The Perks of Being Eighteen

My 18th birthday has been...well not too spectacular. Usually people look forward to turning 18 because they can drink illegally. Alright people who have told me to drink, I will drink...water! :D What else could I look forward to?
- Voting!! Yay!!!
- Marrying without the consent of my parents...don't have anyone to marry anyway!
- Go clubbing
- Buying or being in porn
- Getting or being a hooker

Maybe not so much the last two...

I spent the morning at church. This service was probably the first one I fell asleep in in a little while, but the Sunday School class was fun. We played a few games and actually discussed relevant issues, like should Christians believe in UFOs? That never really hit me! My mum went off to the flea market while we were at Sunday School so when we came out we had no money or plates for lunch, and one of the church people ended up offering to pay for us. We will pay him back! We sat next to the Sunday School teachers and I ended up having this long conversation with one of the guys about religion and everything.

We stopped off briefly at Westcity so Aonghas could pick something up from work before coming home. We noticed some dried up metal on the steps, and when we opened the door, we noticed a strong burning smell. The first thing we went straight to was..the computer!!! OK that was alright! Now we had to investigate where this strong burning smell was coming from just in case a fire was about to start. We narrowed it down to the stove where we noticed the area around the front element covered in ash, and the panels for the ventilation thing above removed. After my mum came in to have a look, she told us to look for a pot, and we found one outside with burnt white beans inside it and dried up metal stuck to the base of the pot. The culprit! What happened: my mum decided to boil green bean soup before we went off to church, but she forgot about it and so it was boiling for over an hour. When my dad got home he found the house filled with smoke. It's 1.10am now and the house still stinks after opening every window in the house for the whole day!

I spent most of the day using, or playing, with our new vacuum cleaner, cleaning the lounge carpet as best as I could! The rest of the evening was spent on the computer, and then just recently Aonghas's external hard drive fell off the coffee table and now it's damaged with all the data lost. Oh what a great birthday!

Yeah things don't usually seem to go well on my birthday. George Bush was elected on this day a few years ago and Hamish broke his arm further back. Oh well! Memorable times!

I didn't get anything for my birthday but I got emails and txts which was cool. Thanks Phoebe, Diane, Alex D, Alex S, Gwen, Chen, Julia, Szelin, Zippo (I think), David, Alice (wow), Amy, Ellyce, Rhea, Julie, Zahir, Esther, Shen, Janice, Jacqueline, Cookie Bear, Melissa and Kat for remembering my birthday! (let me know if I missed you out!) I only found out my dad didn't even remember until it was nearly over!

I didn't plan on having any party till Melissa and Kat asked me, and so I started thinking about it (this was about a week before!), but then it hit me that I don't really know what people do at birthday parties! My mum said our house was out of bounds due to it being such a big mess, and so I wouldn't know where to have one anyway. It most likely would've been the most boring party anyone's been to as well! Maybe next year!

So here we go for another year!