Okay, Sunday afternoon after the SHSAT (Specialized High School Admissions Test) me and my parents got home and they gave me presents!!! Only two, but so far, here’s the list. (Updated everytime I get a new present!)
Present: The iPod Nano
From: Mom, Dad, Elo, Andrew, Vance, Lulu, Warren, and Alex
About: It’s ONLY like the smallest iPod EVER!!! It’s SUPER thin, AMAZINGLY SMALL, 4GB (a gigabyte is 1,000 megabytes and one minute of a song takes about one megabyte) so that means that it’s about 1,000 4-minute songs!!! I currently have a bit more than 500 in my iTunes library (but some are like 20 min. long - don’t ask) and there are podcasts (online independent radio show things) and it’s SOOO small, and unlike the previous iPod Mini that it replaced, it’s literally like the size of a credit card, and so small, and full color screen, and the coolest cell phone looks HUGE compared to it, and it’s SOOOOO cool, and it’s even smaller than it looks like in the picture below and THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!

Present: Lost Season 1 on DVD
From: Grandma and Grandpa
About: It’s ONLY like the best tv show ever - and it’s the entire first season on DVD - 7 discs!!! All 25 episodes of the best tv show ever!!! What could be better??? It has 6 discs, about 4 episodes on each disc and then a bonus disc with bloopers, special features, making ofs and many other just plain awesome things about LOST!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!
UPDATE: And now, on Monday, my actual birthday I just got 3 more presents!!!
Present: Star Wars: A New Hope Soundtrack (that’s episode 4)
From: Mom and Dad
About: It’s only, like the second highest grossing film of all time!!!! I’ve been wanting this for a while, and I’m uploading it to itunes now, and then to my iPod Nano!!! More music! It’s great! It’s a 2-disc set and awesome, and the music is classic! THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!

Present: Firefly TV Series Complete DVD
From: Mom and Dad
About: It’s ONLY…….. well, actually I never had really heard of it before today, but it looks kinda like Star Wars and Star Trek - at least that’s what I hear. I have yet to watch it, but it looks pretty interesting! THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!
Present: Choice of iPod Nano case from Apple.com Store
From: Mom and Dad
About: It’s ONLY that the iPod Nano gets scratched pretty easily, so a case could really help make sure that I don’t get them! It’s supposed to ship in 1-2 weeks, so it’ll be a while, and I’ve already ordered it, so I’m trying not to get it to scratched, though there are a few, and you can barely touch it without fingerprinting it, so if you hodl it up to some bright light it’s ugly, but there are a few things that you can fix it with if it gets too bad. Still, THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!! (Sorry about the pixelated picture, but I couldn’t find anything better. And that’s the iPod Nano with the case)

That’s it! It’s now 8:52 PM on Monday October 24th, 2005 and it’s time to get off of the computer, so I guess that I’ll have to go. See ya!

It’s SSHSAT (Specialized SCIENCE High School Admissions Test. Gimme That! (iPod Nano reference intended)
Yeah, but that’s the SSHSAT, not the SHSAT.
So they’re just two different ways to say it.
Happy belated birthday, Austen! You got some cool gifts. Wow, when I was 13, we had cassettes & the computers we used at school were the original Apple computers. Technology has come a long way…
-Allison