Jackie: A Tale of Perversity and Woe

Because you're all very interested in presents I get, here's all the stuff I got for my birthday:

-A glass teapot with infuser (Mom)
-Two tins of Tazo tea (Mom)
-A Fujifilm S2500HD digital camera (Dad)
-A shirt (Mom)
-A dress (Mom)
-New Vans shoes (Mom)
-$115 in cash from various relatives
-A cupcake recipe book (Anna)
-A chocolate recipe book that is fancy and awesome (Sophie)
-Decorating tips for pastry bags (Sophie)
-A shot glass (Beth)
-"100 Words to Make You Sound Great" (Beth)
-Seasons 1, 2, and 3 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Rob)

I had a Cosmo with my mom at Applebee's, and went out to dinner with Rob later that night and actually didn't get carded, which was hilarious. I also went and bought myself some wine while my mom was buying my birthday cake.

Going to a bar tonight with the gang and Rob, hopefully, so that should be fun. ADULT THINGS!

Apparently, I am doing bakery training on Friday! :O Sweet!

In other news, today I went into the city with Beth and her friends to celebrate her birthday. We didn't really do anything; just ate at her favorite restaurant in the Village and walked around and went to 16 Handles. And we (well, I) convinced Beth to get an alcoholic beverage at a bar, since she's 21 now and everything, so she got a very expensive drink at this fancy bar. Thankfully she liked it, haha. I forget what it was called -- New London Something Something.

Aaaand I'm getting a cold sore. >:( I haven't had one in a VERY long time, so I guess I was due for one, but I can't find my abreva so I'm gonna have to waste another $20 on a tiny-ass little thing that is very easy to lose. Sigh. But the stuff works miracles, yo, so I guess it's worth it.

IT'S MY BIRTHDAYYYY

I'm 20 years old! No longer a teenager. Man, I feel old.

IT'S MY BIRTHDAAAAY

There aren't too many plans for today -- we're gonna go out to eat lunch with my grandma because it‘s her birthday today too (and my second cousin's -- August 24 is a popular birthing day in my family, it seems), and brownies will be had, and a couple presents will be opened.

But in one year I am going to be 20. What the fuck.

Holy shit, someone's written a Mike/Edward fic besides me!

I'm glad a fic has finally been posted at that damn community, hahaha. Oh, Twilight.

In other news, have calmed down a bit since yesterday, although still anxious and scared. I know I probably qualify for deferments and lower monthly payments and crap, but I'm still incredibly worried and wondering what the hell is going to happen to me.

But! I'm gonna try to not let it bother me for the next couple of days. Today Bonner is sleeping over, then the daytrip of awesome tomorrow, then maybe Coney Island on Sunday, and then my birthday on the 24th. And I got some money for my birthday in the mail today too, so I can use that for the trip, etc. Good times.

People keep moving around upstairs and outside and talking and it is irritating the hell out of me. All of the creaks in the floorboard and the feet shuffling and the low murmurings and people passing back and forth outside the window is making me want to go stab nice, fluffy things. Luckily I have my music so I can drown out the noise, but I can't really avoid the people walking outside.

...Unless I go in my room. That might make sense.

Sophie's (skypipe) birthday party is today! :D We're supposed to dress up as our favorite TV characters, but I left my Lassiter costume back at my dorm by accident, so instead I'm dressing up in all blue, drawing the hydrogen symbol on my forehead, and going as Dr. Manhattan. Even though he's not a TV character. But I am out of ideas. Anyone else and I would need specific clothes that I just don't have.

Haven't started the Watchmen fic yet, but once the shoot is done on Wednesday I will get right on it.

So, even though we weren't entirely ready, we had to perform our scene from The Odd Couple today in English class... which was basically all of Act I. Man, they screwed up I don't know how many times -- especially Tiffany in the second half; we were jumping around the script like crazy and we missed whole pages of dialogue. I kept having to save everyone, lol. But it turned out well -- Boness said she was giving us an A, so yay! \o/ I love my Oscar Olive costume, though; it was a Steelers baseball hat with a loose button-up shirt and a black tie, and my old jeans that have two huge gaping holes in them. I wore it the rest of the day... well, until a little after I got home. It's my mom's birthday today, so we went into Seattle and ate at this fancy restaurant. Then we went to Barnes and Noble and I caved and bought The Host. I'm not very far into it yet, so I can't give you my verdict. I will when I'm done with it, though. Watch, I'll probably end up joining the fandom... if there is one yet.

And as for the essay I was bitching about in my last entry, one of the assistant principals called me down today and told me that I just had to tack on a lame-ass paragraph at the end to tie it to the prompt in some way and I'd be good to go, since it wouldn't be graded. He said they tried getting a waiver for me but apparently there are absolutely no exceptions ever. Jesus. This state is an asshole.

And now, I must write the rules for this board game we have to make in World History. They just couldn't let me relax my last week of school, could they?