Tomorrow I turn 25. This is officially OLD. I will be closer to 30 than I am to 20! It is a daunting realization for me. However, I have already got some awesome swag. The New Super Mario Bros Wii, And Another Thing, the 6th entry to the Hitchhikers Guide trilogy, some baby clothes, and a stuffed Yoshi. I still have dinner with The Mothers (my mom, and my mother-in-law, both of which are prone to excessive gift-giving) coming this week. I fully expect clothes or cash. I am happy with both, honestly.

We went to go see Astroboy tonight in celebration of my birthday. For those of you who don't know, when I was a kid, I was OBSESSED with Astroboy. I had 12 hours of VHS recordings that I'd watch nearly every day after school. So today we watched the first 3 or 4 episodes of the original series on DVD (oh wow they were so much worse than I remembered), and then went to the movie. We didn't exactly have a high bar set by the TV show. The TV show was like eight kinds of confusing and had so many unintended sexual ambiguities and innuendo, and just really really bad dialog in general (I imagine the original japanese dialog was at least marginally better written). The move though was so far above and beyond what I was expecting. Seriously, I had so much fun. The only criticism of the movie was that I couldn't hear anything BUT Nicolas Cage whenever Dr Tenshi spoke. The same with Nathan Lane. Samuel L Jackson I didn't realize was even in it until the credits rolled, but in retrospect it was pretty obvious. Regardless, I full intend to PAY for the DVD and watch it many, many times. So many times.

Also, for those who wanted to know: Baby is doing fine! I'm going in for another check up this week, and we find out the gender just a few days before Christmas! According to various sources on the internet, I should be feeling kicks by then too. Exciting! And another weird comfort is that by the end of the year, the baby will have reached the age of viability. That is, if worst comes to worst, he/she can survive outside the womb, or at least has a chance to. Hopefully that won't be necessary, but the knowledge helps keep me a little calmer.

And there you have it, my quarterly-to-semiannual journal entry.