Well well well, 16 for me. I've divided it into two sections: one which I got from my friends and the other which I got from my family, as I effectively had two birthday parties: one on Queen's Birthday Weekend (a curious holiday because it's always a) suspiciously on a Monday and b) the Queen's birthday is somewhere in April or something), and one on the third of June: a.k.a today, for me in my shiny +12 timezone. The party with the friends was what I'd call a party: cookies, cake, paintball, general sugar (though we did go for a long walk that it took one person two days to get over ). Whereas the 'party' with the family was basically me opening the larger presents (my friends are poor ) and a dinner (at home because I couldn't think of anything special I really liked ). That was partly due to school on Wednesday, too

Anyway, on with the list!

Friends:

600g of chocolate (various flavours)

~400g of lollies (ate and opened one packet before checking its mass )

One small Creator car set (31027)

$65 in cash and one $50 Steam voucher (:D )

A very nice drawing of a dragon I plan to frame.

AOE II HD + The Forgotten, courtesy of Xiron (I can't thank you enough for that :D) (No, Xiron didn't come to my party, him living about 5,000 km away from me )

Family:

(From brother) A map of Middle-Earth, drawn out by him (another thing I plan to frame)

(From sister) A book entitled "This Book Will Change Your Dog's Life" (a very silly book, just go google it and look at some of the images )

From parents*:

Medieval II: Total War + Whatever the expansion's called

Just the expansion of Rome: Total War (called Barbarian Invasion), unfortunately I didn't get the original game as well (silly me*)

Hive Crawler (70708), a Galaxy Squad set

Deep Sea Predators (4506), a old Lego Creator set (with lots of glow-in-the-dark, hooray!)

Crater Creeper (70706), another Galaxy Squad set, and

The Battle For Middle-Earth II (a LoTR RTS, we got a second disk because a) it was $1, b) our original disk was being very fussy and c) if we could get the original to work we could have multiplayers).

*For a couple of years 90% of presents from my parents have been sourced by me off TradeMe (the NZ equivalent of e-Bay). This, while taking away the surprise of presents, has a lot more bonuses: I get what I want, rather than something I don't really like, and we get it cheaply, so more can be obtained with the same amount of money that my parents are prepared to spend.

So yeah!

Unfortunately, all these games I've wanted for a good wee while, are given to me when I've a string trio concert in seven days (I'm playing the piano), and I have half a year to do Cambridge AS Physics and Chemistry . Never mind, I will find time!

Yes, I'm well aware I'm being spoilt rotten (doesn't the definition of "spoilt" mean "unaware of it," though? Hmm.... ), but this is my birthday and I have a right to be spoiled on my birthday.