Hey thanks, I haven't been around for a bit. For my birthday my friend's family offered to reimburse me to buy and roast a goose for our Friendsgiving, which is ordinarily prohibitively expensive for me to do and try to eat on my own (as GM won't touch it). It cost $100. It came out really good.
For gifts I am trying to collect Best Buy gift cards between my birthday and Christmas so I can buy a new iPad.