BDay 22

I celebrated my birthday with 16 friends at Chang's Garden eating family-style - the only way to eat Chinese food, in my opinion. We had lots of food - people enjoyed it, I thought it was alright. I had my FIRST Sake Bomb - I don't even like sake, haha. And Ken got me this wonderful bottle of Moscato. AND my twin sent me this HUGE red wine glass (with Sandy etched on one side and Happy Birthday! on the other side) via post to go with my Moscato. (I really shoulda got that bottle of Moscato I had in Oz, but it's okay Ken got me one.) I shared it with everybody, but I probably drank most of it. We polished off the bottle. :D THEN, we all had tequila, and I had Bacardi, too. THEN, HAHAH we went to a school dance, hahhhhh - I told Day Day and he was like FAIL. Pshhh whatever, foo'. It was FUN.

Anyway so Elly later told me about something that bothered her. My friends I was with were mostly couples, ok all couples except Ken and Elly, of the friends that went to the dance that is. So my friend said: "Idk how u do it Sandy. I turn one way there's a couple, turn to another side there's another couple, ANDDD ANOTHER." I'm just like :shrugs::. I told one of my friends she said: "You're strong." I don't, I don't think about it. I don't let it bother me. 'Cause really, it's not a bother. It's something that had occurred to me this year and last year when another friend said the same thing to me.

With what friends remained and new ones (7), we took over the lounge and played Taboo! We did boys versus girls. I already knewwww MY TEAM was gonna win, NO contest, I had it in the bag. The guys were banking 5 a piece or less, lamme. When it came to my turn, I was on fire with TEN --> TEN(G) hahah. I love that game. Some of my clues were like, "Sometimes we partyyy and sometimes wee....." Elly's like lookin' down minding her own business, straight chilin' she's like, "relax." Me: "YEA!" People are like what!? Yup yea, relax!!! ahhaha.

You wouldn't guess what me and Elly did the next day! hahaha. We went to a book sale at Mansfield Library. We get there and Elly's like, "I'M SO EXCITED WE'RE HERE!" I'm like... OMG >.<>really nerdy of us, and that's not the end. We bought more than 20 books and a couple DVDs together FOR only 12 bucks!!!! We did gOOd.

Soooo why the sudden desire to buy books?

I visited my pharmacy friend and she had like a library of books in her room. I'm like how do you have time to read?! Well, I'm sure I can fit in reading some books, afterall I'm doing a bunch of other things now - studying a lot, karate, 5K training, a lot of reading, keeping in touch with people, getting enough sleep, reviewing all my old coursework and just various things I want to do. But really, since this past summer I really, really wanted to do some reading. There's SOOO many books I haven't read that I just feel I should and I'm just missing out. I blame myself 'cause I stopped taking Honors English in high school because, well, I didn't want to do summer reading, and I always had this paralyzing feeling and avoidance when I had to read literature because I didn't always get it and one of my English teachers told us she was going to make us write an essay every week, which actually didn't happen. I had thought that because teachers assigned me to read books it took out all the fun of reading - well, it's not really true. I did enjoy the several Vonnegut books we read. I want to read them again. Anyway, I recently finished reading The Catcher and the Rye. I liked it though didn't like it because I disagreed with Holden a lot.

Anyway, I had a birthday on Monday. I started it by getting up early and taking in the sunrise and doing schoolwork. Then the normal, classes, but with some BDday phones calls in the morning and at lunch with D - dude still doesn't mind the time zone.

I danced un poquito de salsa y merengue tonight with some Colombian guys. (They were also amazed by my Spanish, I was like yo por supuesto se habla español!) That was fun, though I don't think they know many turn combinations. The amount of fun you can have is partially limited, no... basically limited to the ability of the guy. That's why I want to learn to be a guy, start poppin' out chicken wings and such. But, I can't wait to go dancing in Boston! And I definitely gotta hit up Brick/Ray and B for a salsa night again this summer or maybe even Spring Break, maaaaybe.