and everything starts today

"...that cake eater...smells like flour..."

Yesterday was my birthday! So, as I was not looking forward to having so good of a day, I am kind of surprised at the day I ended up having. My first happy birthday actually came the night before when I was talking to Diego on the phone. I had to tell him that I couldn't go to his soccer game on Saturday morning because my Grandma was coming up from Florida for the weekend.

Anyway, I got up a little early so I could maybe make it to school on time. I got happy birthdays from my friends and then went to English. English sucked because we had to read this boring stuff about Walt Whitman that almost put me to sleep. We convinced our Reading teacher that since today was my birthday, and I had to take a test on a book, we should get a freeday the next day. (So we played catch-phrase today instead of reading all hour.) I got backed up by Miss Milner on any insults and criticisms I threw at Mark and Colton because it was my birthday, they should be able to stand being nice to me for one day. The little stuff they did say was actually pretty funny. Band, as always, was too long, but I got candy from Mrs. Pfaff, so it was cool. We also convinced our math teacher to take us outside during fifth hour. Sixth (US History), we had another freeday. I was really worried about Spanish because we were supposed to have a two-minute immersion where we stood up in a clase and had to make small talk with a partner for two-minutes. I know, sounds pathetic, but it is really had to think of questions to ask for two minutes! But we actually didn't have time to do that so Spanish was relatively easy. It was really storming when I was supposed to walk over the middle school to help Mrs. Klocke. So I rode the bus over. The Fifth grade class threw me a surprise party! I got all these cards and signs telling me happy birthday! And just my luck--both track and play practices were canceled. I think I got more happy birthdays from the middle schoolers than from my friends at the high school.

Anyway, I went to Amber and Dana's house after school to make cookies. Sure, I got the whole Ethan staring at me and being mad at me, but I was pretty much able to ignore it. So I called my prom date in Concordia and talked to him for a while for the first time. He was at the birthday party Justin and I had on Sunday and amazingly enough, remembered that today was my birthday. That was cool. Then Dana and I were making snickerdoodles while Amber was talking with Hattie. Ethan decided to call Amber, and I was forced to talk to him. He's mad at me for something stupid, but I don't really care because I have a lot more right to be mad at him. He came to Amber's but wouldn't come into the house for a long time. Then he didn't even talk to me so that's his fault. On a lighter note, Ray, Dana's boyfriend, showed up and lightened the mood. Sometime in there, Jason called to say happy birthday and brag about him going to a concert with Diego and Kris in Lawrence.

When I finally got home around 7:30, Mom was cooking a really good dinner--fettucini with chicken in a white wine sauce. Dad had stayed home all day and cooked me an angelfood cake. It was really good. They bought me a showercurtain with Japanese symbols on it. We don't know what to do with it yet because I don't have a need for a showercurtain. It's still cool looking. I had to clean my room and do some English homework but it wasn't too bad.

All in all I had a pretty good birthday with a few problems, but they were easily covered up by all the fun stuff.

posted by Caity @ 8:19 AM