So yeah, today is my birthday. I'm seventeen! I can buy M-rated games! I can go to rated-R movies! I can...wait, no that's in four years.

What I've been begging my parents for for quite some time is a quality camera. Now I'm the proud owner of a Canon Rebel T3i - just in time for the rare sunny Oregon weather. As I get better and produce pictures that are actually good, I'll probably post some here.

If you follow my status updates, you'll know that my girlfriend went to Comic Con a couple of weeks ago. While there she was asking questions like "What is your favorite pony?" and "What's your shirt size?" I had my suspicions of her motives, and I was right. Like the awesome person she is, she got me pony stuff. She is making me wait until tomorrow for the second half of my present, though, so this post only has what I got today: the pony gear.

So first up is this awesome custom drawing of Rarity. Now I need to find a frame for it...

Then this awesome Derpy ID card! She said she got it because the occupation fit me so well. And I hate it, but I agree with her.

And finally, the really awesome thing...

A laminated map of Equestria. SO AWESOME.

She said the other stuff isn't pony related, but that doesn't matter. Birthdays aren't about the presents, they're about celebrating the day I was expelled from my mother's birth canal.

- K