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Here it is! .hack//Sign + Liminality + Legend of the Twilight + Roots + Quantum 07 Ghost Ah My Goddess + Fighting Wings + Flights Of Fancy Air Gear Air Master Akazukin Cha Cha Akira Amatsuki Angel Sanctuary Angelic Layer Asura Cryin' Avatar + Legend of Korra Ayakashi Ayashi No Ceres Azumanga Daioh Baccano Baki The Grappler Basilisk Basquash Beck Beet The Vandel Buster + Excellion Berserk Black Cat Black Lagoon + The Second Barrage + Roberta's Blood Trail Blade of the Immortal Bleach Blood+ Blue Dragon Bokusatsu Tenshi Boys Be Buso Renkin Cardcaptor Sakura Chobits Chocolate Underground Chrono Crusade Clannad + After Story Claymore Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion + R2 Cooking Master Boy Cowboy Bebop Curious Play D Gray Man Dennou Coil Detective Conan Devil May Cry Digimon Adventure 1 + 2 + Tamers Dragon Ball + Z + GT + Kai E's Otherwise Earth Girl Arjuna Eden Of The Eas

Over the past few months I've been having a sort of new hobby that really helps me destress quite a bit! Anime is good and all but I gain satisfaction in sort of working my brain out. So board games have become quite a good form of destress! Partially its the immersion in a whole new world and social part of it, but my brain enjoys a good workout. Have gotten a stash of board games, nothing that can rival Paul's but its slowly building up. So far I've got: Mansions of Madness - a thematic horror story-telling adventure kind of game in which one person (always me) plays the "bad guy" Pandemic - a work together versus the board game to save the world from diseases kinda thing Small World - a Risk-like every man for himself area grabbing game with special powers thrown in Dead of Winter - a zombie apocalypse survivor game that's quite like the real deal but in board game form I'm sort of a completionist also so I'll grab all the expansions for eac

And so I'm 26! It was a great day, with some celebrations done with Van and my colleagues at my work place! Kudos to Van to springing cute surprises my way! Majority of it was positive, but upon reflection, this birthday was rather bittersweet. Most importantly whilst I was enjoying the day for what it was it made me realize the extent that I had pushed my body, mind and spirit until. As much as I enjoyed today I realized I could have enjoyed it to its fullest if I were fully invested in it. And this made me think about how my body, mind and spirit has been stretched without rest. The awareness of a lack of a time to rest in God came to its full revelation, and this has been the issue for the past few months of life. I need to make a decision to return back to God's rest and unfortunately this means one thing that I've held back in doing for a long time - leaving the youth ministry. Given how it is going for me I don't see any other options to free up more time for