A 21st Birthday for Me
So two and a half hours ago, it was my 21st birthday. Well, I should start with my party on Sunday. The family came over as usual, and I opened presents. Important things I got are Dreamweaver (expensive website design program) and the CD Green Day - International Superhits. We had two cakes: my brother's was chocolate mashed potato and mine with banana with really runny frosting. It took me my usual four tries to blow out the candles, which is equal to the number of tries it took me last year. Maybe that's why my birthday wishes never come true! I had to leave the party for work at 6:00 because I couldn't get the day off, but I actually didn't mind as much as I thought I was going to.
Okay, so now we come to my real birthday! It started out with a drive to school. As usual on Tuesdays and Thursdays I went to lunch with Rob. Wendy's. Rob, Renee, and Jack had gotten me a card for my birthday. Rob and Renee worked on their networking program while I was there. Jack and I worked on a prototype for our Senior Design project, but we weren't really able to figure out ASP enough to build one. After that, I went home instead of going to Rob and Renee's networking class with them as I usually do. I'd intended to do homework, but that just didn't happen. Too much AIM... Maybe I'll just turn off AIM forever. I can't seem to finish any work this semester and now it's all piling up. I can hardly even write this with so many people IM'ing me.
Anyhow, my parents came home and we went to The Great Baraboo for dinner. I had a drink that had orange juice with some sort of alcohol in it that my parents bought me. Also, I had chicken noodle soup and their cheese sticks. There were five cheese sticks. I was full after three... They must have been 1000 calories each or something. But I eventually managed to shove the last two down my throat, though I felt I might throw them back up at any minute. The orange juice and alcohol didn't taste great, and that's about all there was to it.
So I went home, peed, then drove to Kim's house while singing to Green Day - International Superhits. She had told me to come over for birthday drinking. I got there and found that she had made me a cake and bought me a shot glass! Matt met us there, and he had also baked me a cake! How thoughtful! Rob said he might show up but ended up staying home. Anyhow, at Kim's I ate some of both of the cakes even though I was so full from the cheese sticks that I thought it would kill me to eat them. My stomach was upset a little after that, but that vanished amazingly quickly. I also drank orange juice and peach schnapps then some coke and vanilla-something drink.
We decided we needed to do something, so after a lot of sitting around (and talking to Kim's aunt who showed up at one point), we went to a bar where it was karaoke night. There were a lot of people really good at singing there. Matt went up and sang "I Touch Myself" which the best performance of the night. He and Kim later sang me "Happy Birthday" and pointed me out in the crowd. Matt also sang one or two others songs. Matt and Kim both wanted me to go sing, but I'm not a great singer and I am far too introverted. Thinking about it right now, I say to myself, "Yeah, I'd do karaoke. Who cares if I make a fool of myself, really?" But when it came down to actually doing it, I was far too afraid. It's an unreasonable fear that I can't explain. I believe being shy makes me far less fun to hang around with. I really hoped drinking would loosen me up, but that night I felt nothing. At the bar, I had some drink with Red Bull and raspberry-alcohol, a Hairy Navel, and a Sex on the Beach (I should get more of these). Still, I don't think I felt any alcoholic effects. In the end, I agreed to sing a song if both Matt and Kim joined me. We chose "Love Shack" and I think I was just about as bad as I could have possibly imagined. I didn't even know the words or the beat. After that I was unhappy for maybe five minutes, then it was in the past and I didn't really care about the song. This proves that I had no legitimate reason to be afraid of singing, but, I'll bet I'd refuse to do it in that situation again. How strange shyness can be...
I felt kind of bad that Matt and Kim had been paying for drinks, yet I didn't even feel any effects of being drunk. But I don't really know what to do about that... I still can't believe Matt baked a cake and came all the way to Kim's house just for this. They really made this a fun day. Thinking on this, it seems to me that they are the kind of people I wish I were, but I always seem to be far too lazy or occupied or cheap or indecisive to do something nice for other people. I will change that if I can.
All-in-all, my birthday went over really well. Though I consumed more calories than I thought possible. This morning I weighed 141 pounds. Now I weigh 144! And Mark is taking me to drink tomorrow! I must eat as little as possible...
Okay, so now we come to my real birthday! It started out with a drive to school. As usual on Tuesdays and Thursdays I went to lunch with Rob. Wendy's. Rob, Renee, and Jack had gotten me a card for my birthday. Rob and Renee worked on their networking program while I was there. Jack and I worked on a prototype for our Senior Design project, but we weren't really able to figure out ASP enough to build one. After that, I went home instead of going to Rob and Renee's networking class with them as I usually do. I'd intended to do homework, but that just didn't happen. Too much AIM... Maybe I'll just turn off AIM forever. I can't seem to finish any work this semester and now it's all piling up. I can hardly even write this with so many people IM'ing me.
Anyhow, my parents came home and we went to The Great Baraboo for dinner. I had a drink that had orange juice with some sort of alcohol in it that my parents bought me. Also, I had chicken noodle soup and their cheese sticks. There were five cheese sticks. I was full after three... They must have been 1000 calories each or something. But I eventually managed to shove the last two down my throat, though I felt I might throw them back up at any minute. The orange juice and alcohol didn't taste great, and that's about all there was to it.
So I went home, peed, then drove to Kim's house while singing to Green Day - International Superhits. She had told me to come over for birthday drinking. I got there and found that she had made me a cake and bought me a shot glass! Matt met us there, and he had also baked me a cake! How thoughtful! Rob said he might show up but ended up staying home. Anyhow, at Kim's I ate some of both of the cakes even though I was so full from the cheese sticks that I thought it would kill me to eat them. My stomach was upset a little after that, but that vanished amazingly quickly. I also drank orange juice and peach schnapps then some coke and vanilla-something drink.
We decided we needed to do something, so after a lot of sitting around (and talking to Kim's aunt who showed up at one point), we went to a bar where it was karaoke night. There were a lot of people really good at singing there. Matt went up and sang "I Touch Myself" which the best performance of the night. He and Kim later sang me "Happy Birthday" and pointed me out in the crowd. Matt also sang one or two others songs. Matt and Kim both wanted me to go sing, but I'm not a great singer and I am far too introverted. Thinking about it right now, I say to myself, "Yeah, I'd do karaoke. Who cares if I make a fool of myself, really?" But when it came down to actually doing it, I was far too afraid. It's an unreasonable fear that I can't explain. I believe being shy makes me far less fun to hang around with. I really hoped drinking would loosen me up, but that night I felt nothing. At the bar, I had some drink with Red Bull and raspberry-alcohol, a Hairy Navel, and a Sex on the Beach (I should get more of these). Still, I don't think I felt any alcoholic effects. In the end, I agreed to sing a song if both Matt and Kim joined me. We chose "Love Shack" and I think I was just about as bad as I could have possibly imagined. I didn't even know the words or the beat. After that I was unhappy for maybe five minutes, then it was in the past and I didn't really care about the song. This proves that I had no legitimate reason to be afraid of singing, but, I'll bet I'd refuse to do it in that situation again. How strange shyness can be...
I felt kind of bad that Matt and Kim had been paying for drinks, yet I didn't even feel any effects of being drunk. But I don't really know what to do about that... I still can't believe Matt baked a cake and came all the way to Kim's house just for this. They really made this a fun day. Thinking on this, it seems to me that they are the kind of people I wish I were, but I always seem to be far too lazy or occupied or cheap or indecisive to do something nice for other people. I will change that if I can.
All-in-all, my birthday went over really well. Though I consumed more calories than I thought possible. This morning I weighed 141 pounds. Now I weigh 144! And Mark is taking me to drink tomorrow! I must eat as little as possible...