A Very Happy Un-birthday (To Me, To Me)
Today was my un-birthday. I turned 19 back in April but claimed tonight as my own and the girls and I went out for some great New Jersey pizza. It felt great to order a plain pie and not have to explain that no, I don't want something with cherries, apples or blueberries and could I please just have a cheese pizza. I suppose if I was from a region of a country where something was defined so oddly I would be confused, too, but hey, I'm doing a service by exposing the Southerners to Northern jargon. They just don't know it.
I got some very nice presents even though it wasn't really my birthday (which I suppose shouldn't matter since Meg through me a surprise party last year over Memorial Day Weekend which means I technically celebrated with my N.J. friends a week earlier than I did last year). I received a very pretty bracelet and a pair of earrings from Steph and Jenna respectively and Starbucks cards from Meggie and Peggy. Meggie's card for 100,000 dollars...oh wait, just kidding, she's written 20 dollars underneath the first amount (damn) came with a very nice note that I will definitely be putting away to read again in another five or ten years. Although maybe I shouldn't think ahead so much seeing as how I've proven to be one of the people least receptive to change that I have ever known.
Tonight was also the first night I realized that this summer is not going to be strange at all. Yes, we're all happy at college and we all miss certain aspects of it (in my case, not being asked to shampoo the carpet), but we're still the same group of friends. Nothing has altered for the worse and it is my belief we've all grown closer. We've grown up some, of course, but we're still as close as ever. I am thrilled by this and just can't get over how lucky I am to have two great groups of friends.
Who knows, maybe I can even stop paying some of them for their friendship in the near future?
In other news, my aunt called today to gush to me about how my cousin Clare likes my sister better than me. I didn't know whether to be insulted or to consider putting myself up for adoption so we wouldn't have to be related anymore and then I realized that since I'm a legal adult and can no longer be adopted by anyone I could only be insulted. The thing is...my cousin Clare is kind of a brat. She's cute and all, most four-year-olds are, but she's a spoiled little thing and kind of scares me. The fact that my aunt wants me to kiss her butt kind of disgust me since the kid is already the ruler of her house.
Now I'm off to read a little bit before bed since I realized today that I have about 20 books I want to read this summer but will probably only get through about half of them. If only my father wasn't threatening to send me to the poor house if I don't work this summer, then I could read every book I've ever bought with every intention of reading and put aside only to rediscover years later. Alas.
I got some very nice presents even though it wasn't really my birthday (which I suppose shouldn't matter since Meg through me a surprise party last year over Memorial Day Weekend which means I technically celebrated with my N.J. friends a week earlier than I did last year). I received a very pretty bracelet and a pair of earrings from Steph and Jenna respectively and Starbucks cards from Meggie and Peggy. Meggie's card for 100,000 dollars...oh wait, just kidding, she's written 20 dollars underneath the first amount (damn) came with a very nice note that I will definitely be putting away to read again in another five or ten years. Although maybe I shouldn't think ahead so much seeing as how I've proven to be one of the people least receptive to change that I have ever known.
Tonight was also the first night I realized that this summer is not going to be strange at all. Yes, we're all happy at college and we all miss certain aspects of it (in my case, not being asked to shampoo the carpet), but we're still the same group of friends. Nothing has altered for the worse and it is my belief we've all grown closer. We've grown up some, of course, but we're still as close as ever. I am thrilled by this and just can't get over how lucky I am to have two great groups of friends.
Who knows, maybe I can even stop paying some of them for their friendship in the near future?
In other news, my aunt called today to gush to me about how my cousin Clare likes my sister better than me. I didn't know whether to be insulted or to consider putting myself up for adoption so we wouldn't have to be related anymore and then I realized that since I'm a legal adult and can no longer be adopted by anyone I could only be insulted. The thing is...my cousin Clare is kind of a brat. She's cute and all, most four-year-olds are, but she's a spoiled little thing and kind of scares me. The fact that my aunt wants me to kiss her butt kind of disgust me since the kid is already the ruler of her house.
Now I'm off to read a little bit before bed since I realized today that I have about 20 books I want to read this summer but will probably only get through about half of them. If only my father wasn't threatening to send me to the poor house if I don't work this summer, then I could read every book I've ever bought with every intention of reading and put aside only to rediscover years later. Alas.