I'm glad you had a good birthday, and here's a belated happy birthday! :D I think asking everyone to save their money for later is a great idea too.

Sorry about the surgery, though! I really hope everything goes as smoothly as possible and you get better asap, but it sucks that this is putting a temporary block on doing things you want to do. Best of luck with that and I hope it doesn't make your 24th year any less wonderful!

Your flight plan looks amazing!