The birthday turned out quite well, although I did end up spending five hours of it working on a stupid project for my AP Lit class. It turned out better than I had expected, so at least that was some consolation.
MI, as much as I would love to do that, I'm afraid that button got jammed several months ago, around the time school started back up again, oddly enough. Oh well, life goes on, even if it is slightly faster than we prefer.