13 posts tagged “birthday”
So much has happened in the last four days, I'm still trying to take it all in. I've been getting everything I want, in small degrees, I just felt like I've been sacrificing so much to get it.
With the the close of my first semester of college on the horizon, I've honestly never felt so accepted, so real to so many people. Despite all the whining of losing what I've had, I've gained so much more. I've completely reevaluated myself in the last four days, I think the events are finally catching up to me and I am finally happy where things are at.
On that note, it is possible that I'll be moving to Raleigh sometime soon. Dad may be getting an extremely well-paying job, and he'd be living in Raleigh and coming home only on the weekends. If we move, it will be the last sacrifice we'll have to make. We'll have a bigger house, and more comfort money. We're so ridiculously tight on money right now with dad being unemployed. I'd be going to NC State and seeing friends who I still mean something to, and I could get that graphic design major there in a four-year setting. It's lined up so perfect, I'm just scared of leaving behind everything that I've worked for this semester and whatever happens next semester.
I guess we'll see.
I'm going to try to get as much stuff down as possible here.
This is for Aleia:
So, I met this girl who is pretty crazy. She keeps flirting with me and coming on to me all the time, and I'm one of those people who take what they can get when they can get it. What I ended up with is a really clingy friend. I blocked her on AIM already because she's so annoying. She's okay in person, but I can't take "Hey, how are you? Why aren't you responding even though you are away?" going on all the time. Get a life.
Okay. Party. I didn't take any pictures for myself, Nikita did. Nikita's hanging out with a friend or something today, so I don't have pictures yet. Here's the blow-by-blow:
Cecile and Joe got me one of those electronic parrots that repeat stuff you say back to you. I know you know what I'm talking about. This one is cool though because it's in pirate get-up. Nikita got me Vol. 1 of D.Gray-Man, a manga. It's pretty sweet.
Roger gave me a "box of dreams" which could be translated into "box of Roger's shit" which included Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, Pokemon cards, instruction manuals to games I don't have, baby pictures of Roger that he wasn't aware were in the box, an epic birthday card, and 20bux. More on the box later.
Will ended up never showing up, so the "crew" didn't happen. Hannah drove a bunch of people including Nikita and Daniel here, and the cuddling began, haha. I got real close with Hannah by the end of the night.
Brian from a local metal band, Icarus, called up, saying their show got canceled and they wanted to play at my party. They showed up first and brought their PA system. The Sibling Project came, then the Wolverines. The Wolverines came in as Roger and some others found the $20 in the box of dreams and they started celebrating loudly and the Wolvies were pretty weirded out, I think because they thought the kids were celebrating because of their arrival.
The Sibling Project put on a really cool show, everyone danced. Stephanie's mom apparently owns a recording studio and so she got the Sib's contact info and she wants to get the signed, that's pretty freakin' cool. The Wolverines came on and played an amazing set, I think they actually practiced before coming, which I'm not used to! haha
We went outside and made prank phonecalls to some of the people who couldn't make it to the party. Joe tried to eat a Yu-Gi-Oh card that was a cheeseburger fusion monster, I think it was literally called Angry Burger or something to that effect. he spat it out. I told him he should finish the job, but Roger beat him to it, he ripped the card into pieces and swallowed each piece. It was agonizing to watch. Then Iracus played and it was fucking loud. We were all too tired and unfamiliar with the band to really get into it, but it was cool, man.
When we were making the prank calls, Roger and DeShawn were apparently writing a song, they came on after Icarus with the microphone and sang the following:
I saw you walking down
the street the other day.
And I swear to God, you were
the one who turned me gay.
I masturbated by myself the other night,
but unless my hand is your bum,
it doesn't feel quite right.
There's more, but I think you get the idea. It was interesting.
Joe got a chair and his busted-ass acoustic guitar with a missing G-string and sang about earthworms then left with Cecile.
I brought my guitar down to jam with Jordan, the drummer I talked about in an earlier post, but we got a few licks in before everyone disappeared.
I woke up feeling awful today, but started feeling better eventually. Tomorrow, Allii is modeling for me on the top of a parking deck so I can draw her with the Greensboro cityscape behind her for an art project. Tuesday is my actual birthday, and I will be spending it by seeing V for Vendetta and discussing it at UNCG for UNS cred. The BRAINZ zombiewalk is Saturday, and I'm looking into hanging out with Hannah either Friday or Sunday.
So I'm having a pretty fucking cool life right now.
Okay, so, Cecile invited me to her birthday party quite last-minute. If you don't remember her from previous pictures, she's the girl in the middle of that second picture there. A lot of really cool people came and I wasn't disappointed in it at all. :D
So, picture number one is Joe drinking a soda in a very epic manner.
Picture two is a spur-of-the-moment group photo of Thomas, Cecile, and Ben.
Picture three is me looking like a deer in headlights. Note the gigantic bags under my eyes. In the past three days I've probably slept 6 hours. I guess insomnia is really coming back again.
Picture 4 is a random Furby on Cecile's bookshelf. Sleeping, of course.
5: Joe with stylin' new hair after getting Oreo gunk in it. XD
6. A pretty good group shot that no one was really aware of.
7. Well, Sean is gay.
8. Awkward pile-up on the sofa.
9. Sean rockin' out on Guitar Hero II.
10. And then the nudity began.
11. I had to stop it. XD Look at that shit. I did that.
12. I started a pink belly tangent.
So, aside from the pink belly fights and nudity, and guitar hero, there was a regular guitar, balloons full of helium, pizza, soda, chips, tag, hide and seek, trampoline, and a bunch of other fun things. It was a very varied party and it's another one of those things
that I wish could happen like every week. I miss the days like this last year when I had all these people over all the time. Now I just don't have the time or energy.
Video as soon as You Tube isn't a bitch.
Thanksgiving break sucked. Except for Saturday. And half of Sunday. That giant moment was quite possibly the most meaningful moment of my life.
Highlights of the party:
Setting up the X360 to play downstairs was a pain in the ass. Will saw the whole thing. It took me and my dad half an hour to figure out how to get the video through the TV, but the audio to come out of the home theater system. Once it worked, it was amazing.
Will was the only person who came on time. I think everyone else was at least 30-45 minutes late.
Joe stole the party. Will also kind of did.
There was a group of us that bonded extremely well and were constantly crazy, then there were a short few who were extremely quiet throughout most of the party.
I thought everyone would be bored within two hours of my party starting, technically, it lasted until noon, Sunday. No one was really bored at all, but there were moments where we stood around talking about what I had planned next. I had nothing planned. I figured that with 17 people in the room, the party would run itself.
It did.
We played games for a few hours. We ate. Will, Brad, and Joe traded off stories in front of my camera. We watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail (it was a vote). We thought about what we were doing next. We looked at theaters to see if there were any movies we went to see. We decided to go to Blockbuster. We didn't rent anything, but ended up discussing where all of us would branch off and get movies from. They brought Eurotrip, Sin City, Just Friends, Ong Bak, and several other movies over. We watched Eurotrip. People started leaving. Will and Joel stayed for the night and left around noon.
There was a 10+ person pileup on the couch that started as a Rachel sandwich.
Dad put a candle in my cake and then Will said "Wait! I think I have candles in my car!" He ran out and came back with a '1' and an '8' candle and put them in the cake. He didn't even know why he had them. What the hell.
Brad gave me a Playboy magazine as a gag gift. Michaela had to leave at like 5:30 to go on a date with Nick. Nick lives right down the street from me. The plan was either to have Michaela give the magazine to Nick (she was completely willing) or that one of us stick the magazine on his windshield. We ended up doing neither, as when we got to the house, we all thought that the other person grabbed it and it was still at my house. XD So basically, Michaela rang the doorbell and the handful of us that came with all shouted obscenities at him from his driveway and bolted home. It was liberating.
Me and Joe pretended to be gay lovers for the whole night. Right in front of his girlfriend, Cecile'.
My parents learned that Will can rap.
Will, Joel, and I all stayed up very late to fill in the gaps with stories. The three of us haven't been able to talk at length since forever ago.
That's about it.
In my pictures, I uploaded a few senior pictures (I picked my four favorites, they all look awful to me). There's also a draft of a picture I'm working on in oil pastel.I am never using this brand of pastel again. They're so hard to work with and I got a blister from trying to make them cooperate.
Some random tangents:
Birthday day sucked. My mom nagged at me all day and then I was about to explode at her and she finally realizes that she's been bitchy all day and tried to leave me alone. That lasted about until we got home from dinner. Yeah.
Today was kind of cool, I skipped about two hours to take senior pictures and grab some Starbucks and Wendy's before coming back. Ms. Evans obviously doesn't read her notes. Nikita got me Death Note #3 for my birthday, covered in wrapping like our first house was covered in wallpaper when we first bought it. Nikita rules. Death Note rules. I need more of both in my life. :D
While I'm on the subject of friends, I have two things to say. I'm in one of those moods.
I really miss what I had when Brad and Shane were here. I feel completely empty without them. I miss hanging out with everyone. Elisa's always busy. Will either has plans or I can't get in contact with him half the time. Matt isn't capable of spontaeneous visits and we don't really do anything anyway.
I'm out of friends.
The friends I do have walk around just ready to self destruct. There is so much drama between all of them that I am not a part of. I don't know what to say to these people so I just keep quiet. Since when did our little alcove in the mornings turn into the makeout corner? That's where all the goth kids and drama nerds were and now they're all dating eachother. Urrrgh! There's like 50 people crammed into a few feet of space having basically an orgy and then there's Rachel, Kit, and whoever else decides to hang around them looking angry facing the other direction.
I just give up on caring about people who don't give a shit about me. The one true friend that I've made this year is Nikita, basically. Bea and I were close for some time but with all the bullshit that's going on in her life, I just can't bring myself to talk to her often anymore. It's not a pleasant experience.
While I'm here, there's this group of brothers at my school. There's one that's a senior, and then I think there's three or four in every other grade. I'm not fucking kidding. Brown hair, bowl cut, Gilligan hats, circular glasses. It's a fucking invasion and they're so goddamn annoying. They don't talk at all but just appear from behind someone and listen in on conversations and interject whenever they have a random thought that they absolutely have to make clear. These thoughts include:
"I know how to escape from a bear trap. My brother was trapped in one and I pried it open and almost cut one of my fingers off."
"Have you seen that show? Oh... nevermind, I thought you were talking about that show..."
"Why do you think I'm so creepy? Is it because I'm extremely weird?"
"My uncle has a funny scar and he doesn't remember where it came from."
No kidding. Out of nowhere. The conversations weren't about bear traps, TV shows, scars, nothing. It's a fucking invasion of really creepy nerdy kids.
So aside from all that bullshit, I simply cannot wait until my party in about two weeks. Seeing everyone again will finally bring closure to this part of my life. It will fill this hole I'm in. I'm actually extremely worried that I've invited too many people. I've kept it so open, lol.
So yeah, really random entry about what's happening right now.
I haven't posted in like a week. I needed a break from the internet, mostly. I've been doing a lot of painting in the past week, moreso than even usual, and I just haven't had enough material to fill a post with or not enough time to write one.
My 18th birthday is in six days. I'm pretty sure I'm getting an Xbox 360. Dad's made no mention of games yet, which is weird, I hope he doesn't just pick out a random crappy one without asking me. I'm also going to see if I can just get the router moved into my room to make online play easier, it'd also hopefully keep me from disconnecting for entire days whenever my router's being fickle.
Why aren't I getting the Wii? It's kind of simple, really. Every time I read something about the Wii, I just read about how little of an improvement it is over the current market, how well or not the controller is implemented, prices of Virtual Console games, etc. Everything I hear about it makes me want to get it less and less. Meanwhile, I have several friends, in person or not who play their 360's online, the system has the big improvements over last generation systems, it has a huge online market but nothing is insanely expensive, and it's already doing very solid.
I bought Final Fantasy XII a few days ago, I still owe dad about half of the money for it. It's a glorious game! :D I finally got the in-game money situation covered, so I'm beginning to have a really good team going. I'm at the tomb where you get the Dawn Shard, right now. I'm going to be playing it until my parents come home with new paintbrushes. XD
And my party is going to be the 25th, the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Brad's going to be able to make it. :D
And I think that's all for now.
So, it became time to go over to the bowling alley for the party. Vanessa (tan skin, longer hair than Cecile, who is the other tannish girl) was already there. Cecile came in at like 1:07 expecting to be late. Michaela's mother and uncle came, and said that Michaela and Nick would be running late. David, Vanessa's boyfriend, blue shirt, arrives. Eron arrives (black guy). Then we all just start waiting for Micha and Nick to arrive and they finally do around 2pm. What the hell?
So yeah, you should know what Michaela should look like. I only got one picture of Nick. I basically didn't talk to him unless he talked to me first, so it'd be awkward for me to take bunches of pictures of him. He's wearing the black Foamy shirt.
Speaking of, apparently, I took my black collared shirt off and then put in on backwards later. Like, the collar ends were at my back. GRRR.
So, they did the cake thing at the alley, it had a picture of two fencers on it, and a bunch of Triforces on it, haha! Also, the family thought well to include trick candles! HAHAHA!!!
So, after that, Cecile had to leave, so we quickly took some group pictures for me. I figured this would be a good way to get more pictures of Nick, but he was totally like "I'LL TAKE THE PICTURE."
After that, we went to Putt-Putt and I basically played DDR with Michaela for two hours until everyone eventually had to go. I was picked up at around 5:45.
I get home, eat pizza, check MySpace, and see that Rachel was really bored. I invite her over, we have a lot of fun playing games and also playing with my cats. We had a blast, and I now totally consider her a bestfriend. :D That's her in the last picture.
&&&& I look really good in that picture with Vanessa near the bottom. :D
Did I post yesterday? I don't think I did. I don't know. This week's been such a blur of emotion and business.
Tomorrow is Michaela's party. She's come upon a bad spot in her life, apparently, and that fucking sucks. I left her a nice comment in her LJ, but she won't be able to read it until Monday. I just hope that I can get Nick away from her long enough to talk to her in private. I haven't given her the "I hate Nick" talk yet, unlike Rachel, Shane, and everyone else, haha. I really just want to play things cool and just not talk to Nick very much without being a total asshole. Also, I'm going to try my best to look respectable and impressive. I'm pulling out all the stops as far as clothing is concerned. I mean, he hasn't really seen me much in two years. I've practically lost 1/3 of myself in weight since then. Maybe he won't recoginse me, then I can be an asshole. Who knows? Haha.
Sunday, I'm hanging out with Cecile and her boyfriend Joe at Joe's house and we're making Halloween costumes. We settled on zombie punk outfits between me and Joe. Cec will hopefully do it too, she's already working on getting her hair to mohawk. It'll be great. Also, I think we're doing a zombie theme at my house this Halloween, so I plan on having Cec and Joe over to help out, since dad won't be there. It'll be GREAT! I haven't persoanlly done anything special for Halloween in a while, so I'm excited.
As far as artwork goes, my air pollution picture is finished aside from a few touch-ups. I've decided on a water pollution theme for the next one. I know I'll have to significantly change my older more fantasy-oriented ideas now, as I have a much more realistic theme going on. Those creatures we unsatisfactory to me and they're not as powerful images to use in place of real things. There's enough fucked up things happening to the environment to where I shouldn't have to do that. So yeah. That's like two weeks of hard work in the trash, maybe I can manage some good breadth pieces out of them later on. So far I have some awesome breadth ideas. There's one that I sketched out where a kid at a museum is climbing into one of the paintings, it's full of nude nymphs posing "artfully seductive... or is that seductively artful?" and he wants to party with them, haha. Mrs. Coggins loves the idea and it's something she's never seen from anyone before. I also showed her a sketch of a much more serious image that I don't really want to reveal anything about. It's something very deep in my soul that I wish I could forget, but I wanted to do it justice in a piece of art. It's also inspired a little off of an image that the vocalist of Prayer For Cleansing did when he was in high school. I wanted to use the scissors idea. :p
So yeah, that's your update.
Two things. Two very simple things.
Michaela's party just might be delayed again! XD At this point she might as well just not have it. I would throw her a party, but Nick couldn't come. Mom would throw him a party right out of a second story window.
I made a new friend. Her name is Nikita. She's a freshman. She's a Caucasian Asian. We chatted on AIM pretty much all day.
Third thing, because I can, mothafucka'. I'm going to put in some hours tonight on trying to beat this fucking RTS mode in Soul Calibur III, I hate it that much. This is like the best fighting game I own and it has one of the worst game modes EVER, lol. I just hope there's something decent waiting at the end of it for me, lol.
And my birthday party is looking to be November 23rd. Yeah.
EDIT: Another great one. I just got umm, well... Yeah. The person I like is dating someone else now. Fuck.
Happy birthday, Will! :D
I was and still am sick, although I've definitely been feeling a bit better as of recent.
Matt, if you're still up to it, I'd enjoy seeing a movie with you tomorrow. Unless I suddenly worsen.
Unless I'm fever-stricken, I need to go to the open studio thing tomorrow from 1-4pm to finish my painting. I'm also going to sneak a camera in and take pictures of the two (hopefully) completed images.
So basically, I really hope I'm feeling better tomorrow.
