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Oh, hello, birthday.  You come upon me like a thing in the night, you do.  

I have had several inquiries as to what I would like for my birthday, and I never know what to say.  I mean, I have a list of things in my head that I would like, but explaining them would take so long that there would be tons of confusion, and it would end up being a hassle that no one wants anyways.  I've asked my father for a little money so I can get these few things already, though.  So I don't know.

Seriously, though, Joann's and Borders gift cards are an absolute win with me.  I don't consider gift cards to be a cop out - I love them.  It's like someone giving me permission to spend money at a store I like, when usually, I have to be so picky with my actual money that I never let myself indulge.  

Plus, I've started getting back into cross-stitching pretty heavily again.  However, since I haven't done it in about 13 years, I no longer have any of the necessary supplies.  My mom's been nice enough to help me pick up a few things to get me started, but I've been working primarily with kits so far, and I'd like to try a pattern from scratch, which requires a ton of floss and a storage set-up for it.  Not expensive, per se, but still more money than I have right now.

And books ALWAYS WIN.  

I know, I know, I probably didn't need another hobby.  But I'm not allowing myself to start another crochet project until I finish what I'm working on right now, and this was the perfect way to get around that.  Hah HAH!  And all my knitting needles suck, so I never want to knit.  Good times.

And god, this hobby is so much cheaper than knitting.  Damn.  Yarn is frigging expensive.