Birthday Day

Well, yesterday, October 13th, was my 17th birthday... I don't really feel much different!

For my birthday, I got another book in a series I've been reading for the past couple of years. It's taken awhile for all the books to come out. I'm looking forward to reading it soon --- I love the feeling of reading a brand new book! I also got this really beautiful handmade, hand-crocheted purse! That was my favorite present.

I went out to brunch with mom, which was yummy. It was at Mimi's, a really cute restauraunt that's great for breakfast/lunch/brunch. I left restauraunt mispelled (in case you notice) because, even though I'm a spelling bee champ, never for the life of me, no matter how many times I correct myself, can I spell restauraunt correctly. Just a bit of trivia about me, haha. 

My birthday " brunch" was supposed to be breakfast, but I ended up sleeping in, so we arrived considerably later than breakfast-time. But it was fun nonetheless! I had a really good quiche and a coffee cake muffin. It kept me so full, that that was all I ate all day.

From there, I had to run errands, which included visiting my old school/church to get papers signed for Wesleyan scholarships. It was so amazing to see all my old friends, who I went to preschool with, now in 12th grade, soon to be high school graduates! It's so weird to know we've lived all of that time out, knowing each other through our entire grade-school careers. I hadn't seen any of them in at least 11 years, so it was truly a 'blast from the past'.

A picture of me on my seventeenth birthday, 10/13/2010.

I then had to go to work. I chose to work on my birthday, but I made money, which I was happy about. I'm saving up as much as I can when I leave for college, so every little bit counts. I saw firedancers and talked to lots of interesting people. The catering job I did was on a beautiful lake and was a luau. It was a really neat experience. 

On the way back home, I got lost on I-4, accidentally going South towards Miami instead of going North towards Ocala. Of COURSE there were no exits anywhere in sight... it was about 12am and I was low on gas, and I had to drive a long ways before I could get off and get turned around in the right direction! But thankfully, I made it home safe, just in time to see the end of my birthday out and fall asleep before classes the next morning. I got an orchid from my job there, it's really pretty and I put in in my new fishes' tank. I think he likes it; it looks very nice in there, and Kobe, my cute red betta fish, likes to go over and stare at it quite frequently.

Well, that was my birthday! My party is next week and I am looking forward to it. Maybe by then, I'll feel a bit more like 17. For now, well, I really just feel like me.