Saturday, April 12, 2003
Today was my pretend 19th birthday. We celebrated because my real birthday is in the summer when no one is around from here to party with me. What did I do? Hmm... okay, so I had a rough calculus quiz this morning. Let's not go there. Class, class, sunny day, blah blah blah.
We left around 5:00. Emily, John, Andy, Lauren, Josh and I.. separated into John's white Blazer and Lauren's cute little red Focus named Angel. The first high point - okay, interesting point, not high point - of the evening was when John's Blazer was the unsuspecting victim of a loose semi wheel. OKAY. That's bad. There is now a rather large dent on the front right side of his hood and his headlight is broken. That was a low point in the evening.
I'm big on points tonight.
Our car went on ahead and went to the mall. Lauren and I wandered around Forever XXI while Andy and Josh went to Johnny Rocket's. We met Em and the boy there, and ate. I split fries with Lauren and it was a good time.
We wandered around Easton. Emily and I tried on matching dresses at the Gap, and Lauren got two cute shirts. We ended up in the Virgin Megastore for a while. I read a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book called
The Night of a Thousand Boyfriends or something like that. This is what my adventure ended up being like:
Some guy didn't call me so I got set up on a blind date with another guy who never showed up. So I made friends with the bartender, but then the original blind date showed up. He was a dork, but a rich dork, and we drank a lot of champagne. The hot bartender was going to help me escape the bad date when all of a sudden the Restaurant Bandits broke in. They took the hot bartender and me as hostages (I took the place of a pregnant woman) and we ended up dying.
It was sort of a tragedy.
Anyway.
So we went to Barnes + Noble. Lauren and I split a piece of white chocolate raspberry cheesecake. It was amazing. We drank water. That was amazing too. I am so tired right now that I don't even know what's coming out of my mouth. We got Josh to read Teen People, while we shared a seventeen and an US. Poor Emily and John Mark were still dealing with the car incident.
The way home was the most amusing part of the night. Sooo.. we ended up taking two hours to get home instead of an hour, and saw most of Columbus, including the airport. I got to drive Angel. It was my pretend birthday and Emily wouldn't sing to me. But Israel did. Emily had an excuse. She dyed her hair red today -- and when I say red, I mean
red. She was still deciding if she liked it or not. I think she's decided to keep it. I hope she does. I like it.
It makes us Charlie's Angels. A brunette, a red head and a blonde. What more could a man want?
I laughed so hard I cried on the way home. We called Josh Reno three times for directions. He was soo good to us. Luckily, Lauren and I only made seventeen navigational errors, which is within the allowed limit. If we had made nineteen, it would have been very bad. We drove through downtown Columbus too, because 670 was closed. Stupid orange signs.
It was a fun night. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. There's nothing like road trips with friends. Even if it is only an hour away.
Thank you to those who made my birthday special. You know who you are. *blows kisses* Night.
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