So it was my birthday on Monday and of course much celebrating ensued. I went into my new job in the afternoon and brought some store-bought cupcakes and a gallon of milk for people to enjoy. Sadly, only the office assistant was there when I arrived and one of the other developers came in, but no one else did. So they didn't get quite as eaten as I had hoped. So I dropped the remainder off at Josh's work on my way home for them to enjoy.

Mom, Bryce, Erin, Will, Sawyer, Megan, Chad, Mollie, and I went to Mi Ranchito for dinner. As usual I ordered the Giant Chicken Quesadilla, which is just so good, and I was not disappointed. After dinner we all headed back to my house. My house was picked mainly because Megan wanted to play Guitar Hero. So we all played some Guitar Hero and then had cake and ice cream.



Growing up I always have had chocolate cake with chocolate frosting on my birthday. My mom's recipe works very well at the lower altitude in CT, sadly it had a small rising issue here in Utah. Despite the somewhat odd look, however, it still tastes excellent. Hopefully I'll be able to finish the remainder of the cake before it dries out.

While eating cake, Will was very anxious that I open presents and kept bringing them to me telling me to open them. So I relented and had Will help me unwrap things. I got a couple of books, a curio-cabinet-like English phonebooth, and Wii Fit! The Wii Fit was solely by Mom's pure luck in happening to be in Wal-Mart and ask about it when a shipment had just come in (a big shipment of 2).


-- For some reason my eyes look a little lazy in this picture

Wii Fit is fun and rather effective. When I set it up and played a second time after everyone had gone home it wished me a Happy Birthday, and the little cartoon balance board thing was wearing a party hat, hehehe. I've been logging 30 minutes of exercise time each day thus far, which is enough to tire me out doing the exercises it has. If you try to perform all the things correctly it really is quite effective. Not that it's any revolutionary exercise device, it just kind of acts like a personal trainer encouraging you to workout, telling you how to do the exercises, and yelling at you if you stop in the middle of an exercise.

According to Wii Fit the ideal BMI is 22. To reach that BMI it tells me I need to put on about 20 pounds. I'm not really sure how I would go about putting on that much weight, or any weight for that matter. I've been my current weight for about 6 years, without any specific work to be this weight. So I'll just keep working out with it and ignore the thing about being 20 pounds heavier.

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