Lightning in a Bottle

Okay so totally awesome day- woke up at a normal time (9:30am) which is like heaven since I’ve been having to get up so early to go to work but I worked really late today which was unreal. I mean after this week I’ll be working early everyday until University starts up again so there goes my summer. Expect for the bright spot that is Las Vegas in 15 more days!!!!

Anyway besides getting to sleep in I finally got the cable guy to come out and up in a cable wire so I finally have TV again and I can finally hook up my computer. And on top of that since he came at noon today I had to get ready earlier so I was all ready for work instead of having to rush later on.

Plus my mom decided that yes, she is the worst secret keeper in the world and just out and tells me that she has decided to throw me a 21^st (that is still wired) birthday party and it was going to be a surprise but just so I know it’s tonight and instead of finding someway to get me out to the restaurant it’s easier to tell me about it and have me drive myself after work! Whatever, just that fact that I got a party was enough surprise for me. The party rock (and there was awesome food!) and I got great gifts. Mostly it was money, since I need it for Vegas- I even got a clean 100$ American from a cousin- but I also got a couple gift certificates (Chapters and HMV) and chocolates, a cook-book since I’m trying to learn to cook and a cupcake maker set which is adorable! Oh and I got two CD’s from my cousin who is forever trying to direct my music taste- he got me Broken Social Scene (whom I’ve heard and somewhat like) and The Shins (whom I’ve never even heard of let alone heard- are they any good?) Anyway last year he gave me him copy if Interpol and they rocked so I think I’ll probably like these bands as well.

It was nice and small- not to many people just the important ones, plus my cousin and I spent like all of dinner discussing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows and it’s still really hard talking out all the characters she killed but so far everyone I’ve talked to about Harry Potter is in agreement that the book didn’t need the stupid Epilogue!

Tomorrow night I’m going out again. My friends are taking me out for Sushi (I can’t wait!) for my birthday which should be crazy fun- I’ll post tomorrow if it is!

So… 21 today! And then after the awesomeness of being legal all over the world wore off, I remembered that I’m old. I find it so hard getting older, like I’m wasting my life away because I can’t seem to decide what I want to do with my life so my birthdays are kind of depressing. But besides that, I woke up to a shit load of gifts from my family which was nice– especially since we’re in the middle of moving and it’s all so crazy and stressful- and we have ice cream cake from breakfast (that was fun).

Mostly my birthdays are slow since I never really do anything on the real day. It’s kind of the thing with summer birthdays, everyone you know is off enjoying their summer and I can’t really blame them for that. The real good friends remember to call (like my friend did one year from Spain) or e-mail and that’s what counts I guess. But I have to say thank you too all the people over at DLchem.net who wished me a happy birthday- you guys are like family- and I have to say thanks to _fullofgrace who also wished me a happy birthday. And, Tonya, since it’s my birthday and everything, I hope you don’t mind me reminding you to please update your Sam/Ava story as a gift to me?!?! And of course I need to say Happy Birthday toxphoenixrising who also happens to be celebrating her birthday today! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Today I’m going to take my little brother and sister to see the Simpson’s movie and tonight my cousins are taking me out for a birthday dinner- the three of them always remember which is so nice.

So this week was crap- last Sunday, stupid me decided to go to the beach with some friends and my siblings (they were begging me so I gave in!) anyway- while I’m reading the last few chapters of Harry Potter and totally forgetting about how damn hot it was and the fact that I forgot to put of sunscreen- I completely burned. Like not some little burn but like first degree burns or something and it’s still so bad today. I’ve been putting Aloe on it like every hour for the past five days and then on Friday I started to ease up on it and now its peeling and it’s still so red and I think I’ll be heading to the doctors tomorrow just to have it checked out. Well, that will teach me to go outside!

And then on Friday, I go to register for University and my registration time is suppose to be at 2pm and they were so behind that I didn’t even get in till 3 and I worked at 3:30 and there was absolutely no signal in the basement. But thank god while waiting in line at 3:20 I got one little bar- which was enough to get a text message out to my cousin who was a goddess and she called my work for me and told then what was going on and so I was late my a half hour but my boss was sick that day so that all worked out. But what didn’t work out so well were the classes I picked. I picked 6 classes- 6 of them- and I only got 2. Yup, 2 out of six so I’m on 4 waiting lists and I’m beyond pissed off because the one class I really wanted/needed was full and I can’t take school anymore. Plus a quick note of advice- so not go see an academic adviser ever, they do absolutely nothing to help you. They are completely useless unless you want to be confused.

Oh, oh, oh, one more then… I saw Hairspray, that movie was brilliant! I suggest everyone see it, especially if you like musicals. It all around rocked.