I'm Legal :P
Well, as of today, I'm officially legal. Well, as of yesterday. If we're going by hours, as of 7 hours and change ago, I am legal. If we're going by days, I've been legal for about 26 hours now. A legal adult. Not that it matters. What can I do? Buy cigarettes? Big whoop. (I can get a job now, without a stupid permit, which is a huge relief. Small bookstore, here I come.) What do people usually do for their 18th birthday, anyway? Get schnockered? No, wait, that's 21. Go out and have random sex with someone older than they are, because it's no longer illegal (if not wise)? Meh. My day was...interesting. I was allowed to sleep in, in my room for a change, so my cousin had to watch my little brother until 11, when I wandered into the living room (not that that's really sleeping in...). I promptly fell in and out of sleep for another three hours, though, so I guess I did get to sleep in. I was up till 6 the prior morning, so it didn't really feel any different than normal.
I didn't really do anything super-special afterwards - we didn't exactly have the money to spend on a big fiesta, and I didn't expect one, since my parents shelled out big time for my gifts, so all is well. We went out for dinner, to the new mexican restaurant in the square, imaginatively named "Casa de Flour". *rolls eyes* It wasn't horrible - at least for me. My food was pretty decent, which is incredibly unusual for a yankee mexican restaurant, the majority of which seem to be run by people whose experience with mexican food is probably limited to compiling the incredible plasti-tacos at the local Taco Bell. Cousin Keith's $11 fajitas had enough steak to make approxiamtely one steak-on-a-stick at the local Chinese take-out place, my mum's tacos came in a clearly pre-made shell, and the cook found a way to fuck up beans and rice, which, really, seemed impossible to me before I moved to New York, but is no longer much of a shock. Still, at least they had flour tortilla chips. And the flour tortillas themselves weren't bad, and they were mercifully stingy with the canned enchilada sauce on my entree, so the cheese absorbed most of the taste. Really, though, why do people who have obviously never tasted real mexican food in their lives insist on opening bad mexican restaurants? If these people ever went to Arizona and had some of the mexican food there, they would weep with shame at what the crimes they have committed, bastardizing my people's food XD Seriously, even the smallest, hole-in-the-wall, shit restaurant in Arizona has to-die-for mexican food (actually, they usually have the best, since the hole-in-the-walls are usually run by actual mexican families...) and they have to, because if they don't, they'll get run out of businss. But really, even in Texas, home of the tex-mex, we found decent mexican food. In freakin' HAWAII, we found decent mexican food. It's just a good New York restaurant that seems to elude us.
I'm sorry, shitty mexican food inspires a rant. It comes from having Arizona as a home state and being raised on the stuff, I swear.
Anyway, after dinner, we came back home, had cake, and watched the Ghost Stories DVD we rented from Netflix (which had one episode we hadn't seen *sigh*), and then...well, that's sort of it. I was craving a Miyazaki earlier in the afternoon, but it was too late for Spirited Away when we finished Ghost Stories *is a boring person* I would have liked to spend a few hours at Borders, curled up with a stack of manga, but mum worked, so that was impossible. On the up side, I *was* allowed one extra gift of purchasing the complete Wish manga set from Shaza, and my CDs (except for the Noir, which are on backorder and will take 1-2 weeks >_<) will be here in a few days. My PS2, too, apparently. So YAY!
Anyway, I've got schoolwork to do tonight, but I just had to take a little time to rant about the total lackluster quality of northern mexican food *tears* Oh, but it was kinda nice to hop on to the computer and see a sweet thread at TAFL wishing me a happy birthday. <3
Oh, yeah, and one more thing - is anyone else freakishly addicted to TommyHeavenly6 music? Anyone? It's weird, 'cause I swear, her songs are as POP as you can get, but there's something oddly addicting about them. Her music is a huge guilty pleasure for me. Demented cheerleader music! The PV for Lonely in Gorgeous (which was an amazingly appropriate OP for ParaKiss, btw, and maybe the only good part of the show >>") got me hooked, but then there was I Fell in Love With You, J'taime J'taime, and the accoustic version of Gothic Pink *love* Anyway. Yes...that's all.
*runs off to do homework*
I didn't really do anything super-special afterwards - we didn't exactly have the money to spend on a big fiesta, and I didn't expect one, since my parents shelled out big time for my gifts, so all is well. We went out for dinner, to the new mexican restaurant in the square, imaginatively named "Casa de Flour". *rolls eyes* It wasn't horrible - at least for me. My food was pretty decent, which is incredibly unusual for a yankee mexican restaurant, the majority of which seem to be run by people whose experience with mexican food is probably limited to compiling the incredible plasti-tacos at the local Taco Bell. Cousin Keith's $11 fajitas had enough steak to make approxiamtely one steak-on-a-stick at the local Chinese take-out place, my mum's tacos came in a clearly pre-made shell, and the cook found a way to fuck up beans and rice, which, really, seemed impossible to me before I moved to New York, but is no longer much of a shock. Still, at least they had flour tortilla chips. And the flour tortillas themselves weren't bad, and they were mercifully stingy with the canned enchilada sauce on my entree, so the cheese absorbed most of the taste. Really, though, why do people who have obviously never tasted real mexican food in their lives insist on opening bad mexican restaurants? If these people ever went to Arizona and had some of the mexican food there, they would weep with shame at what the crimes they have committed, bastardizing my people's food XD Seriously, even the smallest, hole-in-the-wall, shit restaurant in Arizona has to-die-for mexican food (actually, they usually have the best, since the hole-in-the-walls are usually run by actual mexican families...) and they have to, because if they don't, they'll get run out of businss. But really, even in Texas, home of the tex-mex, we found decent mexican food. In freakin' HAWAII, we found decent mexican food. It's just a good New York restaurant that seems to elude us.
I'm sorry, shitty mexican food inspires a rant. It comes from having Arizona as a home state and being raised on the stuff, I swear.
Anyway, after dinner, we came back home, had cake, and watched the Ghost Stories DVD we rented from Netflix (which had one episode we hadn't seen *sigh*), and then...well, that's sort of it. I was craving a Miyazaki earlier in the afternoon, but it was too late for Spirited Away when we finished Ghost Stories *is a boring person* I would have liked to spend a few hours at Borders, curled up with a stack of manga, but mum worked, so that was impossible. On the up side, I *was* allowed one extra gift of purchasing the complete Wish manga set from Shaza, and my CDs (except for the Noir, which are on backorder and will take 1-2 weeks >_<) will be here in a few days. My PS2, too, apparently. So YAY!
Anyway, I've got schoolwork to do tonight, but I just had to take a little time to rant about the total lackluster quality of northern mexican food *tears* Oh, but it was kinda nice to hop on to the computer and see a sweet thread at TAFL wishing me a happy birthday. <3
Oh, yeah, and one more thing - is anyone else freakishly addicted to TommyHeavenly6 music? Anyone? It's weird, 'cause I swear, her songs are as POP as you can get, but there's something oddly addicting about them. Her music is a huge guilty pleasure for me. Demented cheerleader music! The PV for Lonely in Gorgeous (which was an amazingly appropriate OP for ParaKiss, btw, and maybe the only good part of the show >>") got me hooked, but then there was I Fell in Love With You, J'taime J'taime, and the accoustic version of Gothic Pink *love* Anyway. Yes...that's all.
*runs off to do homework*