only three days left as a teen...
so this weekend was fabulous.
my brother levi turned 18 today, and apparently went out and bought a lotto ticket of some sort. he didn't win, but it only cost him a buck, so i'm pretty sure he felt it was worth it.
i got to see my good friend emily last night. i feel badly because i've been so damn busy with school crap that i haven't talked to her in what seems like forever. it was good that we got together. we didn't do much (we saw Ice Age 2 - it was cute) but then again we never do, and that's just fine with me. we sat in my driveway and talked forever, caught up on everything, and laughed about random things.
today, though, my family had a little mini-birthday combination celebration thing for both me and my brother, since my birthday is on wednesday. i got some cute gifts from my brother mike (levi has yet to buy me a gift - i expect one in the mail) such as tater-tot pencil toppers and a little notebook with a chinese poem on it. but the best gift of all was from my parents.
my parents don't normally buy me big, expensive gifts. ever. even as a kid. i always expected a bunch of little things (barbies and other barbie accessories when i was young, clothes and books or CDs when i was older). the biggest thing they ever bought me was my labtop, which i am currently using. but even that was a combo gift - birthday and high school graduation. it was the most expensive gift they'd ever gotten me.
but i guess this year is a big deal. i mean, it is like, two whole decades of living. and in the past few weeks, every time my parents asked me what i wanted for my birthday, i told them about my amazon wishlist (a combination of mostly books and DVDs, with a few CDs), but they said they wanted to buy me something bigger.
the only "big" things i wanted were super expensive; way more money then they probably would have spent in total on presents for my birthday, for a few birthdays.
so i was completely surprised when i opened up my last gift, and it revealed a box containing the new Canon PowerShot SD600 Digital Elph. it's beautiful. and the only thing i really wanted for my birthday. i had a digital camera, still have it, but it doesn't take high quality photos at a distance. the Digital Elph is something that i've wanted for a while, and was considering splurging on this summer after i have some income. but now i don't need to worry about it. i'm so thankful, and even though it also kind of counts as my twenty-first birthday present as well, i could care less. twenty years old is a big deal, and now i have something to show for it.
i also got bubbles. and some starbucks happiness from brendan, which i love.
all in all, it was a great weekend. i hope my actual birthday is just as good.
my brother levi turned 18 today, and apparently went out and bought a lotto ticket of some sort. he didn't win, but it only cost him a buck, so i'm pretty sure he felt it was worth it.
i got to see my good friend emily last night. i feel badly because i've been so damn busy with school crap that i haven't talked to her in what seems like forever. it was good that we got together. we didn't do much (we saw Ice Age 2 - it was cute) but then again we never do, and that's just fine with me. we sat in my driveway and talked forever, caught up on everything, and laughed about random things.
today, though, my family had a little mini-birthday combination celebration thing for both me and my brother, since my birthday is on wednesday. i got some cute gifts from my brother mike (levi has yet to buy me a gift - i expect one in the mail) such as tater-tot pencil toppers and a little notebook with a chinese poem on it. but the best gift of all was from my parents.
my parents don't normally buy me big, expensive gifts. ever. even as a kid. i always expected a bunch of little things (barbies and other barbie accessories when i was young, clothes and books or CDs when i was older). the biggest thing they ever bought me was my labtop, which i am currently using. but even that was a combo gift - birthday and high school graduation. it was the most expensive gift they'd ever gotten me.
but i guess this year is a big deal. i mean, it is like, two whole decades of living. and in the past few weeks, every time my parents asked me what i wanted for my birthday, i told them about my amazon wishlist (a combination of mostly books and DVDs, with a few CDs), but they said they wanted to buy me something bigger.
the only "big" things i wanted were super expensive; way more money then they probably would have spent in total on presents for my birthday, for a few birthdays.
so i was completely surprised when i opened up my last gift, and it revealed a box containing the new Canon PowerShot SD600 Digital Elph. it's beautiful. and the only thing i really wanted for my birthday. i had a digital camera, still have it, but it doesn't take high quality photos at a distance. the Digital Elph is something that i've wanted for a while, and was considering splurging on this summer after i have some income. but now i don't need to worry about it. i'm so thankful, and even though it also kind of counts as my twenty-first birthday present as well, i could care less. twenty years old is a big deal, and now i have something to show for it.
i also got bubbles. and some starbucks happiness from brendan, which i love.
all in all, it was a great weekend. i hope my actual birthday is just as good.