Birthday Bash: 21 Style!

Date: December, 6th, 2008

So my birthday was this month, it's just that I've been so busy that I really haven't had the time to blog about it yet.

But so the night before I spent the night at a dinner to raise money for the Anasazi Foundation. I didn't get home tell about 11:30 at night. So safe to say that I was rather tired. I had to sleep out in the front room because my family was in town and my room was being used. My family all stayed up and talked and I was crabby. They stayed up tell after midnight. So technically it was my birthday. And I snapped at them all to shut up so that I could go to sleep. My family being the hams they are, all came over and sang happy birthday to me in the middle of the night. But because I was tired, I wasn't ammused. Looking back I realize how funny it was.

So I woke up and had a fairly nice day. I didn't have to do anything but relax and sit around. My family made jokes about really being considered an adult now. And told me not to get sloshed. I went shopping with my mom and got a new comforter set for my birthday. We had pizza for dinner.

But that night I went to a concert that the Anasazi Foundation was holding to raise money like the dinner before. First of all the Anasazi Foundation is a wilderness program used to help families with trouble teens and young adults. For more information go to Anasazi.org.

So but the concert was so much fun. That was technically my first concert and it was Gin Blossoms. So much fun, I jumped, I yelled, I sang along. I ran into three friends who I haven't seen since High School. It was great.

I didn't get home tell about three or three thirty.

But when I got home we had cheesecake and ice cream. And then I climbed into bed happy. A few days later my sister and brother in law got me a six pack of cream soda. Hardy har har, they think they are so funny. But it was really cool.

Now I have a cousin who had a birthday twenty days after mine and I called her to wish her a happy birthday. I asked her if she felt any different now that she was twenty one. She told me no.

Now I did and do fill different. Maybe it has something to do that I have several brothers and sisters who helped make it a big deal so I feel different. She's the oldest in her family.

But after my birthday I felt different. I feel more determined to get things together like getting my GED, getting a job and doing something that I wanted to do like travel. Help out more around the house, and I feel older and more responsible. Somehow my goals feel more important, and I want to get them achieved.

It is a really powerful feeling now with the new year coming on. Everything just feels good and right. Everything is right were it needs to be right now.