Birthday Wants

One silver lining to the mounting medical expenses we're going through, is that it reduced my supposedly big birthday splurge into simple birthday guarded purchases.  Prior to undergoing through this unfortunate series of events, my supposed materialistic birthday objectives include the following:

• a high-end laptop, with DSL connection, and laptop sleeve.
  
• Ipod, or Playstation Portable (PSP)
  
• missing volumes in my Harry Potter book collection
  
• this handsome pair of brown AND1 shoes I saw in SM Megamall a few months ago.
  
• transition lenses on a new pair of high-end eyeglasses.
  
• new shirts, shorts, and pants from G2000, Dockers, and Bench/.
  
• A Sasuke (from the Naruto series) action figurine
  
• a Honeywell electric fan

Mama's condition really put things in perspective, downgrading the items above from "must-have's" to "want's".  Don't get me wrong.  I still bought some stuff for my birthday.  A far cry from my previous grand plan, but it's still things that I want:

• Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves' INTERWORLD.
  
• Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's FREAKONOMICS.
  
• a Fig Tree shirt with a GODISNOWHERE design.
  
• Good Girl Gone Bad Reloaded CD (Rihanna).
  
• Where The Light Is: Live In Los Angeles (John Mayer).
  
• Pizza Hut PALM Card.