I am hung over. I had a little over three hours of sleep last night and had something of a natural intoxication. It's not the best thing to be feeling on one's birthday, I suppose, but given how things have been going at the moment, I guess a little bodily abuse shouldn't be too bad.

Two weeks ago, all I had planned for today was for me to listen to ten albums. This plan has been scrapped for the moment, although I do want to give those CDs a spin sometime during this week. I can go into further detail as to why I picked those albums (it started from an email survey, I remember). It may open me up to criticism from certain types, but they probably would find faults even in the Arabic numeric system anyway. Anyway, the albums:

1.) The Who - Who's Next
2.) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
3.) Led Zeppelin 2
4.) Deep Purple - Machine Head
5.) 311 - 311 (Blue Album)
6.) The Brand New Heavies - Shelter
7.) AC/DC - Back in Black
8.) AC/DC - Highway to Hell
9.) The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
10.) Color Me Badd - C.M.B. (explanations are on the way, I promise)

It's hardly the soundtrack to my life, but at 26 years old, these are the ten albums that are significant to me right now for one reason or another.

It has been a great day for me, and I was able to spend my day with most of the people whom I wanted to spend it with. I've also been awake through most of today, and I'm due for a coma soon, so I'll try to wrap things up without being too gooey. Thanks to everybody who sent greetings. Thanks to my family for a lovely lunch, however late I arrived. Thanks to TeamYhap for making the early hours a blast. The smuggled 'surprise' cake was good, even for this non-chocolate lover. It was easily my best and worst birthday experience ever. That should count for a lot.

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