Friday. July 24, 2009.
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You know how every year on your birthday your aunties and grandma always ask you the same question.. “Do you feel any older?!” and you always reply, “No, not really,” with a fake ass smile. I never really thought I’d change my answer to that annoying question that seems to be the only thing people wanna know on your birthday. Getting to the point, i really do feel older but i have no idea why. This has been such a fast pace epic summer for me that I’d say its nearly impossible to pinpoint the exact point in which i “grew up”.
In one month, i graduated highschool, turned 18, got my driver’s license, got my first tattoo, went to the club for the first time, got layed off from my first job and drum roll pleeease.. moved out of my house into my own apartment. Between all of these there’s just so much going on there hasn’t really been any downtime to soak it all in and enjoy it.. until now. I’m sitting here in my apartment, alone, on my recycled futon couch, bare feet on my recycled coffee table, going back and forth between Maury and the Tyra show, while listening to my played out myspace playlist that has obviously been neglected due to all this shit going on. You might think that I’d have MORE time on my hands based on the fact that the damn party warehouse let me go since my availability is shit..And now i’m thinking that too. haha i dont know why it is that i’m still so busy, I guess between moving and stuff? haha well whatever. Things are settling down now, and I’m completely BORED!
I don’t think it will really sink in that I’ve graduated until the “back to school” season has officially kicked off and I don’t drag my ass back to Westmoor. I mean I know I graduated, I’m not retarded, I was there, just soorrrt of hard to believe. Anyone get me? Arrrrrighhht, didn’t think so. Whatever! haha kinnnnda weird thinking about the people that I’m gonna lose touch with now that I’m not forced to see them everyday. Someone told me you lose with 90% of your graduating class.. I really hope that is a completely bullshitted statistic cause 90% is a whole fuckin lot! I mean no doubt I’m gonna stay close with my girls, like the close ass ones. We’ve graduated and we still have our night hypes and sleepovers, but what about those people that you never really make the effort to have plans with but you still enjoy seeing them? What happens to them? =( God! it’s so weird! There are HELLA people that I haven’t seen since graduation. And some of those people, I would’ve thought I’d see on a daily the summer after senior year. Guess I was wrong, just goes to show you that things really aren’t what they seem!
Turning 18, man. What a fucking DAY that was. June 18, by far THEEE most epic day of my life! My golden birthday! 18 on the 18th(= The day before I got my hair highlighted/lowlighted by Julz! Thankkk you(= Never had my hair dyed before so that was a nice change. 12 am, heelllla greeets. haha great friends i have(= had to get a good nights sleep and come 7:30 am my homeboy Charles Huang (aka my driving instructor) picked me up for my last lesson and driving test. I was really tired, kinda nervous, but mostly just excited. blah blah blah practice the course cause Charles is a G and knows that DMV shit like that back of his crusty hands. Taking my test, the DMV guy tells me to turn right out of the DMV parking lot… WHAT!? Charles and I only practiced the other route! The mission street one! And here I am headed to Westlake. Panicked, but trying to keep my cool, i follow his instructions but I can’t help but be a litttttle pissed at Charles, I BETTER fucking pass, its my fucking BIRTHDAY! (If that thought doesn’t make me sound like a brat idk what does, so i’m really glad i didnt say that outloud.) I wore my hair in a pony tail, that was a tip my older sister gave me, so when I check my blindspot and look both ways, its TOTALLY exaggerated. Thanks Samantha! So fast forward to the end of my test, I feel like he could probably hear my heart beating and theres sweat dripping down my face.. not like hella, but a little.. I was really nervous! I sorta felt like I had to throw up, or take a shit, or SOMETHING. He was making all his markings then turned to me and said, Happy Birthday, you passed! “I DID!?” I guess I sounded surprised cause right after that he said, “you sound surprised!” Not surprised, just happy haha. REALLY HAPPY. I can FINALLY fuckin drive and pretty soon be the one to carpool my friends who have been lugging MY ass around for the past couple years that my slacker ass couldn’t drive. YES!! my birthday was going great so far(: and i only got onnnne thing wrong on my test. Fuckin parallel parking because i bascially SUCK at that, but shit who doesn’t on their driving test!? Haha. One mark down on my driver’s test was not even a complaint at this point. So I’m driving back home, Charles is in shotgun, and I’m telling him about what was going through my mind once I started the other course. He couldn’t stop laughing and kept apologizing for my being scared but told me that there was no doubt in his mind that I wouldn’t pass. Aww! Charles! What a sweetheart! He let me run my first stop sign, what a rush! and before I knew it i was back at my house. I thanked him again and he wished me a happy birthday. That was and probably always will be the last time I saw Charles. I miss that guy! But the one thing i miss more is his accent! It was so funny, and so fucking hard to understand! Honestly, taking instructions from him and operating a 2,000 lb vehicle really did make me feel like a boss because that right there is multi-tasking at its finest! Thanks for making me a good driver Charles!! Holla at ya boy for driving school, i got his number. haha
I go home to get fresh, and to tell my mom all about my test and how I passed with one wrong. =P Ate a little something, changed clothes, and couldn’t get too comfortable cause i had my TATTOO appointment at 12! Yeah, you read that right. I went the day before for my consultation and they said they could do it so I was pretty excited. Licensed and ink’d in just a few hour time frame? I went to Lucky Van’s Tattoos on mission street, Anna came with me, and they remembered her! They got right to it and i rung the “virgin bell” since it was my first tattoo, that was funny. I got “Strength Ambition Faith” written on the inside of my left foot arch. I always thought it would be a cool place to get one, plus the first letters of each word are my sisters’ initials, Samantha, Allison, Frances, So i doubt I’ll regret it, and if i do regret it, thats pretty fucked up to my sisters! HAHAHA. yeah i don’t regret it. anyways, people always ask me if it hurt, since its on the foot, and the truth is. HELL FUCKING YEAH. It really did hurt, but I was actually expecting it to hurt more just because of all the hype that “foot tattoos hurt the worst!” So the excruciating pain was actually pleasantly surprising(= It only took about 20-25 mins, and all the guys in the shop were hella funny and nice. He wrapped my foot up and I was on my way. Legal, licensed and tatted, now venturing up mission street with my bestfriend Anna looking for a burrito joint that, to our surprise, took us quite a while to find. ( on mission street? i know right?!) Find our burrito place, best shit i ever tasted at the moment since i was starving. haha Then my mom picked us up, took us to my house, then we got picked up went to coldstone real quick, then i went to anna and tawny’s house and tawny helped us get ready for the cluuub(=
My 5 on it girls came to my house around 9 and my dad, yeah.. my dad. drove us to GlassKat. haha whaaat? we were scared that if we drove there our cars would get broken into. anyways, lightweight awkward walking out of my room into the living room where my poor dad saw his daughter and her bestfriends in some of the shortest tightest clothes he’d ever seen. haha whatev! It’s my birthday! Thanks dad! & sorry for probably raising your blood pressure! SO he drop us off and is so relieved when he sees all the sluts outside the club and we’re basically UNDERdressed. hahah That was prettty funny. The club was fuuuuun!(= Danced with a lot of guys but dont take down or give out no names and numbers. Nuh uh honey, NOT at the club. This aint match.com, and all the guys in there want the sameeeee thing, and all the girls, well most of em, just wanna have fun (= That club was packed as hellll but it really was a good night, and when birthday sex came on, you already knooow my ass went crazy, cause it was my birthday, duh! haha 2am comes rollin around and the club starts clearin, slow jams start playing, time to get out. Me and my girls walk out the club and theres my fuckin dad, double parked on 4th street like a fuckin boss! haha we hop in and I thank my dad then basically all knock out till we get home, take a shower, chat for a little bit and then my exhausted ass finallly went to sleeeep. My 18th birthday is for sure one that I will always ALWAYS remember(=
So as I mentioned earlier, I got layed off. No big deal, every ending is a new beginning and i guess I can’t expect to be at the party warehouse for life you know? Kinnnda sad how it happened, just because there was some shady shit that went on, but its whatever, I got passed it. She told me to come back when I’m more available, which was completely understandable cause i KNOW I’ve been hella busy. Between graduating, turning 18, Mia’s cotillion, registering for college, family stuff, moving out, I wasnt able to work all my shifts, and although I ALWAYS got Karen to cover them for me, I guess they had had enough. I go in every once in a while to visit, I really miss the people. I picked up my last paycheck last week.
Moooooving out. CRAAAAAAZY! I still can’t believe I realllly have my own place. I was on the waiting list for dorms, which had me totally heartbroken cause i thought i was bound to live with mom and dad forever after that. I guess my parents talked it over and wanted me to have the same opportunities that my sister did so they told me to start looking for apartments. I looked around, and then finally found one that i loved at a reasonable price. The same day my dad and I got to see the apartment, we signed the paperwork. JUST LIKE THAT. The whole month of July I have free rent, which is a plus because there’s no reeal rush to move in hella quick you know? and 2 days later I got the keys! I’ve only stayed here alone for 2 nights, all the other nights I’ve had people sleepoever(= Its so cool how I can have whoever over, whenever I want, and not only do my parents not care, they don’t even have to know. The freedom is reallly great and has been long awaited but at the same time I know my self control has to kick in. I haven’t even thought about throwing a party yet because seriously, with everything my parents are doing for me, I can’t even think about disappointing them like that, which i guess is what they wanted? haha sweet reverse psychology, Dad! haha seriously tho, its just a chill ass spot that I can relax and love being at, and my friends are free to come and go when they please, not to mention its a kick ass bachelorette pad too! (; haha KIDDING! trust me this is a single lady apartment and its gonna stay that way! (=
So that’s bascially my summer, the big stuff at least, in a nut shell. I’m still here on my futon couch, feet on the coffee table, watching horrrrible daytime television, and my freakin upstairs neighbor is playing guitar hero or some loud ass shit, i dont even know, haha whatever! I guess I’ll end it here because this is basically a novel annnnd my laptop is at 19% =[ Weaaaak! k hope you had fun reading about all the great shit going on in my life and I’m sure your great shit is coming, don’t worry(= bye!(:
