Sixteen Candles!

My day started off with arriving at school and having Brian Gaylor tell me happy birthday. I'm pretty sure that's like, the third thing he's ever said to me. Anyway, a few other people told me happy birthday, then my brotha from anotha motha (Patrick--we have the same birthday)


gave me a gift. I felt really bad because I hadn't gotten him anything. He made me a really pretty burnt orange scarf and gave me a keychain that said something like, "A waist is a terrible thing to mind." Whatever THAT means...anyway, he brought cupcakes



and kool-aid.



I brought napkins. Madison brought cups (only four--she forgot about Beki) and we had a little party.

That's Patrick, Beki and Haley.

It was pretty fun. The rest of the school day was allright. I didn't have an incredible amount of work in any of my classes, but I did have a quiz in Chemistry and Microbiology. They were pretty easy, though. In tech, we just hung out and talked. Then, Madison and I came home and ate and I opened my presents. I got the Project Runway MyScene Barbie and Madison got me two Spamalot tickets (once they go on sale)! I gave Mom peppermint lotion, The DaVinci Code on DVD, and a Joey Russo (yes, of Blossom) bookmark.

Andrew came over around 5:15. We ate and the three of us decided which men in People's Sexiest Man Alive issue were actually worthy. Then, at 6:00 (call) I decided to go ahead and get dressed/ready for the play. We got there at 6:20-ish and hung out backstage. It seemed like a ridiculously long time of doing NOTHING. Madison and I peeked out into the audience a lot. We were preeeeeetty booooored. Finally, it started. I think it went pretty well. I messed up one part of my story and one of my costumes fell apart, but that's theatre, right?

Afterwards, Madison and I talked to Andrew and Koty (sorry, no pictures) then we went to McDonald's with them because Koty wanted two double cheeseburgers. Once we returned to the house, we watched an episode of Family Guy and a little bit of The Soup. We then travelled to the movie theatre and saw Casino Royale. When we got there, Chris DUVall (that was intentional--that's how hicks say DuVall) was waiting for me with a gift! He gave me a farting card, Superman blowouts (those little things that make noise) and two movie gift certificates. Not too shabby. We went in and the seating was as follows:
Mom-Melanie-Micah-Madison-Me-Koty-Andrew.

I made sure that Koty was a movie talker before I began to talk. And talk. And talk. I talked through the entire movie. When I wasn't talking to Madison and when Koty wasn't talking cars to Andrew, we talked about various things, like tuxes, and the poor make-up and hair choices for the Bond girl (don't worry, he's not gay). It was really fun. Madison was freaked out and scared of the movie until about half way through. Seelee chiiiiiuld. (Fred Armisen, yo.) We were all somewhat dissatisfied with the movie, but I enjoyed it. Then at 12:30, the four of us went our seperate ways for the night. Madison and I watched the super lame season finale of Degrassi, then called it a night.

Not much else happened for the rest of the weekend, except the play. On Saturday, I made my first movie with my new camera. It's called A Day With Lois Lane and the software I used is really awesome. I put it on my iPod and burned it to a DVD in a matter of minutes! I showed it off at the play that night. The next day, Simon gave me his gift--he made a pair of earrings that were soup cans and said The Soup on them! (I have a picture, but it won't upload for some reason--maybe there's a limit per post...) It was really awesome. My friends are so much more creative than I am.

On Sunday, Mom drove me and Madison to Muskogee after our final show (thank the Lord it's over!) and we saw Stranger Than Fiction. It was really, really good, but that theatre was really, really hot. We went to El Chico next, and the food seemed especially good. Lastly, we went to Hastings and I used my gift card from Ayyamiha to buy the new season of Family Guy. It's definitely better than the season before.

Well, that pretty much sums up the first weekend of my sixteenth year to be alive.

Fifteen and 177/178 Candles

Three days until I'm sixteen. Just thought I should share that with you.

Expect a post tomorrow concerning the early gift(s) I recieve from Dad and Sarah.

Take Two Cyst Removal

So, I woke up at 5:15 this morning for surgery. Dad stayed in bed and didn't come to the hospital with us, but it actually went very smoothly this time. The anesthesiologist came in before the nurse put my IV in. He was really nice, and told us that if the nurses didn't get it on the first try, to come and get him. A few minutes later, he just came back and did it himself...and got it on the first try! Yay for not being stabbed with a needle five times! I'm not going to really paragraph this entry, by the way. The best part about the whole day was seeing this crazy old man from last year's car show (whose son, coincidentally, beat Shadow) with the back of his gown hanging open. Thank God he had his old people boxers on. They took me back pretty much on time. Paul was the only person who was dawdling. Finally, they knocked me out and cut me open and--it wasn't a cyst after all. Just scar tissue that happened to form like a cyst on the nerve. So he took a lot more precautions with the way he sutured and whatnot so it won't happen again (and so that I won't get to use my cyst removal punch card). This time I get to wear my splint for two weeks. It's kinda like having a cast, I guess, only not as bad (not that I remember).