i could not sleep tonight so i thought i'd update my l j and post how my birthday went. i spent the day befor with mace, he and i drove down to see shune and meet his dad and grandfather. all in all that went much better than i thought it would. his father was a somewhat warm guy who seemed to try and be nice with us. we spent the day out together his father bought us dinner for my birthday and we hung a short time at there place and chated. shune had hoped to come back that night but stayed to help his grandfather and take care of him. mace and i came back here to my place and spent the next day messing around the dragons den, we had a late lunch with dallas and haystack, that was not only great getting to know dallas more but getting to see stack again, he and i have been friends for a long time now but never see eachother. so with that done we came back here, got some stuff done and then had friends call and want to meet up to hang, nightwolf and his loveing wife, a fellow dragon. along with tom and his roommate as well as gamma, fyre and sodders where here as well. we all set arounds had snacks and watched twilight, talked and just tryed to have a nice easy time. shune had hoped to make it but his grandfather was not doing so well and he stayed to watch over him. we talked a few times. it killes me to hear him when he's sad or just down and i could tell he was. he wanted to be with us and we wanted him here just as much. mace and i did what we could to just let him know that we love him and miss him, but more so understand he has things that come first. so for the most part it was not to bad a birthday, i got to spend some time with both my loveing mates, had time with some very dear friends. and had two days off work. thanks for all the birthday wishes and to all my friends for careing so much.