday. I woke up cursing my job before convincing myself to get out of bed. I was so irritated on my way to work that I thanked the traffic jam that delayed me. Work happened. It ended. I was happy the day was over. Getting home took less time then I expected, especially since I felt like every other driver was working solely to slow me down.

Then things took a turn. Upon getting home my landlady asked me if I got a package from my brother for my birthday. I was confused because I hadn't received a package. Then it clicked. I backed a web series about nine months ago. The premiere of the latest episode just happened. My DVD had arrived. To say I was excited cheapens the level of emotion felt. I've been wanting to binge watch the episodes for weeks now.

After forcing those around me to be excited about this, I went back to clean up the package I'd tossed aside for my prize within. I picked up the package to throw it away and heard something move inside. Upon looking inside I saw buttons. Back story time:

When the campaign launched to fund the episode I wanted a combination of things that weren't packaged together. There was a level of donating that gave me a button set. Then there was a level that gave me all of the episodes up to the current one getting ready to launch (the package I wanted). I sought out the creator to see how much money did he want for me to get the DVD set and the buttons. He told me that he'd do some research and get back to me. I never heard back. I messaged him again to no avail. With hope lost I donated for the DVD set and gave up on the buttons. Today I get the DVD set and find that even though I didn't give more for them, he included the buttons in my package.

I immediately messaged him letting him know that he was the cherry on top of my cake of a weekend. Expressing my happiness at finding that I wasn't forgotten or ignored when I thought no solution could be reached. Being forever the number one reason I still enjoy participating in YouTube, he responded to me.

 As shown I then mentioned my birthday despite my desire to tell everyone who when completely unprovoked tell strangers it's their birthday that no one cares. Thinking for sure that the conversation was over on his end, I threw it out there and was pleasantly surprised again.

This night wrapped up with me being unable to contain my gushing about wanting to meet this man. I am such huge a fan of his content and opinions. This is even better than Google telling me happy birthday. And I was pretty stoked about that.