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Thirty three years ago yesterday, in Buffalo NY, I was born!  I love celebrating my birthday. I always have. It’s all very exciting for me. And yesterday did not disappoint. 

It was a great day. My kids and Mandy guarantee that its great every year. Mandy is really funny because she is always extremely stressed out that somehow she is going to let me down. And what is funny is that I just want to  hang out with them. But she is always asking, all day long, if I’m having fun and what  I want to do to make it awesome. She knows I really like to DO stuff, so she’s always afraid I’m secretly wishing we were doing something else! Haha. I think it’s really sweet.

Anyway, it was all around great. I had some great friends (Shane and Jessica) decorate my office really nicely (which was awesome), I got tons of wishes on facebook (which I actually loved), I got gourmet cupcakes with Jessica (pretzel white chocolate!), and then I got to come home to a house that was overflowing with excitement about me. Somehow while doing homeschool for 2 kids, and taking care of a newborn, Mandy had managed to take all the kids out shopping for me. All the kids had made me cards and wrapped presents for me. They are so sweet.

Then we went to Macaroni Grill and had a blast, and capped off the night with ice cream at Coldstone. Samuel kept saying all through the night, “this is the best birthday ever dad!”

And one more thing about Mandy that cracked me up. She is so sweet. We watched some TV together at night and she fell asleep. But she fell asleep in kind of an uncomfortable position, so I was trying to gently put a pillow under her head for her, and she kept halfway waking up and saying, “It’s ok, it’s ok. I’m not asleep. What do you want to watch?” Even in her sleep, she was still SO worried about my birthday being awesome. I thought it was funny.

So anyway, I did a little research, and I thought I’d post some things that happened in 1977. Some of it is very interesting!

-  A Gallon of gas cost $.65!

- A house on average cost $42,000

- The first Apple II computer went on sale (I love apple!)

- Two movies I love came out – Rocky and Star Wars

- Punk music really broke through in ’77

- The 76ers were in the finals – and lost

- Elvis Presley did his last concert

- Xerox release its first laser printer – for $500,000 

- The Police (the band) formed!

- Also, another favorite band of mine, Genesis – lost Peter Gabriel and had Phil Collins take over as lead singer 

- A little boy was born in Buffalo